Comment by preisschild
7 months ago
.su hopefully dies in the future. It is often used for cybercrime, neo-nazi websites and the russian controlled puppet government of certain russian controlled Ukrainian territories.
7 months ago
.su hopefully dies in the future. It is often used for cybercrime, neo-nazi websites and the russian controlled puppet government of certain russian controlled Ukrainian territories.
TIL that the USSR had its own TLD. As a child, I always thought .su domains were specifically for warez uses.
The GDR (East Germany) also had its own TLD, .dd (for Deutsche Demokratische Republik), but it was never operated in the global DNS and there were only like two registrations.
It's actually kinda crazy that it has been kept. I personally think resolvers should not resolve that zone at all.
The crazy thing is that there's a list of actually agreed-upon root name servers and they maintain a uniform namespace for the internet.
I suspect the above statement isn't actually a true statement across the world, but at least for today the list of roots isn't generically ideological in the same way a broad set of "obvious truths" is now ideological.
Yeah, with uniformly applied rules. Keeping .su is a violation of that and should be deprecated.
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Wait till you learn how russia kept the seat of ussr on the UN Security Council.
I mean, the seat of USSR was given to the Russian Federation, as Russia is recognized as the continuation of the USSR, or do you mean something else?
Hey now, it's also popular for some kinds of piracy, it's not all hate crimes! Plus, I think there are a few pun-oriented domain names that use .su?
I was always disappointed it didn't acquire a "regional" sort of appeal for businesses serving the CIS/former Soviet states, sort of like when they started to sell .eu domains towards an audience that wanted to imply "we're not just a .de or .fr company".
Curious what the trade aspects are like-- I'd expect there's a lot of industrial commonality and shared inherited legal norms, so if you're already doing business in one former Soviet republic, is it comparatively easy to expand to others?