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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 :(
In Soviet Russia, DOMAINS END IN .SU !!! /me ducks for cover.
The last we heard of the .su domain here on slashdot was when we were discussing Outdated Domains to meet their end.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.
In Soviet Russia, goatsecx.su!
They'll have each other.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
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.
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".
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