.str

.str was an Internet celestial body top-level domain used for planet Saturn from 1985 (18 BGB) until it's renaming to Juno in 2018 (15 GB), it was phased out and .jno took it's place, .str was finally deleted in October 2019 (16 GB) after "Polvina gets a Dora error".
== History ==
=== World War III: The Interplanetary War between the Heroes and the Villains ===
Alaska and Orly read an article on the Treaty of Sol, which stated that Saturn should be renamed Juno, after Saturn renamed itslef to Juno, the domain was phased out for the newly created .jno to take it's place (.jno had been created in 23 December, 2018). In the aftermath of the Hero-Villain War, The IANA and the Government of Junoan Monarchial Federation ordered all websites registered under .str to be moved to .jno by 11 October, 2019, resulting in it's phase out process. As Saturnian/Junoan websites began switching to .jno, it's popularity decreased rapidly as it began to slowly lose domains. The SSG alpha-3 code "STR" was changed to "JNO" and was removed from the SSG Alpha-3 code list, "STR" is currently in transitional reservation.
=== "Polvina gets a Dora error" ===
Sometime after this episode, The domain's destruction and emptying escalated even further when the manager of the .str domain prepared for it's final moments as .jno took it's place, with it's former websites now under the .jno domain, The migration of the many websites from .str to .jno was completed in 9 October, 2019, the domain was left being empty on 10 October, 2019, and all subdomains were removed. .str was finally deleted from the root zone on 11 October, 2019.
== Domain registry ==
.str was a domain that was neccessary to contact nic.str in order to have a registered romain (e.g. "example.str", "saturn.str", "rhea.str", etc.)
Registration of Domains with special characters is allowed.
== Second-Level domains ==
.str does allow special domains, (e.g. "example.gob.str" for government websites, "example.ed.str" for educational websites, "example.art.str" for arts and work mediums, .etc)
== Phase-Out and Deletion ==
=== Creation of ".jno" ===
On 21 December, 2018, The Hero-Villain War was coming to an end as a catastrophic event devastated the solar system's internet connection. On the very end of the day, The Treaty of Sol is signed and one article stated that the planet Saturn will be renamed to "Juno". The treaty came into effect on 22 December, 2018. This caused Saturn to rename itself Juno, A day later, a new internet TLD called ".jno" was created on the 23rd of December.
=== Beginning of Phase-Out process ===
On Christmas Eve on 24 December, 2018, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Junoan Monarchial Federation (JMF) announced a resolution ordering all websites registered under the .str domain to be moved to the newly formed .jno domain through nic.jno (the only .jno website at the time). The phase-out process began on Christmas Day on 25 December, 2018 when websites such as "saturn.gob.str" and "smf.gob.str" started to move to their .jno counterparts such as "juno.gob.jno" and "jmf.gob.jno" respectively, .str's popularity started to decrease down as .str's registry website got deleted, making it unavailable and impossible to register a .str domain nowadays.
In order to avoid confusion with the newly renamed planet Juno, the government of an asteroid named "3 Juno" enacted a new constitution on the 28th of December, renaming itself to "3 Junu", it's internet TLD (.jun) remains in use today.
=== First stage of phase-out process ===
Hundreds of thousands of websites started to move to .jno by 30 December, 2018, on January 3, 2019, The "JNO" code became the successor to "STR", which became transtionally reserved, On 24 January, 2019, the ICANN resolved that the .str domain will be operated temporarily under the Junoan Registry Domain System. The first stage of the phase-out process began as millions of websites began switching to .jno, on February 2019, The .jno domain started becoming popular as .str's popularity started going down, .str's popularity came to a staggering halt on March and April of 2019.
=== Second stage ===
About one quarter of all Saturnian websites had moved to their .jno counterparts by May 2019, Dozens of Saturnian-based companies began switching to .jno, as with many more organizations and individuals who switched their websites to .jno, thus, destroying the domain by a little, on June 2019, About a third of all Saturnian websites had moved to .jno, the .jno domain was schduled to expire by October 1, 2019, although many of it's DNS structures started becoming useless by July, durther destroying the .str domain.
=== Third stage ===
By the beginning of August, More than half of all websites had switched to their .jno counterparts, A letter was sent to the IANA from the Junoan registar saying that an extension will be requested, ICANN responded and decided to extend the transition deadline another 10 days away, This caused .str's destruction and emptying to escalate even further when the domain had lost about more than 75% of it's former websites by the beginning of September 2019. making .str's DNS servers go down.
=== Fourth and final stage ===
By 1 October, 2019, 95% of .str's former websites were switched to .jno, making the domain lose it's servers even further, All remaining .str websites were wiped out in 9 October, 2019, The migration of .str was completed and the domain was left empty on 10 October, 2019, On 11 October, 2019, .str got finally deleted, and all .str websites were migrated in favour of the .jno domain. The .str domain itself ceased to exist after 34 years of operation.
== Trivia ==
* .str was one of the original internet domains of the solar system.
== See Also ==
* .jno
Category:Internet TLDs
Category:Deleted Internet TLDs