.yu
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| Introduced | 1989 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Registry | nic.yu (Yugoslav Internet Domain Registry) |
| Sponsor | YUNET Association |
| Intended use | Entities connected with former Yugoslavia |
| Actual use | Expired in March 2010 |
| Registration restrictions | Registration not available since 10 March 2008. |
| Structure | Registrations were made at third level beneath established subdomains |
| Documents | Policy statement |
| Website | nic.yu (formerly) |
.yu was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) that was assigned to Yugoslavia and was mainly used by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its successor Serbia and Montenegro between 1994 and 2010. After Serbia and Montenegro acquired separate .rs and .me domains in 2007, a transition period started, and the .yu domain finally expired on 30 March 2010. It was the most heavily used top-level domain ever to be deleted.
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.
When SFR Yugoslavia dissolved, Slovenia and Croatia registered their own ccTLDs (.si and .hr). Serbia and Montenegro formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but was under international sanctions at the time because of ongoing Yugoslav wars. The old .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.
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