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21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
- charcircuit 7mo agoThe ICANN policy of removing TLDs just because a country no longer exists makes no practical sense and only serves to break the internet.
- Scoundreller 7mo agoNow I want to try writing letters and see if they still get delivered if I write down the predecessor country.
- sznio 7mo agoConsidering how my parents still refer to that area of the world as Yugoslavia, I'm pretty sure the postal system will know how to route it. Will probably be escalated to a human for labeling though.
- otabdeveloper4 7mo agoThere's hundreds of thousands of websites with the .su domain. (The USSR dissolved before the world-wide-web was even a thing.) If Barclays can get their own vanity TLD then Yugoslavia should be able too.
- martheen 7mo agoGranted, ccTLDs has been already going on for years before USSR change their pronoun to were. Mostly for email, no idea if ccTLDs found their use on BBS. I can understand .su continuing because Russia pretty much took over everything that represent Soviet Union elsewhere (embassies, Security Council seat, etc) and other former Soviet states either support the continuation or indifferent. Yugoslavia continuation is more contentious topic.
- vasac 7mo agoRussia pretty much took over all the USSR's external debts too.
- emmelaich 7mo agoMaybe introduce .bk (Balkans) then anyone around there can use it.
- sensanaty 7mo agoI'm sure there will be no way for us to kill eachother over something like this, no sirree...
- throw-the-towel 7mo ago.bk is not allowed because two-letter TLDs are reserved for entities with an ISO 3166 country code. .balkan might appear one day.
- input_sh 7mo agoSome of the modern-day countries retained their five-digit postcodes from Yugoslav times (Serbia and Bosnia for sure, maybe a few more, I'm too lazy to check), some only got rid of the first digit which used to identify individual Yugoslav republics (AKA modern-day countries). So I'd say it's highly likely they'd be delivered, as it's still mostly the same, though I should point out many cities changed names since. For like the most basic example, Montenegro's capital was called Titograd between WW2 and 1992, before it swapped back to being called Podgorica.
- Gare 7mo agoIn Croatia only Zagreb got changed to 10 000 (because capital), the rest stayed the same.
- sensanaty 7mo agoI've encountered a surprising number of forms where "Serbia" isn't an option, but Yugoslavia is, even in 2026. There's been a number of times here in the Netherlands where I had to pick Yugoslavia as my place of birth on official government forms because we were technically still Yugoslavia in '98 and not Serbia and Montenegro. I have no doubts that snail mail addressed to Yugoslavia still exists and probably gets routed just fine
- hugh-avherald 7mo agoIt would be logical if your date of birth changed the available options for country of birth to the set of countries that were contemporaneously recognized.
- sensanaty 7mo agoSure, but my Serbian passport actually says "Place of birth: Republika Srbije" (Republic of Serbia) :p
- winstonwinston 7mo agoIt will work, they'll figure it out based on postcode and city name. I get items delivered to me, to this day, because at the time of account registration the address form had only Yugoslavia.
- onion2k 7mo agoYugoslavia broke into several smaller countries following the death of the Yugoslavian dictator, and a huge war ensued. Maintaining the domain records was probably quite a low priority.
- charcircuit 7mo agoThe organization that ran the nameservers for .yu still exists today. Even in the case where there was no one fit to run them, all the records could be transferred to ICANN or someone else to run the server.
- input_sh 7mo ago.yu was purchasable long after the country ceased to exist, until 2008 to be exact. Technically speaking, "Yugoslavia" continued to exist until 2003, when the name finally got deprecated in favour of "Serbia & Montenegro" as one country (also including the territory of Kosovo), which itself only lasted 3 years before Montenegro declared independence (and Kosovo did the same 2 years after). So however you spin it, the domain outlived the country by at least 5 years, arguably 15(ish), 9 of which were post-war(s).
- bojan 7mo agoYou got the timeline wrong. The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully. Serbia and Montenegro, that made the post-1992 Yugoslavia, agreed in 2003 to change the name of the country to Serbia and Montenegro, pending the Montenegrin independence referendum scheduled for 2006. Considering the possibility of another country name depreciation in three years, they agreed to keep the yu domain. Fun fact, had the Montenegrin referendum gone the other way, the plan was to use .cs as the national domain, which used to be owned by another ex-country, Czechoslovakia.
