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Outdated Domains To Meet Their End
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 This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes.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."
In Soviet Russia
The Domain expires you . . .
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
Suffixes (and host prefixes) were a mistake. We ought to get rid of them altogether.
Apparently you "don't any" English either.
The TLD for bearded Russian sysadmins.
\u262D = \u5350
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'
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Why not reassign the .um TLD to the umming and aahing community? There are many ditherers and the
like out there who'd love to have domains like "im-not-sure.um", "let-me-see-a-minute.um",
"tum-te-tum-te-t.um" etc.
From the linked article:
.su domain returned the following result:
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
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...
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
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
^speak
bah, that's why there are editors. Hell if you read either of my two books you'd not have such high expectations for me.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Lawyers!
had-an-accident-then.su
coffee-too-hot-well.su
Well, no big loss -- .sudo is a much better way of managing things anyway.
No jokes, please
I'm a little disappointed at the lack (currently I only see one) of "In Soviet Russia" posts under this article. Often they're lame, but once in awhile you see some that're actually funny. I was hoping when I clicked through to this discussion to find some, only to find a single one (modded down Redundant). Sure, they can be rather annoying in irrelevant conversations, but this article is practically an open invitation for people who post the same hackneyed phrases to every article to go wild. Maybe you don't care for them, but I for one welcome our Soviet Russian troll poster overlords. I'm currently checking Netcraft to verify whether or not "In Soviet Russia" posting is dying and will report confirmation later.
brandelf: invalid ELF type 'KEEBLER'
If you're heading to "Jumping to insane conclusions land", any room for me in the car? I read his post and assumed he was a grand dragon of the KKK.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
in soviet russia, that which is operated on becomes the operator and that which operates becomes operated on. it's a well known fact in the slashdot community
.su domain, when the slashdot community knows full well that in soviet russia, the .su domain drops you, then won't the void created by this logical paradox create a rift in time and space and kill us all?
.su alone!
.su, domain drops you!
the slashdot community is also familiar with the concept of logical paradoxes, like: "i never tell the truth"... well if you aren't telling the truth about never telling the truth, then perhaps you do tell the truth, which contradicts your statement. the resulting lack of meaning renders the entire statement null and void
now if we are to actually drop the
good god for the sake of humanity, leave
because in
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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.
You've taken it uptheb.um?
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.