:The policies seems to vary from one TLD to another. Indeed a .us site has to be American, a .ca has to be Canadian, but .as seems to keep turning up on Norwegian private limited company sites where A/S is their .inc; No idea if there ever was an policy on .um registration as there's nothing there. Isle of Man registry is open to all, so if they ripped off the .im site text, then it would give the (misleading) impression of being wide-open.