[ih] the .su domain

[John Levine]

In article <568323CB.4000303 at gmail.com> you write:
>What does this statement in the full story mean?
>
>> This is why a top level “.su” domain (for Soviet Union) still remains on the domain
>market today, despite ICANN’s requests to delete it.
>
>As every fule know, su is "Exceptionally reserved" in IS3166, the same status as uk.
>Its ownership is presumably a national matter for Russia, as the main successor state of
>the USSR.

It isn't the matter of the ownership, it's the matter of a country
code TLD for a country that no longer exists.  In all the other cases
I can think of, when a country changed its name or dissolved, the
ccTLD went away less than five years later.  There is no longer a .cs
or .yu or .zr TLD, but here it is 14 years after the end of the USSR
and .su is still going strong.

R's,
John