[bojan]

You got the timeline wrong.

The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully. Serbia and Montenegro, that made the post-1992 Yugoslavia, agreed in 2003 to change the name of the country to Serbia and Montenegro, pending the Montenegrin independence referendum scheduled for 2006.

Considering the possibility of another country name depreciation in three years, they agreed to keep the yu domain.

Fun fact, had the Montenegrin referendum gone the other way, the plan was to use .cs as the national domain, which used to be owned by another ex-country, Czechoslovakia.

[SahAssar]

> The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully.

I get that I'm saying this as a outsider, but isn't that a very mild way to describe a civil war and a genocide?

[bojan]

It was not my intention to describe the civil wars (plural) and the genocide.

They were part of the larger, longer, and not always violent, process of the break-up of countries named Yugoslavia, leading to the deprecation of the .yu domain, which the thread was about.