[jitl]

These are also good reasons to avoid using .so domains. You can also expect mail delivery issues and blanket corporate firewall blocks on .so. The rising prominence of https://notion.so is changing the cultural situation somewhat, but very slowly.

(Edit: I work at Notion)

[profmonocle]

A potential issue with ccTLDs in general is they aren't subject to ICANN policies at all. Countries can do whatever they want with their TLD, ICANN's only involvement is keeping their root zone entries up to date.

This means you're subject to the politics of whatever country's TLD you're using. If the country's lawmakers suddenly decide that their TLD should only be for use by local entities, or that owners of popular domains should pay more, or that certain types of content is banned, you have no recourse.

(Not that ICANN policies always help you. Some of the new TLDs have contracts with ICANN that allow them to arbitrarily jack up prices, which they've done: https://domainnamewire.com/2017/03/07/yikes-death-spiral-new...)

[akvadrako]

I have been exclusively using a .so domain for about 10 years and never experienced any of these issues.

What specific network blocks it?

[jitl]

You can see a bunch of users reporting this issue in the link the user above posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d...

[akvadrako]

I don't see any mentions of who's actually blocking it, just some guys work and a VPN provider.

There isn't any indication the blocking is worse than most other TLDs.

[wlesieutre]

Notion said they were switching to .com "as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth", but it's been a year so they might've changed their minds on disrupting the branding

https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d...

[jitl]

I don’t think we consider ‘.so’ part of the brand.