ICANN Reviews Revoking Outdated TLDs

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ICANN Reviews Revoking Outdated TLDs

Yahoo! News
December 06, 2006, 8:46 pm PDT Views: 3,764 Add Comment

Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ICANN began accepting public comments this week on how best to revoke outdated suffixes, primarily assigned to countries that no longer exist.

The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion, although the former Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro are transitioning from ".yu" to their own country codes. A Google search generated millions of ".su" and ".yu" sites.

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