12-08-2006, 10:07 AM
Quote:The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers began accepting public comments this week on how best to revoke outdated suffixes, such as those assigned to countries that no longer exist. The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion. A few other domains have already disappeared, including East Germany's ".dd" and Zaire's ".zr" after the country became the Democratic Republic of the Congo (".cd")...
East Timor now uses ".tl," though about 150,000 sites remain under its older code, ".tp."
Also obsolete is Great Britain's ".gb," which produced no sites on Google. Britons typically use ".uk" for the United Kingdom...
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