.yu domain expires today (30/Sept/2009)

I'm also quite surprised that the TLD actually can be shut down, why not simply close new registrations and keep it alive as long as there are websites ending on .yu ?

mrduncan2• 17 years ago

According to the article: A two-year transition period started in 2007 that allowed all existing .yu names to be transferred either to .rs (for Serbia) or to .me (for Montenegro).

That sounds like a reasonable transition period and an effective migration strategy for all of the .yu domains to me. I suppose the standard investing advice applies to choosing TLDs also - diversify your portfolio.

jacquesm4• 17 years ago

If you've spent a decade building up a website and the links to it and you depend on these to bring you your business then that's a bit of a problem.

According to google there are currently still about 21,000,000 references to page on .yu in their databases alone.

Imagine getting a letter from the .com tld registry that you've got two years to move all your content over, does it still seem like enough ? Or do other factors come in to play, such as the availability of your old domain names in new places and so on ?

I see domain names as 'given names', your website has mindshare and web presence based on that name, if you're paid up and you had it you should be able to continue.

Otherwise all this does is tremendously devalue localized domain names.

After all, the land underlying the old .yu domain is still there, if people want to hold on to their names I really don't see any good reason why that should be taken away from them.

pavlov• 17 years ago

".su", the TLD assigned to the Soviet Union, is still in use and has no expiration in sight. It seems a bit strange that .yu is being phased out so rapidly.

varjag• 17 years ago

Russia has succession rights to USSR, while SFRY was dissolved without successor.

tesseract• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_the_United_Nations

mahmud• 17 years ago

Only if Tito played ball with the Kremlin .. a trace of his legacy might still be in sight.

nir• 17 years ago

By the way, anyone catch Gaddafi's UN speech last week? I was thinking about all these .ly URLs...

lacker• 17 years ago

Seems like there are still quite a number of .yu sites in operation. Are these going to stop resolving?

http://www.google.com/search?q=yu+site%3Ayu

mblakele• 17 years ago

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A*.yu still shows "about 191,000" pages indexed. Maybe they didn't get the memo?

.yu domain expires today (30/Sept/2009)

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