Screw .yu – your domain is going to be deleted
Anybody who thought it was a good idea to register a .yu domain is going to be regretting that decision as nic.yu announces all these domains will be permanently deleted in September.
Pretty bad news for .yu domain owners.
Maintaining the .yu domain register and propagating information on .yu domains on the Internet will cease on 30 September 2009, regardless of the renewal date. On the very day, all .yu domains will stop functioning on the Internet!
Google has released some information suggesting webmasters go through all their links one by one and contact the webmaster to get the link updated. Google also suggests getting a 301 redirect in place now so that the domains trust can be fully passed by the end of September.
It’s an interesting case and should have been a good way for Google to show off the new Change of address feature in Webmaster Central but they seem to have missed that out of the blog post.
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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.
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How absurd… there are many people who host websites not familiar with more techincal aspects such as redirects who could end up losing all their traffic, not to mention any value obtained from their initial investment in to the site.
This is an absolutely attrocious decision and begs the question why an overarching controlling body isn’t stepping in to prevent this from happening.
Well I guess your title would have been a good yu domain name, but no more. How many sites out there were using that extension? More than 1,000?
I am sure the not so tech savvy will suffer greatly and by surprise on that day. What is the reason for the deletions?
Ya i agreed because i have a blog on free domain and i have lost my FTP information, Now the situation is i have lost my blog.Last week i opened again but it redirects to other blog.why this happen i dont know.
yu domains are from yugoslavia. now, yugoslavia has been separated on montenegro and serbia.
as i know, all yu (yugoslavia) domains can be transfered to rs (republika srbija) domains for free.
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