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ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name (domainnamewire.com)
cozzyd 1 days ago [-]
In Soviet Russia, domain own.su
lxgr 1 days ago [-]
Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
bronlund 1 days ago [-]
I think it makes sense retiring a TLD for a soveregin state dissolved 34 years ago. This wouldn't be the first time a TLD has been retired and probably not the last.
gus_massa 8 hours ago [-]
tryauuum 1 days ago [-]
would be cool if some domain guru could enlighten us on the truth

From my point of view this will never happen. If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so

waste_monk 17 hours ago [-]
>If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so

The companies will not have a choice in the matter. If ICANN removes the .su ccTLD from the DNS root servers, they'll simply stop resolving (unless most of the world is somehow convinced to adopt an alternate DNS root, but that seems like a far stronger "will never happen").

Any company that continues to sell .su registrations after the domain is retired would open itself to a world of trouble from unhappy customers and legal issues.

tryauuum 16 hours ago [-]
The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well

Maybe the ICANN management is like this. But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration

Cpoll 1 days ago [-]
Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?
bmandale 1 days ago [-]
two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
1970-01-01 1 days ago [-]
>Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030.

Still too soon :)

mediumsmart 17 hours ago [-]
>One million .io sites - grab one while it lasts
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