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[edit] What was the first Soviet/Russian website?
Does anyone know?
-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 16:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC).
- Probably, it was http://www.1-9-9-4.ru/ Alik Kirillovich (talk)
[edit] Due to humor or nostalgia
I don't think that there are main causes of wide using of .su. Really, foo.su is registrated when foo.ru havs been alrealy registered by another organization or by cybersquatters. (Other methods are using of -.com and -.net suffixes or different transliterations of russian words.)
- I'd use .su if I could afford it. I think it'd have a slight chuckle value. I'd probably also use a .com redirect in order to not lose traffic due to squatters. PirateMonkey 04:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
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- I can see a reason why nations of the former Soviet Union would want to keep .su active. Most of them are still members of the CIS, and share many cultural and economic ties. If an entity like the European Union can have a country code of its own, why not them? user:Jsc1973
- .su is mantained by Russian register company. Also CIS and EU are totaly different in nature - besides the other things - one is intergovernomental organization, the other is supranational... Also not all former Soviet Union states are members of CIS. Also .su has nothing in common with CIS. Maybe .cs can be used for some eventual supranational CIS in the future if such is formed. I can not see any point in keeping the .su domain besides nostalgia, fun and for the money; also the continuation of admitting new subscriptions maybe is in contrary to IANA rules... 199.64.72.252 11:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- I can see a reason why nations of the former Soviet Union would want to keep .su active. Most of them are still members of the CIS, and share many cultural and economic ties. If an entity like the European Union can have a country code of its own, why not them? user:Jsc1973
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.suwas that attempting to get rid of it would cause too much disruption, as it was widely used. It was never intended that new registrations would be allowed, and a lot of people were upset when this started happening, but I don't know of any IANA rule that it contravenes. --Zundark 11:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)- I don't really see what is the big deal against registering .su domains. I own one of those domains myself, and I think its fun to have a domain in a country that no longer exists. Not all domains have to correspond to an exisiting country. I don't think having the SU domain is hurting anybody. :-) 24.65.10.222 06:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- Keeping a TLD (.SU) for Soviet Union "for fun" is same as having a domain for Nazi Third Reich "for fun". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.235.88.209 (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC).
- Riiiiiiiiight. Anybody who compares the Soviet Union to the Third Reich is ignorant, misinformed, and naive.24.65.79.52
- Would I be ignorant, misinformed, and naïve if I were to say that both the Soviet Union and the Third Reich can lay claim to over 20 million dead through rather foul circumstances (which is true, of course)? What you're implying is that people can't compare apples to oranges, and I can tell you: they're both round and fruity. -129.21.96.59 14:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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- What's your point? Should we also get rid of .us since the USA government is responsible for millions of deaths? Should we get rid of Sudan's domain name because of all the people that are drying over there? Face it, if we did that, there would be barely any CC TLD's left (except for maybe Switzerland, and very small islands like Tuvalu). Besides, this is supposed to be a discussion about an internet CCTLD, not a political thing. Internet domains are not based on politics, thankfully. Warren85
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- There IS a point, and Internet domains DEPEND on political situation. First of all there are precedent and current cases, when country had existed but is no more. Czechoslovakia had a domain .cs until it was deleted in 1995 and new domains .cz and .sk came in use. .yu (for Yugoslavia) still exists, bet will be no more after September of 2009, because there is no Yugoslavia any more. Instead .rs for Serbia and .me for Montenegro are introduced. In 1997 Zaira became the Democratic Republic of Congo, the previous domain .zr was deleted on 2001 and .cd came in place. East Timor still use .tp domain but no new registrations are done in prefer of .tl because of standard. What is the point to maintain .su and even do new registrations for that? Why should Russia be an exception among all the other countries of the world? What privileges owe the pro-sovietic fanatics? Besides, those who suffered under ruling and occupation of Soviet Union, may see the existence of .su domain as a threat, like "we still exist and will come back". .su domain should be deleted. --Gabriels m 17:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Oh please. LOL. Stop being so overdramatic. THE SU DOMAIN STRIKES FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF OPPRESSED FORMER SU RESIDENTS O NOES!!11 The majority of these supposedly oppressed people live under dictatorships (like Belarus, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan) and those whose governments changed to a multiparty 'democracy' don't even bother to vote now that they have the chance, so what was the point really? 