Comment on What happens to the national TLD when the country gets annexed whole?
JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
Basically yes, but it won’t happen immediately or quickly. It’s very unlikely any domain would be revoked just like that, but they might eventually stop registering new ones and accepting renewals. ICANN has a retirement policy that they will follow.
Interestingly, this is relevant to the popular (among tech bros) .io domain, which belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territory, a small cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean that is currently in the process of being transferred to Mauritius. That might mean .io domains will eventually be phased out.