Then you should absolutely know that pending deletion is not a black swan event. Can you talk to someone with some data in this space? You will find pending del

Then you should absolutely know that pending deletion is not a black swan event. Can you talk to someone with some data in this space? You will find pending deletion -> restore is a surprisingly common pattern. As to govt agencies - sure, many use .org and .com domains routinely. These do not get special treatment - and I do generalize my experience from .com and .org to these govt run websites without hesitation. Despite ideas - just because a public agency is using these domains does not make them magic. https://www.sfcdcp.org/ https://www.sfcdcp.org/ https://acphd.org/ https://acphd.org/ to pick two domains within 10 seconds. I'm going to stop here. Despite your claims that folks don't go into pending deletion - they do. I am responding to top comment - people fail to renew their domains on time routinely. I've seen it happen with some surprise in govt agencies (ie, someone in a dept spins up a website, and renews when someone complains its not working and they get permission to spend the money to renew - which is not instantaneous even for small purchases) as well. All my points stand and I remain unconvinced by your claims that these govt agency websites can't expire (they do routinely), that pending deletion is a black swan event (it is not) or that folks don't fail to renew on a timely basis (they do frequently).