On: The death of a TLD

[1996]

This is concerning: imagine you have a unique domain opportunity for your company in a smal, up-and-coming gTLD.

If you get it, yoj have to worry about the gTLD dying, and still get the .com

So you stay in .com with a sucky name

[macintux → 1996]

Per other comments there’s a recovery plan in place for public TLDs.

[1996 → macintux]

When I read it, the other comment said the fate was uncertain if the other company had issues - unless it is recursive, there is only 1 level of redudancy

[CydeWeys → 1996]

ICANN has access to the escrow files and they will find someone to run it if necessary. There are dozens of registry service providers.