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> If I remember correctly the soviet union had SU at one point so that might have something to do with why finland is fl.

.su still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Also, oddly, a Finnish person proposed .su for the Soviet Union:

> The .su domain was proposed by the then-19-year-old Finnish student Petri Ojala.



Nothing odd about that, these country codes were set more than a decade before .su was introduced. Finland had already been FI since 1974.




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