You are perfectly right.
Actually, things are even worse: all .io domains may soon disappear for geopolitical reasons.
Once, I hoped Namecoin/Bitcoin could give us a permissionless DNS, but it did not happen. Could Nostr be a new tool for that goal?
I wrote more here:
nostr:note12vy6ll7vg5vjepf5s3gyn7wajlwgg34efddlf2zcddr9r76h5caszg3frz