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Re: .su

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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.

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Re: .su

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And the hammer and sickle logo. For Soviet-nostalgia buffs looking for a domain, although most obvious choices like CCCP, KGB, Lenin, Stalin and even Gorbachev and perestroika are registered under .su, GLASNOST.SU is available.

What about non-ASCII? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

AFAIK IDNs are still possible under .su, but may depend on the registrar (non-Russian resellers may not do it).

If you mean what Russian words are available under .su, probably most, for example Ленин (Lenin) and Кремль (Kremlin), though КГБ (KGB), СССР (USSR), Россия (Russia) are registered, as are single letters like А or Х that people may like for a 'short' url.

Although the USSR collapsed not long after the creation of .su, it was briefly in 'proper' use on the internet - unlike, say, .dd, intended for East Germany - most notably via the ISP Demos, which famously used the name kremvax.demos.su as the name of its Usenet site, in reference to an early internet hoax/April Fool's from 1984 (https://godfatherof.nl/kremvax.html).

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#144

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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?

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#145

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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?

Joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ss

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#146

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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.

Every country has done something terrible to another country. There is not getting around that.

And deleting something permanently is very similar to burning something permanently.

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#147

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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.

I agree with you about the horrors of the Soviet Union, but if you want people to know what happened, why remove a bunch of highly accessible primary sources?

Re: .su

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I wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil

.gle - owned by Google and only for Google properties

Assigned to Google, but I could not find any examples of it actually being used unlike .google

Re: .su

#149

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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?

That is not the point. There are a lot of things in the world that may remind someone of something bad. Take a look at history books. Should we not keep them either because they remind people of bad things? Of course we could use a zillion other things besides "history books" or ".su", the point is the reason behind not keeping or removing them.

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Unlikely Brexit ever happens. There's too much at stake here, globalists would never let it happen. If UK detaches from the EU and it becomes successful, the EU project is over.

There's big forces at play that do want it to happen though; financial, in that there's a lot of people that want UK businesses and real estate to drop in value so they can buy it up for cheap, and political, political forces who have an interest in destabilizing Europe (and the world).

A Russian political treatise, Foundations of Geopolitics -- essentially a wish-list/wet-dream of Russian geo-political objectives -- makes it clear that splitting the UK out of the EU is a priority. A divide-and-conquer strategy.

Given that several other policy objectives listed in Foundations mirror actual Russian behavior, it's not crazy to think that this is a concerted effort by foreign powers to get the UK to tank it's own economy. The fact that Nigel Farage had an awful lot of contact with Paul Manafort isn't a coincidence...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

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