TLDs answer to IANA,if you you fail to comply with their laws you will have at least temporary domain resolution issues. However,I don't think it's a bad idea f

TLDs answer to IANA,if you you fail to comply with their laws you will have at least temporary domain resolution issues. However,I don't think it's a bad idea for brand building so long as you plan on having a different tld in the long term,much like how bit.ly now changed to bitly.com. As far as your morality question, I wouldn't think refusing to do business with a country is the better stance,you'd be punishing the people for your perception of their governmet. One can very well say they don't want a .com because verisign pays taxes in the US which is an anti-privacy,war mongering regime headed by a xenophobe (One can,I'm not).