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ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name

by kome on 3/13/25, 10:08 AM with 15 comments

• by cozzyd on 3/13/25, 8:00 PM

  In Soviet Russia, domain own.su

• by lxgr on 3/13/25, 2:27 PM

  Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...

• by tryauuum on 3/13/25, 12:53 PM

  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

• by bronlund on 3/13/25, 3:52 PM

  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.

• by Cpoll on 3/13/25, 4:33 PM

  Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?

• by 1970-01-01 on 3/13/25, 5:11 PM

  >Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030.

  Still too soon :)

• by mediumsmart on 3/14/25, 7:18 AM

  >One million .io sites - grab one while it lasts