.NU Domain Ltd Partners with NIC-SE for Technical Services
MEDFIELD, MA, December 3, 1999 – The .NU Domain Ltd, one of the fastest growing domains on the Internet, today announced a partnership with NIC-SE for technical services and support. The NIC-SE will house and support .NU Domain’s name server in Sweden, ensuring faster and more secure services for its expanding customer base in the Nordic region.
“We have taken this initiative to improve the security and the service for everyone that uses the Internet in Sweden. Our goal is to create a similar operating agreement together with many of the most important top level domains in Sweden,” said Per Darnell, president of NIC-SE.
The agreement with NIC-SE provides .NU Domain Ltd with the ability to support its rapidly growing top level domain (TLD) registry services for top domains in the Nordic countries. Registrations of .NU domain names have doubled in the past six months.
The co-operation with NIC-SE ensures .NU Domain can provide faster and more secure services for its expanding customers.
“Our decision to partner with NIC-SE is based on their successful management of the most technically advanced and secure name service in Europe, perhaps in the world,” said J. William Semich, president of .NU Domain Ltd.
“.NU is a top level domain which has had impact even on the Swedish market and it is in our interest to have a well functioned Internet, where there is a special place for both .NU and .SE,” said Per Darnell, president of NIC-SE.
About .NU Domain Ltd
.NU Domain Ltd, a US-based private corporation, offers the only competitive alternative to Network Solutions Inc.’s. (NASDAQ:NSOL) .com domain name. The .NU Domain Ltd targets end users and the small office/home office (SOHO) market, as well as Internet users in countries with restrictions on the domain name registration process.
The .NU domain is the fastest growing TLD on the Internet. It has registered nearly 60,000 .NU domain names on the Internet during the past 24 months.
.NU Domain Ltd also offers domain name parking services for customers who need to lock in a domain name but have no immediate plans to use it. Find further information about .NU and other services that the company provides at: www.nunames.nu
About Network Information Centre Sweden (NIC-SE) AB
Network Information Centre Sweden (NIC-SE) AB, owned by the Foundation of the Internet Infrastructure, is the registry of the national top level domain .SE.
NIC-SE is doing domain registrations for more than 160 organizations. The top level domain .SE has more than 73.000 domain names registered and targets companies, organizations and private persons in Sweden.
Please find more information at: www.nic-se.se