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- taesu 7y agohow does a link like this gets to the front page of hn?
- tyingq 7y agoIt's interesting because it's still in use, even though the Soviet Union doesn't exist. ICANN hasn't been successful in forcing the retirement. Compare to the .cs TLD for Czechoslovakia which was phased out and replaced with new TLDs.
- empyrical 7y ago.an also was phased out when the Netherland Antilles dissolved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.an
- taesu 7y agoI see. I thought it was very strange as no comment & so random.
- kijin 7y agoI don't think ICANN should retire a domain namespace just because a political entity that it used to represent no longer exists. Cool URIs don't change [1]. [1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
- tyingq 7y agoI suppose it avoids awkward politics. It's not clear to me, at least, which country would get to control the former Czechoslovakia TLD.
- notduncansmith 7y agoAlso interesting is who is still using it: > Among the institutions still using this domain is the Russian pro-Vladimir Putin youth movement Nashi, as well as by the pro-Russian armed insurgency in Eastern Ukraine. Some organizations with roots in the former Soviet Union also still use this TLD. > The domain has been reported to host many cybercrime activities due to the lax, outdated terms of use, and staying out of focus (2% usage comparing to the primary .ru zone).
- amelius 7y agoBy the way, Honduras has the ".hn" toplevel domain name.
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- phaemon 7y agoYou click the "submit" link at the top of the page. Then enter the URL you want to submit. It will then appear in the list you can see under the "new" link. If people find it interesting, they can then upvote it by clicking the little up arrow beside the submitted link. If enough people do that, then it will end up on the front page. And that's all there is to it!
- nashashmi 7y agoThat was quite courteous way to perceive the question and respond. I can do one better: The link is to a Wikipedia page with a long url. You can submit a title to mask the link. The op posted ".SU" and so .su isn't a link, it's just a title.
- dang 7y agoThere's also the second-chance process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380.
- tuxxy 7y agoIf anyone is interested, registering a domain is $29.99/year and requires the submission of an identity document (passport, driver's license, etc).
- gyosifov 7y agoFor those who speak Russian here you can find the rules for registration: http://www.fid.su/files/SU_rules.pdf http://www.fid.su/files/SU_rules.pdf
- avaika 7y agoWhere did you find a price like that? I own one and I pay like 3$ a year. However ID indeed is required.
- myndpage 7y agoI pay 30$ a year. Where did you get 3$ a year exactly?!
- avaika 7y agoWell. Even reg.ru / nic.ru (budget unfriendly Russian registrars) charge less than 10$ per year. Personally I use Naunet (yet another NIC) re-seller (former nn.gdmd.ru which was acquired by ru.gogolev.net).
- spiderjerusalem 7y agoI'm also paying 25$ per year on nic.ru, the price discrepancy is interesting.
- octosphere 7y agoCurious to know, but where can I buy one, and what registrars offer .su? Seems entirely absent in my usual haunt where I go to get obscure TLDs: https://www.ovh.co.uk/domains/prices/ https://www.ovh.co.uk/domains/prices/ There is however the following you can get on OVH which are similar: .sucks .supplies .supply .support .surgery
- riffraff 7y agoI remember using a service to get a russian visa hosted on a .su domain. When I found out what .su was, it felt pretty confusing :)
- cosmolev 7y agoRussian flag-carrier Aeroflot also has SU IATA code.
- Z-T-T 7y agoAnd the hammer and sickle logo. For Soviet-nostalgia buffs looking for a domain, although most obvious choices like CCCP, KGB, Lenin, Stalin and even Gorbachev and perestroika are registered under .su, GLASNOST.SU is available.
