I mean, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 TLDs are clearly useful, but given the address space, there's lots of one away typos there. It's not a big difference when the non contry code domains are also one dropped letter away from an ccTLD.
On the other hand, this sort of misconfiguration would show up in any sort of good DNS checking tool. One of your registered nameservers doesn't resolve and/or one of your name servers doesn't return the same zone serial (likely) or actual response if you check a name.
In .is, they wouldn't let me register a domain unless I provided two known good nameservers, but .com isn't picky anymore.
I would think you'd get client query errors from time to time as well if one of the auth NS names doesn't even route/not registered. Even a big cacher like Google or CF might have noticed query errors and I'd actually be surprised if there wasn't communication from one of those entities to MC about the issue.
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