Every so often, you find a cute thing on the internet. One of my favorite unknown reseller non-vendor registrars started supporting .su.

On a whim..

[shawn@latty ~]$ whois aboynamed.su

Well, guess what!?

% By submitting a query to RIPN’s Whois Service
% you agree to abide by the following terms of use:
% http://www.ripn.net/about/servpol.html#3.2 (in Russian) 
% http://www.ripn.net/about/en/servpol.html#3.2 (in English).

domain:        ABOYNAMED.SU

descr:         My daddy left home when I was three

descr:         And he didn’t leave much to ma and me

descr:         Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze

descr:         Now I dont blame him cause he run and hid

descr:         But the meanest thing that he ever did

descr:         Was before he left, he went and named me Sue.

nserver:       ns1.dreamhost.com.

nserver:       ns2.dreamhost.com.

nserver:       ns3.dreamhost.com.

state:         REGISTERED, DELEGATED

person:        Private Person

e-mail:        frijole@me.com

registrar:     RUCENTER-SU

created:       2013-07-12T23:56:33Z

paid-till:     2019-07-13T00:56:33Z

free-date:     2019-08-15

source:        TCI

Last updated on 2018-09-04T02:31:31Z

That briefly took me back to when the internet was still a silly, open place.