- SahAssar 7mo ago> The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully. I get that I'm saying this as a outsider, but isn't that a very mild way to describe a civil war and a genocide?
- kome 7mo agofully agree. also Yugoslavia lives on, in our heart :,)
- vrganj 7mo agoBratstvo i jedinstvo, druže.
- foobarian 7mo agoMi smo Titovi, Tito je naš!
- UncleSlacky 7mo agoSadly even Cyber Yugoslavia is no more, it only shows the text "juga.com" now: https://web.archive.org/web/20220122221632/http://www.juga.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220122221632/http://www.juga.c... http://www.juga.com/ http://www.juga.com/
- grujicd 7mo agoCore of Yugoslavia, still lives on in cultural space, where music, movies, and literature are consumed in all ex republics. Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space. But even in Slovenia and Macedonia there's a significant part of population which at least understands common language. And it's not only about language, there's lot of shared mentality and history from Yugoslav period.
- foobarian 7mo agoKusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend
- 1-more 7mo ago> Except probably Kosovo, which was not part of serbo-croatian linguistic space. The Albanian speaking countries really punch above their weight for English language pop stars with global presence. ~7.5 Million Albanian speakers globally gave us Bebe Rexha, Dua Lipa, Ava Max, and Rita Ora. 22 Million Romanian speakers for a comparable post-Communist community and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.
- voidUpdate 7mo agoIs there a practical way to enumerate all the registered internet domains? EG by asking DNS servers for all the domains they know about, and repeating over all DNS servers they know about? EDIT: apparently, "asking DNS servers for all the domains they know about" is not something you can really do anymore for security reasons. Guess that idea won't fly lol
- onion2k 7mo agoYou could probably extract a lot from https://commoncrawl.org/ https://commoncrawl.org/
- ks2048 7mo agoHere's the latest (although, it looks truncated at those having > 1M pages), https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/tld/latestcrawl.html https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/tld/...
- ccgreg 7mo agoThe complete list hides in the web graph: https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2026-jan-feb-mar/index.html https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main... and the specific file that's every host we've seen in the latest 3 crawls is: https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main-2026-jan-feb-mar/host/cc-main-2026-jan-feb-mar-host-ranks.txt.gz https://data.commoncrawl.org/projects/hyperlinkgraph/cc-main...
- 0x0 7mo agoEnumeration of the entire DNS space is not available in general, but it does appear that some TLDs offer complete zone files for legitimate research purposes, see for example https://czds.icann.org/help#zone-files https://czds.icann.org/help#zone-files
- gucci-on-fleek 7mo ago> apparently, "asking DNS servers for all the domains they know about" is not something you can really do anymore for security reasons. Guess that idea won't fly lol There are actually a few nameservers that will just give all their domains to anyone who asks [0], but they are very much in the minority. [0]: https://github.com/acidvegas/mdaxfr#tlds-that-allow-axfr https://github.com/acidvegas/mdaxfr#tlds-that-allow-axfr
- anthk 7mo agoDamn ethnic nationalism... in the end it was just profit for local psychos dealing with their own ethnics like sheeple. If Yugoslavia got a political transition as it happened in Spain to a social-democracy, (and yet the Spanish constitution states that all goods belong to the state in case of general intereset, such as a great catastrophe), they would evolve together and wars would have been a thing of the past. As an anecdote, read about the creation of the Warajevo ZX emulator, a cross-ethnic colaboration from several Yugo people to get spare PC parts and books while avoiding snipers. BTW: a country not existing is not an excuse. The Catalan language stretch over Spain, Andorra (the official language) and a bit of France and Italy. Ditto with the Basque language (and .eus domain). .Yu could be reused for content written in Serbo-Croatian language. Ah, yes, the Cyrillic script, but today that task would be trivial, and I'm pretty sure that due to the exposure to the Latin scripts the Serbians can read Croatian texts perfectly fine.
- petu 7mo ago> BTW: a country not existing is not an excuse. for ccTLD it is, Catalan and Basque language TLDs are a different type / 3 letters.
