The tiny Polynesian island nation of Niue is beginning to think it’s been had. Candidly, it’s clear they didn’t do their homework before they did their arrangement.<\/p>\n
Ironically, it seems the buyer hadn’t really done his, either. Anyone who has been swamped by advertisements for ‘global domains’ can clearly understand that it’s a burgeoning business. The specter of purchasing a domain at a much better price than the more common ‘dot com’ or ‘dot net’ or ‘dot org’ is most attractive to most would-be entrepeneurs on restricted budgets. This niche’s market leader is most likely Global Domains International (GDI), which has no doubt put Western Samoa on the mental map of many a cybernaut. The key element in that deal is that the Western Samoan government granted the rights to GDI in return for a percentage for every domain sold.<\/p>\n
Niue’s name is derived from the local language’s saying for, “Look, a coconut!” It seems they should have used theirs more carefully before signing a domain deal with Bill Semich in 1998.<\/p>\n
An American entrepreneur whose former station was editor for a computer magazine, Semich recognized the potential value in the marketability of unique domains. Apparently finding the ‘nu’ extension an appealing letter arrangement, he signed a contract with the Niue government that gave him the private rights to it.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a one-way deal. Semich guaranteed free wireless access for all 2000 of Niue’s populace and he delivered, finishing the installation of an island-wide set-up of translator towers in 2003. The country’s leaders surely felt they had provided their population with a service for the new century which would favorably ensconce their place in island history.<\/p>\n
Semich, meanwhile, intended to hawk his bargain domains to Americans. He had no idea that his ideal clients were in Sweden, where ‘nu’ is the local word for ‘now.’<\/p>\n
Obviously,’now’ is a hot advertising action term in any language, so Semich was pleasantly surprised to find the Swedes flocking to his cyber-property. As a translated example of why this works for them, ‘drive.now’ (which would be ‘k\u00c3\u00b6ra.nu’) is a very convincing sales slogan which becomes an ideal URL for a Swedish driving school. To date, Semich has had 110,000 sales of ‘dot nu’ domains at $30 a year, which has greatly swollen the coffers of his ‘.NU Domain Ltd’ to the scope that its website’s home page default language is now — or nu — in Swedish.<\/p>\n
Actually, Semich has cunningly taken advantage of this windfall to become the first domain provider to add in a complete Unicode character set into its scripts, allowing users whose alphabets have rare characters — in Swedish, that would be the letters ‘\u00c3\u00a5,’ ‘\u00c3\u00a4’ and ‘\u00c3\u00b6’ — to remain true to their language instead of settling for Anglicized versions, which often destroy their original meaning.<\/p>\n
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