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Although registrars are technically allowed to do that, I don't know of any case where that has ever happened beside kiwifarms.

Let's look at the claim that 8ch was terminated at the registrar level. Here's the truth of it:
>"Yesterday, Tucows terminated N.T. Technology, Inc., the reseller for the domains that have hosted the 8chan forum, for violating the terms of the OpenSRS reseller agreement," Reg Levy, head of compliance for Tucows, said Nov. 7 in an email. "The specifics of the breach are a private matter." (OpenSRS is a domain reseller company owned by Tucows.)
Notice anything? 8ch itself was never terminated. What was terminated was N.T. Technology, Inc, a reseller. OpenSRS is an API service allowing resellers to resell Tucows domains and to put a 'for sale' storefront webservice on a given site.

That N.T. Technology is the 8ch parent company is immaterial, as is that it may have been terminated because of 8ch and not because of a real breach of service (although there is no proof, and I'm sure you're aware of the... competence... of 8ch "staff", so I think it's more likely they get terminated for causing a data breach).

The same trick was used when 8ch moved to Epik: Voxility was the hosting provider for their BitMitigate service and THAT is the thing that went offline, the 8ch name registration was not touched.

Similarly, other knock-down events like with spartan host/cnserver were at the host level, not at the registrar level.

Even getting a fraudulent site or a piracy site with a US ccTLD is nearly impossible in practice. Even DNSs argue they shouldn't moderate their content and therefore refuse to act except with a court order in their jurisdiction, and registries and registrars both take their duties to their clients very seriously for now.

So, of all things, being scared that loli will take your name away is, at best, putting the cart before the horse.

Not that this post is any recommendation to avoid looking into "better" registrars, just pointing out that your fear is significantly overblown.
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