.su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes "Yahoo! Finance has a story about the defunct Soviet Union's .su TLD. 'Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising — registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost.'"

Well.

[Zarel (900479)]

It looks like all those "In Soviet Russia" jokes will be on-topic for once.

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[StreetStealth (980200)]

Isn't there a "insovietrussia" tag?

Because this would truly be its moment of glory.

Registrations are up?

[Xenographic (557057)]

I wonder, somehow, if the CyberArmy ever had anything to do with driving .su registrations? I mean, we did have that one challenge where you had to log in from a .su domain (though you were meant to fake your reverse DNS, not everyone did that)... Not too many other reasons I can imagine wanting an .su domain other than vanity.

Words that end in .su

[by Anonymous Coward]

babas.su
jiujit.su
jiuju.tsu
jujit.su
jujut.su
shiat.su
tirami.su
zaibat.su

Hurry up and register them!

Re:Words that end in .su

[somersault (912633)]

you forgot peggy.su!! And Maibat.su! We.su?

mary.su and de.su

[tepples (727027)]

Fanfiction critics will be familiar with mary.su [wikipedia.org], and anime otakus with de.su [encycloped...matica.com].

Rumour has it...

[jd (1658)]

...that the next batch of registrants are:

• www.microsoft-will.su
• www.sco-will.su
• www.rambus-will.su
• www.riaa-will.su
• www.mpaa-will.su
• www.oldies-internet-radio-peggy.su

Re:Rumour has it...

[OMNIpotusCOM (1230884)]

omnom-eat.su
chucknorris-kill.su
insovietrussia-domainregister.su

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[Wireless Joe (604314)]

My favorite: http://www.tirami.su/ [tirami.su] Mmmm...too bad the link doesn't actually go to any dessert sites. Just some dork and his dalmatian.

aboynamed.su

[Jafafa Hots (580169)]

Just checked, it's available.

The only domain I wanted.

[by Anonymous Coward]

pant.su is taken :(

Re:The only domain I wanted.

[sqrt(2) (786011)]

I wish I was the kind of person that wouldn't know why that's funny.

Re:The only domain I wanted.

[somersault (912633)]

You wish you were me? >_> That's messed up

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[EdIII (1114411)]

I am that person. Now I want to know what it means, but I don't think I want to risk it. The last time my curiosity got the better of me was 2 Girls 1 Cu.......... Oh god .. the pain.

Re:The only domain I wanted.

[Faylone (880739)]

Pantsu is japanese for panties

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[ThreeGigs (239452)]

she.su, the.su and you.su are all for sale though:
http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/list.cgi?keyword=*.su&sort=price&start=351 [auction.nic.ru]

Oh, and to garner both +informative *and +funny mods, I'll also point out that PORN.SU is also for sale, at an apparently reasonable price:
http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/lot.cgi?id=16262 [auction.nic.ru] or http://auction.nic.ru/torgi/list.cgi?keyword=*.su&sort=price&start=401 [auction.nic.ru]

commies!

[ILuvRamen (1026668)]

If you take away their websites, the communists really won't have anything left lol.

Re:commies!

[mcpkaaos (449561)]

They'll have each other.

Where to register a .su?

[neokushan (932374)]

I've actually wanted to own a .su domain for quite some time, but I can't seem to find a registrar that'll do them to someone outside of russia for a REASONABLE sum. A lot of the ones that do seem to offer them want 3-figure amounts for some reason.

Does anyone actually know of a decent registrar that's not stupidly expensive for .su domains?

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[by Anonymous Coward]

http://www.best-hosting.net/
Pay with PayPal:
http://www.best-hosting.net/news/paypal_payments.asp

Re:Where to register a .su?

[ggruschow (78300)]

Nic.ru [www.nic.ru] seems to be the main site. nic.tld is often the place to go at least for info on a TLD.

Their service agreement form allows you to specify you're a US citizen as well as to choose to pay in US Dollars. They're charging 600 rubles/year for a domain, which is currently US$25.51 [yahoo.com].

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[RemmyLee (1209926)]

http://www.nic.ru/en/ [www.nic.ru] It's about $26USD a year. I was about to grab jujit.su

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[TinBromide (921574)]

i just put in an order for aboynamed.su at see inside the brackets ---> [marcaria.com] for 71 usd. icannwiki.org seems to think they're legit. If www.aboynamed.su doesn't pop up in the next week or so, they're not legit.

Ah, this takes me back.

[Dr. Eggman (932300)]

The last we heard of the .su domain here on slashdot was when we were discussing Outdated Domains to meet their end [slashdot.org]. Like .um from that article, .su was high on the list for the chopping block. *Sniff* that article was one of my first submissions to be accepted on Slashdot...*tear*

Erm? *Ahem!* .um...
In .su, ISP is throttled by you!

In .su?

[TheVelvetFlamebait (986083)]

With all this AT&T and Comcast stuff, I think you can reverse those two lower case letters.

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[Faylone (880739)]

WOOOOSH!

Ahhhhh, people.

[Viceroy Potatohead (954845)]

Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists

What a disparate group of people. Goes to show, no matter what problems one may have with someone else's ideology, there is always some common interest (albeit for different reasons).

