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Re: .su

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Post by rabidrat »

johnmulaney wrote: post #122
vasili111 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

There are many things that remind people of bad things. That's not an appropriate reason to remove them.

Can you imagine if there were a .nazi TLD? Would you think it appropriate to discontinue its use, despite its historical significance?

Re: .su

#132

Post by ulzeraj »

egorfine wrote: post #129
nobodyshere wrote: post #116

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Which one was that?

I believe he is speaking of Ukraine. It is trendy today to say things like that in Ukraine.

Maybe because it was trendy to starve Ukrainians when the Soviet Union existed?

Re: .su

#133

Post by axaxs »

sumobob wrote: post #125
silisili wrote: post #19

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Not many - http://words.lx.lc/endswith/su

What a cool site, any documentation on other operators?

oh thanks. It was just some toy I made playing with golang and tries a few years back. It uses some linux word file as input, I just forget which. From memory, I think these are all the endpoints...

  /startswith/xyz
  /endswith/xyz
  /contains/xyz
  /anagrams/xyz  - exact match anagrams
  /canmake/xyz - all words that can be made with that combination of letters

Re: .su

#134

Post by amalcon »

vasili111 wrote: post #109
_wldu wrote: post #49

I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

My usual response to this is "keep it, but turn it into / put it in a museum". However, that seems impractical here. .su can't go in a museum any more than pi can go in a museum.

It could be a museum, but it would by nature be the only one of its kind on this topic -- so, who would get to decide what goes in the museum? The history there is too recent and too global to really find an impartial administrator anywhere.

Re: .su

#135

Post by ethelward »

ulzeraj wrote: post #132
egorfine wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe he is speaking of Ukraine. It is trendy today to say things like that in Ukraine.

Maybe because it was trendy to starve Ukrainians when the Soviet Union existed?

They also numbered three out of nine PCUS general secretary.

Re: .su

#136

Post by spiderjerusalem »

avaika wrote: post #126
myndpage wrote: post #71

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I pay 30$ a year. Where did you get 3$ a year exactly?!

Well. Even reg.ru / nic.ru (budget unfriendly Russian registrars) charge less than 10$ per year. Personally I use Naunet (yet another NIC) re-seller (former nn.gdmd.ru which was acquired by ru.gogolev.net).

I'm also paying 25$ per year on nic.ru, the price discrepancy is interesting.

Re: .su

#137

Post by johnisgood »

vasili111 wrote: post #114
mciancia wrote: post #110

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Maybe remove history books, they also remind people about this.

Removing .su != burning books. I will tell you opposite: we should write in history books the truth about what in realty USSR was and teach children with it so tragedies like USSR never happen again.

He is not saying that "removing .su == burning books", even though both actions lead to permanent destruction of something, I suppose.

> I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

Replace "it" with "history books". You hope that we will not "keep" anything that: "reminds you how your country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union". By this reasoning alone we should not keep a lot of things (including history books) because a lot of things may remind people of something horrible. If you ask me, this is not a good basis of or justification for not keeping that something, which could be ".su", or "history books", or anything else.

Re: .su

#138

Post by niij »

vasili111 wrote: post #127
johnmulaney wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many things that remind people of bad things. That's not an appropriate reason to remove them.

Demonstrating symbol of ex "country" in which there was dictatorship, occupation, annexation and genocide is act of glorification/act of paying respect of/to that "country" and its behavior.

What are your thoughts on the North Korean TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kp ?

Re: .su

#140

Post by gdy »

vasili111 wrote: post #109
_wldu wrote: post #49

I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

Is that the country where they have torch marches in the capital?

Neonazi torch march in Kiev, Ukraine: https://youtu.be/tHhGEiwCHZE

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