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Wow, I definitely should have google that myself before asking, but thank you for explaining and calling out that data point.
I honestly think that shows that it was in fact a bad idea to assign TLDs to countries. Having a country code acronym with a popular tech meaning is essentially just luck of the draw, so they've basically just arbitrarily given a few small countries a valuable resource to sell. I guess that benefits those countries, but I doubt "quasi-random fundraising for small countries" was ever the intent.
They are just iso country codes though, so it is just the luck that some have become so popular.
Some countries are pretty strict that their tlds must be local or at least provide translation in the regional language. The cook islands for instance have prime opportunity with .co.ck but they refuse the to let people take advantage