Some useful info for newbies here-

ICANN (pronounced "I can") is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, ICANN is a California non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. Government by other organizations, notably IANA.

The tasks of ICANN include managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses. To date, much of its work has concerned the introduction of new generic top-level domains. The technical work of ICANN is referred to as the IANA function; the rest of ICANN is mostly about defining policy.

Paul Twomey is the President/CEO of ICANN, since March 27, 2003. Vint Cerf is currently Chairman of the ICANN Board of Trustees.

So are these the guys who want to increase the domain fees or is it someone else?

ICANN Is a company run by the fed's that patrols all the internet. They're the ones that keep the internet an American enterprise...but many companies are rallying to create a world of domains that would fall under ICANN's jurisdiciton. In a few years you'll probably see several internets competing for traffic.

that sucks how its American controlled.. it should be worldwide.
Is it really run by fed's?