Why? A TLD doesn't have to explicitly reference the country in which it's based. The big TLDs started in the US, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they're stil

Why? A TLD doesn't have to explicitly reference the country in which it's based. The big TLDs started in the US, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they're still under the US jurisdiction. That said, fragmenting the internet into nationalistic TLD silos will probably have some negative consequences for the cross cultural nature of the internet, and it might help to give the non-obviously nation-based TLDs over to an international ruling body. It's something to be weighed by the US govt. I hope they consider both sides carefully.