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Despite the breakup of Yugoslavia

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we still had to use
the Yugoslav domain .yu.

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The reason being

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when Yugoslavia disintegrated,
Slovenia and Croatia reached an agreement,

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and the rest of Yugoslavia was
mainly Serbia and Montenegro.

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And they wanted to have the .yu domain,

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but at that time they weren’t recognised
internationally, so they couldn't get it,

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and as ARNES, we had to use the .yu domain

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until 1994, I believe.

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That’s when we were able to migrate it
to the remainder of Yugoslavia,

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but that remainder of Yugoslavia
was additionally divided,

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between Serbia and Montenegro.

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For a while, Serbia used the .cs domain,
I believe,

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and only in 2006, I think,

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Serbia acquired its own domain;
Republika Srpska, .rs,

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and Montenegro, the .me domain.

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And Croatia the .hr domain and so forth.

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There’s another thing I’d like to mention.

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When we wanted to have the
Slovenian code for Slovenia,

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that two-letter code,
our first wish

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was to have SL as Slovenia,
however, we were told

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this code was already occupied.
Sierra Leone

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registered it before us.
We couldn’t get it.

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We then looked at what
was at our disposal,

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and so Slovenia got the .si domain.

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Well, we've become used to it since then.

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Yeah, that's the history.

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Later, however, everything grew.

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I would also like to mention

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which Slovenian domains
were the first under the .si domain.

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There wasn't just one,
there were several,

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because there were some domains
already registered under .yu,

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I think there were 10,
like ijs.yu,

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and the University of Ljubljana
that used uni-lj.yu.

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At the end of 1992
we had these first 10 domains,

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which were registered under
the top-level domain for Yugoslavia,

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transferred under the top-level domain
for Slovenia .si.

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So, those were the first ten domains.
Basically, they were just

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University of Ljubljana, University
of Maribor, ARNES and Jožef Štefan.

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And a couple of commercial companies,
I think it was Aster and Pasadena.

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In short, these were the first
10 domains under .si.

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And later others.

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As other ways of communication
between computers slowly disappeared,

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the internet became
basically the only way

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in which computers and people behind
computers communicated with each other

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and how we accessed resources, etc.

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However, this domain space
has madly expanded

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and Slovenia has already a lot
of domains under .si.

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There is also a domain loop for
countries in Europe, such as .eu,

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and any other country
and generic top-level domains,

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i.e., .com that’s
been around for many years

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and many others
have emerged over the years.