New

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"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

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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

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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

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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!

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:07, 31 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Dresden

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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

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I've removed Norway from the list of countries where .nu is popular, as the word for 'now' is 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

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

References

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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.

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?

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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

NY Times Article about Trial in Sweden

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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