Soviet domain name. Su became popular in the Internet virtual world

The Soviet Union as the Cold War superpower has disappeared from the historical stage, but now the Soviet "country code" as the suffix of the Internet "SU domain name" is in the virtual world of popularity. According to statistics provided by AP, the suffix is. Su's http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/12851.html "> Internet domain name number has increased 45% this year.   favor   suffix to. Su's network domain name is now about 45,000, up 45% from the January 31,000, compared with 1 at the end of 2006. The number of 10,000 is doubled.   Russian youth organization "our" website domain name is suffix. su. The organization denies choosing this suffix for political reasons.   The Associated Press reported 18th that some Russians have a nostalgic feeling about the Soviet era as one reason why the ". Su" suffix is still popular among many people. At the same time, some people see business interests from them.   A small auto repair shop in Moscow, which specializes in "Ford" cars, registered its web domain name as "Ford." Su ". Vladimir Hramov, who worked on network management in Moscow last year, purchased the domain name "Microsoft." Su, who says this is to make his email address easier to remember.   Some people are suspected of reselling domain names. For example, Yang Balayan registered "ISSR." Su "and" KGB. Su "and other domain names, marked 30,000 U.S. dollars per domain price for sale.   Struggle   In some people's opinion, the. su domain name still remains the result of "hard struggle".   International Organization for Standardization has an Internet domain name country code list, for example. RU for the Russian domain name country code, UK domain name for the UK, US domain name for the United States. FR is France and so on. The Associated Press said that the original domain name would cease to be used when a country disintegrated or changed its name. The use of the   SU domain name dates back to September 1990, a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ". Ru" domain suffix was used in 1994.   headquarters in the United States Internet name and number distribution company and its predecessor organization since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 90, a series of efforts aimed at cancelling the ". Su" domain name failed.   A number of ". Su" domain owners insist on retaining their domain names, and some accuse the United States of deliberately eliminating its "Cold War" opponents ' final "imprint".   A Russian organization responsible for domain name registration later issued a provision to no longer register the new domain name suffix ". Su", but the previously registered domain name remains. This rule does not block the growth in the number of ". Su" domains, such as "Ford." Su "can develop subordinate domain name" car. Ford. SU ". The significant increase in the number of   potential   ". Su" domain names began in recent years.   Russian organization for domain name registration Ru-center spokesman Andre Vorobyov told The Associated Press, Russia 2001 should be a large number of Internet users to open the world ". Su" domain name.   At that time the ". Su" domain name was registered at a higher price, averaging 120 dollars per domain name, about 6 times times the ". Ru" domain name. The price is in order to control the quantity, the second is to prevent someone reselling domain names.   This January, Ru-center's registration price for the ". Su" domain was reduced to $25. The number of such domains has increased dramatically.   However, compared to the. ru domain name, the number of the. su domain name is much less, the. ru domain name is currently registered in more than 1 million.   Of course, there is still room for development in the SU domain. By the end of April, Russian-related organizations planned to allow the domain name to be registered in Russian with the suffix of. Su. At present, the. su domain name is only allowed to consist of English letters, numbers, and symbols.   RU Domain name registration: HTTP://WWW.IISP.COM/DOMAIN/INTRO_RU.PHP?S=ASDX