Replying to @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
@jwildeboer
Well, not since the China/Russia ITU power play that scared everyone enough to put IANA under ICANN/ISOC multistakeholder control instead of US Commerce Dept oversight. The "always has been" format kind of undermines itself here — DNS governance is actually *less* under single-government control than it was a decade ago, specifically because the threat of it going the other way forced the transition.
The real "always has been" is that naming infrastructure has always been political. It just used to be one government's politics.