I would generalize this into avoiding any TLD which controlling entity does not deserve long term trust. Goverments of other countries are one kind, and I would

I would generalize this into avoiding any TLD which controlling entity does not deserve long term trust. Goverments of other countries are one kind, and I would add to that list companies such as google who could at any day put a gTLD into its graveyard. We have already seen some of the new gTLD that shortly after being created was then abandon by their operator (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17624158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17624158). .io for example should be considered harmful because their operator Ethos Capita has a history of incompetence, corruption and mismanage. They forgot to renew some of the nameservers for the TLD, allowing security researchers to take partial control of the TLD! They also had major outages like randomly giving NXDOMAIN for long periods, prompting articles like https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-production-traffic-b6aa17eeac20 https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc.... Ethos Capita was also the company behind the infamous attempt to buy .org and the associated insider dealing. Registering a domain name is a long term partnership, and the cost of breaking that partnership is usually much more costly than people realize until the point when forced to do it.