Despite the breakup of Yugoslavia
we still had to use the Yugoslav domain .yu.
The reason being
when Yugoslavia disintegrated, Slovenia and Croatia reached an agreement,
and the rest of Yugoslavia was mainly Serbia and Montenegro.
And they wanted to have the .yu domain,
but at that time they weren’t recognised internationally, so they couldn't get it,
and as ARNES, we had to use the .yu domain
until 1994, I believe.
That’s when we were able to migrate it to the remainder of Yugoslavia,
but that remainder of Yugoslavia was additionally divided,
between Serbia and Montenegro.
For a while, Serbia used the .cs domain, I believe,
and only in 2006, I think,
Serbia acquired its own domain; Republika Srpska, .rs,
and Montenegro, the .me domain.
And Croatia the .hr domain and so forth.
There’s another thing I’d like to mention.
When we wanted to have the Slovenian code for Slovenia,
that two-letter code, our first wish
was to have SL as Slovenia, however, we were told
this code was already occupied. Sierra Leone
registered it before us. We couldn’t get it.
We then looked at what was at our disposal,
and so Slovenia got the .si domain.
Well, we've become used to it since then.
Yeah, that's the history.
Later, however, everything grew.
I would also like to mention
which Slovenian domains were the first under the .si domain.
There wasn't just one, there were several,
because there were some domains already registered under .yu,
I think there were 10, like ijs.yu,
and the University of Ljubljana that used uni-lj.yu.
At the end of 1992 we had these first 10 domains,
which were registered under the top-level domain for Yugoslavia,
transferred under the top-level domain for Slovenia .si.
So, those were the first ten domains. Basically, they were just
University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor, ARNES and Jožef Štefan.
And a couple of commercial companies, I think it was Aster and Pasadena.
In short, these were the first 10 domains under .si.
And later others.
As other ways of communication between computers slowly disappeared,
the internet became basically the only way
in which computers and people behind computers communicated with each other
and how we accessed resources, etc.
However, this domain space has madly expanded
and Slovenia has already a lot of domains under .si.
There is also a domain loop for countries in Europe, such as .eu,
and any other country and generic top-level domains,
i.e., .com that’s been around for many years
and many others have emerged over the years.