Here is the key thing from the article: > And ICANN typically doesn’t redelegate ccTLDs without the consent of the losing registry. [..] Niue, the Pacific isla

Here is the key thing from the article: > And ICANN typically doesn’t redelegate ccTLDs without the consent of the losing registry. [..] Niue, the Pacific island nation, has been fighting fruitlessly for control of .nu for two decades, for example, but the extant registry doesn’t want to hand it over so ICANN has not acted. ICANN does have rules for decommissioning old domain, but it's a very remote chance anything will happen and even then - there would be a decade long transition period.