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The claim that "ICANN is not subject to capture by any commercial or other interest..." does not negate the fact that the organization remains paralyzed by its own infrastructure.  It is in essence a "captive" of its own bureaucracy. An attempt to bring order to the chaos was really the core of this case. Now that will happen in a state court as a contract matter. Beyond that fact, the international focus on ICANN's continuing stream of problems may well encourage a voluntary restructuring of the organization as purely a matter of survival. The result of this decision will not make ICANN's structural problems go away.