I fully agree with you. For instance – I would NEVER invest in a foreign ccTLD without a proper research.

And if you invest in a ccTLD of a country like China you have to take into account that your domains can disappear any possible moment.

The judgment isn’t on the overall base of ccTLDs. It’s just pointing out the fact that sometimes the rug can be pulled from underneath you when you least expect it.

With the “freedom” of gTLDs such as com/net, you very rarely run into something extreme to where you can get your domain name taken away, such as with a recent situation in Australia where someone had their domain taken away due to voicing their opinion on the Australian Internet Censorship.

I definitely understand your comment and agree–there are some VERY worthy ccTLDs out there, such as .de and .co.uk, but there is always that risk involved with them due to different country regulations.

Also, in some countries such as Poland, there are VERY MANY instances where every domain is open except for the .pl, which is an actual running and well developed website. Sometimes the gTLDs aren’t favored over the keyword.ccTLD counterpart. I have found many of these domains open in .com and have very rarely registered them (keywords, not trademarks). Just wasn’t worth it, IMO.

Thank you for the insightful comment! Appreciated.

But take .de, .nl, .co.uk, .pl, .es and many other ccTLDs and you will see they are more popular in their countries than .com. Not talking about .net, .org and other domains that are much less popular. Trust me.