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		CharlesColeman on April 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nations of the Amazon are seeking “shared governan... > 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.

ryanlol on April 10, 2019 [–]

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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