[Hasz]

Is there a significant penalty to having a domain name where the ccTLD finishes the word (youtu.be)?

[vojnovski]

The Google Search Console has a International Targeting section, where it associates your site with a country, which influences "how your site appears in search results, and improves our search results for geographic queries." This can be disabled.

They have some ccTLDs which do not automatically associate your domain to a specific country as specified here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399

.be is not in the list.

[saas_co_de]

in my experience, google does not include the tld for purposes of a full word match on the domain. Last I tried this was about a year ago.