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As a Scandinavian I find the squatting of .viking by a Bermuda company to be annoying.

by boxed 3y ago

baobun 3y ago
You guys really can't complain after practically taking over .nu though. Similar story to .io.
- boxed 3y ago
  You mean buying domains, causing money to go to an impoverished country? How dare we! :P
  - sigio 3y ago
    But it doesn't usually go to an impoverished country, but to a business in a western country.
    - boxed 3y ago
      Well then THAT is the problem isn't it?
- Symbiote 3y ago
  It's nothing at all like IO, which is a British colony/territory. Niue (NU) is a former British colony "in free association with New Zealand", and whatever the situation there it's nothing to do with Scandinavia.
  - boxed 3y ago
    "Nu" means "now" in Swedish. So a lot of Swedes bought .nu domains because it works in Swedish. Just like I bought "och.glass" which means "and.icecream" in Swedish, even though "glass" has a different meaning in English.
    - a_dabbler 3y ago
      In the case of Niue the country is getting revenue from it at least. This is not case with .java afaik
      - baobun 3y ago
        It does not seem that way, no. If you have references to the contrary, please share. https://icannwiki.org/.nu https://icannwiki.org/.nu > .java Que
- emsixteen 3y ago
  I live in Norway and have never seen a .nu domain.
  - LeonidasXIV 3y ago
    It used to be extremely common in Denmark a few years ago, with even the official ID system NemID (like BankID in Norway I assume) using nemid.nu. I can't remember when I last saw a .nu domain advertised recently, they seem on the way out. But it seems business domains in general are also disappearing in favor of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts.
    - matsemann 3y ago
      Sweden as well used .nu a lot, because of the restrictions for .se I don't feel we in Norway did that a lot. There were some restrictions on .no, but mainly that you needed to be an organization of some sorts, which was fairly easy to do if you just wanted (could make a dormant single person company). Those not bothering just used .com
LeonidasXIV 3y ago
I find squatting .java, an island with a population 7.5 times that of Scandinavia by a tech company even worse. I'd be also annoyed if Oracle had .sjælland.

As a Scandinavian I find the squatting of .viking by a Bermuda company to be annoying.

by boxed 3y ago

As a Scandinavian I find the squatting of .viking by a Bermuda company to be annoying.

baobun 3y ago

You guys really can't complain after practically taking over .nu though. Similar story to .io.

boxed 3y ago
You mean buying domains, causing money to go to an impoverished country? How dare we! :P
- sigio 3y ago
  But it doesn't usually go to an impoverished country, but to a business in a western country.
  - boxed 3y ago
    Well then THAT is the problem isn't it?
Symbiote 3y ago
It's nothing at all like IO, which is a British colony/territory. Niue (NU) is a former British colony "in free association with New Zealand", and whatever the situation there it's nothing to do with Scandinavia.
- boxed 3y ago
  "Nu" means "now" in Swedish. So a lot of Swedes bought .nu domains because it works in Swedish. Just like I bought "och.glass" which means "and.icecream" in Swedish, even though "glass" has a different meaning in English.
  - a_dabbler 3y ago
    In the case of Niue the country is getting revenue from it at least. This is not case with .java afaik
    - baobun 3y ago
      It does not seem that way, no. If you have references to the contrary, please share. https://icannwiki.org/.nu https://icannwiki.org/.nu > .java Que
emsixteen 3y ago
I live in Norway and have never seen a .nu domain.
- LeonidasXIV 3y ago
  It used to be extremely common in Denmark a few years ago, with even the official ID system NemID (like BankID in Norway I assume) using nemid.nu. I can't remember when I last saw a .nu domain advertised recently, they seem on the way out. But it seems business domains in general are also disappearing in favor of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts.
  - matsemann 3y ago
    Sweden as well used .nu a lot, because of the restrictions for .se I don't feel we in Norway did that a lot. There were some restrictions on .no, but mainly that you needed to be an organization of some sorts, which was fairly easy to do if you just wanted (could make a dormant single person company). Those not bothering just used .com

LeonidasXIV 3y ago

I find squatting .java, an island with a population 7.5 times that of Scandinavia by a tech company even worse. I'd be also annoyed if Oracle had .sjælland.