[lmm]

The fact that you view an international space as belonging to the US is precisely what's weird and objectionable. Most countries don't do that sort of thing and most intranational companies are happy to use a domain from their own country, except for the US.

(Most of your list are multinational corporations which is a perfectly reasonable use for .com).

[hereforphone]

Are you familiar with the history of the Internet?

[lmm]

Yes, and as such I'm aware that it was not the Silicon Valley-only project that a certain crowd likes to portray it as. The specific implementation of TCP (and indeed DNS) that ARPANET used came from UC, but it's derived from the French CYCLADES project via the INWG. So it was an international effort from the start, and that's even more true for the complex stacks that today's commercial websites run on.

[iso1631]

Those websites running that Swiss originated hypertext protocol? The one that won because the US protocol (gopher) was monetized?

[TedDoesntTalk]

> an international space as belonging to the US

Do you mean .com or the Internet as a whole?