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[edit] Due to humor or nostalgia

I don't think that there are main causes of wide using of .su. Really, foo.su is registrated when foo.ru havs been alrealy registered by another organization or by cybersquatters. (Other methods are using of -.com and -.net suffixes or different transliterations of russian words.)

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I'd use .su if I could afford it. I think it'd have a slight chuckle value. I'd probably also use a .com redirect in order to not lose traffic due to squatters. PirateMonkey 04:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

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I can see a reason why nations of the former Soviet Union would want to keep .su active. Most of them are still members of the CIS, and share many cultural and economic ties. If an entity like the European Union can have a country code of its own, why not them? user:Jsc1973

.su is mantained by Russian register company. Also CIS and EU are totaly different in nature - besides the other things - one is intergovernomental organization, the other is supranational... Also not all former Soviet Union states are members of CIS. Also .su has nothing in common with CIS. Maybe .cs can be used for some eventual supranational CIS in the future if such is formed. I can not see any point in keeping the .su domain besides nostalgia, fun and for the money; also the continuation of admitting new subscriptions maybe is in contrary to IANA rules... 199.64.72.252 11:18, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The reason for keeping .su was that attempting to get rid of it would cause too much disruption, as it was widely used. It was never intended that new registrations would be allowed, and a lot of people were upset when this started happening, but I don't know of any IANA rule that it contravenes. --Zundark 11:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't really see what is the big deal against registering .su domains. I own one of those domains myself, and I think its fun to have a domain in a country that no longer exists. Not all domains have to correspond to an exisiting country. I don't think having the SU domain is hurting anybody. :-) 24.65.10.222 06:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Keeping a TLD (.SU) for Soviet Union "for fun" is same as having a domain for Nazi Third Reich "for fun". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.235.88.209 (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

Riiiiiiiiight. Anybody who compares the Soviet Union to the Third Reich is ignorant, misinformed, and naive.24.65.79.52

Would I be ignorant, misinformed, and naïve if I were to say that both the Soviet Union and the Third Reich can lay claim to over 20 million dead through rather foul circumstances (which is true, of course)? What you're implying is that people can't compare apples to oranges, and I can tell you: they're both round and fruity. -129.21.96.59 14:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

What's your point? Should we also get rid of .us since the USA government is responsible for millions of deaths? Should we get rid of Sudan's domain name because of all the people that are drying over there? Face it, if we did that, there would be barely any CC TLD's left (except for maybe Switzerland, and very small islands like Tuvalu). Besides, this is supposed to be a discussion about an internet CCTLD, not a political thing. Internet domains are not based on politics, thankfully. Warren85

Wouldn't an .nz tld be fun, then? Oh wait, I forgot about Na Ziland! Err I mean New Zeeland! Well, .tr then? Third Reich? No? Damn Turkey... Hmm... "master nation"? .mn? No, not that either. "Master race"? .mr? Damnit, I said nothing! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)