Talk:.nu

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the .nu article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Polynesia: Niue Low‑importance

	Oceania portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Polynesia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Polynesia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PolynesiaWikipedia:WikiProject PolynesiaTemplate:WikiProject PolynesiaPolynesia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Niue (assessed as Low-importance).

Internet

	Internet portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Internet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InternetWikipedia:WikiProject InternetTemplate:WikiProject InternetInternet articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Sweden Low‑importance

	Sweden portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sweden, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sweden-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SwedenWikipedia:WikiProject SwedenTemplate:WikiProject SwedenSweden articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article is written in New Zealand English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, analyse, centre, fiord) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

New

"Nu" is also supposed to be pronounced as the English word "new". 85.4.141.34 (talk) 17:31, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Romania

In Romania, "nu" (pronounced like "new") is the word for "no". Unsigned anon comment from 86.34.6.45 on 2005-11-21 22:58:16 (UTC)

Interesting. The question is: Do Romanians make use of .nu in domain names to mean no? Something like "idont.nu" (if it were english). Let us know. — Fudoreaper 10:08, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Would Romanian syntax allow a sentence or phrase to end with "no", otherwise, it'd probably look weird? (Swedish syntax, like English, have no problems with a sentence ending in nu(now), of course. 85.226.122.237 20:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Niue government website

The Niue government is no longer using a .com URL, as previously noted in this article, but is now www.gov.nu. There is still a www.niueisland.com website run by the Niue tourism office. --24.49.67.6 14:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The reason the Niue government was using a .com URL was that IUSN had registered the name gov.nu to themselves and refused to give it to the government. This forced the government to use other domain names. IUSN is very unfriendly to the Governement of Niue. IUSN's activites have been very harmful to the island.65.8.173.90 14:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above scenario provide a lesson, especially in a small country like Niue, where a single entity like IUSN is a monopoly of providing internet service, where such a position is being used to directly or indirectly influent Government policy. Is this part of good governance? This is where expert power in addition to taking advantage of commercial experience to re-colonialise smaller and weaker states. What do you think, would appreciate sharing your views on this Sioneholof (talk) 15:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, the above scenario also demonstrates a government eventually getting its way and getting what it wanted from the ISP. --71.195.58.7 (talk) 23:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps Wikipedia should mention in this .nu article that the population of Niue is less than 2000 people. It is essentially free money and free internet access Niue is getting from this domain, and they still complain?

--ee1518 (talk) 15:13, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

http://www.domainnews.com/en/nu-domain-launches-numeric-domain-names.html.NU
- In .nu on 2011-05-20 22:31:56, 404 Not Found
- In .nu on 2011-05-31 15:07:22, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:07, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dresden

In Dresden, Saxony (Germany) the word 'nu' is a popular local dialect word for 'yes'. It is not easy to pronounce, but it is already included into the domain name of a local town magazine - www.dresdner.nu. --92.231.91.12 (talk) 09:59, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Norway

I've removed Norway from the list of countries where .nu is popular, as the word for 'now' is nå in Bokmål and no in Nynorsk - nu was used in Riksmal, but it's now considered an archaism in Norwegian. Quiensabe (talk) 19:27, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Next time, remove it because it is not popular, not unrelated linguistics. Nå is not available, and NO is restricted, nu was a popular alternative. IF THIS has changed, THEN remove it from the list. Your sources in this is not related.46.15.118.166 (talk) 14:19, 12 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is not unrelated, it is relevant. If you can find information that supports your case, add it instead of carping at other users.Polemicista (talk) 14:00, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute

Dispute was resolved ^[1] ondra (talk) 15:11, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.iis.se/english/dispute_resolution/

Popular in which countries?

Wikipedia now says:

Especially popular in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium as nu is Swedish, Danish and Dutch for "now".

2013: The IIS said that 66.7% of "active" .nu domains at the time were registered to Swedish users.

Registry websiteIIS.se. It redirects to: https://internetstiftelsen.se/

Question:

What percentage of .nu domains are now (2021) for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, other countries?

--ee1518 (talk) 15:09, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Any objection to removing "McAfee SiteAdvisor" section?

Any other editors have an objection to removing the entire "McAfee SiteAdvisor" section? Visiting this article for the first time today, I was struck by how little that section adds. It seems to basically say "Back in 2007, McAfee issued a report saying .nu domains were among the highest risk... but then shortly thereafter a press release was issued saying they weren't... and by 2008 McAfee was pointing to other TLDs as highest risk". It seems to have just been a brief flash... perhaps even a mistake in the report... and doesn't seem to really add any value to this Wikipedia article. I'll be glad to remove unless others have objections. - Dyork (talk) 12:43, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Seeing no objection in most of 1.5 years, I’m going to go ahead and remove this section. - Dyork (talk) 14:58, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

NY Times Article about Trial in Sweden

The NY Times recently published an article about .NU and a trial in Sweden around the ownership of the domain. The trial may be over now and so other articles may be available that can help with updating this page. (Don’t have time myself to do the research and update this page, but leaving this here in case other editors do… or in case I have some time at a later date.) - Dyork (talk) 15:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.iis.se/english/dispute_resolution/

[1]