>If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so
The companies will not have a choice in the matter. If ICANN removes the .su ccTLD from the DNS root servers, they'll simply stop resolving (unless most of the world is somehow convinced to adopt an alternate DNS root, but that seems like a far stronger "will never happen").
Any company that continues to sell .su registrations after the domain is retired would open itself to a world of trouble from unhappy customers and legal issues.
The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well
Maybe the ICANN management is like this. But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration
>The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well
Perhaps, but it's also not particularly bright to rely on the continued existence of a domain whose corresponding political entity hasn't existed since 1991. ccTLD's have an ongoing administrative burden and financial cost to maintain, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it would go away eventually.
Besides, the signal to start migrating was when they closed registrations of new .su domains in 2022. And the 5-year countdown for removing the domain hasn't formally begun yet (AFAIK), so there's still plenty of time for .su domain owners to migrate away.
Personally, I'm more interested in if/when the British Indian Oceans Territory will dissolve, prompting the retirement of the .io domain.
>But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration
Knowing when to retire systems and going through the migration and end-of-life period gracefully is an important part of systems administration. We can't hang on to the past forever.
My mistake. I thought all new domain registrations had stopped, but apparently it's to do with being able to process international payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions [1]. Presumably this domain paid in rubles.
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.
In Soviet Russia, domain own.su
Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
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
>If there are 100000 people being charged for domains companies will find a way to continue doing so
The companies will not have a choice in the matter. If ICANN removes the .su ccTLD from the DNS root servers, they'll simply stop resolving (unless most of the world is somehow convinced to adopt an alternate DNS root, but that seems like a far stronger "will never happen").
Any company that continues to sell .su registrations after the domain is retired would open itself to a world of trouble from unhappy customers and legal issues.
The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well
Maybe the ICANN management is like this. But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration
>The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well
Perhaps, but it's also not particularly bright to rely on the continued existence of a domain whose corresponding political entity hasn't existed since 1991. ccTLD's have an ongoing administrative burden and financial cost to maintain, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it would go away eventually.
Besides, the signal to start migrating was when they closed registrations of new .su domains in 2022. And the 5-year countdown for removing the domain hasn't formally begun yet (AFAIK), so there's still plenty of time for .su domain owners to migrate away.
Personally, I'm more interested in if/when the British Indian Oceans Territory will dissolve, prompting the retirement of the .io domain.
>But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration
Knowing when to retire systems and going through the migration and end-of-life period gracefully is an important part of systems administration. We can't hang on to the past forever.
An example of a recently registered domain name in .su zone:
And you can visit nic.ru and register a new .su domain todayMy mistake. I thought all new domain registrations had stopped, but apparently it's to do with being able to process international payments due to Ukraine-related sanctions [1]. Presumably this domain paid in rubles.
[1] https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/
wow, this is a cool website
I've never thought someone marketed .su to western audience
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.
"Cool URIs don't change" (1998) https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html.en HN discussions https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Can the owners just pay the 200k to re-register it as a gTLD?
two character tlds are reserved as cctlds I believe
>Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030.
Still too soon :)
>One million .io sites - grab one while it lasts