- dolia 7mo agoJust out of interest, are you coming from the area?
- anthk 7mo agoNo, but this is Warajevo's origin: https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/Story.html https://worldofspectrum.net/warajevo/Story.html
- whatsupdog 7mo ago> Damn ethnic nationalism Nice to see you here Trudeau!
- vasac 7mo agoBoth scripts have been taught in the early years of elementary school in Serbia for the past 80 years.
- ymolodtsov 7mo agoIt's interesting that while .yu was killed off, .su (Soviet Union) still exists and you can buy them today.
- ChocolateGod 7mo agoI would assume because the Soviet Union had a recognised successor state (being the Russian Federation), where as Yugoslavia did not have a recognised successor state.
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- nradov 7mo agoThe former Yugoslavia had five legally recognized successor states. https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2001/06/20010629%2001-33%20PM/Ch_XXIX_01p.pdf?hl=en-US https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2001/06/20010629%2001-3...
- bombcar 7mo agoThou hast well said, Yugoslavia has no successor states: For Yugo hast had five successor states; and the domain thou now hast is not thy successor state: in that saidst thou truly.
- dotancohen 7mo agoIf I'm not mistaken, and please correct me if I am, the last republic to leave the USSR was Kazakhstan - making that nation the actual USSR successor state. Though the capital was in Moscow, Russia left the USSR while the USSR still existed, and thus is not the USSR successor state.
- rngfnby 7mo agoLegally Russia is the internationally recognized successor state. Russia even paid off the whole Soviet debt, but in exchange inherited all of the USSR's legal privileges (right to have nukes under NPT, right to the spot on the Sec Council, right to observer state in Danube, etc)
- vrganj 7mo agoThe fall of Yugoslavia was a horrible tragedy and a stark example of the horrors of nationalism. Neighbors, brothers, friends, who spoke the same language and occupied the same cultural space, suddenly reduced to their narcissism of small differences and committing horrible atrocities in the name of a tribe. And for what? For the chance of living in a dysfunctional rump state with nowhere near the relevance of what they used to have.
- collabs 7mo agoI saw a YouTube short video recently that claimed something that might seem obvious to many but not to me — it claimed then Prime Minister of UK and the President of France were displeased by the reunification of Germany because their own countries' relative status would go down. Is this really how people think? Is this how our allies think?
- rrr_oh_man 7mo agoI love reading historical documents, and this is how people have been thinking for as long as there is recorded history.
- UncleSlacky 7mo agoI don't think it was concern about relative status, more the risk that a reunited Germany could once again become a significant economic/military power that could threaten the stability of Europe.
- vrganj 7mo agoWhy do you think the Trump admin is so set on sabotaging the EU? They even put it into their National Security Strategy: https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-...
- RobotToaster 7mo agoIt's how the psychopaths in charge think
- seydor 7mo agoYugoslavia was a great thing that europe lost, and perhaps it shouldn't have. The EU membership and shengen area might make a big impact in the region though.
- jjallen 7mo agoFor kicks and giggles and because my wife was born in Yugoslavia I bought Yugoslavia.org a few years ago. Would like to do something meaningful with it.
- ajcp 7mo agoJust select one of the 5 successor states to Yugoslavia, forward all traffic to their ministry of foreign affairs, and then enjoy the heartfelt exchange of brotherly love and munitions that ensues!
- user_7832 7mo agoI suppose I was mistaken, or perhaps outdated, in getting my geopolitical news from the NYT instead of HN comments apparently.
- freediver 7mo agoI'd be interested in buying it from you.
- jjallen 7mo agoMake me an offer.
- Zecc 7mo agoI don't remember which HN thread I've heard this joke originally from, but... People in Montenegro: it's not .yu, it's .me
- namegulf 7mo agoYou're right, ICANN should archive the namespace as it-is without removing the TLD from the root server and registry. Similar to an wayback archive version for domain names. On the other hand .su (soviet union) is still in use. It is very unfortunate ICANN still hasn't address this issue yet. Although not yet, .io is in a similar situation with even larger domains active but the territory is changing hands from britain to mauritius. World is connected by Internet, it needs to be preserved even after geo politics and borders change.
- RRRA 7mo ago.cs RIP too...