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> What's stopping a gTLD owner... Nothing, absent a provision in the registration contract to the contrary, except the risk of everyone fleeing. > Any laws pr

> What's stopping a gTLD owner... Nothing, absent a provision in the registration contract to the contrary, except the risk of everyone fleeing. > Any laws preventing this? No. Remember that [ccTLD - I originally wrote gTLD but those are a different thing, as corrected below] are assigned to the countries that they represent (or, in this case, the country that holds sovereignty over the named territory) so subject to their jurisdiction and there’s no real motivation for a country to pass such a law.

axaxs 6y ago
Minor correction...that's ccTLD, which .io is. And you're right about the rest. But gTLDs are basically every other TLD that's not a country code.
- AndyMcConachie 6y ago
  There are also sponsored TLDs(.edu, .gov), generic restricted(.biz), and the single infrastructure TLD .arpa. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db