[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I find your detailed information intersting.

But ICANN charges a fee for every website. That means they register every domain name and it’s IP address as well as I understand it.

In other words, yes ICANN can delete specific websites unless there’s something I’m missing.

[palmer]

But ICANN charges a fee for every website. That means they register every domain name and it's IP address as well as I understand it.

The first sentence is true. I don't think the second sentence follows. They collect the fee and do basically nothing. The TLD registrars run the DNS for their domains, but they do it through the root servers:

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers It would be hard for ICANN to muck with the root servers, but I'm not sure about their business relationship. Probably something like a peering arrangement.