Yup. A mistake of the Internet that’ll surely never be corrected for at least the next 50 years at least, is rhe US not using a ccTLD like everyone else. Not being able to differentiate between a US and ‘global’ presence based on domain name is a tad annoying. The taxonomy is immensely useful.
And please for the love of God nobody here lecture me about the history of the Internet. I know why it is the way it is. But it’s a frustrating legacy quirk. Anyone that sees it as anything else is just buying into the “the US is the universe’s ‘main country’” BS.
One annoying quirk of the .us cctld is that those administrators don't allow whois privacy like most gtlds do. So as soon as you register one, the phone number you associate with it gets destroyed by marketing solicitations.
So in addition to being a "frustrating legacy quirk", the administration of the cctld makes it more appealing to use a global tld whenever possible. That is not me buying into the BS you cite... it's just learned experience based on my dealings with those TLD aministrators.
(Source: I own multiple .us domains, and it's a headache for the reasons I described above.)
And please for the love of God nobody here lecture me about the history of the Internet. I know why it is the way it is. But it’s a frustrating legacy quirk. Anyone that sees it as anything else is just buying into the “the US is the universe’s ‘main country’” BS.