At the very symbolic and tragicomic Corporation decided to move to destination Internet domain names (ICANN): the reorganization of domain names, she said on the Elimination of a number of domains, one of which hit the domain. su, assigned, neither more nor less than the network space of the Soviet Union.
It should be noted that ICANN's nostalgia is not peculiar: the knife holders of domain names have already got zones. cs ( Czechoslovakia),. dd ( East Germany ) and. zr ( Zaire); much excitement, however, the elimination of no one has caused, as they did not enjoy widespread popularity.
Now the situation is more complicated: ICANN has undertaken close to Yugoslavia, East Timor, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
Put all of the UK, with its domain. gb, duplicating, in fact, the main zone. uk. In the domain. gb registered very few sites, and the elimination of severe consequences for not entail a. Another matter - Yugoslavia and East Timor, who will lose their domain names for domestic reasons. yu and. tp: so, in only one area only. tp 150,000 registered sites and do not know what consequences may result in their destruction.
Whatever it was, such a complex issue should be the subject of litigation with the citizens of these countries ICANN'om, Russia also hearing a lot more caresses abbreviated SU, and the possibility of elimination of this domain name arm of imperialism quite naturally stirred up the community Runet.
As stated on the website ICANN, of the corporation due to three reasons: First, this measure is designed to combat the shortage of domain names (for example, area. cs once served as Czechoslovakia, and then - Serbia and Montenegro ), and secondly, by the rules of ICANN, each country must meet only one top-level domain, and thirdly, the national domain name must correspond to a particular country -specific laws and boundaries.
Rules of the rules, but the thing is that the zone. su during its existence - and there is a September 19, 1990 - managed to absorb a lot of sites of different directions. Since the collapse of the Union and up to 2002 in this domain has been banned registration of any site before 2003 were allowed to register a trademark, finally, in early 2004, a moratorium on the use of a domain. su has been removed, and there rushed a considerable number of those who ...
Since then, it took almost 3 years, and now the domain. su has more than 6000 active sites, and the number is slowly but surely growing - that's why, when he heard about the possible destruction of your favorite domain name, site owners area. su promised sternly overwhelm ICANN claims. To the credit of the corporation, that is not rushed ahead, and offered only to send the company comments and suggestions on the draft before the end of the liquidation in January 2007 by publishing them on your site.
It is noteworthy that among the authors of the proposals submitted to the vast majority of our countrymen, took a firm position: the zone. su does not give.
... su? . Do not get us, the owners of sites in the area. su invested in their offspring a lot of money, and we have band. su is positioned as an exclusive, prices are higher than 5 times than the area. ru, »- describes the situation of someone Maxim Shestakov.
Olga P. , A systems engineer from California, in a letter published on the server ICANN, has resulted in their arguments in favor of maintaining the area. su. Third, join a new user? . su? . Fourth and finally, if this does not come from the initiative of politicians? .
By the way, the assertions about ... su », flown apart to news feeds, you need to empty words: resources, despite the small number of them, did not take many, but the quality: in the zone. su registered websites of many universities and institutions of the country - from Omsk to Moscow State University - and the elimination of lead, if not to total discord between the scientific community in Russia, then certainly a respectable mess.
In the end, the time for debate still exists, and there is a chance to save a piece of the Soviet Union in the face area. su.
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