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WorldNames, Inc. selects .SE to assume responsibility for registry services of .nu
Boston, MA - January 9, 2013 — WorldNames, Inc., the registry operator and manager for the .nu top level domain since 1998, has selected .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation), to operate .nu domain's registry services, including administration and technical operations. The change will not affect holders of .nu domains.

.NU Domain Achieves Top Ranking for Robust Anti-Phishing Practices
Medfield, MA - May 19, 2011 — WorldNames, Inc., the global manager of the .NU Top Level Domain (TLD), received top ranking for effective anti-phishing take-down practices in April. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recognized the technology and policy leader in its report: Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 2H2010.

.NU Domain Launches Numeric Domain Names
Medfield, MA - June 6, 2008 - .NU Domain will begin accepting registration of Numeric Domain Names on June 10, for the first time allowing registration of numbers-only .nu domain names – such as 247.nu, 123.nu and 3663.nu (the English word "food" on a phone keypad.)

ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Manager for .NU
January 22, 2008 - ICANN announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .nu—Niue, Internet Users Society Niue (IUS-N).

McAfee Report Ranks .NU Websites Among Lowest Risk
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor risk ranking software puts Websites using the .NU Top Level Domain overall among the lowest ranks for risk - lower than Switzerland’s .CH and just above Sweden’s .SE
Medfield, MA, March 20, 2007 - Websites using the .NU top level domain are among the lowest risk to Web users on the Internet, according to data released last week in a report by McAfee’s recently-acquired SiteAdvisor division.

.NU Domain's New FlexNames™ for Advertising and Political Campaigns
Unique New Service Provides Flexibility by Allowing Unlimited Choice of Domain Names for a Single Annual Fee
Medfield, MA - July 11, 2005 - The .NU Domain Ltd today announced its new FlexNames™ service that provides flexibility for varying messages in advertising and political campaigns. FlexNames allows a customer to change the name of a registered .NU domain name an unlimited number of times for a single registration fee.

.NU Domain's New SpellGuard™ Service Expands Domain Name Brand Protection
Unique New Service Protects Brands from Misspellings, Spelling Variation, and Typosquatting
Medfield, MA - June 16, 2005 -The .NU Domain Ltd today announced its new SpellGuard™ service to protect companies' Internet brands from keyboard errors and typosquatting. This service allows protection of up to five misspellings of a domain name, all of which will point to a company's primary domain name or URL.

.NU Domain Expands Free Blog Service With RSS-News Service
Free News For .NU Domain Bloggers
Medfield, MA - June 15, 2005 -The .NU Domain Ltd today announced that its free blogging service now includes the capability for RSS-news feeds (Really Simple Syndication). With this new offering, .NU Domain customers can offer readers of their Blogs continuous alerts of any new Blog postings, available directly on their web browsers via an RSS-feed - all for free.

.NU Domain Streamlines Processes and Reduces Costs for Registrars
MEDFIELD, MA, January 27, 2005 - .NU Domain is among the first Country-Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) to offer its registrars the new standard Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP).

Niue's WiFi Internet Survived Cyclone Heta; .NU Domain Calls on Customers to Send Aid
MEDFIELD, MA, January 19, 2004 - .NU Domain Ltd. today announced the successful restoration of the devastated island of Niue's Internet link and WiFi services. .NU Domain services, all located in the US and Europe, are still running safely and securely. .NU Domain issued a call to its customers to support NZ Red Cross efforts to help rebuild the devastated island.

.NU Domain Supports IETF Standards, Has International Domain Names up and Running
MEDFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2003-- .NU Domain's International Characters Require No Software Upgrade or Browser Plug-In

World's Smallest ISP for the World's Smallest Nation Launches Free Broadband Services
ALOFI, Niue--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2003-- The Internet Users Society - Niue (IUS-N), today announced that it has launched free broadband Internet services for the local Internet community at its Internet Cafe on the tiny Polynesian island-nation of Niue. IUS-N, a US-incorporated, private charitable foundation locally managed in Niue, was established in 1997 to use revenue from registration of .NU domain names to develop and fund free Internet services for all the people of Niue.

.NU Domain Hires Former NIC-SE CEO, Launches Free Blogging Service
STOCKHOLM SWEDEN and MEDFIELD, MA Sept 18, 2002, - .NU Domain Ltd, the leading commercial Top Level Domain (TLD) registry serving Northern Europe, announced today that Per Darnell, the former CEO of the Swedish TLD NIC-SE, has joined the company as Manager of Nordic operations. As his first action in that role he launched a new service - free blogging for all customers of .NU.

