That's wild, where would you get that "US" netscape version from?
You click the other button on the download page.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990911233949/http://www73.nets...
The US had some strange ideas about cryptography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars#PC_era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
But yeah, I learned about SSL back in the crypto wars days of the 1990s, back when you had to pirate the so-called "US only" version of Netscape if you wanted decent SSL encryption, so I might be just using the old term out of habit.