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There'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.

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Granted, 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.


Russia pretty much took over all the USSR's external debts too.

Maybe introduce .bk (Balkans) then anyone around there can use it.

.bk is not allowed because two-letter TLDs are reserved for entities with an ISO 3166 country code. .balkan might appear one day.

I'm sure there will be no way for us to kill eachother over something like this, no sirree...



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