<story><title>What happens to country specific TLD&apos;s in a war involving that country?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50821462/what-happens-to-country-specific-tlds-in-a-war-involving-that-country/50867495#50867495</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulKeeble</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t even have to be a war. There are plenty of people in the United Kingdom who own .EU domains and won&amp;#x27;t be able to renew them after Britain leaves the union since buying and renewing them requires the owner to have an address inside of the union. IIRC the newspapers reported it impacted 10s of thousands of addresses.</text></comment>
<story><title>What happens to country specific TLD&apos;s in a war involving that country?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50821462/what-happens-to-country-specific-tlds-in-a-war-involving-that-country/50867495#50867495</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olivermarks</author><text>Bit.ly is a good example: .ly was the Libyan dns until the political changes there.
Bit.ly is now bitly.com&lt;p&gt;.ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bitly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Bitly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore relying on using convenient ccTLD suffixes from third word states as part of a western world url might not be a great idea longer term depending on political change and hostile actions.</text></comment>