24.65.73.220 (talk) 19:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- The homepage of "fan-club of president Putin" (I'm curious - does any other country has a fan-club of their president?) is running under a domain of .su (it's www.putin.su). Do you call it nostalgia? Why does those teens want so much to associate themselves with a time which they hardly can remember (seems that most of them are students 18-19 years old). Are they taught that SU times were the Golden Age, or what? It smells like brain-washing for me. --Gabriels m 17:20, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
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- I think you take yourself and the internet too seriously. The SU domain is here to stay, get used to it. Many people want the Soviet Union BACK because life under fascist capitalist regimes have left little to be desired. Ask people in countries like Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan etc.. if their lives are any better now. They aren't. 24.65.73.220 (talk) 19:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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- There IS a point, and Internet domains DEPEND on political situation. First of all there are precedent and current cases, when country had existed but is no more. Czechoslovakia had a domain .cs until it was deleted in 1995 and new domains .cz and .sk came in use. .yu (for Yugoslavia) still exists, bet will be no more after September of 2009, because there is no Yugoslavia any more. Instead .rs for Serbia and .me for Montenegro are introduced. In 1997 Zaira became the Democratic Republic of Congo, the previous domain .zr was deleted on 2001 and .cd came in place. East Timor still use .tp domain but no new registrations are done in prefer of .tl because of standard. What is the point to maintain .su and even do new registrations for that? Why should Russia be an exception among all the other countries of the world? What privileges owe the pro-sovietic fanatics? Besides, those who suffered under ruling and occupation of Soviet Union, may see the existence of .su domain as a threat, like "we still exist and will come back". .su domain should be deleted. --Gabriels m 17:01, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
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- What's your point? Should we also get rid of .us since the USA government is responsible for millions of deaths? Should we get rid of Sudan's domain name because of all the people that are drying over there? Face it, if we did that, there would be barely any CC TLD's left (except for maybe Switzerland, and very small islands like Tuvalu). Besides, this is supposed to be a discussion about an internet CCTLD, not a political thing. Internet domains are not based on politics, thankfully. Warren85
- Wouldn't an .nz tld be fun, then? Oh wait, I forgot about Na Ziland! Err I mean New Zeeland! Well, .tr then? Third Reich? No? Damn Turkey... Hmm... "master nation"? .mn? No, not that either. "Master race"? .mr? Damnit, I said nothing! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- What about .dr, Deutsches Reich? 83.67.39.175 (talk) 20:30, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
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- Would I be ignorant, misinformed, and naïve if I were to say that both the Soviet Union and the Third Reich can lay claim to over 20 million dead through rather foul circumstances (which is true, of course)? What you're implying is that people can't compare apples to oranges, and I can tell you: they're both round and fruity. -129.21.96.59 14:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Riiiiiiiiight. Anybody who compares the Soviet Union to the Third Reich is ignorant, misinformed, and naive.24.65.79.52
- Keeping a TLD (.SU) for Soviet Union "for fun" is same as having a domain for Nazi Third Reich "for fun". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.235.88.209 (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC).
- I don't really see what is the big deal against registering .su domains. I own one of those domains myself, and I think its fun to have a domain in a country that no longer exists. Not all domains have to correspond to an exisiting country. I don't think having the SU domain is hurting anybody. :-) 24.65.10.222 06:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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- .ns doesn't exist as a top-level country code domain, and the letters NS have been banned from German license plates as NS=national-socialism; .kl also is kept off .de number plates due to the historic association of KL=Konzentrationslager. I wouldn't expect either to find their way into the ISO spec for two-byte country-level codes, though. --66.102.80.239 00:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
