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Which TLDs are too risky for hosting?
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Basically any 2-letter TLD should be avoided unless you live in that country.
If you want to be clever, use subdomains and pick one of the new TLDs. For instance, ban.anal.ink, is like $5.
Just to add another concrete example, I saw a toot recently that
.afmay be risky, as some countries are beginning to implement embargoes; the person who had a domain there may be losing it soon