Comment by reaperducer

Do people really think ICANN will make a large number of popular startups/websites/apps unusable overnight based on a technicality? That's not how the world works.

That's precisely how the world works. When you build your business on another business, these things happen. And especially on the internet.

Anyone who's been on the internet for more than a decade or so will have seen that random business-changing tectonic shifts happen all the time.

If you've always grown up in the current era of "stable" and ubiquitous internet, it may seem like it's always been there and always will be. It hasn't. It won't.