Crooked Hillary!

Then again, Obama DID just hand off the keys to ICANN last night, so they took a pretty big step toward that goal of controlling the narrative completely very recently by giving away control of one of the major root DNS servers to people without our best interests. Not that the US government does either, but at least we can call them out on it.

So, first, it was IANA, not ICANN. ICANN was responsible for providing IANA, now someone else is.

Second, that process began in 1998 and I don't seem to recall Obama having been president just then.

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-10-01-en
https://www.icann.org/stewardship

I think domain names are pretty stupid anyway. Do away with DNS and make everyone memorize IP addresses. why not? we have to manually type in phone numbers. why are internet addresses a special case?

Because a single IP address can serve an unlimited number of different hosts. The server running Southperry has about 15 of my sites on it, all with the same IP address, so how would your browser know which one you were trying to get to if you just gave it the IP? If you're going to go full telephone+extension you need to consider that while an IP4 address is four up to three digit numbers, an IPv6 address looks more like 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 and if the reason why your premise is broken isn't apparent yet there is no helping you.