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I don’t see the problem if you stick with .com or the ccTLD for the country you live in.

To me, the risk these registries screwing me over is smaller than Big Email deciding I broke their ToS and shutting down my account.

I wouldn’t use these novel TLDs either.

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.com is probably okay, but like .name, it’s also managed by Verisign. .org is run by a non-profit, PIR, so I’d argue it’s a safer choice (especially since they already got the slap on a wrist for trying to sell it off [1] and likely won’t attempt it again for the time being).

Both of these are in the US jurisdiction. If you’re not prepared to sue in the US if somebody screw you over, the ccTLD route is probably better, and the country you live in is usually a good choice indeed (unless you live in, say, Russia, in which case the government might be the ones doing the screwing-over).

[1]: https://icannwiki.org/.org#Proposed_Sale_to_Ethos_Capital

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