See Ya .su

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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Insane Price

[bellings]

Currently, .su domains cost $15,000 (.ru cost less than $30), so there are only about 28,000 registered.

That sentence is simply insane. $15,000 dollars per domain times 28,000 domains is nearly a half billion dollars. I simply can't imagine anyone buying even one of the oh-so-valuable .su domains for $15,000, much less any economy absorbing a half billion dollars worth of them.

What is the real story on the price? How much have most people really paid for their .su domains, and who got all the cash?

stable URLs?

[captaineo]

I thought URLs were supposed to be permanently stable! Shutting down a TLD does not exactly help this out...

I admit I've broken a couple minor links on my own sites, but I do try very very hard to keep old URLs working...