Geo Quiz

Dot YU

Today’s Geo Quiz is about “.yu”.

“.yu” is the Internet country code assigned to Yugoslavia. The country no longer exists. The name hasn’t even been used officially since 2003.

That’s when Yugoslavia became “Serbia and Montenegro.” Now those two are independent — and each has its OWN country code. But the Internet can take a while to catch up to all the name changes.

An estimated 4,000 websites still use the “.yu” code. So ICANN — the agency in charge of Internet addresses — is taking its time to phase it out.

OK here’s today’s quiz:

Can you name another country that broke up into smaller states in the 1990′s and whose internet code is still being phased out?

That code is “.su”. Have you used that lately?

We’ll use it to reveal the answer here…

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Geo Answer:
Let’s get to the answer to our Geo Quiz now.

We asked you to name a country that’s disappeared — but whose Internet country code…hasn’t.

Not yet, anyway.

The code is “.su”. And it stands for the Soviet Union.

Believe it or not, more than 80,000 websites still use a “.su” address — even though there’s no going back… to the USSR.