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It's more like just because you can make a funny domain name out of a specific top level domain like .af Make sure some country doesn't have dibs on it first.
Like it wouldn't be smart to start a business selling che Guevara merch at commra.de.
Why would Germany of all places ban a shop selling Che Guevara merch?
I think the point is politics in a nation can change at any time, and as such you may lose the domain/no longer feel safe supporting that nation. Just because they wouldn't now doesn't mean they wouldn't in the future. (Especially with how well AfD is polling and how much CDU/CSU seem to be starting to cooperate)
How are non-ccTLDs, like .com any safer? A fascist like Trump could decide to nationalize managing them at any time
I think "funny" names involving TLDs as a whole just need to be more careful. It should never be what you expect.
Like, if someone from the US told me to go a website called "comrade" to buy merch, I'd expect
comrade.com
. To get me to go to their intended address they'd need to be a German telling me to go to "comra". That's utterly unintuitive as far as verbal communication goes.You buy both and link from the .com
I hope no country has dibs on .rodeo
I should found xxxistan.