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ccTLDs are pretty much the most sensible thing in DNS hierarchy. The "original" TLDs (.com, .net, .org etc) had mostly lost their meaning by late 90s (iirc), and were heavily biased towards the US anyways and as such would have made far more sense as second-level domains for .us, where enforcing the separation could have at least hypothetically worked in some reasonable way.

> gTLDs have to be some of the worst ideas in Internet history.

Not if you're an investor in Donuts, LLC, they're not...

ccTLDs are two letters long and gTLDs are everything else.

except all the new punycode IDN ccTLDs which now exist, for chinese, bulgarian, russian, etc.

ccTLDs (Country Codes) are always two letters. gTLDs aren't.

The gTLDs have a pretty strict ICANN contract they have to follow; ccTLDs are looser.

_ASCII_ ccTLDs are always two letters. There are ccTLDs in other scripts that are of variable length (.ไทย, .ελ, .укр, .한국 etc.)

ccTLDs are loosers? Not according to their increasing registration figures.

Looser != loser

Ironically a rare correct use of "looser".

Thanks.

It wasn't your use that was correct.