However, the formality of the power structure was thrown into stark relief when the USgovernmentunder George W Bush intervened directly on the subject of .xxx domain names, and then moved responsibility for certain naming from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) to Icann.
You can make a case (not a very good one, but you can make it) that the money that Apple earns under the protection of the USGovernment, in the US, should pay something towards the costs of running that USGovernment.
Bosnia was split into two autonomous regions - joined by a relatively weak central government - under a US-brokered peace deal that ended the 1992-95 war.