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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by olodus on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#25445122)
For English speakers "nu" in Swedish means "now", so it was a really popular TLD here in the early Internet. I'm guessing it still kinda is but I don't see those domains as much anymore. I don't know much about its history though so someone maybe can correct me if the meaning of nu isn't the reason the TLD ended up in Sweden.
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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by Raphmedia on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:06PM (#25445927)
It also means "naked" in french. For example, https :// homme. nu/ which directly translates to "man dot naked" (and reads as "naked.man").

(Broken the URL on purpose, don't go there. It's a risky site likely filled with malware.)

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by hyperman1 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:26PM (#25445335)
In Dutch nu also means now.
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