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Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot also has SU IATA code.
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.
I wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil
.int is more exclusive. .gov is restricted to US government, but consider the immense sprawl that is the US federal government, and then consider that US state and US local governments are allowed in the club too, and it doesn't look so exclusive any more .mil is restricted to the US military, but that is a gargantuan entity with countless agencies and bases and divisions and whatnot all of whom seem to want to have…
I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?
TLDs based on political entities do seem like a bit of a bad idea https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
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Cool fact - .uk isn't the official tld for great britain. The official one is .gb
No. The official TLD – i.e. “Top Level Domain”, is .uk. It differs from the normal ISO 3166 two-character country code, GB, even though most other countries have an identical TLD and ISO two-character code. The TLD .gb is merely reserved to deter shenanigans.
UK is a reserved ISO 3166 code, to prevent complications with DNS TLD assignment.
The .GB TLD is in use, but there are only three known domains. This is one:
host hermes.dra.hmg.gb
hermes.dra.hmg.gb has address 146.80.9.16
hermes.dra.hmg.gb mail is handled by 10 relay.dstl.gov.uk.I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?
Maybe Ukraine would like the TLD :)
Anyone know of English words that we can use to make a 'domain hack'[0] out of this? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
.de.su would be THE otaku tld, lol
(I just checked; sure enough someone's thought to register that one)
I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?
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.
With Jacob Reece Mogg and James Dyson moving their assets overseas, are they not now 'globalists'?
still trying to get pant.su but it gets renewed every time despite serving nothing publicly :<
how does a link like this gets to the front page of hn?
It's interesting because it's still in use, even though the Soviet Union doesn't exist. ICANN hasn't been successful in forcing the retirement. Compare to the .cs TLD for Czechoslovakia which was phased out and replaced with new TLDs.
> Among the institutions still using this domain is the Russian pro-Vladimir Putin youth movement Nashi, as well as by the pro-Russian armed insurgency in Eastern Ukraine. Some organizations with roots in the former Soviet Union also still use this TLD.
> The domain has been reported to host many cybercrime activities due to the lax, outdated terms of use, and staying out of focus (2% usage comparing to the primary .ru zone).
I wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil
Perhaps (if you may classify it as exclusive) .arpa which is still in use I think but you cannot register new domains. There's also .aero which is pretty exclusive: "only those in various categories of air-travel-related entities may register." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...