- brlewis 7y agoWhat about non-ASCII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
- Z-T-T 7y agoAFAIK IDNs are still possible under .su, but may depend on the registrar (non-Russian resellers may not do it). If you mean what Russian words are available under .su, probably most, for example Ленин (Lenin) and Кремль (Kremlin), though КГБ (KGB), СССР (USSR), Россия (Russia) are registered, as are single letters like А or Х that people may like for a 'short' url. Although the USSR collapsed not long after the creation of .su, it was briefly in 'proper' use on the internet - unlike, say, .dd, intended for East Germany - most notably via the ISP Demos, which famously used the name kremvax.demos.su as the name of its Usenet site, in reference to an early internet hoax/April Fool's from 1984 (https://godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html https://godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html).
- toyg 7y ago> For Soviet-nostalgia buffs ... GLASNOST.SU is available. That's a bit like suggesting Napoleon admirers should register waterloo.fr ... (yes, I know it's not in France, but this fits the joke better)
- wildylion 7y agoFor me .su is a kind of historical curiousity. Not sure if I like it or not, or if it should be phased out, but there are a bunch of Soviet Union related sites in there too and sometimes these are pretty amusing (how about a site of the CPSU?) Also there's sudo.su :) Source: am Russian.
- skissane 7y ago> (how about a site of the CPSU?) You are talking about http://kpss.su http://kpss.su ?
- loeg 7y agoSome folks have personal websites on the .su domain (mostly Russians?).
- augusto-moura 7y agoThere's also aboynamed.su, that is a reference to the Jhonny Cash song [1] The domain description is actually some part of the lyrics of the song [2] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4 [2]: https://www.whois.com/whois/aboynamed.su https://www.whois.com/whois/aboynamed.su
- gralx 7y agoJust an embellishment: that Johnny Cash song's words were written by children's author and poet Shel Silverstein.
- octosphere 7y agoAnyone know of English words that we can use to make a 'domain hack'[0] out of this? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
- silvester23 7y agotirami.su and go.su are already taken
- asveikau 7y ago> tirami.su Surely lots of puns to be made in Italian, where "su" means "up".
- axaxs 7y agoNot many - http://words.lx.lc/endswith/su http://words.lx.lc/endswith/su
- sumobob 7y agoWhat a cool site, any documentation on other operators?
- axaxs 7y agooh thanks. It was just some toy I made playing with golang and tries a few years back. It uses some linux word file as input, I just forget which. From memory, I think these are all the endpoints... /startswith/xyz /endswith/xyz /contains/xyz /anagrams/xyz - exact match anagrams /canmake/xyz - all words that can be made with that combination of letters
- taqwerty 7y agoWhat I do when looking for words is go to `/usr/share/dict/` and grep for things, for example `grep 'su$' american-english` gives me: Amaterasu Fujitsu Ginsu Ieyasu Iguassu jujitsu shiatsu tiramisu
- Scoundreller 7y agoOh. All this time I thought it was Sudan.
- tsukurimashou 7y agostill trying to get pant.su but it gets renewed every time despite serving nothing publicly :<
- taneq 7y agoI was disappointed to find that http://kat.su/ http://kat.su/ has nothing to do with curry.
- Grue3 7y agoWell, katsu refers to a pork cutlet, which can be used with other dishes than curry. Katsudon is a pork cutlet on top of donburi, for example.
- taneq 7y agoHuh, well that's my new thing I've learned today. I only ever heard it in conjunction with curry-type things (katsu chicken, which was always served with curry, for instance).
- uswjupiter 7y agoKatsu is just a japonization of the word Cuts. Chicken Katsu = Chicken Cuts
- misterdoubt 7y agoMind moderately blown.
- SECProto 7y agoNot quite. Katsu is from Cutlet. (cutlet -> カツレツ -> かつ).
- reaperducer 7y agoIsn't a cutlet a small cut? As in a small "cut of chicken" is a "chicken cutlet?"
- jon889 7y agoI wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?
- tyingq 7y agoMaybe Ukraine would like the TLD :)
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- benj111 7y agoIf you'd asked people in 2015 which country, UK or Ukraine, they expected to last the longest, I guess most people would have said UK. I wonder what the answer would be now :/
- jasoncartwright 7y agoTLDs based on political entities do seem like a bit of a bad idea https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/ https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
- tyingq 7y agoOh, hadn't considered that... "Should the UK leave the EU with no deal on 1st November 2019, EURid will enforce the following measures as far as .eu domain names that have GB/GI as the registrant’s residence country code are concerned..."
