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The most important thing is to own your own domain/urls. URLs are forever.

Own your own domain and anything is possible. Build on someone else's domain and you are always a serf.

yourname.substack.com is worthless and can be taken away at any time. blog.yourname.com can never be taken away[1].

[1] It can be taken away, but if it comes to that point you probably have bigger problems.

To add to [1]: if .io can teach us anything, it's not to build on top of ccTLDs. I'd even call into question whether Google's new global TLDs are in the same class as a .net or .com.

I don't know that .io has taught us that. If .io changes in the future there will be ample time to prepare.

Read especially the last paragraph here: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelag...

I believe that one of two outcomes will occur:

1. The popularity of .io will be incentive enough for Chagos to leave it alone

2. .io is retired and we all have 5 years to deal with it.

DNS urls are extremely not forever. Ask the likes of wikileaks, pirate bay, libgen, etc. Their domains have been routinely seized and they move to other ones.

Totally. If the government is after you, good luck.

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