The Soviet domain zone .su will be closed by 2030

The international non-profit organization ICANN, which controls the assignment of names and numbers on the Internet, plans to decommission the national top-level domain for the USSR - .su (formed from the acronym Soviet Union). ICANN representatives informed the zone operator, the Russian Research Institute for Public Networks Development (RosNIIROS).

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The international non-profit organization ICANN, which controls the assignment of names and numbers on the Internet, plans to decommission the national top-level domain for the USSR - .su (formed from the acronym Soviet Union). ICANN representatives informed the zone operator, the Russian Research Institute for Public Networks Development (RosNIIROS).

The .su domain was created in 1990 and belonged to the USSR. RosNIIROS received the rights to manage the zone in 1993. Today, there are about 100,000 domain names in the space, and it is still open to new registrations. In 1992, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the .su domain was removed from ISO 3166-1. However, it remained active due to the lack of clear ICANN rules. The organization adopted a policy of decommissioning national top-level domains only in 2022. The process of withdrawing .su from the list of active domains will be launched after the official announcement of ICANN. In accordance with the organization's policy, the use of the Soviet zone will be discontinued at the end of the transition period, which is five years. Operators of such domains can request an extension for another five years.

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