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According to the article: A two-year transition period started in 2007 that allowed all existing .yu names to be transferred either to .rs (for Serbia) or to .m

According to the article: A two-year transition period started in 2007 that allowed all existing .yu names to be transferred either to .rs (for Serbia) or to .me (for Montenegro). That sounds like a reasonable transition period and an effective migration strategy for all of the .yu domains to me. I suppose the standard investing advice applies to choosing TLDs also - diversify your portfolio.

jacquesm 17y ago
If you've spent a decade building up a website and the links to it and you depend on these to bring you your business then that's a bit of a problem. According to google there are currently still about 21,000,000 references to page on .yu in their databases alone. Imagine getting a letter from the .com tld registry that you've got two years to move all your content over, does it still seem like enough ? Or do other factors come in to play, such as the availability of your old domain names in new places and so on ? I see domain names as 'given names', your website has mindshare and web presence based on that name, if you're paid up and you had it you should be able to continue. Otherwise all this does is tremendously devalue localized domain names. After all, the land underlying the old .yu domain is still there, if people want to hold on to their names I really don't see any good reason why that should be taken away from them.
- mrduncan 17y ago
  I should have been a little more clear in my initial reply. If the .yu TLD is going away, I think 2 years is sufficient. That said, I don't necessarily agree with getting rid of TLDs but I'm sure a lot of politics is involved when countries change names. Personally I've never really liked any of the localized TLDs precisely because this sort of thing happens. It has already happened a few times in the past - .cs, .dd (although it never made it to the official root nameservers), and .zr. The .su (Soviet Union) is, according to ICANN, being phased out but is still accepting new registrations.
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  I see what you mean and generally agree - if .com was being shutdown that would be annoying. But that's not quite the same thing - if your country was changing it's name, would you really want your business to stay with the previous name? If you were "Yugoslav Cars" would you keep the name as the country stops using it? No, you'd change to "Serbian Cars" - same with the domain. You wouldn't want "dot yugoslavia" when there is no such place anymore.
  - eru 17y ago
    But I still want people to find me under the old name as well as the new name. I do not want to lose customers over a name.
- stilist 17y ago
  Seems to me the Right Thing would be to have someone pass x.yu URIs to x.me. No broken links, no effort for those who’ve forgotten/lost control/died/&c.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    And no squatters that got wind of the change before you and registered the .me or .rs domains that people had as .yu before.
    - showerst 17y ago
      I believe the holders of the .yu URLs had a right of first refusal for the new TLDs, so it wasn't possible for squatters to move in on existing names.

jacquesm 17y ago

If you've spent a decade building up a website and the links to it and you depend on these to bring you your business then that's a bit of a problem. According to google there are currently still about 21,000,000 references to page on .yu in their databases alone. Imagine getting a letter from the .com tld registry that you've got two years to move all your content over, does it still seem like enough ? Or do other factors come in to play, such as the availability of your old domain names in new places and so on ? I see domain names as 'given names', your website has mindshare and web presence based on that name, if you're paid up and you had it you should be able to continue. Otherwise all this does is tremendously devalue localized domain names. After all, the land underlying the old .yu domain is still there, if people want to hold on to their names I really don't see any good reason why that should be taken away from them.

mrduncan 17y ago
I should have been a little more clear in my initial reply. If the .yu TLD is going away, I think 2 years is sufficient. That said, I don't necessarily agree with getting rid of TLDs but I'm sure a lot of politics is involved when countries change names. Personally I've never really liked any of the localized TLDs precisely because this sort of thing happens. It has already happened a few times in the past - .cs, .dd (although it never made it to the official root nameservers), and .zr. The .su (Soviet Union) is, according to ICANN, being phased out but is still accepting new registrations.
jodrellblank 17y ago
I see what you mean and generally agree - if .com was being shutdown that would be annoying. But that's not quite the same thing - if your country was changing it's name, would you really want your business to stay with the previous name? If you were "Yugoslav Cars" would you keep the name as the country stops using it? No, you'd change to "Serbian Cars" - same with the domain. You wouldn't want "dot yugoslavia" when there is no such place anymore.
- eru 17y ago
  But I still want people to find me under the old name as well as the new name. I do not want to lose customers over a name.
stilist 17y ago
Seems to me the Right Thing would be to have someone pass x.yu URIs to x.me. No broken links, no effort for those who’ve forgotten/lost control/died/&c.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  And no squatters that got wind of the change before you and registered the .me or .rs domains that people had as .yu before.
  - showerst 17y ago
    I believe the holders of the .yu URLs had a right of first refusal for the new TLDs, so it wasn't possible for squatters to move in on existing names.