The latest to get in on the act is Senator Ted Cruz, the defeated Republican presidential candidate. He has been campaigning energetically to maintain the US government’s job of managing a group that oversees domain names on the Internet. Icann does many things, but it’s often described as a kind of web phone directory – matching a string of numbers to their domain names. The openness and reliability of the internet as it presently exists depends on such mechanisms, known as the domain name system (DNS). We have been here before: Senator Cruz was instrumental in shutting down Washington in 2013.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2016 18:45 UTC