You're right these agencies make changes... but they don't decide if a country gets a ccTLD or not. They take their cue from the UN's Country Names bulletin, wh

You're right these agencies make changes... but they don't decide if a country gets a ccTLD or not. They take their cue from the UN's Country Names bulletin, which in turn requires the country to be member state of the UN, or a member of one of its agencies, or a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Criteria_for_inclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Criteria_for_inclus...