Serbia Marks End of .YU Internet Domain
After years of being alive on the web, Yugoslavia will disappear from the online world tomorrow when its ".yu" domain name officially expires on Tuesday at noon.
The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names, RNIDS, has announced that the move to terminate the name came after a decision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN. RNIDS has also reminded all those still using the extension to make the necessary changes in data and protocols in order to continue using their internet services without disruptions.
The domain name .yu was assigned to the former Yugoslavia in 1989 and continued to exist even after the country broke apart. .YU was maintained due to the good will and volunteer efforts of several professors and scientists from the University of Belgrade Engineering Faculty, the Faculty of Organisational Sciences and their colleagues from abroad, who agreed to keep .yu alive.
