Ask HN: How cautious are you with ccTLDs?

4 points by brigadier132 2y ago ↗ HN

I just saw a video of someone who had their .gg domain taken down because their registry changed the terms and stopped allowing PO boxes. I looked at a domain I recently bought and realized that .so is the country code for Somalia which as far as I'm aware is currently in a complete state of anarchy...

It would obviously be a disaster to create a new business with a .so domain right? Are these ccTLDs a disaster waiting to happen?

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PaulHoule 2y ago ↗

Hard to say. “so” is probably and offshore business that sends hard currency home and won’t be affected directly by the chaos. The danger is that some faction which is strongly ideological gets well organized and decides to implement some bold policy (say, “no domain names for haram businesses”)

There was a time I was into typo domains and was amused that the three deletions of “.com” were all troubled countries with less developed name authorities.

sugoi-chan 2y ago ↗

Can't say for sure but ICANN could cancel a TLD for example here is something I found interesting:

.ZR – the domain extension used to belong to the Republic of Zaire, later renamed Republic of Congo, therefore switching extensions from .ZR to .CD. ICANN cancelled .ZR in 2001. .YU – the TLD dedicated to the former Republic of Yugoslavia ceased to exist in 2010 and has since been replaced by .RS (for Serbia) and .ME (for Montenegro). Why should I get a ccTLD?

Source: https://www.eurodns.com/blog/5-good-reasons-why-you-should-r...