We literally already have one of those. Each country has a .XX TLD, and all other TLDs are for the USA.

ICANN policy is very different for country code TLD and generic TLD. Every country (with minor exceptions) decide over their own TLD and thus decide whatever rules they want. It is explicitly a hands off approach in their management of the TLD's.

Generic TLD are different. ICANN dictate to different degree each generic TLD, and is also the one that give accreditation to registrars. ICANN has given different companies the role of operating and handling databases and registration systems, like Verisign with .com, but it is still ICANN that dictate policy. ICANN could decide tomorrow that Verisign is no longer suitable to run the operation of generic TLD's and thus move it to a company located in a different country.

Moving the operations of generic domains to a less US-centric location is not a new idea, same with the legal locations of the organizations that are ICANN and IANA. As I understand it, they are mostly located in USA as a matter of history.

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fragmede 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Even .horse?

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walrus01 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Take a look at the list of new generic TLDs that are run by Donuts LLC now Identity Digital, a US based company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital

	▲	card_zero 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But that list does not include .horse, which is on another list as operated by Minds + Machines, "a British Virgin Islands-based company". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language_gener... I suppose they're in California really, but perhaps not for legal purposes. Likewise Uniregistry (.lol) "was registered in the Cayman Islands", for what good that does.

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inigyou 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, .horse is a USA TLD. It works this way because we let the USA have the exorbitant privilege of controlling the DNS root, and they realized they could make up new TLDs for money.