Russia May Say 'See Ya'...

Russia May Say 'See Ya' to Dot-Su: "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. In 1990, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) registered the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) dot-su, for the Soviet Union. Later, a Russian non-governmental organization, RosNIIROS, was delegated to manage it. The dot-su zone included second-level domains (like www.yourname.su) as well as third-level domains (like www.subname.yourname.su). "