Perhaps we (
USAmericans) find the idea of carving up the
internet along
arbitrary political boundaries to be pointless and stupid. Physical location of
internet servers is a
non-issue. Internet sites should be categorized by content, not by which
pointy hair government ministers oversee the block of earth that the
box sits on.
So in short, yes we realize that you are there, we realize you have a lot of good
internet content, but we have
piss poor memory about where to find it. The differences between
.com .org and
.net are confusing enough, never mind whether that server was
foo.or.uk or
foo.or.jp.
Everyone (even the
French) should use the same
TLDs, with the exception of
.gov servers, which really
ARE location-specific.
If the big corporations would stop sitting on hundreds of domain names that happen to be similar to their own name, there would be plenty of domains to go around, and nobody would have to rack their brains for the
ISO country code for
Uzbeckistan just to view a web page.