This is a truly fascinating story: the possible disappearance of the beloved TLD .io because of some geopolitical event.
I do recommend reading it, it's full of tasty details.

However, this article reminded me of when, around 2012, I got excited with Namecoin, a fork of Bitcoin, that aimed to establish .bit as a new TLD outside of the ICANN-regulated DNS.
I immediately purchased the domain clipperz.bit as an uncensorable, decentralized alternative to clipperz.com, the domain I was using back then for Clipperz, the online password manager we built in 2005 on the excitement of running strong cryptography right in the browser (still running and servicing users nowadays).

As you may know, Namecoin failed to gain enough adoption and therefore browser manufacturers did not provide any support to resolve .bit domain names.
Could Nostr succeed where Namecoin failed? Could Nostr become the layer that will eventually make ICANN and national registers irrelevant?
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain?s=03