.NU Domain Donates Internationalized Web Addresses to Swedish Governments
MEDFIELD, MA, July 10, 2000 - Swedish local governments with an Å, Ä or Ö in their municipality name can now use these characters in their Web Addresses. .NU Domain Ltd (www.nunames.nu.) announced that it has donated free Internationalized .NU Web addresses for use by all local governments in Sweden as a gesture of goodwill and to promote the use of Swedish and other International alphabets in Web addresses throughout the world. .NU Domain is the only TLD in the world today that can provide Multilingual Web address services using the complete UNICODE character set, including European accented Latin characters, Cyrillic characters, Arabic characters, Japanese and Chinese characters, and hundreds of other international scripts.


.NU Domain and Telia Forge Colocation Partnership to Build UNICODE Domain Name Infrastructure
MEDFIELD, Mass. and HANINGE, Sweden, April 4, 2000 - .NU Domain Ltd (www.nunames.nu.), one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the Internet, and Telia AB, Sweden's largest Internet Service Provider and the leading supplier of telecom-based information services in the Nordic/Baltic region, today announced a colocation partnership which will strengthen .NU Domain Ltd's infrastructure in Sweden and throughout Europe. As a first step in developing the partnership, Telia will be providing connectivity and colocation services at its new large-scale colocation site in Haninge, Sweden, for .NU Domain Ltd's Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) services. .NU Domain Ltd's NUBINDTM IDN service supports UNICODE character sets, including the Swedish letters å, ä, and ö, in .NU Web addresses.

First Country Code Domain Name Trademark Dispute To Be Administered By WIPO
MEDFIELD, Mass., March 22, 2000- .NU Domain Ltd (www.whats.nu) announced today that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center is administering the first domain name dispute of a Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) ever. The dispute involves the domain name expedia.nu, which has been registered with a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Expedia, Inc., which owns the trademark for the word expedia, has challenged the Swedish based company's registration of the domain name expedia.nu with .NU Domain Ltd.

.NU Domain Ltd Challenges .COM with Announcement of First Non-English Internet Addresses
CAIRO, Egypt, March 7, 2000 - .NU Domain Ltd (www.whats.nu) one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the Internet, announced today that it is the first TLD to offer Internet domain names using non-English alphabets so companies and organizations can identify themselves in their native languages. Its new service makes possible e-mail and web site addresses using a wide array of letters and symbols such as tildes, cedillas, umlauts and accents, as well as Japanese and Korean pictographic systems. This native-language capability has not been available to users of TLDs such as ".com," ".net," ".edu," or ".org" as managed by Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSOL), under contract from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

.NU Domain Ltd Partners with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
MEDFIELD, MA, February 23, 2000 - .NU Domain Ltd (www.whats.nu), one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the Internet, today announced a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to strengthen its long standing policy against illegal use of Internet domain names.

.NU Domain Ltd Partners with NIC-SE for Technical Services
MEDFIELD, MA, December 3, 1999 – .NU Domain Ltd, one of the fastest growing domains on the Internet, today announced a partnership with NIC-SE for technical services and support.  The NIC-SE will house and support .NU Domain’s name server in Sweden, ensuring faster and more secure services for its expanding customer base in the Nordic region.

Internet Pioneer and Former IETF Chair Dr. Paul Mockapetris Joins .NU Domain Ltd as Technical Advisor
Medfield, MA, November 1, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd, one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains on the Internet, announced today that Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), has joined .NU Domain as Technical Advisor. The company also announced that Internet business executive, Tom Ziola, intends to join its Board of Advisers as Business Advisor.

.NU Domain Ltd Adopts ICANN Trademark Dispute Policy
Medfield, MA, October 26, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd announced today that it has adopted a new trademark and intellectual property policy aimed at reducing cybersquatting which was just approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the new authority for domain name and IP address management.

.NU Domain Ltd Announces Policy To Protect Customers’ Privacy
Medfield, MA, October 25, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd, one of the fastest growing Top Level Domain (TLD) names on the Internet, today announced its Privacy Policy, which protects the personal information of its customers by keeping the data on its Whois database private. Whois is commonly used to search for domain names and determine if they are available to register or not.

Expanding .NU Domain Ltd Picks Chief Operating Officer
Medfield, MA, October 6, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd, the fastest growing Top Level Domain name on the Internet, announced today that operations expert Stephen Oronte has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Oronte’s charter will be to spearhead the branding effort of the .NU domain name and develop the corporate infrastructure and business practices within the .NU Domain Ltd's organization to ensure its success during its rapid growth.

.NU Domain Ltd's President, J. William Semich, Appointed To ICANN's DNSO Names Council
Medfield, MA, August 4, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd, the fastest growing Top Level Domain (TLD) name on the Internet, announced today that its President and Chief Executive Officer, J. William Semich, has been appointed to the Names Council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO). Semich was appointed to represent the Asia Pacific ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) constituency members. He is one of only three ccTLD appointments to the 18 member Names Council.

