[j4nek]

> URL just to blindly follow a policy, then they will have proven themselves an incompetent arbiter of the domain name system.

Of course I can understand if someone finds the situation stupid. However, ICANN is clear with its rules and every entrepreneur has to take possible (political) uncertainties into account when choosing a .tld, which many have simply not done. You could also accuse them of "incompetence".

When choosing a domain for .de, I explicitly decided against a podcast bro tld like .io / .ai etc. because of these reasons.