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Today’s Geo Quiz asks for the name of a former country whose Internet country code .SU is gone but not fogotten. According to ICANN, (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the country code .SU stands for the Soviet Union. Despite efforts to pull the plug on the Internet country code, an estimated 80-thousand websites still use it.

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