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See Ya .su

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardly-knew-yu dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Keeping .su as an area? by beebware · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:$15'000 for a domain? by beebware · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:cheapest domain name? by tunah · · Score: 5, Informative

    The island of tokelau gives away .tk domain names (kinda, you use their DNS). It's a small island and has no net access.

    --
    Free Java games for your phone: Tontie, Sokoban
  4. Re:cheapest domain name? by eggstasy · · Score: 5, Informative

    .tk is free. You can get yours at www.tk (courtesy of the tiny island of Tokelau)

  5. Re:.eu by jpatokal · · Score: 5, Informative
    Doesn't the European Union want a .eu domain? Surely ICANN can't allow that and at the same time nix maintaining .su...

    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.

  6. lots of e-mail addresses :((( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  7. MS = Montserrat by superkri · · Score: 4, Informative

    .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. ;-)