Originally Posted by rlevant Here again "stupid" is not the term I would use. Perhaps really unconscious of the fact the the United States dominates and controls the internet....(in addition to dominating many other "places")

Disagree. They don't.
Talking about DNS servers? Nope, there are servers in Asia, Great Britain I think it was and also Stockholm in Sweden (Where I live btw). USA has no control of country specific top-domains either, in fact, the whole american network could be taked away and europe's net would do just as fine .