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To be historical, the US had this system running inside the US for a very long time before it was deployed worldwide.

It's a quirk of a home grown system having outgrown its original purpose.

1970 (NORSAR) from 1968/1969 (beginnings of ARPANET) is not 'a very long time' and predates DNS by over a decade anyway.

The requirement for .edu domains to be US-based was added in 2001.

I hadn’t realized this. So, we can pack .edu full of for-profit degree mills, but myriad respectable research universities the world over are forbidden. Mind boggling.

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