Ask HN: What happens to a ccTLD when a country ceases to exist?

[Akashic101]

This question is specifically with the country of Tuvalu in mind who use the .tv domain. Due to the threat of the rising sea level the small country is at a high risk of beeing swallowed up by the ocean by the end of the century. What will happen to domains that use their top-level domain such as Twitch?

[p_ing]

You may want to take clues from the .io domain:

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...

https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement

[Bender]

Here [1] is one discussion but there are more complete answers on search engines and AI (though too much to paste in here).

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390600