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.nu

Lately many people asked me where the .nu name comes from...

Me I just kinda liked it, since it refers to the French 'nu' which is naked.

But .nu is the domainlevel of Niue, a little island in the lower South Pacific.

I copy paste:
Back in 1997, Stafford Guest, Richard St. Clair and I decided to set up the private nonprofit Internet Users Society – Niue (IUS-N) to manage the .NU ccTLD. The goal was to convince Internet users all over the world to register enough .NU domain names so we could pay for the equipment, installation, maintenance, management and connectivity costs for free Internet services for all the people of the tiny isolated South Pacific island nation of Niue. During the seven years since then, the technical team working in Niue – technical manager St. Clair and development director Emani Lui – have been able to pull off miracle after miracle – starting with the island’s first free email service in 1997, followed by the island’s first full-time digital connection to the Internet in 1999 and, as of last June, launching the first phase of free national WiFi services in Niue.

For more info on the island:
.nudomain
niue island
(might want to bring it a visit...)

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