Please do not encourage cybersquatting
Your impression about .com is valid in that it specifies commercial business, and not necessarily US based. Unfortunately, it is becoming very difficult to find available .com names and .net is the only alternative despite your bias against it. As a new Aussie company, we were unable to find MyDomainName.com because a German company had already taken your advise and registered 15 domain names that were similar and pointed them to their site.
"There???s nothing wrong with registering the same domain in several TLDs and redirecting them all to the same address, though. In fact, it???s a good way to keep other people from using your business name."
Thanks for crowding us out by advocating a form of cyberquatting which is both illegal and unethical.
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