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It's interesting that while .yu was killed off, .su (Soviet Union) still exists and you can buy them today.
by ymolodtsov 7mo ago
It'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)
- dotancohen 7mo agoThank you.
- sigmoid10 7mo ago[flagged]
- dragonwriter 7mo agoAn even superficial ideological orientation toward Marxism-Leninism is also missing.
- cestith 7mo agoWe’d be living in a different world if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin.
- whatsupdog 7mo ago> At this point the old name is the only thing still missing. And about 14 countries.
- sigmoid10 7mo agoMore like 11 and a half by now. Or actually 10 and three quarters, depending on how you count. They are tirelessly working on bringing that number down.
- giancarlostoro 7mo agoYou really think they'll stop after 14? Because I do not.
- konart 7mo agoHow so? I understand you are talking about Ukrainian and Georgian wars, but even them are hardly an attempt to return to SU days. I'm not even talking about very limited influence over other ex-USSR republics. It is there but very limited.
- LunaSea 7mo agoYou're missing Moldova as well. And yes, Russia keeps invading, hacking, politically pressuring and organising disinformation campaigns to make these ex-USSR countries fall back into Russia's bloody wing.
- voidUpdate 7mo agoStudents Unions all over the world are very happy about that
- mapmeld 7mo agoAccording to an article from last year, .su might get retired by 2030 Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351793
- the_mitsuhiko 7mo agoThat is more political than otherwise. SU and EU both are exceptional reservations in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
- qingcharles 7mo agoAnd there is now a whole issue over .io that might disappear in the near future and take thousands of SaaS and AI companies with it.
- staringforward 7mo agoGood riddance
- paulryanrogers 7mo agoWhy disappear? Why not be sold and repurposed to reflect what it's actually become?
- RRRA 7mo agoBecause 2 letters should be reserved for countries and not random endeavors
- platevoltage 7mo agoWhat happens if Anguilla sinks into the ocean?
- qingcharles 7mo agoThere's a few island nations looking sketchy as sea levels rise. The UN has been thinking about this problem for a couple of decades.
- platevoltage 7mo agoTrue, but I was specifically talking about the .ai domain that they control.