Stephane Vangelder (version EN) : Death of a domain
On September 30, .YU will cease to exist as Serbia transitions to its new .RS domain as the country's sole Internet suffix.
There's a little bit of Internet history being made over in Belgrade, Serbia, at the moment.
On September 30, ex-Yugoslavia's .YU will be disconnected from the Internet and all remaining .YU domain names will cease to function.
RNIDS, the local registry, initiated a transition to the country's new .RS suffix (the country code for Serbia) in March 2008. Yet the registry reports there are still around 4,000 .YU names (around 50,000 .RS names have been registered since the new suffix was opened).
Owners of those names need to go for one of the new Serbian suffixes (e.g. .RS, .CO.RS or .ORG.RS) asap if they want to stay visible on the Net.
I often talk about creating new Internet suffixes on this blog. It's not often I get to touch on the ones that are being killed off…
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