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Outdated Domains To Meet Their End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 This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes.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. get rid of all TLDs by pr0nbot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Suffixes (and host prefixes) were a mistake. We ought to get rid of them altogether.

    1. Re:get rid of all TLDs by eln · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ICANN uses new TLD registration to basically print money, they'll never give up the TLD concept.