Interesting.

[Millennium (2451)]

Anyone have desudesude.su yet?

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[binaryspiral (784263)]

<quote>Anyone have desudesude.su yet?</quote>

dig!

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> desudesude.su
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 528
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;desudesude.su. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
desudesude.su. 0

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[techno-vampire (666512)]

Checking, bluesuede.su is still open if you want to put up an Elvis fan site.

http://www.alloffmp3.su/ is open right now

[Joe The Dragon (967727)]

http://www.alloffmp3.su/ [alloffmp3.su] is open right now

The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.

[mikeboone (163222)]

American official: The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.

Russian official: Yes, that's what we wanted you to think! [laughs]

Well, it looks as if the century's greatest lie has been exposed, as communist factories start producing tanks again, the Berlin Wall re-erects itself out of the ground, and Lenin rises from the grave, saying "Must Crush Capitalism, Rrr!".

(From SNPP [snpp.com])

You know...

[rastoboy29 (807168)]

If you think about it, it's kinda odd that there is an *.su TLD at all.  After all, back in the day the internet was essentially a U.S. military thing designed to protect military communications in the event of an *.su nuclear attack.

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[calebt3 (1098475)]

Are you sure? [wikipedia.org]

Is there anything left of the Soviet Union?

[DrBuzzo (913503)]

I mean aside from Russia and the other countries that made it up. Usually when a company dissolves someone or something ends up with the assets and the name and trademark.

For example: Enron was taken over by the "Enron Creditors Recovery Group," Pan-Am Airlines had the name and logo auctioned off and it traded hands a few times. Montgomery Ward spun off foreign divisions and then the name and contacts was bought by an investment group. Tiger Direct bought out the remaining intellectual property and

UND

[rossdee (243626)]

The University of North Dakota might want thefighting.su

History repeats itself

[Max_W (812974)]

In the FSU the mood is growing to recreate the USSR in one for or another.

In 1918 the USSR was the size of Belgium, including only the Moscow and St. Petersburg area. The whole Siberia and Far East of Russia were occupied by the USA, Canada and Japan. South, Ukraine, was hold by France, etc. Still somehow they manged to fight out these powers and unite the country.

In 1941 Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland occupied the whole European part of the USSR. Chances of the USSR were pitiful. The victory was all but celebrated. Still we know the outcome.

The "Great Victory Victory in the Cold War" is from the same league. The territory of the "defeated" Russia is 4.5 times larger than the territory of the whole European Union. Russia holds the world stock of natural gas and oil, and other key resources.

The price of these resources has grown 10 times since 2001. The West is sucked in into the was which cannot be won. As result the West is approaching to the economical crisis and social unrest of an unprecedented magnitude.

Do not celebrate too early. .su still may hit the mainstream.

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[by Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, DOMAINS END IN .SU !!! /me ducks for cover.

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[by Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, zone forbids YOU.

(/me registers "in-soviet-russia-website-visit.su")

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[StarfishOne (756076)]

> Let me in!
< In Soviet Russia, zone forbids YOU.
> SUdo let me in
< Okay
[ http://xkcd.com/149/ [xkcd.com] ]

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[Oktober Sunset (838224)]

insovietrussiadomainregister.su

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[Nimey (114278)]

Okay, I find the constant /. memeing tiresome to say the least, but that was really funny. Well done.

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[morgan_greywolf (835522)]

Well, I for one welcome our new "In Soviet Russia" joke posting Yakhov Smirnoff clone overlords!

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[Kjella (173770)]

I don't know, sometimes it's funny when they find a new way to beat a dead horse. The first time I saw "In soviet america" is was funny and that was long after the initial joke. Or the infamous "all your base are belong to you" was fun the first time I saw the poem:

roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

In the end, reusing old material is ok as long as you're doing it with a twist. If you just throw up the same "In Soviet Russia, [subject] [verb]s you!" then you're just rehashing old material. Think of slashdot a bit like a stand-up comedian, you can't pull the same jokes over and over to the same audience. Instead, use the opportunity that we have some memes to make some in-jokes, it makes those who get it feel smug and the rest curious. I love Futurama for that, they go so many geeky references I've probably missed a bunch and still feel I "got it".

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[calebt3 (1098475)]

you can't pull the same jokes over and over to the same audience.

You must be new here.

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[Handover Phist (932667)]

Oh come on now Mods, that was funny!

Re:THIS IS A NO 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' ZONE

[Oktober Sunset (838224)]

Like all comedy, timing is everything. If you stick it as a reply to anything, epic fail, you have to wait untill that perfect moment, when a really ripe one comes along, then bang. You need someone to set you up just right for it, and to get a really perfect one, you need to wait for a long long time.

DEAD HORSE BEATS YOU

[tepples (727027)]

I don't know, sometimes it's funny when they find a new way to beat a dead horse.

And sometimes it's just funny when the dead horse beats you.

Re:Oblig

[by Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, goatsecx.su!

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[TheVelvetFlamebait (986083)]

You're thinking for yourself. If you're not blindly agreeing with the GP, then you're brainwashed. Obviously.