.NU Domain Donates Internationalized Web Addresses to Swedish Governments.Business/Technology Editors MEDFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 Swedish Local Governments with an A, A or O in Their Municipality Name Can Now Use These Characters in Their Web Addresses .NU Domain Ltd (www.nunames.nu), one of the fastest growing Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the Internet, today announced that it has donated free Internationalized .NU Web addresses for use by all local governments in Sweden as a gesture of goodwill and to promote the use of Swedish and other International alphabets in Web addresses throughout the world. .NU Domain is the only TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. in the world today that can provide Multilingual Web address services using the complete UNICODE character set, including European accented Latin characters, Cyrillic characters, Arabic characters, Japanese and Chinese characters, and hundreds of other international scripts. As of today, every Swedish local government whose incorporated name includes the Swedish letters a, a or o will have a Web address, which uses its real Swedish spelling courtesy of .NU Domain. With this new service, Nordic users can type in the true spelling of the municipalities' names for access to the municipalities' Web sites. For example, the Swedish community of Malmo (with an umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ), which previously had to use the domain ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. name malmo.se for its web site address, can now use http://www.malmo.nu for its correctly-spelled Web site address. .NU Domain has registered each municipality's true Swedish name as a .NU Web address and is pointing it to each municipality's .SE web site at no cost. For a list of all the unique municipal Web sites that can now use the Swedish alphabet The Swedish alphabet consists of the following 29 letters:
"Having the a, a, o on the Internet is really quite natural, especially for us as a municipality with Swedish users," said Mats Welander, financial manager at the Swedish municipality of Upplands-Vasby. "Non-English speaking Internet users see the Internet's limitations to the English characters a-z for their Web site address as unacceptable," said J. William Semich, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of .NU Domain. "Swedish Internet users want to be able to type in the real name of an organization they wish to access online and organizations want to use their real name or their brand name as web addresses without having to modify the spelling. With our unique Multilingual Web Address(TM) service, .NU Domain is simply providing that ability." 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. It is the only Top Level Domain in the world that can support the complete UNICODE international character set in Web addresses. .NU Domain Ltd targets international end users and the small office/home office See SOHO. (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) market, as well as Internet users in countries with restrictions on the domain name registration process. The .NU domain is one of the fastest growing TLDs on the Internet. Current .NU registered customers are located in dozens of counties throughout the world, including Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Italy, the UK, Spain, Brazil, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Finland, Indonesia, Belgium, Singapore, France, the Canary Islands Canary Islands, Span. Islas Canarias, group of seven islands (1990 pop. 1,589,403), 2,808 sq mi (7,273 sq km), autonomous region of Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara. They constitute two provinces of Spain. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1990 pop. , Australia, Canada and the Philippines, as well as the US. The list of registered .NU domain names ranges from names registered by large corporations including, International Data Group Corp. at http://www.idg.nu, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company A bottling company is a commercial enterprise whose output is the bottling of beverages for distribution. Many bottling companies are franchisees of corporations such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo who distribute the beverage in a specific geographic region. at http://www.coca-cola.nu and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. at http://www.goodyear.nu to personal sites like the Backstreet backstreet Noun a street in a town far from the main roads Adjective denoting secret or illegal activities: a backstreet abortion backstreet n Boys fan site, http://www.backstreetboys.nu .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, the .NU InstantWeb Forwarding Service that provides a quick, three-page mini Web site, or URL forwarding for your .NU domain name to a GeoCities, Tripod or other Web site without a unique domain name, and .NU InstantMail Forwarding so AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , GeoCities, Hotmail and other mail service users can have a unique .NU mail address. You can visit .NU Domain Ltd on the World Wide Web at http://www.nunames.nu. Note to editors: The Swedish letters referred to have umlauts and angstroms associated with them which will not show up on the wire version on the press release. |
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