The only choice there is is what registry you cede the control of your traffic to. It does not matter if it's ccTLD like .io or something else like .xyz, or so

The only choice there is is what registry you cede the control of your traffic to. It does not matter if it's ccTLD like .io or something else like .xyz, or some kind of second-level domain like github, gitlab, facebook or whatever. Would it matter if news.ycombinator.com got shorted to news.yc? I seriously doubt it. Still it is already shortened -- try putting into the "address bar". One can argue that TLDs lost their meaning already, because it's easier to google the brand than to guess what funky suffix they choose to have.