I fully agree with the first point, that the new top-level domains are generally useless and should go away. But country domains aren't enough. It's like the

I fully agree with the first point, that the new top-level domains are generally useless and should go away. But country domains aren't enough. It's like the difference between the yellow pages and white pages; it helps to organize businesses and groups by purpose, while having a more generic by-location classification system for everything else. It is also useful for domains to be conspicuous so that they can be automatically recognized as domains (e.g. for linking). There is no doubt what "foobar.com" is, but "foobar" is without context (and arguably, "foobar.cc" is more likely to seem like a source file than a country domain).