High Growth Fuels Need for .NU Domain Ltd's New Expanded Headquarters
Medfield, MA, July 27, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd, the fastest growing Top Level Domain name on the Internet, announced today it has relocated its US-based headquarters to accommodate the growth brought on by the worldwide use of its .NU domain name.  The company also announced notable additions to its management team, including Mark S. Zuroff, formerly of Gentia Software, as Chief Financial Officer and Robert P. Mitchell, previously of EDS, as Technical Manager to complement increased staff in the areas of customer support and customer care.

.NU Domain Ltd Shuts Down Rogue Web Site's Name Servers
SHERBORN, MA, April 21, 1999 — .NU Domain Ltd, the fastest growing Top Level Domain on the Internet, today announced that it has shut down domain name server support for a rogue Internet entrepreneur who has reportedly been copying legitimate web site addresses and pointing them to his pornographic web sites.

Polynesian Premier Invites Swedish .NU Domain Vacation Winner to View the Last Sunset of 1999
April 13, 1999 - Sani Lakatani, the Premier of the South Pacific island-nation of Niue, today announced that Mr. Patrik Algotsson of Sweden is the winner of the .NU Domain Ltd’s 1999 Polynesian Vacation Giveaway contest.

Surge in .NU Domain Registrations Funds A Tiny Nation's Free Internet Services
February 3, 1999 - .NU Domain Ltd and its parent organization, the Internet Users Society  -- Niue, have announced an unprecedented agreement to provide free Internet services to all residents of the Polynesian island-nation of Niue.

.NU Domain Proposes Spending Controls for New IANA
October 2, 1998 - In response to the White House's request to draft language to address the concerns that .NU Domain Ltd has raised regarding the latest bylaws for the new IANA Corporation, .NU Domain Ltd today proposed modifications to the bylaws that would give budget approval powers to the groups that will fund the new corporation -- its Supporting Organizations.

.NU Domain Ltd Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy For Spamming, Blasts Network Solutions for its Pro-Spam Policies
April 6, 1998 - .NU Domain Ltd, the fastest growing Top Level Domain (TLD) name on the Internet, today announced a Zero-Tolerance Policy for spamming, that includes instant ISP source location on any spammers and the revoking of domain names for customers who spam. Unlike the ubiquitous .com domain, which provides easy access for spam abusers, the .NU Domain Ltd has instituted an aggressive antispamming policy and will not tolerate spamming with its domain names.

The .NU Domain Ltd Breaks The Price Barrier For Complete Web Presence
December 9, 1997 - Fall Internet World - .NU Domain Ltd announced today at Fall Internet World the availability of the .NU InstantWeb, a $49.95 per year Web presence package which includes registration of a .NU domain name, Web hosting or Web forwarding and e-mail forwarding. The .NU InstantWeb is the first low cost way for Internet businesses and users to get an easy-to-remember domain name and Web site, enabling businesses to build brand identity on the Internet and giving end users a quick and simple way to get a Web site and domain name up and running instantly and securely.

New Internet Domain Name, ".NU," Now Available for Everyone Worldwide
November 10, 1997 - .NU Domain Ltd today announced an all-new Internet domain name, .NU, which offers a simple name registration process, instant online name assignment, a low $25 registration fee and less-than-twenty-four hour activation of newly-registered .NU domain names across the Internet's root name servers.


News Coverage

.NU and .SE Registries Sponsor Charity Auction for Haiti
MissDomain organizes charity auction for earthquake victims in Haiti based on the initiative and idea of Internetsweden.
January 27, 2010 - Charity domain-auction for Haiti aid

MissDomain
January 27, 2010 - Charity domain-auction for Haiti aid

The Hindu
India's National Newspaper
Jul 02, 2003 - Leaders talk, as a tiny state walks into a wireless future

BBC News
June 26, 2003 - Polynesians get free wireless web

The Guardian International
June 27, 2003 -Coral island to become world's first wire-free internet country

boston.internet.com
October 4, 2002 - Domain Registry Bundles Blogging

CNN
October 13, 1999 - Country domain names not yet downtown

Boston Business Journal
February 15, 1999 - Sherborn firm wants to master its domain name

New York Times
February 1, 1998 - Out-of-the-Way Nations Capitalize On Catchy Domain Names

Wall Street Journal
December 8, 1997 - What's NU? Domain Name Shortage Sparks Idea

New York Times
November 21, 1997 - Ruling on Trademarks Is Called ‘Watershed’ For Domain Disputes

CNet news.com
November 11, 1997 - A ".nu" player on domain scene


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