ICANN doesn't get any kickbacks from Canonical needing to protect itself as far as I can tell. Cloudflare literally sells the protection.

So ICANN is alright because they're protecting them for free, but Cloudflare is bad because they're protecting them for money?

	▲	Xirdus 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		In a way, yes, that makes it more okay. You can't have a conflict of interest if you have no interest. Cloudflare has clear interest in hosting the malicious actors and it's in clear conflict with providing services to their other users.