Actually countries disappear all the time - they just don't usually sink into the ocean. For example Czechoslovakia and Zaire have ceased to exist as countries

Actually countries disappear all the time - they just don't usually sink into the ocean. For example Czechoslovakia and Zaire have ceased to exist as countries, and correspondingly the .cs and .zr TLDs have been removed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain