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Outdated Domains To Meet Their End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 This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes.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. Russia by wooferhound · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia
    The Domain expires you . . .

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    We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
  2. Re:really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently you "don't any" English either.

  3. .SU has an obvious use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lawyers!

    had-an-accident-then.su
    coffee-too-hot-well.su

    1. Re:.SU has an obvious use by sczimme · · Score: 5, Funny


      had-an-accident-then.su
      coffee-too-hot-well.su

      cannot-run-command-as-unprivileged-user-then.su ?

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      I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
  4. 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.