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.su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever

Posted by timothy on from the c-c-c-i-p dept.

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes "Yahoo! Finance has a story about the defunct Soviet Union's .su TLD. 'Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost.'"

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  1. Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Soviet Russia, DOMAINS END IN .SU !!! /me ducks for cover.

  2. Re:Where to register a .su? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.best-hosting.net/
    Pay with PayPal:
    http://www.best-hosting.net/news/paypal_payments.asp

  3. Re:Where to register a .su? by ggruschow · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nic.ru seems to be the main site. nic.tld is often the place to go at least for info on a TLD.

    Their service agreement form allows you to specify you're a US citizen as well as to choose to pay in US Dollars. They're charging 600 rubles/year for a domain, which is currently US$25.51.

  4. Re:Where to register a .su? by RemmyLee · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.nic.ru/en/ It's about $26USD a year. I was about to grab jujit.su

  5. Re:You know... by calebt3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you sure?

  6. Re:The only domain I wanted. by Faylone · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pantsu is japanese for panties

  7. Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE by MrNaz · · Score: 1, Informative

    On Soviet Slashdot, case rests you!

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  8. Re:History repeats itself by concept14 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The O.P. is mostly making stuff up. Although there were British and American troops in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk at the end of World War I, most of the non-Bolshevik-controlled parts of Russia were controlled by other factions of the Russian civil war.

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