[ymolodtsov]

It's interesting that while .yu was killed off, .su (Soviet Union) still exists and you can buy them today.

[mapmeld]

According to an article from last year, .su might get retired by 2030

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351793

[the_mitsuhiko]

That is more political than otherwise. SU and EU both are exceptional reservations in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

[ChocolateGod]

I would assume because the Soviet Union had a recognised successor state (being the Russian Federation), where as Yugoslavia did not have a recognised successor state.

[nradov]

The former Yugoslavia had five legally recognized successor states.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2001/06/20010629%2001-3...

[bombcar]

Thou hast well said, Yugoslavia has no successor states: For Yugo hast had five successor states; and the domain thou now hast is not thy successor state: in that saidst thou truly.

[dotancohen]

If I'm not mistaken, and please correct me if I am, the last republic to leave the USSR was Kazakhstan - making that nation the actual USSR successor state. Though the capital was in Moscow, Russia left the USSR while the USSR still existed, and thus is not the USSR successor state.

[rngfnby]

Legally Russia is the internationally recognized successor state. Russia even paid off the whole Soviet debt, but in exchange inherited all of the USSR's legal privileges (right to have nukes under NPT, right to the spot on the Sec Council, right to observer state in Danube, etc)

[dotancohen]

Thank you.

[qingcharles]

And there is now a whole issue over .io that might disappear in the near future and take thousands of SaaS and AI companies with it.

[staringforward]

Good riddance

[paulryanrogers]

Why disappear? Why not be sold and repurposed to reflect what it's actually become?

[RRRA]

Because 2 letters should be reserved for countries and not random endeavors

[platevoltage]

What happens if Anguilla sinks into the ocean?

[qingcharles]

There's a few island nations looking sketchy as sea levels rise. The UN has been thinking about this problem for a couple of decades.

[platevoltage]

True, but I was specifically talking about the .ai domain that they control.

[voidUpdate]

Students Unions all over the world are very happy about that