The island of Niue is the Internet foundation in Sweden

A storm erupted between the autonomous island of Niue in the South Pacific and the Internet Foundation in Sweden. The noise concerns the popular Sweden News .nu – the top-level domain of Niue and illegally controlled by Sweden, according to a lawsuit.

Söderhavsön Niue corresponds to about 200 million euros to the Swedish Internet foundation. He writes Dagens Industri.

"It will be around 200 million crowns, and it will be calculated by an independent party based on the profits made over the past five years since the Internet Foundation illegally administered the Niue top-level domain," he said. Pär Brumark, in particular, the Messenger to the Government of Niue Government.

Since 2013, the Internet Foundation has managed not only the top-level domain in Sweden, but also the aforementioned top-level domain of Niue.

The industry today reports that the Internet Foundation – according to their own documents – hopes to earn between 30 and 35 million euros per year for the domain name.

The noise has persisted for a long time, starting with the fact that the IUSN Foundation, in cooperation with the American company Worldnames Inc., acquired the rights of the Nge government's top-level domain in the early 1990s. This agreement should have been terminated by a new law on the island a year later.

Niue has since maintained the right to his own domain.

"We had already protested in 2013 because they did not want to communicate, they only said that the County Board of Directors agreed," Pär Brumark told DI.

The Internet foundation of Swedish CEO Danny Aerts, for his part, said that the County Board of Directors had given the green light before realizing that they could drive .nu.

However, according to DI, the County Administrative Board stated that a preliminary message could not be interpreted as a green light.

Danny Aerts told the newspaper that the discussion on the agreement with the US organization had nothing to do with the Swedish Internet Foundation.

"The island has signed an agreement with an organization in the United States, and this agreement is being discussed, but it does not have much to do with us," he says.