.nl domains

can soon be registered by foreigners

[Damian]

The SIDN [domain-registry.nl] announced .nl domain registration will be open to foreigners soon.
You do have to be an official company, individuals can register second level .nl domains only.

The press release [nic.nl] (in Dutch) mentions the the change is expected to happen by the end of this year.

[lazerzubb]

.se domains will also soon be available to "outsiders"

[Tor]

This is good news for us Damian! Thanks for the info.

[Tor]

.se domains will also soon be available to "outsiders"

When will this happen lazerzubb?

[lazerzubb]

Would guess sometime around march hopefully next year. NIC-SE is quite slow when it comes to decisions.

[heini]

I wonder what motivated this liberalisation of the Dutch and Swedish ccTLDs, resonable as it may sound.

Most European major online countries have similar liberal regulations.

One thing is for sure: the days when a ccTLD equated a site fully originating from the appropriate country are long gone.
Which leads me to speculating if the new attempts of Google and AOL (and I'm just asking myself if there might be something similar in the works at FAST) to filtering and serving results based on IP are a reaction to this trend.

[ikbenhet1]

hello, i'm from holland and just wan't to tell you this is already possible. you don't need Kvk (company) or anything.

you must register with a 3rd party that will hire or buy the domain for you and take it on their name. These 3rd parties mostly have certificates and conditions that they don't steal your domain etc etc.

i would like to name the company i'm talking about, but i don't know if it's allowed, let me know and i'll leave the company name behind

ps. i registerd trugh a postal adres by the 3rd, where i not live myself, so it is als possible thay way.

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Tor,

The rules governing the registration of .se are to be relaxed in the first quarter of next year.
(speednames.com/newsletter/june2002/dotse.html)

Torben