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Is there a policy for what happens to ccTLD if a country changes its name or disappears?



.an (Netherlands Antilles) is being phased out [1]:

    The .AN top-level domain for the Netherlands Antilles is no longer eligible for
    continued delegation, as it is no longer an ISO 3166-1 two-letter code. In
    accordance with the code’s removal from the ISO 3166-1 standard, the ISO 3166
    Maintenance Agency asks users of the standard to “stop using [the code] ASAP”†.
    
    As discussed in detail in the consideration of a similar case of the .YU
    top-level domain, ICANN’s role is to be an independent technical coordinator of
    the domain name system. As such, the ISO 3166-1 standard was chosen as the
    arbiter for what is, and what is not, a basis for country-code domains. In order
    to retain consistency with the standard, ICANN coordinates the removal of the
    .AN domain in conjunction with the transition to its successor domains. In such
    cases, ICANN asks the current operator to perform an orderly wind-down and
    transition process.
    
    The proposed sponsoring organisation for .CW intends to continue to operate the
    .AN domain while transitional arrangements are executed. These transitional
    arrangements include provisions for registrants in Curaçao to transfer
    registrations to .CW; and for registrants in Sint Maarten to transfer
    registrations to .SX. The applicant calls for a phased transition to be
    concluded over a period of three years, after which time the .AN domain will be
    fully retired.
[1] http://www.iana.org/reports/2011/cw-report-20111003.html


Not strictly speaking; it hasn't happened often enough for a policy to be established. The ccTLDs .cs (Czechoslovakia), .dd (East Germany), .yu (Yugoslavia), and .zr (Zaire) were all dissolved some time after the reorganization/renaming of their countries. However, this hasn't always been the case. For instance, .su (Soviet Union) continues to be used today.



> The .su domain was invented by the then-19-year-old Finnish student Petri Ojala.

"Invented" seems like the wrong word to use here.


Wikipedia is publicly editable. Most people forget that these days.


Is there a way to buy them? I have an eu domain but I want a su domain as well :D


I found this site, which seems to be a self-proclaimed .su registry: https://www.register.su/


just a datapoint, .su is still around and still used by some universities.


Czechoslovakia had .cs domain for very short moment. Not sure what happened to it.


Yugoslavia domain .yu was closed. Some still exist like .su (USSR).




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