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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 May

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

waste_monk 2y ago
>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.
- tryauuum 2y ago
  An example of a recently registered domain name in .su zone: $ whois breachlock.su % TCI Whois Service. Terms of use: % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_ru_rf.pdf (in Russian) % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_su.pdf (in Russian) domain: BREACHLOCK.SU nserver: ns1.gohost.ru. nserver: ns2.gohost.ru. state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED person: Private Person e-mail: namadagurova93@inbox.ru registrar: REGTIME-SU created: 2025-03-14T07:41:44Z paid-till: 2026-03-14T07:41:44Z free-date: 2026-04-16 source: TCI Last updated on 2025-03-15T13:33:01Z And you can visit nic.ru and register a new .su domain today
  - waste_monk 2y ago
    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. [1] https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/ https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/
    - tryauuum 2y ago
      wow, this is a cool website I've never thought someone marketed .su to western audience

waste_monk 2y ago

>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.

tryauuum 2y ago
An example of a recently registered domain name in .su zone: $ whois breachlock.su % TCI Whois Service. Terms of use: % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_ru_rf.pdf (in Russian) % https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_su.pdf (in Russian) domain: BREACHLOCK.SU nserver: ns1.gohost.ru. nserver: ns2.gohost.ru. state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED person: Private Person e-mail: namadagurova93@inbox.ru registrar: REGTIME-SU created: 2025-03-14T07:41:44Z paid-till: 2026-03-14T07:41:44Z free-date: 2026-04-16 source: TCI Last updated on 2025-03-15T13:33:01Z And you can visit nic.ru and register a new .su domain today
- waste_monk 2y ago
  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. [1] https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/ https://www.register.su/questions-about-su-domains/
  - tryauuum 2y ago
    wow, this is a cool website I've never thought someone marketed .su to western audience