The root of the internet is a 1.5 MB text file that one American company edits and signs. Who really controls DNS, what the 2016 IANA transition did and did not change, and the documented record of how ICANN has used that control.
The .uk registry is owned by its members, and in March 2021 they voted half the board out. What the estate actually looked like from inside, why running .uk alongside dozens of gTLDs shaped how it was run, and how a registry with no regulator ended up disciplined by the only people who could.