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by ElectricalUnion 1067 days ago
Weird because the USA top level domain is supposed to be .us, with that being one of the first country code top level domains.
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jabroni_salad 1067 days ago
It's my understanding that .gov and .mil were brought over from when those were independent networks, pre-internet.
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hgsgm 1067 days ago
Now do .com, .org, and .net, which are all part of US.
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richij 1067 days ago
No they're not.
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eindiran 1067 days ago
From Wikipedia for .com:

> The domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.

.edu holds US-centric requirements today. Not sure about .org, .net, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu

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