An early web-centric company I worked for attempted to register www.se in like '94 or '95. (Un)fortunately the one guy who manually processed all domain name

An early web-centric company I worked for attempted to register www.se in like '94 or '95. (Un)fortunately the one guy who manually processed all domain name applications for .se via email back then (ber@sunet.se; he passed away in 2005) found it "inappropriate" with no further explanation.