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charcircuittoday at 8:32 AM3 repliesview on HN

The ICANN policy of removing TLDs just because a country no longer exists makes no practical sense and only serves to break the internet.


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onion2ktoday at 8:42 AM

Yugoslavia broke into several smaller countries following the death of the Yugoslavian dictator, and a huge war ensued. Maintaining the domain records was probably quite a low priority.

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Scoundrellertoday at 8:35 AM

Now I want to try writing letters and see if they still get delivered if I write down the predecessor country.

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kometoday at 8:45 AM

fully agree. also Yugoslavia lives on, in our heart :,)

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