ICANN/Google connection?

Posted by a user on FreeRepublic:

> I ran into something that I found interesting. I have NoScript enabled on my browser. I was doing some background investigation of a liberal organization and the domain they have as their homepage to see if there is any connections to other characters. So the ICANN domain "lookup" website would not load due to the NoScript blocking scripts on the page.

> So in my No Script I went and turned on…

> icann.org and cloudflare.com (giving them credit to be using this cloudflare tool)

> Should now work because we are talking about the international organization that has control of all domain registrations right?

> Nope… You can not enter a domain name in the search field and use the tool until you also "turn on" google-analytics.com and gstatic.com

> Does this mean google owns ICANN? Unless you submit to Google intrusion and their gateway you can not even access the open International organization controlling all World Wide Web domain registrations called ICANN?

> Load NoScript For yourself and try it…

> https://whois.icann.org/en

Phonefagging, can’t test, so YMMV