today is the internet infrastructure foundation, which administers the domain .now, that is very common in Sweden, but at the same time happen to be mikronationen Niue’s cctld. Internet infrastructure foundation is also responsible for the Swedish tld .see.
Now Niue, which has about 1.700 inhabitants, sued the foundation in 200 million after a complicated dispute, writes Dagens Industri.
the internet infrastructure foundation has been controlled .now since 2013, and count to earn 30-35 million annually in the domain name.
but This claim that the foundation unlawfully administers the domain.
, Pär Brumark, says to the newspaper that compensation shall be based on the profits for the last five years.
the internet infrastructure foundation president in Sweden, Danny Aerts, do not see any basis for the lawsuit.
– Before we made the assessment that we could pursue .now we went to the county and asked if it is in line with our ändamålsparagraf. There we got a yes, ” he says to Di.
ended up with the Swedish internet infrastructure foundation depends, among other things, that a previous government in Niue sold the rights to a foundation which, among other things, seems to bring internet to the island. A later government annulled the agreement by a new law.
took over the administration of the 2013 protest Niue, but it is only now that it becomes the cause of it.
