At 11:23 7/07/00 +0530, you wrote: > > > it's gotta be bad reporting. i'm not sure of a case in the history > > > of the > > > DNS where a TLD was removed. > > Good point, that. There *is* a quasi-example: .su. >theres another, sikkim (.sk) was removed when it was annexed with india. Are you sure? I though .sk was Slovakia (formerly part of Yugoslavia). There are a gazillion sk addresses, see: http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&q=%2Bhost%3A.sk And here's the details about the ccTLD: http://www.iana.org/root-whois/sk.htm And also .su appears to still exist, even if new names aren't being registered. For example, www.cgu.chel.su still resolves. So I'm still unaware of a case of a TLD being removed. </ol> ____________________________________________________ v i b e m e d i a http://www.vibe.co.nz/ po box 10-492 wellington, new zealand phone +64 21 210-7845 oliver at lineham.co.nz