I'm not saying it's a bad thing inherently. It makes some degree of sense, but the problem is that there's many countries, usually third world, that sold their

I'm not saying it's a bad thing inherently. It makes some degree of sense, but the problem is that there's many countries, usually third world, that sold their namespace off to a shady registrar like Freenom, usually to either try and give their disastrous economies a financial injection or to line the pockets of some corrupt government official. (Or as is often the case, both at the same time.) There's no process in place to prevent that sort of thing from happening, and it's ultimately a bad outcome for all involved. It results in the ccTLD of a country with legitimate citizens getting a bad reputation for transmitting unreasonable amounts of spam (since Freenom gives it away to anyone who asks) and it often doesn't fix the economy of said country anyway.