The upside of IANA doing it would be a standardised place for sites to move to. Without coordination, different sites would move to different TLDs, probably mostly based on what isn’t already registered. IANA could create a new TLD for this and give existing whatever.io owners a chance to register whatever.iox before its generally available

The xz compromise having demonstrated that FOSS projects are totally immune to interference from state actors…

Try it. The worst that happens is that it makes things slower and then you turn it back off.

You’re right, my bad. (Source: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html)

They pay Microsoft for access to the bing index