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Weird because the USA top level domain is supposed to be .us, with that being one of the first country code top level domains.

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It's my understanding that .gov and .mil were brought over from when those were independent networks, pre-internet.

Now do .com, .org, and .net, which are all part of US.

No they're not.

From Wikipedia for .com:

> The domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.

.edu holds US-centric requirements today. Not sure about .org, .net, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu

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