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This is one of the main reasons why I've been a boring stick in the mud and stuck to com/net/org domain names for stuff I'm that I intend to use for anything that's going to be around for more than a short period.
Odds are they're not going to end up vanishing due to things utterly outside the control of, well, anyone or get sold to a horrible steward of them that jacks up prices insanely or does other stupid shit.
I will admit to owning a few .us domains, but as a US-ian, if the .us TLD vanished, I'm pretty sure my domain names would be very, very, very far down the list of shit I'm actually concerned about at that moment.
Exactly this. Another factor in choosing TLDs is that they have different rules. Read those rules closely. Some of them make it much easier for them to take the domain names away from you, for things like copyright infringement, for example. .COM/.NET/.ORG have the strongest rules protecting your ownership, as far as I can recall. This is one of the reasons I stick to those old 3 rather than using newer gTLDs like .INFO, .BIZ, etc.