I agree that many people regard .com, .net, etc, to be country neutral -- and I personally would prefer it if they were -- but that isn't really the way they've

I agree that many people regard .com, .net, etc, to be country neutral -- and I personally would prefer it if they were -- but that isn't really the way they've been used for the past couple of decades. I think most people would agree that .COM domains at the very least have been associated with US organizations or foreign businesses who want to do business in the US. Though granted, it's not black and white obviously, there are German language only sites (and many others) that have .COM domains and are only targeting Germans speaking peoples. It's a messy situation... made messier by the fact that the US has significant control over the Internetz.