We still shouldn't be handing over our control of the internet I don't believe... maybe same with the Panama Canal too.
It's not really "control of the internet". "Control of domain names" is probably more accurate. To what extent that's the "Internet" is debatable (though it certainly is important for the web as commonly used).
Routing, the really #1 important thing, has been held together by the international community of grumpy sysadmins shouting at each other for decades now.