"On October 1st, the US Government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration will hand over control of the internet's domain name system to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a 'multi-stakeholder' nonprofit organization. While the change will be invisible to the billions of internet users out there, starting in October, the US government will no longer control what some call the internet's 'phone book.'"
... "Again, regular users won't notice a difference in their internet come October, but the switch isn't without controversy."; More about the internet transfer