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Something (weird) that I noticed in many Scandinavian websites is their short domain names. I don't know the reason, but I like the fact that you can type 5 let

Something (weird) that I noticed in many Scandinavian websites is their short domain names. I don't know the reason, but I like the fact that you can type 5 letters and access the service that you want.

elektronaut 7y ago
For .no, I reckon it's a combination of small population and the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one. Until recently, they were only available to organizations. There's also restrictions on the number of registered domains you can have (100 for organizations, 5 for individuals), that limits squatting somewhat.
- kaivi 7y ago
  You made me wonder -- what happened to ulv.no and sau.no?
  - hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
    Probably too politically divisive. Nothing gets Norwegians arguing more than wolf politics.
    - kaivi 7y ago
      We should control greenhouse emissions by releasing more wolves into shopping malls.
- atomwaffel 7y ago
  > the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one Small nitpick, but you need to be a Norwegian resident with an ID number (fødselsnummer) and a postal address in Norway, not necessarily a citizen.
Eyght 7y ago
In Sweden, many sites have made use of the .nu domain ('nu' means 'now' in swedish) which has led to a lot of short domain names.
dmix 7y ago
The website listed two agency names "Norsk Lokomotivmannsforbund and Norsk Jernbaneforbund" (in the strike notification). I could imagine acronyms just make more sense if long words like that are common in the country.
- tyfon 7y ago
  They are compound words similar to what you can do in German and other Germanic languages with the exception of English. "Lokomotivmannsforbund" = "train engineers union" :) We also commonly make up compound words on the fly making it very hard to use things like swiftkey without typing the two words and then removing the space as they are in no word list.
  - legulere 7y ago
    Train engineers union also is a compound word. The only thing different about English is that it usually writes the compounds separated.

elektronaut 7y ago

For .no, I reckon it's a combination of small population and the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one. Until recently, they were only available to organizations. There's also restrictions on the number of registered domains you can have (100 for organizations, 5 for individuals), that limits squatting somewhat.

kaivi 7y ago
You made me wonder -- what happened to ulv.no and sau.no?
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
  Probably too politically divisive. Nothing gets Norwegians arguing more than wolf politics.
  - kaivi 7y ago
    We should control greenhouse emissions by releasing more wolves into shopping malls.
atomwaffel 7y ago
> the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one Small nitpick, but you need to be a Norwegian resident with an ID number (fødselsnummer) and a postal address in Norway, not necessarily a citizen.

Eyght 7y ago

In Sweden, many sites have made use of the .nu domain ('nu' means 'now' in swedish) which has led to a lot of short domain names.

dmix 7y ago

The website listed two agency names "Norsk Lokomotivmannsforbund and Norsk Jernbaneforbund" (in the strike notification). I could imagine acronyms just make more sense if long words like that are common in the country.

tyfon 7y ago
They are compound words similar to what you can do in German and other Germanic languages with the exception of English. "Lokomotivmannsforbund" = "train engineers union" :) We also commonly make up compound words on the fly making it very hard to use things like swiftkey without typing the two words and then removing the space as they are in no word list.
- legulere 7y ago
  Train engineers union also is a compound word. The only thing different about English is that it usually writes the compounds separated.