Gone, but not forgotten, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, lives on in cyberspace, where registrations of the Soviet domain name .su continue to grow in popularity.
Sixteen years after the superpower’s collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet “.su” domain name have been rising - registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community resisting repeated efforts to extinguish the online Soviet outpost.
This may not make me popular with communist bloggers, but there’d be a certain nostalgic, possibly kitsch, and even insurrectionary kudos, associated with owning a Soviet domain.
