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Outdated Domains To Meet Their End

Posted by Zonk on from the cleaning-up-the-intertubes dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "The little used .um internet domain is no more. The domain was used, or rather unused, for US minor outlying islands and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute had grown tired of maintaining it. This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes. Among the top of the list? .su, the internet domain of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's .su may prove harder to remove however, as Google still lists 3 million .su sites."

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  1. Why not just sell it? by Paulrothrock · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are tons of words that end in 'um'. Why not sell domains there so people can get 'cesi.um' or 'im-a-b.um'? It would generate tons of revenue (just like .cx, .us, and .tv) and would free up some domain name space.

    For those who are wondering, there are only 8 words that end in 'su'

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  2. Bad journalism? by sczimme · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the linked article:

    The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion; that'll be harder to strike than ".um" -- a Google search produced more than 3 million ".su" sites.

    The Google results were vetted to ensure those were 3+ million unique domains, right?

    A Google search for sites from only the .su domain returned the following result:

    Results 1 - 10 of about 2,670,000 for site:.su. (0.04 seconds)

    I don't know what folks will do without www.jedi.su...

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  3. Re:What about new ccTLDs? by kimba · · Score: 4, Informative

    Okay, so they've been dropping some ccTLDs, but IANA has Procedures for Establishing ccTLDs. So, when was the last time they created a new ccTLD?

    June 2006

  4. Re:get rid of all TLDs by Abreu · · Score: 3, Informative

    www. , ftp. and mail. are prefixes, not suffixes .com , .net, .xxx are suffixes

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  5. 3 million sites? by helgy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably 3 million pages, not sites. According to Russians (http://info.nic.ru/st/38/out_1362.shtml) there were 7897 domain names registered in .su TLD by 11/26/2006. And looks like they aren't going to give it up for nothing - .su domain is $100/year.