In the light of recent events, I've been trying to work out if country-specific top level domain names (ccTLDs) are controlled by the US government, but it is frustratingly opaque. All domains including ccTLDs are controlled by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), a US organisation which is controlled by a US corporation called Public Technical Identifiers (PTI). PTI is "an affiliate" of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN). 🧵 Thread page 1 of 3 #DNS #ccTLD