The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided a couple of weeks ago to eliminate the domain name suffix ".um" The domain name suffix was previously earmarked for U.S. "minor outlying islands." However, the University of Southern California (USC), who had been in charge of ".um", decided that they did not want to handle the administration of ".um" since no one had been using ".um" in the first place.
Last month, ICANN began soliciting suggestions from the public in deciding which domain name suffix to remove. ".um" came out as the leading candidate.
So the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided unanimously last week to eliminate it entirely, bringing the list of domains to 264.
There are still separate domains for larger U.S. territories, including ".gu" for Guam and ".vi" for the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Internet has seen new domain names such as ".eu" for Europe and ".travel" for the travel industry in recent years, and ICANN is reviewing a proposal to create an online red-light district under ".xxx."
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Last month, it began accepting public comments on how best to pare the list by revoking outdated suffixes, primarily assigned to countries that no longer exist.
The Soviet Union's ".su" is the leading candidate for deletion; that'll be harder to strike than ".um" -- a Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google search produced more than 3 million ".su" sites.
Source [Linux Insider]
