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ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name (domainnamewire.com)
cozzyd 331 days ago [-]
In Soviet Russia, domain own.su
lxgr 331 days ago [-]
Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
tryauuum 331 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 330 days 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 330 days 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

waste_monk 329 days 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

Perhaps, but it's also not particularly bright to rely on the continued existence of a domain whose corresponding political entity hasn't existed since 1991. ccTLD's have an ongoing administrative burden and financial cost to maintain, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it would go away eventually.

Besides, the signal to start migrating was when they closed registrations of new .su domains in 2022. And the 5-year countdown for removing the domain hasn't formally begun yet (AFAIK), so there's still plenty of time for .su domain owners to migrate away.

Personally, I'm more interested in if/when the British Indian Oceans Territory will dissolve, prompting the retirement of the .io domain.

>But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration

Knowing when to retire systems and going through the migration and end-of-life period gracefully is an important part of systems administration. We can't hang on to the past forever.

tryauuum 329 days ago [-]
An example of a recently registered domain name in .su zone:

    $ whois breachlock.su
    % TCI Whois Service. Terms of use:
    % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_ru_rf.pdf (in Russian)
    % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_su.pdf (in Russian)
    
    domain:        BREACHLOCK.SU
    nserver:       ns1.gohost.ru.
    nserver:       ns2.gohost.ru.
    state:         REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED
    person:        Private Person
    e-mail:        namadagurova93@inbox.ru
    registrar:     REGTIME-SU
    created:       2025-03-14T07:41:44Z
    paid-till:     2026-03-14T07:41:44Z
    free-date:     2026-04-16
    source:        TCI
    
    Last updated on 2025-03-15T13:33:01Z


And you can visit nic.ru and register a new .su domain today
waste_monk 329 days ago [-]
My mistake. I thought all new domain registrations had stopped, but apparently it's to do with being able to process international payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions [1]. Presumably this domain paid in rubles.

[1] https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/

tryauuum 329 days ago [-]
wow, this is a cool website

I've never thought someone marketed .su to western audience

bronlund 331 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 330 days ago [-]
Cpoll 331 days ago [-]
Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?
bmandale 331 days ago [-]
two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
1970-01-01 331 days ago [-]
>Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030.

Still too soon :)

mediumsmart 330 days ago [-]
>One million .io sites - grab one while it lasts
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