[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bg9XUEM82E

The .io TLD is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, and there's currently an ongoing international legal dispute over whether the territories even exist, or they just belong to Mauritius. If the U.N. "wins" the .io domain would be slated for removal (technically).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

It’s 400 active volcanoes to start with, in a body the size of Earth’s moon.

If we could tap its flux tube for energy though—- now that’d be cool.

What about Europa (.eu)?

.eu is already the ccTLD if the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Northern Ireland exists and is still unfortunately a part of the UK. The UK would still be the United Kingdom of X and Northern Ireland even if Scotland leaves.

If Wales leaves, the United Kingdom of England?

Wales was conquered in 1284 - the Kingdom of England includes Wales.

At least Montenegro is managing their own ccTLD, not like some mysterious islands (.io, .pw, etc).

If someone secured the `.mf` ccTLD, they could grab other Pulp Fiction fans who want to be `<name>@bad.mf`.

From the article:

That follows the abrupt enforced shutdown of vb.ly, a "link shortening" site run by Ben Metcalfe and Violet Blue, after it was declared that the content of the site was "against Sharia law".

An image of Violet with bare arms, drinking from a bottle of lager, was emblazoned across the front page of the site when the government-owned Libya Telecom & Technology got in touch earlier this month. "Pornography and adult material aren't allowed under Libyan law, therefore we removed the domain," the letter said, adding: "The issue of offensive imagery is quite subjective, as what I may deem as offensive you might not, but I think you'll agree that a picture of a scantily clad lady with some bottle in her hand isn't exactly what most would consider decent or family friendly at the least."

(Policy: https://sonic.so/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dotso-domain-nam...)

twitch.tv, goo.gl, youtu.be, etc. is the tip of the iceberg. Twitch and Google probably are unlikely to have bases in Tuvalu and Greenland respectively.

Hitching your wagon to their success seems unwise. They won't make sure you make it to the end

Just buy a gTLD domain. You probably don't even need a separate domain for your link shortener...

(1) https://blog.google/

https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/tld/

And bit.ly probably isn't working out of Lybia.

goo.gl is a link shortener like youtu.be aint it?

I dunno, It's just asking for trouble needlessly

Given that .us doesn't allow privacy, there's apparently a huge market for web designers and the like to watch registrations and use this as a 'lead generator'.

I have never received as much spam as I did after registering two .us domains. Thankfully, I used a number I can safely ignore

It truly should be enough that the registrar can get a hold of me

Theoretically each country can change the rules of their country code at any time. These rules can be rather arbitrary and can technically happen whenever. As an example of a rule, the .us domain is only available to US entities.

Also, if the country ceases to be, there's a chance the ccTLD will go away, because that country doesn't exist. Hence the fear with .io, as the Indian Ocean Territories as a political unit may not last very long or .tv as the islands wash away and disappear with rising sea levels.

As others have mentioned, IANA isn't always fast at removing old ccTLDs. The .su domain for the Soviet Union still exists.

My blog entry about it from 10 years ago:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...