.yu

Internet country code top-level domain for Yugoslavia .yu yes 1989 06 15 Country code top-level domain Discontinued y 2010 3 30 nic.yu (Yugoslav Internet Domain Registry) YUNET Association Entities connected with the former Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro Registration not available since 10 March 2008. Registrations were made at third level beneath established subdomains Policy statement nic.yu (formerly) .yu was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was assigned to SFR Yugoslavia in 1989 and was mainly used by Serbia and Montenegro and its two successor states. After Montenegro and Serbia acquired separate .me and .rs domains in 2007, a transition period started, and the .yu domain finally expired in 2010.http://www.rnids.rs/en/node/67 The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names Home Page RNIDS 30 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100201171046/http://www.rnids.rs/en/node/67 1 February 2010 dead 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. Computer scientist Borka Jerman Blažič registered the domain in 1989, which allowed Yugoslavia to have an Internet connection.https://siol.net/digisvet/novice/to-je-znanstvenica-ki-je-v-slovenijo-pripeljala-internet-418385 To je znanstvenica, ki je v Slovenijo pripeljala internet #intervju This is the scientist who brought the internet to Slovenia #interview Pirnat Andrej J. 30 May 2016 Siol.net 29 November 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20170708224026/http://siol.net/digisvet/novice/to-je-znanstvenica-ki-je-v-slovenijo-pripeljala-internet-418385 8 July 2017 sl When the SFR Yugoslavia dissolved, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia registered their own ccTLDs (.si, .hr, .ba and .mk). Serbia and Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but was under international sanctions at the time because of ongoing Yugoslav wars. Between 1992 and 1994, the domain was run by ARNES who only used it for email. ARNES rejected all requests by Serbian institutions for new domains, severely limiting the country's access to the internet.Yugoslavia's Digital Twin https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-9/yugolsav-wars-yu-domain-history-icann 2024-10-10 The Dial en-US 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. Following the personal intervention of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority founder Jon Postel, in 1994 IANA finally decreed that the domain should pass to FR Yugoslavia. After that, the domain was managed by the YUNET Association, an organization based in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. The 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 was dissolved in June 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 that the .yu domain would be operated temporarily under the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), operators of the new .rs domain registry.https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/preliminary-report-special-meeting-of-the-board-11-09-2007-en Preliminary Report for Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors 11 September 2007 24 January 2023 ICANN A two-year transition period started, and the .yu domain was scheduled to expire on 30 September 2009.http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-30sep09.htm Preliminary Report of Special Board Meeting ICANN 30 September 2009 13 October 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091015052446/http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/prelim-report-30sep09.htm 15 October 2009 live However, the Serbian registrar requested an extensionhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8278364.stm End in sight for Yugoslav domains BBC News 29 September 2009 29 September 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090929193928/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8278364.stm 29 September 2009 live and ICANN decided to extend the transition deadline another six months. Finally, the Serbian registrar declared the end of the .yu domain at 12:00 CEST on 30 March 2010.Ben-David Anat 1 August 2016 What does the Web remember of its deleted past? An archival reconstruction of the former Yugoslav top-level domain New Media & Society en 18 7 1103–1119 10.1177/1461444816643790 2906701 1461-4448 All .yu websites that failed to transition were rendered inaccessible, including historical ones.O'Toole Frani 2019-02-20 The New Museum Hits "Save" on Net Art https://hyperallergic.com/485466/the-new-museum-hits-save-on-net-art/ 2021-03-11 Hyperallergic en-US RNIDS estimated there to have been around four thousand active websites using the .yu domain at the time of its deprecation.https://www.rnids.rs/en/what-s-new/yu-domain-becomes-history YU domain becomes history www.rnids.rs 30 March 2010 23 January 2023 Former use of .yu domains All of the domains directly under .yu were reserved for legal entities only. Top level domain was 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. The second-level domains under .yu included: Academic organizations, such as universities, used the .ac.yu domain. For example, the School of Electrical Engineering (ETF) at the University of Belgrade (BG) had the etf.bg.ac.yu domain. Educational institutions, such as primary and high schools, used the .edu.yu domain. Independent organizations used the .org.yu domain. Corporations used the .co.yu domain. The Government used the .gov.yu domain. Montenegrin websites often used the .cg.yu subdomain which was given for free to customers of a Montenegrin ISP which controlled the domain, which made it a popular option for those who opted not to purchase a domain for their website. In the media The domain is part of the story in the 2013 mini-documentary film From Yu to Me.http://tanyaleighton.com/artists/aleksandra-domanovic/domanovic-2013-0060 From yu to me Tanya Leighton 2 May 2019 See also .rs and .me, the ccTLD pair which replaced .yu since 2007. References External links IANA .yu whois information "Srbija i Crna Gora – koje će biti ime domena? Internet domen Srbije: RS, SS, SP, SQ, SW ili SX" https://web.archive.org/web/20191121192849/https://www.elitesecurity.org/t20025-Srbija-Crna-Gora-koje-ce-biti-ime-domena-Internet-domen-Srbije-RS-SS-SP-SQ-SW-ili-SX 21 November 2019 , Elitesecurity, 5 February 2003. sr October 2019 Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Communications in Yugoslavia Category:Serbia and Montenegro Category:1989 establishments in Yugoslavia Category:1994 establishments in Serbia Category:2010 disestablishments in Serbia sv:Toppdomän#Y