You just destroyed my world , holy shit . Now I ' m truly screwed if I ever end up stuck in a maze . <| sep |> Didn ' t somebody else call him another name just after JD walked off ? <| sep |> The top level DNS is run by ICANN , I forget who ' s in charge of them right now . There at least was discussion of being under the auspices of the UN . It ' s a distributed system , so it tends to be difficult to take down . Originally , back when it was still called ARPAnet , the Internet was built with the intention of being a network that could survive nuclear attack . As a result it was built with a more distributed architecture in mind . In order to actually bring it down , you have to destroy hardware in many locations worldwide .