Outdated Domains To Meet Their End 173
Dr. Eggman writes "The little used .um internet domain is no more. The domain was used, or rather unused, for US minor outlying islands and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute had grown tired of maintaining it. This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes. Among the top of the list? .su, the internet domain of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's .su may prove harder to remove however, as Google still lists 3 million .su sites."
Russia (Score:5, Funny)
The Domain expires you . . .
Um.... (Score:3, Funny)
And there was no opinion poll on this? (Of if there was, I missed it. I'm just not hip to the California cutting edge news.)
Now I can't make a site called Y.um
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
.su (Score:5, Funny)
New use for .um top-level domain? (Score:5, Funny)
Why not reassign the .um TLD to the umming and aahing community? There are many ditherers and the
like out there who'd love to have domains like "im-not-sure.um", "let-me-see-a-minute.um",
"tum-te-tum-te-t.um" etc.
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
bah, that's why there are editors. Hell if you read either of my two books you'd not have such high expectations for me.
.SU has an obvious use (Score:5, Funny)
had-an-accident-then.su
coffee-too-hot-well.su
No more .su? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, no big loss -- .sudo is a much better way of managing things anyway.
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:5, Funny)
Re:.SU has an obvious use (Score:5, Funny)
had-an-accident-then.su
coffee-too-hot-well.su
cannot-run-command-as-unprivileged-user-then.su ?
Re:really? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not just sell it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:5, Funny)
the fabric of space time is about to be ripped (Score:5, Funny)
the slashdot community is also familiar with the concept of logical paradoxes, like: "i never tell the truth"... well if you aren't telling the truth about never telling the truth, then perhaps you do tell the truth, which contradicts your statement. the resulting lack of meaning renders the entire statement null and void
now if we are to actually drop the
good god for the sake of humanity, leave
because in
Re:really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Um.... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Um.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:3, Funny)
Re:email at outdated domains? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:3, Funny)
But the Soviet Union? I thought you guys had disbanded?
Ambassador:*chuckles* Yes, that's what we wanted you to think!
Apparently Yukos (and some others) didn't get the memo.
As for interesting domains- it.su is already taken, for those who prefer things extra hot.
Re:Um.... (Score:3, Funny)