[ih] the .su domain

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 30/12/2015 15:44, P Vixie wrote:
> I bought vix.su 

Where su means superuser, no doubt ;-)

> 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.

In any case, it isn't ICANN's business IMNSHO. And really, where's the harm,
compared to all the other TLD nonsense?

It was always rather neat that su was the inverse of us, I thought.

   Brian

> 
> 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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