Karl Auerbach: "ICANN, IANA, and NTIA are about to allow a change to occur to the top tier of the DNS system. This change may endanger the stability of the internet.  Despite [assurances] this change does contain aspects that could engender increased traffic loads, increased name resolution delays, and even result in loss of Domain Name System (DNS) services to users under some circumstances.

This change was announced by Verisign..."

Why are things like this becoming incredibly unsurprising?