The DDOS the other day took down certain sites and did impact some regions a lot. Other areas were not impacted at all. Had I not been reading stories about it I wouldn't have known it was going on. I also work as a Senior Network Engineer for a company that has circuits we provide to clients all over the U.S. and some in Canada. Our clients were not impacted. The thing about DDOS is it tends to attack certain places/sites. So they hit a lot of popular sites and this disrupted the users to those sites being able to access them. They thus referred to the internet being taken down. It was not. DDOS attacks happen all the time. We have to deal with them frequently where I work. That was just a particularly large one and it targeted sites that more of the average people frequent. So they made a larger noise. I've seen worse DDOS attacks that degraded the internet as a whole, but much less was said about them. This has nothing to do with the ICANN and as relates to that. Yet, it is interesting about the Chinese device manufacturer.

I can tell you I see far more hacking and attacks coming from China than Russia. I had to deal with two today where one was from Brazil and another Turkey.

What you see with Russia is the typical mainstream media political spin. It is bullshit designed to back up Clinton.

Also taking down the internet would not be easy even with the transfer RE: ICANN.