100% agreed. THAT is a good argument. "It's our own" is a boggus argument and does not stand.

I understand you are probably trolling but let me get some facts straight. Yuo didn't "kindly let us use it", we decided to use it, because it was open and free. Nobody ever required the permission of anybody to use it. Except Slashdot, every single website I visit on a regular basis comes from France. I'm not even using Google.com if you want to know, I have a local version of it. It's not America's internet that we want to use, it's the global one. And we could not do that without the US or it would be a Global minus the US instead of a global internet. The US can not do that either. For your information there are alternatives to the ICANN, that are in use today. The rest of the world could very well decide to vote for another root domain and use it without US permission.

Come on, the Internet is not a thing "paid for, developed and a thriving platform", it's a fucking convention. It's a protocol, like a language if you prefer. It's not a "thing". There are several other network protocols and there has been several other protocols since way before the internet. In France we were surfing on transpac and X25 before we joined the internet. The world now uses the Internet, precisely because it is very simple and open. If you really wanted to call it your own, then have fun surfing on your own web site. If the British went around calling the English language their own, the world would juse use esperanto for good.