Soviet Union TLD to be removed...

from slashdot.org from wired...

MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union dissolved more than 10 years ago, and the dot-su Internet domain may finally follow.

A spokesman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced recently at a Moscow conference on Internet development that the domain dot-su will be revoked sometime next year. As innocuous -- and logical -- as that may sound, however, there are many in the former Soviet Union who are fighting to save dot-su.

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