Until this moment I assumed .ms was a Microsoft TLD, but indeed it is not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ms
replyHandy tip: all two-letter TLDs are country code TLDs. Doesn't matter if they're trendy in website names (.nu, .cc, .io, .co, .it, .at, .cx, youtu.be and so on)
replyIn fact, here we have the ma.tt website, where the ".tt" is Trinidad and Tobago. Is Matt Mullenweg from Trinidad? No!
Though not all country codes point to a country. See .eu, .ac .su as different examples of stuff that breaks the rules.
replythe .su domain was made when the soviet union was still around, so that doesn't really break the rules. I would prefer for top level domains to be eternal for a great multitude of reasons
replyThe possible annoyance with eternal country-code TLDs would be the dissolution of one country, and the creation (or renaming) of another country resulting in an eventual exhaustion of two-letter country codes. Eternity is a rather long duration.
replyThey also use .microsoft now (e.g. for the M365 admin portal).
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