You're mistaken. A lot of businesses in many countries use .com addresses even for their local shops. For one othing, .com stands for "commercial". .us is for

You're mistaken. A lot of businesses in many countries use .com addresses even for their local shops. For one othing, .com stands for "commercial". .us is for USA. Regarding whether it's right to do so or not is another question. For starters, it depends on the regulations of each country, as in some of them you simply are not allowed to operate under a different TLD. But most countries are not this restrictive. One of the many things that were supposed to "make sense" at the dawn of the web, and that were quickly abused and evolved into more than what anyone could possibly have thought of at first. (No, no, I'm not thinking of HTTP at all while writing this. Why would I?)