If you ever want to use a ccTLD, I recommend starting by looking at the registration restrictions in the infobox in the ccTLD’s Wikipedia article, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so says “Limited to institutions and organizations in Somalia, residents of Somalia, others who have a legitimate, clear and provable connection to Somalia”. Also consider whether you trust the country in question to operate its registry well, not to have hostile takeovers that mess up the entire thing, &c.
Generally speaking, I recommend avoiding using ccTLDs in this way. Even new gTLDs are mostly safer. One possibility there is papyrus.pub (“pub” being nominally short for public houses, the eating places and such, but also definitely being used for publishing).
I have seen about three other .so domains, notion.so being by far the best-known; and Notion has definitely had trouble at least once either with their registration or with the operation of the registry.
If you ever want to use a ccTLD, I recommend starting by looking at the registration restrictions in the infobox in the ccTLD’s Wikipedia article, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so says “Limited to institutions and organizations in Somalia, residents of Somalia, others who have a legitimate, clear and provable connection to Somalia”. Also consider whether you trust the country in question to operate its registry well, not to have hostile takeovers that mess up the entire thing, &c.
Generally speaking, I recommend avoiding using ccTLDs in this way. Even new gTLDs are mostly safer. One possibility there is papyrus.pub (“pub” being nominally short for public houses, the eating places and such, but also definitely being used for publishing).
I have seen about three other .so domains, notion.so being by far the best-known; and Notion has definitely had trouble at least once either with their registration or with the operation of the registry.