Agreed. Adding to that some country TLD's are a PITA to obtain and maintain. I recall having to jump through many hoops for .PR in that I needed a local legal presence and I had to have very specific parameters in the zone settings for serial, refresh, retry, expire, and negative ttl. With no relation to any RFC's They periodically checked too.

There were other annoyances for .de, .ca, .fr and .cn. The .cn ccTLD has similar issues you mentioned for .ly. I never had to register a .ly. Mark Monitor was able to check the box for a legal presence for a few ccTLD's. Oh and the only ccTLD we were actually going to use was .cn as we would have to hand over all SSL cert keys to them. The others were just for anti-fraud and anti-squatting reasons.