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The ICANN contract, which new TLDs have to sign and country codes do not, has very strict penalties for having DNS go down for any reason. They're just as reliable as com.

Disclaimer: I work for Donuts, owner of many new TLDs.

They're also much longer names and many people have difficulty with spelling, not even to mention non-native speakers of English.

.io and .com are short and easy to remember.

> Note that some of these newer TLDs can be more expensive (up to $60/year).

A .com WILL also be expensive, because all the good names and most of the crap ones are either used for other companies or, and that's worse, for squatters who hope to extract five-digits prices.

> not sure on their reliability

Then this answer is not helpful, this whole article and the parent's question were about reliability.