On: What happens to TLDs when their country stops exis...

[junon]

.SU is still the soviet union, if memory serves. Those sites are still in operation.

[layer8 → junon]

I’m just now noticing that, quite fittingly for the time, .SU is .US reversed.

[hoseja → layer8]

And they mean pretty much the same thing.

[sonicggg → junon]

The article does not explain why .su seems to be popular among white supremacy sites.

[Liquid_Fire → sonicggg]

It does mention a possible reason:

> to escape deplatforming on literally everywhere else

[winrid → junon]

Not sure why you're downvoted. This seems correct, and interesting.

[loeg → winrid]

It’s the very first example in the article.

[pascalxus → loeg]

Hacker news commentations are usually more interesting and insightful than you're average article on the internet that garners enough SEO to be posted here. So, let's not pretend otherwise. Many of us, just read the comments here and only read the article if it has earned our attention.

[hypertele-Xii → loeg]

So a nice hook to read the article for those of us reading the comments first.