[ih] the .su domain

[P Vixie]

I bought vix.su and I use it in place of vix.com 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.

On December 29, 2015 5:16:02 PM PST, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>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
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