Niue

Niue : what is that

[ds98127]

hi,
i know this is quite a serious forum and may be this should not be posted ... yikes ..can't help sharing
saw the logs and saw this dude from "Niue" payin a visit on my website. this is a country :-)
Anyone knew of this? any other novel countries people know of... now things like togo sierra leone are common for me ..something like "Niue"..damn it is so <self snipped>
cheers
Niko

[edited by: msgraph at 12:12 pm (utc) on Dec. 29, 2003]
[edit reason] snipped a word [/edit]

[IanTurner]

Self govening island associated with New Zealand - remotest of the Cook Islands, former British colony.

Other interesting countries that you may or may not of heard of:

Burkino Fasso - capital Ouagadougou (I once heard this and for some readon it stuck in the mind)

Bhutan
Faroe Islands
Georgia
Tajikistan
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

[2oddSox]

I have a couple of good friends from Niue. I'll pass on your sentiments that you find their country 'novel' - I'm sure they'll be honoured. I may have to explain to them what a 'webmaster' is though (and for that matter, the Internet), but I'm sure they'll be suitably impressed.

2odd...

[troels nybo nielsen]

Yes, there are some fairly novel countries on this globe: USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, just to name a few. And I guess that some members would count most European countries to be among them too. About 2300 years ago an Egyptian said to a Greek: "You Greeks are such a young people".

The possibility of .nu domains has been much marketed in Scandinavia and I wonder if most .nu websites actually are Scandinavian. Many Scandinavian webmasters like to have .nu domain because in Scandinavian languages "nu" means "now".

[sidyadav]

Yep, Niue is a very small country, more of a villiage really, only a thousand people or so live there, 10,000 of them live in New Zealand, as there are no Uni's, High school etc. there, only primary.

Sid

[PeterHo]

Tokelau is also a small island in Oceania, it's domain .tk is very popular among people with a small/no budget for their website.

[danieljean]

LOL... I can see francophone webmasters wanting a .nu domain. nu = naked

If that were my line of work...

[TheDoctor]

Tuvalu has the .tv domain, used by a number of TV companies.

AFAIK Tuvalu has no other export, so a useful source of income for them.