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Remember `.su`, the ccTLD for the Soviet Union? Created in 1990, just 15 months before the USSR was dissolved and in ICANN limbo since, broadly used primarily for various sorts of cybercrime.

Now ICANN will finally move to retire the #TLD from the #DNS, targeting removal by 2030:

domainnamewire.com/2025/03/11/

Interestingly, ICANN moving forward with this could imply that they _will_ follow through on the removal of the `.io` #ccTLD should the return of the territory to Mauritius complete...

Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News · ICANN moves to retire Soviet-era .SU country domain name - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name NewsDomain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, Domain Name Wire has learned. The .su namespace, which remains open for new registrations and currently has around 100,000 domain names, is […]

In anticipation of the completion of ICANN policy activity for the New gTLD Program: Next Round, the Interisle team looked again at our 2024 Cybercrime Supply Chain study. Using the same data, we offer additional measurements, metrics and observations here to further inform ICANN and other policy makers as they consider policy for Round 2.

interisle.substack.com/p/icann

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@MichaelRoss It appears that a Google seach (on Safari, not the app) using a single seach term and “.gov” returns at least one full screen of federal, state, and local government sites, with no “Sponsored” links. I tried it with “wildlife” and “recycle.” Using “ca.gov” turned up many screens on which all the hits were California state and local government sites. A few found embedded links, rather than the actual page URLs, which was the only way it turned up any local governments who have given up their free .gov URL for cityorcounty.org addresses. (I have no idea why any of them did that.) If the federal government changed from .gov to .us.gov, it would be easy to find their pages without a bunch of state and local pages mixed in. #SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #TLD #Top-LevelDomain #TopLevelDomains #KISS

4 of 5 nameservers of `.id` #TLD are in a bad state, as all under `dns.id` namespace, which itself has only 4 in-bailiwick nameservers (same ones as for `.id`) but querying them results in `SERVFAIL` with #DNS EDE of 24 "Zone expired".