.NU Domain Donates Internationalized Web Addresses to Swedish Governments

Swedish Local Governments with an Å, Ä or Ö in Their Municipality Name Can Now Use These Characters in Their Web Addresses

Medfield, MA, July 10, 2000 - .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 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 å, ä or ö 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 Malmö (with an umlaut), which previously had to use the domain ASCII name malmo.se for its web site address, can now use http://www.malmö.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, see: Swedish Municipalities

"Having the å, ä, ö 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-Väsby.

"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 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" 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 (SOHO) 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, Finland, Indonesia, Belgium, Singapore, France, the Canary Islands, 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 at http://www.coca-cola.nu and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. at http://www.goodyear.nu to personal sites like the Backstreet Boys fan site, http://www.backstreetboys.nu