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."

Comments

Keeping .su as an area?

[dadragon]

Weird. You'd then expect something along the lines of .eu, .na, .as, etc.. assuming that none of those exist at the moment. Too lazy to look them up.

What do you people think of geographical TLDs as opposed to national ones?

About .su

[Ektanoor]

Well there is one thing that some are ignoring. Apart of nostalgia and other problems, like lots of mail users still being in .su domain, there is another argument. Some people want to use .su for CIS sites.

Re:lots of e-mail addresses :(((

[vejalis]

We don't agree with the attitude of those people who say that we will not be harmed by .SU destruction. From the marketing point of view (which - by all means - should determine the technical point of view with the users' interests and not the other way around) existence of .SU is fully justified.