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by profmonocle 1737 days ago
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...)