I always thought these TLDs were a flight risk to be used in any serious capacity. What if the random state decides you/your business are in violation of [whatever] and kick you off?
Notion just migrated from their Somali domain to a normal .com
My latest domain (five chars!) that I am actually using recently went down because my registrar is (was?) in Gaza.
The registry thankfully was able to sort it out and I was able to get it back and registered with a regisrar not currently being actively genocided.
I felt like a real dick, emailing people in Gaza in 2026 how to renew my domain.
What if they sent out a hit squad to your house?
What if an elephant steps on the power cable to the server room?
I seem to remember bit.ly had some issues when turmoil happened in Libya