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.su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever
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.'"
It looks like all those "In Soviet Russia" jokes will be on-topic for once.
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babas.su
jiujit.su
jiuju.tsu
jujit.su
jujut.su
shiat.su
tirami.su
zaibat.su
Hurry up and register them!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
pant.su is taken :(
If you take away their websites, the communists really won't have anything left lol.
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In Soviet Russia, DOMAINS END IN .SU !!! /me ducks for cover.
I've actually wanted to own a .su domain for quite some time, but I can't seem to find a registrar that'll do them to someone outside of russia for a REASONABLE sum. A lot of the ones that do seem to offer them want 3-figure amounts for some reason.
.su domains?
Does anyone actually know of a decent registrar that's not stupidly expensive for
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
The last we heard of the .su domain here on slashdot was when we were discussing Outdated Domains to meet their end. Like .um from that article, .su was high on the list for the chopping block. *Sniff* that article was one of my first submissions to be accepted on Slashdot...*tear*
.um... .su, ISP is throttled by you!
Erm? *Ahem!*
In
Demented But Determined.
...there are no anonymous cowards, only cowards.
Table-ized A.I.
There is no escape. Today Humor will die a little...
In Soviet Russia, goatsecx.su!
Anyone have desudesude.su yet?
They should change Sudan's TLD to .su... or give them another one.
So much choice. -sigh- And so little time. Where do I go to scoop one of these domains. =P
In Soviet Russia, zone forbids YOU.
(/me registers "in-soviet-russia-website-visit.su")
http://www.alloffmp3.su/ is open right now
Could you elaborate? Maybe enlighten us as to what we are doing that indicates brainwashing?
Just checked, it's available.
This space available.
insovietrussiadomainregister.su
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
I don't know, sometimes it's funny when they find a new way to beat a dead horse. The first time I saw "In soviet america" is was funny and that was long after the initial joke. Or the infamous "all your base are belong to you" was fun the first time I saw the poem:
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
In the end, reusing old material is ok as long as you're doing it with a twist. If you just throw up the same "In Soviet Russia, [subject] [verb]s you!" then you're just rehashing old material. Think of slashdot a bit like a stand-up comedian, you can't pull the same jokes over and over to the same audience. Instead, use the opportunity that we have some memes to make some in-jokes, it makes those who get it feel smug and the rest curious. I love Futurama for that, they go so many geeky references I've probably missed a bunch and still feel I "got it".
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Wow! A Yahoo link that should be safe to click on! Not that anybody will visit that link due to its prominent location in the summary.
The possibilities are endless!
Okay, I find the constant /. memeing tiresome to say the least, but that was really funny. Well done.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
With all this AT&T and Comcast stuff, I think you can reverse those two lower case letters.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
If you think about it, it's kinda odd that there is an *.su TLD at all. After all, back in the day the internet was essentially a U.S. military thing designed to protect military communications in the event of an *.su nuclear attack.
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You're thinking for yourself. If you're not blindly agreeing with the GP, then you're brainwashed. Obviously.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
These domain names would really be appreciated by spanish speakers. "Su" means "yours" so the possibilities are endless!
Well, I for one welcome our new "In Soviet Russia" joke posting Yakhov Smirnoff clone overlords!
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They really should depricate this thing:
.../readme.txt for information" response.
Immediately: no new TLDs
In 24 months: All registrants must have a migration plan in place or their domain will not be renewed after April 2010.
In 48 months: Shut it off and redirect all traffic to a machine that spits back a "service discontinued, see
In 10 years, shut it off entirely.
Extensions to deadlines will be done on a case-by-case basis.
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Oh come on now Mods, that was funny!
Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991-1992, Russia agreed to essentially take over for the USSR, albeit in a somewhat reduced form. Essentially, in return for taking responsibility for all of the USSR's international debt, Russia also inherited all of its treaty agreements (and its place on the UN Security Council). So the answer is yes, Russia took it over.
I'm perfect in every way, except for my humility.
I rest my case.
The University of North Dakota might want thefighting.su
I wonder, somehow, if the CyberArmy ever had anything to do with driving .su registrations? I mean, we did have that one challenge where you had to log in from a .su domain (though you were meant to fake your reverse DNS, not everyone did that)... Not too many other reasons I can imagine wanting an .su domain other than vanity.
TBH given putins actions id say it was more rebranded, with job cuts.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
For some reason, I think ".su" would be a good domain for lawyers.
Damn you Ian Campbell for registering the domain. Damn you. https://www.nic.ru/whois/?domain=insovietrussiadomainregister.su
You think that's a building. Now this is a building.
