I think it’s fine to have generic .com, .org, .net and so on. These are useful given there are multinational companies, organisations, etc. so there’s no reason

I think it’s fine to have generic .com, .org, .net and so on. These are useful given there are multinational companies, organisations, etc. so there’s no reason to mess with that. What I think is really inappropriate is that .gov, .edu and .mil are US-only. These should either be opened up to all countries, or phased out. I think for these particular ones, phasing out would be the best way - i.e, no new registrations, every domain owner gets matching (edu,mil,gov).us domains, and then requiring them to only serve redirects to the new domains and not content after a few months.