I have a domain there, been using it for years, where else do you find 3 letters domains
.su
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Re: .su
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"History books" have value in aggregating and presenting information with historical context. TLDs are artifacts without context. A history book that covered the 20th century and blandly mentioned that the Soviet Union was a collection of communist states, without mentioning any other events or context, would be similarly irrelevant, and should be relegated to the trash heap. Same with the .su TLD. We should definitely keep the historical records that it existed, but there is no reason to continue its actual existence at this point.
Re: .su
#163Re: .su
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"History books" have value in aggregating and presenting information with historical context. TLDs are artifacts without context. A history book that covered the 20th century and blandly mentioned that the Soviet Union was a collection of communist states, without mentioning any other events or context, would be similarly irrelevant, and should be relegated to the trash heap. Same with the .su TLD. We should definite…
Thousands of people own .su domains (I'm not one of them, FWIW). That's the reason for its actual existence at this point.
Re: .su
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"History books" have value in aggregating and presenting information with historical context. TLDs are artifacts without context. A history book that covered the 20th century and blandly mentioned that the Soviet Union was a collection of communist states, without mentioning any other events or context, would be similarly irrelevant, and should be relegated to the trash heap. Same with the .su TLD. We should definite…
Those domains have value, too, to the owners, for one, and perhaps to its visitors.
> there is no reason to continue its actual existence at this point.
I might as well just reply: there is no reason to not continue. Why should we take away people's domains just because you think there is no reason to continue its actual existence? Put yourself in other people's shoes, please. Imagine if someone used this reasoning to get rid of or take away whatever you are fond of.
Perhaps these domains have no value to you, which is fine, but we should not get rid of anything just because they have no value to you.
Re: .su
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe because it was trendy to starve Ukrainians when the Soviet Union existed?
Ukrainians were not the only ones to suffer from the famines back then. Multiple parts of the USSR actually did. It doesn't seem like a targeted action on behalf of the govt.
Communism was such a disaster you can barely tell whether its genocides were intentional!
Re: .su
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 s…
>Replace "it" with "history books".
I am against even burning history books from USSR that glorify USSR. BUT we should not use those books to teach history now.
Re: .su
#168Re: .su
#169I wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil
Not top-level, but .co.ck is rather well-protected for obvious reasons.
Re: .su
#170Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, there were a set of hacking challenges called the Zebulun Challenges hosted by the site CyberArmy. For the 7th or 8th challenge (Lt. Kernel to Kernel), you had to find a proxy or have an rDNS for your IP that resolved to a .su domain in order to proceed into the simulated system you were trying to hack into.