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Sarkastro writes "Wired has this story on the pending death of the .su domain. Since the Soviet Union broke up a decade ago, all of the former members now have their own ccTLDs. Now, some people are ready to see .su be put to rest, including ICANN who is quite firm in their stance. Others within the former Soviet Union would like to see it stick around as a geopgraphical area domain. Currently, .su domains cost $15,000 (.ru cost less than $30), so there are only about 28,000 registered. It's especially interesting to watch how the Internet reacts to geographical boundaries that no longer exist. It's easy to add a ccTLD, but much much harder to remove one."
assuming you can have single letter domain names X.org i.am
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The .eu domain name is currently in the process of being created by the European Union: see The Registers story and the EU's own poorly formatted paper about the issue.
http://www.fid.su/engl/projects/SU-Registry/pricin g.html lists the current registration price as US$100, but it was US$15000 during October 2001.
it's $1,000: http://www.nic.ru/en/index.html
The island of tokelau gives away .tk domain names (kinda, you use their DNS). It's a small island and has no net access.
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.tk is free. You can get yours at www.tk (courtesy of the tiny island of Tokelau)
The .eu domain was officially approved March 26, 2002; registration is expected to start early next year. The tiny difference between the Soviet Union and the European Union is that the USSR was officially dissolved over 10 years ago, while the EU is not just alive but growing.
ObURL: http://www.eu-domain-names-resource.com/
Cheers,
-j.
True that .su doesn't have many known web sited. The problem is that ons of working e-mail addresses will be doomed. E.g. my father has an e-mail which has not changed as of 1994. Hundreds, if not thousands of people know it and there's no way to track whom to notify of change. For him, removing .su woud be a DISASTER. Hope it will never happen
There is also a plan afoot to drop the .net.uk second level domain by Christmas. Strong objections have been raised, but Nominet may not listen. It is scary to think that one's online identity (be it .su or .net.uk or something else) could be pulled out from under you. IMHO, if upper-level domains are to be scrapped, the existing ones should be grandfathered.
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http://europa.eu.int/ , .int being ."international"
.eu domain is going through european parliament at the moment, most people think it's a great idea, and they're taking the time to do it properly, apparently with ICANN cooperating!
.eu, rather than separating .gov.eu, .com.eu, .org.eu, etc.
.int suffix.
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No mention yet of splitting this domain: looks like it will remain
Prices expected to be on the high side (£60+ per year?), indicating that it's aimed at large organisations. Presumably european politics will stay inside europa.eu, once it loses its
.MS is actually in use by the caribbean country Montserrat [2], according to http://www.ms/names.htm and nic.ms. You can get a domain for US$50 a year, but microsoft.ms is already registred by Virtualley InterWarez.Services GmbH. ;-)
The island of tokelau [nic.tk] gives away .tk domain names
.tk represents a token registration :-)
So you could say
Because host names without a dot are reserved for the local network.
How can you possibly include Hawaii in your list of occupied countries? Hawaii became a U.S. state in 1959. The citizens of Hawaii are fully represented in the U.S. government. With 4 electoral votes, they have more representation than Alaska, Deleware, D.C., Montana, North & South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. Hawaii is not an occupied country.