Outdated Domains To Meet Their End 173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 This announcement comes as last month ICANN began taking comments on deletion of outdated suffixes.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."
get rid of all TLDs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why not just sell it? (Score:2, Insightful)
URLs like in.fini.ty, del.icio.us, etc are both extremely lame and annoying.
Don't be that guy.
Re:Let's Not Troll Too Much Please (Score:3, Insightful)
But the Soviet Union? I thought you guys had disbanded?
Ambassador:*chuckles* Yes, that's what we wanted you to think!
Re:Why not just sell it? (Score:3, Insightful)
For those who are wondering, there are only 8 words that end in 'su'
Re:get rid of all TLDs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:get rid of all TLDs (Score:3, Insightful)
Suffixes still serve a valuable purpose. They allow us to identify hosts using DNS, pretty handy if you ask me. There may be a better way of doing it but I haven't seen one. mail.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com could be different servers and so prefixes are handy and reliable.
The only suffixes that are no-brainers would be www and ftp if they're all handled by the same host. We'll know by the port numbers anyway.
Re:get rid of all TLDs (Score:2, Insightful)
We've also had this discussion before about
however this doesnt solve the problem about what the root domains should be?
in any case the big co's are always going to buy up all the permutations they can, and that makes ICANN lot's of cash.
Re:get rid of all TLDs (Score:2, Insightful)
But what you forgot or didn't realize (Score:3, Insightful)
You're showing your youth here. The internet was here years before the web existed and
However, you are certainly right that with the advent of the web that people should have realized that the
Whatever happened to "Cool URIs don't change"? (Score:2, Insightful)
Shouldn't obsolete TLDs just be mothballed with further registrations prohibited?
It's not just a case of registering new domains for all those sites - think of the volume of inbound links that will break if a whole domain just vanishes overnight.