<html><head></head><body>I bought <a href="http://vix.su">vix.su</a> and I use it in place of <a href="http://vix.com">vix.com</a> which I've sold. As a child of the cold war I'm very very pleased to be able to buy property in the Soviet Union. Please don't take that away.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 29, 2015 5:16:02 PM PST, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">In article <568323CB.4000303@gmail.com> you write:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">What does this statement in the full story mean?<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> This is why a top level <a href="http://“.su">“.su</a>” domain (for Soviet Union) still remains on the domain<br /></blockquote>market today, despite ICANN’s requests to delete it.<br /><br />As every fule know, su is "Exceptionally reserved" in IS3166, the same status as uk.<br />Its ownership is presumably a national matter for Russia, as the main successor state of<br />the USSR.<br /></blockquote><br />It isn't the matter of the ownership, it's the matter of a country<br />code TLD for a country that no longer exists. In all the other cases<br />I can think of, when a country changed its name or
dissolved, the<br />ccTLD went away less than five years later. There is no longer a .cs<br />or .yu or .zr TLD, but here it is 14 years after the end of the USSR<br />and .su is still going strong.<br /><br />R's,<br />John<br />_______<br />internet-history mailing list<br />internet-history@postel.org<br /><a href="http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history</a><br />Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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