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gccTLD
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.cc: Verisign's "Next .com" That China Read as 商业公司—Not Cocos Islands Commerce
eNIC/Verisign stack, Google gccTLD status, ~2.8M passive-DNS census vs the old guide's 600–800K fiction, May 2016 $8 wholesale cut (not a 2018 hike), 2015 China 17-yuan promos—and why co.cc spam, unverified SOE Mad Libs, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.co Is Colombia's ccTLD Selling Itself as .com's Missing Letter — gccTLD, Typo Tax, and the 2025 Registry Handoff
3.3M names migrated to Equipo PuntoCo in October 2025, 96%+ registered outside Colombia, gccTLD treatment that is not "identical to .com," the one-letter typo tax—and why the old guide's AIO boilerplate and unverified startup Mad Libs failed audit.
.eu: Europe's Eligibility-Gated ccTLD—After Brexit Deleted 81,000 Names and Google Calls It a gTLD
EURid's 3.8M Q2 2026 milestone, Regulation 2019/517 nexus rules, the Jan 2021–Jan 2022 Brexit deletion pipeline, €4.60 registry wholesale—and why the old "Google geo-targets .eu to Europe" and "$500–$5k premium" lines failed audit.
.fm: Micronesia Rents FM Radio Nostalgia to the Podcast Era
~17K tracked names (not 150K), BRS Media + CentralNic since 2016, $68–$100+ shelf renewals, verified roofs from last.fm to qingting.fm—and why the old guide's podcast Mad Libs, are.na confusion, and PodcastSeries AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.la: IANA Says Laos, www.la Says Los Angeles—and google.la Proves Both Meanings
LANIC/LA Names/CentralNic stack, Google gccTLD status, ~133K passive-DNS census vs ~47K active tracker vs the old guide's unsourced 50–100K bracket, $25 competitive floor (not $30–55 alone), verified roofs from google.la to mzl.la—and why gril.la typos, entertainment Mad Libs, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.
.me Is Montenegro's ccTLD, Google's gccTLD, and Telegram's t.me — Not a Personal Branding Brochure
~1.1M names on Identity Digital backend, €114M+ registry revenue since 2008, a 2023 contract expiry the old guide ignored, verified roofs from t.me to about.me — and why timbl.me, wave.me, and AIO Person-schema boilerplate failed audit.
.vc Rents Venture Capital From a Caribbean Registry — Saint Vincent, Identity Digital, and the gccTLD Gap
~76k names, Tucows→Afilias→Identity Digital lineage, WIPO lists no UDRP—and mid-2026 HTTP checks show `tiny.vc`, `hack.vc`, and `cherry.vc` as live fund roofs while `accel.vc`, `greylock.vc`, and the old guide's `a16z.vc` proof points collapse.
.ws: Samoa Delegated It, GDI Sold "WebSite," Google Genericized It—and MLM Volume Still Defines the Zone
GDI/Carlsbad registry stack, Google gccTLD listing (unlike .to or .vc), passive-DNS ~361K vs ~54K tracked vs the old guide's unsourced 200–350K bracket, $6.48 promo floor, verified roofs from samoagovt.ws to cnnne.ws—and why SiteSell confusion, symmetric fit matrices, and AIO boilerplate failed audit.