The Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) would like to remind Internet users in Serbia that the .YU domain will stop functioning not later than 30 March 2010, in accordance with a decision of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) - [translation].
The transition from .YU Internet domains to new .RS domains was finalised at the beginning of May 2009. Approximately 4,000 domains within the old YU register are still functioning. There are over 52,000 registered .RS domains at the moment.
To avoid possible problems and enable seamless termination of the .YU domain, RNIDS suggests that you do the following before March 2010, depending on the category you belong to:
- Internet users
- If you still use a .YU e-mail address, ask your Internet provider to help you modify it to .RS
- Modify parameters in your mail client, in fields specifying your e-mail address, POP3 and SMTP servers
- If your company still uses the .YU domain, you need to register an .RS domain and adjust DNS records. You should also adjust settings of all Internet services to use your new .RS domain.
- Internet providers
You have to inform your clients that:
- .YU domain will stop functioning not later than 30 March 2010
- Websites with addresses ending in .YU now probably end in .RS
- е-mail addresses ending in .YU now probably end in .RS
- addresses of other Internet services (proxy, ftp, ssh, telnet, smtp, pop, http, https, ntp, imap, snmp, irc, etc.) have already been changed and now end in .RS
We recommend everyone who used the .YU domain to inform their friends and business partners about the modification of their contact details (Website and e-mail addresses). You should also update or inform administrators to update your .YU e-mail address if you have left it as your contact address in your bank, forums, mailing lists, social groups, and so on.
We would also like to mention that RNIDS requested ICANN to additionally extend the .YU domain. What is more, in accordance with a decision of the Managing Board, RNIDS will not delete the .YU zone self-initiatively, before ICANN does that or officially asks RNIDS to do so.
