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by thiht 563 days ago
Just a few points of attention: if you use a ccTLD (2 characters) for your domain, make sure you’re using the ccTLD of the country you live in, and make sure you have no plan in permanently moving to another country. ccTLDs don’t necessarily follow ICANN rules and can change their rules as they see fit, overnight. They can decide that you’re not eligible anymore if you don’t live in the country for example.

This happened with .eu for example, UK residents stopped being eligible to own a .eu after the brexit. Another example is .au, they started requiring an Australian presence in 2022.

My advice as someone who worked in the domain name industry : just get a .com or a .net. There are also some reputable newGTLDs (.dev for example), but you can’t go wrong with .com/.net.