Yugoslavia: The Death of a Country Code

Almost twenty years after the death of the state that it was assigned to .yu, the internet country code assigned to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, has been terminated.  SFRY now joins South Yemen, East Germany, Zaire, and other now non-existent states in having its top-level domain country code shut down.

Not surprisingly, most of the remaining .yu domains have shifted over to the Serbia tld .rs.