Like all comedy, timing is everything. If you stick it as a reply to anything, epic fail, you have to wait untill that perfect moment, when a really ripe one comes along, then bang. You need someone to set you up just right for it, and to get a really perfect one, you need to wait for a long long time.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Hah! I'm in your boat. By the time I got through the registration and deposit the money process, it was taken. Okay, I'm open for suggestions. Peggy.su was available, but I'm an anti-Elvis, like Michael J. Fox (shout out if you actually got that joke). Sag.su and a few other 3 letter word domains are available.
Anyone know any good foreign words that end in su?
Bah, I should have registered that my self before I made hte post.
I bet he's gunna turn up and post an 'I'm in your base registering ur domains' any moment
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Fanfiction critics will be familiar with mary.su, and anime otakus with de.su.
Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts.
The assets of the USSR were mostly fenced through London and Wall Street. I've heard George Soros shed a crocodile tear on this score as well as on thrashing the currencies in SE Asia in the 90s, but we pretty much prefer to pretend that much of the wealth of the nation wasn't stolen outright and fenced through our fuckheads so much as it was all just a Potemkin village ot start with.
The wheel is still in motion, though. The Chinese hold how much of our increasingly worthless paper again?
Is that where Richard Stallman hosts his web site? LOL Oh, I see its a .org
In 1918 the USSR was the size of Belgium, including only the Moscow and St. Petersburg area. The whole Siberia and Far East of Russia were occupied by the USA, Canada and Japan. South, Ukraine, was hold by France, etc. Still somehow they manged to fight out these powers and unite the country.
In 1941 Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland occupied the whole European part of the USSR. Chances of the USSR were pitiful. The victory was all but celebrated. Still we know the outcome.
The "Great Victory Victory in the Cold War" is from the same league. The territory of the "defeated" Russia is 4.5 times larger than the territory of the whole European Union. Russia holds the world stock of natural gas and oil, and other key resources.
The price of these resources has grown 10 times since 2001. The West is sucked in into the was which cannot be won. As result the West is approaching to the economical crisis and social unrest of an unprecedented magnitude.
Do not celebrate too early. .su still may hit the mainstream.
Russia also inherited the USSR's nukes.
(You don't think those conveniently "just went away", do you?)
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
So do not spit into wells from where you drink.
There isn't anything called Soviet Russia let anlone Soviet Union anymore. The union ended in 1991, that's 17 years ago.
Even AC's should've learnt that by now.
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On Soviet Slashdot, case rests you!
I hate printers.
> Let me in!
< In Soviet Russia, zone forbids YOU.
> SUdo let me in
< Okay
[ http://xkcd.com/149/ ]
I'd wager that most of the 45% increase is down to domain spamming.
pensu?
your remark shows the old hatred that started numerous wars, here in europe. do you really want to recreate the european map of the 9th century?
Commonwealth of Independent States
+3 Informative :O
I swear by .su I didn't know that!!
First there will be a "humanitarian crisis" in western part of Poland. Then occupation. You know how they can do it.
Most Poles wan to be good neighbors with Russia. So do not speak for the whole Poland badmouthing Russia.
So... where can I register a .su domain?
Mmmm. That irony tastes delicious.
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http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/ANTHEMS/Russia.mp3
Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!
Sing to the Fatherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
They already though of gin.su, but no cheesy knife ads . . .
3-4 years? Yakov Smirnoff started his comedy in the 80's... you're WAY off.
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itadakima.su ....are all taken, and if the scant information given is anything to go by, all taken by the same person.
arima.su
arigatougozaima.su
-- Soruk
That has to be one of the geekiest replies I have ever seen posted here. That being said; +1 Funny. :)
If I can not smoke in heaven, then I shall not go. -- Mark Twain
Most of the material assets ended up in the hands of whatever former Soviet republic it happened to be in. The Russian Federation ended up with most of the foreign assets, which was only fair, considering that they'd been paying the bills for the Soviet government for some time. In fact, it was their refusal to continue doing so that forced the USSR to close shop.
As for the intangibles: the Red Flag, the slogans, etc., those were just on loan from the parent enterprise, the World Communist Revolution(TM). They reverted when the local franchise was dissolved.
Typical /. utility. Four random mods that cancel each other out (with the last one apparently winning), and not a single constructive reaction or suggestion. So guess why I'm not going to hop over and help out the metamoderation?
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Tomato wedge sperm darts that are Republican.
Since the domain services allow 3 letters I think .sue is better.
So .su me. :-)
Of course I don't want Dot or her lawyers suing me so this is just a joke, please don't sue me Dot.
I wonder if anyone is going to start acronym top level domains? Like if 4 letters were allowed: www.hard-drives.scsi.
And last but not least: I think that the top level domain names like .su can have changing meanings per owners and the public opinion unless ICANN forces them to only be used for a certain registered group like .gov for only real legitimate government agencies.
I'll think of a really good SIG just before I die.