- benj111 7y agoIs the nation state itself not a political entity?
- jasoncartwright 7y agoYes, that's what I was suggesting
- rimliu 7y agoThere was a joke at the time: В связи с геополитическими изменениями домен pos.su изменяется на pos.ru. Which roughly sounds like "because of the geopolitical changes the domain pos.su will become pos.ru". The joke is that pos.su and pos.ru in Russian sound like "will pee" and "will poo" respecitively.
- paulpauper 7y agoI wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil
- mc32 7y agoProbably one of the corporate ones like .xyz, .amazon, .bananarepublic, etc.
- lathiat 7y ago.duck, sadly.
- panzerklein 7y ago.xyz is easy to get. Also cheap.
- adventured 7y agoI believe anyone can register the .xyz domains. They're typically on sale for $0.99 on GoDaddy for the first year, so there seems to be a lot of junk, volume registrations using it.
- mc32 7y agoMy bad, my main point is that likely the most restrictive would be one of the corporate/private TLDs that are for internal use mainly. .xyz was a bad example. Maybe better is .bananarepublic
- CydeWeys 7y agoThere's literally hundreds of new gTLDs like this that only have the one required nic.tld on them and nothing else (because they haven't launched yet and might never). My team runs a couple dozen of these. For comparison's sake, we should probably restrict ourselves to legacy gTLDs, ccTLDs, and open, launched new gTLDs.
- wereHamster 7y ago
- w8rbt 7y agoI hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.
- charles_f 7y agoReminds me of my 9th grade teacher who was refusing to call it USSR like everyone else and was insisting on saying "usre" (pronounced like a word). To this day still wondering if it was militant, or if she just read that on a map and thought it was a word.
- input_sh 7y agoI hope you keep it too. It's been like a decade and I still feel sad that .yu is gone.
- whoopdedo 7y agoBiggest tragedy of the early internet was losing .oz (Which was resurrected in the OpenNIC alternate DNS.)
- EugeneOZ 7y agoGolden words
- reaperducer 7y agoI strongly agree. When I take notes and put files in geographic directories, I still use .oz.
- joombaga 7y agoHow was it used?
- twic 7y agoI'm guessing that's Australia.
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- html5web 7y agoRussian Government owned Aeroflot Airlines still uses SU as a flight prefix.
- jayess 7y agoThis is kinda funny. I was able to get a .su domain earlier this year.
- djsumdog 7y agoOnce upon a time I thought it would be funny to buy the .su domain for my site, and on April Fools, have a link to it and a script that output all my posts using the Cyrillic alphabet. I doubt I'll ever get around to it.
- RRRA 7y agoI have a domain there, been using it for years, where else do you find 3 letters domains
- jbeckham 7y agoBack in the late 90's and early 2000's, there were a set of hacking challenges called the Zebulun Challenges hosted by the site CyberArmy. For the 7th or 8th challenge (Lt. Kernel to Kernel), you had to find a proxy or have an rDNS for your IP that resolved to a .su domain in order to proceed into the simulated system you were trying to hack into.
- dsl 7y agoWhich isn't that hard. You just update your reverse DNS. I assume for a later challenge they actually checked the forward DNS matched. :)
- jbeckham 7y agoIn the late 90's with dial-up connections, most ISPs would not do this, hence the search for .su proxies. Today, it is much easier when you can spin up a VM in the cloud and control DNS entries.
- bsimpson 7y agoIt had never occurred to me that the existence of the Internet and of East Germany overlapped, and that East Germany would have a TLD.
- lekz 7y agoLisa Su needs to buy lisa.su
- Markoff 7y agohow about .cs for former Czechoslovakia, ema.cs usage case came first to my mind