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.yu
Introduced	1989
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Phased out
Registry	nic.yu (Yugoslav Internet Domain Registry)
Sponsor	YUNET Association
Intended use	Entities connected with former Yugoslavia
Actual use	Being deprecated and phased out in Serbia and Montenegro
Registration restrictions	Registration not available since 10 March 2008.
Structure	Registrations were made at third level beneath established subdomains
Documents	Policy statement
Dispute policies
Website	nic.yu

.yu was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its successor Serbia and Montenegro. After Serbia and Montenegro acquired separate .rs and .me domains in 2007, a two-year transition period started, and .yu domain was scheduled to expire on 30 September 2009. However, the Serbian registrar requested an extension^[1] and ICANN decided to extend the transition deadline to 30 March 2010. ^[2]^[3]

[edit] History

The .yu ccTLD was assigned originally to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, during the government project for the development of scientific-technological information (SNTIJ). The official registrants were the University of Maribor and the Jožef Stefan Institute, which were located in Slovenia.

After the Yugoslav wars broke out, SFR Yugoslavia dissolved and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed, but was under international sanctions at the time. The .yu domain registry had been left in Slovenia, and the domain became a succession matter when the Slovenians refused to relinquish the domain name to the University of Belgrade in Serbia, which had requested they do so.

In 1994, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority finally decreed that the domain should pass to FR Yugoslavia. Since then the domain was managed by the YUNET Association, an organization based in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade.

FR Yugoslavia renamed itself Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003. The code YU was replaced by CS in July 2003 following the official name change, and the ccTLD .cs was reserved for Serbia and Montenegro after the name change. However, .cs was never actually used, and .yu remained one of the few ccTLDs that did not correspond to a current ISO 3166-1 two-letter code.

The state union of Serbia and Montenegro and was dissolved in July 2006, and in September 2006, ISO accordingly proposed the replacement the codes RS for Serbia and ME for Montenegro. On 26 September 2006 the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency agreed on the change of ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code CS to RS. The new domains .rs for Serbia and .me for Montenegro became active shortly thereafter.

In September 2007 ICANN resolved^[4] that the .yu domain would be operated temporarily under the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names, operators of the new .rs domain registry.

[edit] Former use of .yu domains

All of the domains under .yu are reserved for legal entities only. Top level domain is reserved for federal institutions and official governmental institutions, as well as Internet service providers. The Serbian Orthodox Church was also allowed to use .yu domain.

[edit] Second level domains

Academic organizations, such as universities, are registered under academic domain, .ac.yu. For example, School Of Electrical Engineering (.etf) at the University of Belgrade (.bg) has etf.bg.ac.yu domain.
Educational institutions, such as primary and high schools, use .edu.yu domain.
Independent organizations use .org.yu domain.
Corporations use .co.yu domain.
Government use .gov.yu domain.

Montenegrin websites often use subdomain .cg.yu which is given for free to customers of a Montenegrin ISP which registered the domain, making it a popular option for those who opt not to register a domain for their website.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

.rs and .me, the ccTLD pair which are replacing .yu before its scheduled deletion on the 30th of September 2009.

[edit] External links

IANA .yu whois information
Yugoslav Domain Registry in English
Yugoslav Domain Registry
(Serbian) "Srbija i Crna Gora - koje će biti ime domena? Internet domen Srbije: RS, SS, SP, SQ, SW ili SX", Elitesecurity, 5 February 2003.
(English) End in site for Yugoslav domains, BBC News, 29 September 2009

[0] "End in sight for Yugoslav domains". BBC. 29 September 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8278364.stm.

[1] ttp://www.rnids.rs/en/node/67

[2] ttp://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-30sep09.htm

[3] ICANN | Preliminary Report for Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors | 11 September 2007

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