The Swedish Internet Foundation is an independent public-service organisation that acts to ensure positive development of the internet. The foundation is based in Sweden and is responsible for the internet's Swedish top-level domain,

.se .se, formerly branded as .SE, is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is ...

, and the operation of the

.nu .nu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the island state of Niue. It was one of the first ccTLDs to be marketed to the Internet at large as an alternative to the gTLDs .com, .net, and .org. Playing on the phonetic ...

top-level domain, that of

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. It is also a public-service organization that operates identity federations, which comprise secure and scalable solutions for account and password management. These create the preconditions to facilitate work with digital processes within healthcare and schools in Sweden. The Swedish Internet Foundation's charter states that any surplus should be used to improve the stability of internet infrastructure in Sweden and to promote research, training and education with a focus on the internet. The goal is to invest at least 25 percent of the revenue in various projects that develop the internet. In 2020, SEK 88.1 million was invested. The Swedish Internet Foundation is responsible for Internetmuseum, a Swedish digital museum opened in 2014. In June 2016 Internetmuseum was inducted to The Association of Swedish Museums (Riksförbundet Sveriges museer) as the first entirely digital museum. The ambition of the museum is to spread knowledge of the Swedish history of Internet and to preserve the digital heritage.

Ongoing dispute with the government of Niue

The

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was recognized as the holder of legal rights to administer its

country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all t ...

, until 2003, when it signed the rights away to the IUSN Foundation, a

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-based non-profit organization created for the purpose of funding free unlimited internet access and wifi in Niue through revenue from the domain name. The right was transferred to The Internet Foundation in Sweden (IIS) in September 2013. According to the government of Niue this transfer "to take over Niue's .nu domain (happened) without consent". The government of Niue has been trying to get back control over its country code top-level domain ever since. An estimate by Niue's legal team stated that the country had missed out on a total of around during the combined time that the domain had been administered by IUSN and The Swedish Internet Foundation. The government of Niue has not been able to find an agreement with the Swedish Internet Foundation and started a legal case on two fronts: directly with

ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201216-government-of-niue-launches-proceedings-to-reclaim-its-domain
December 16, 2020 to get the domain name back, and with the Swedish government to reclaim the lost profits.

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, the long-serving

Premier of Niue The Premier of Niue is Niue's head of government. They are elected by the Niue Assembly, and forms a Cabinet consisting of themselves and three other members of the Assembly. Sir Robert Rex was continuously re-elected every three years from N ...

who died end of 2020, called it a form of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Internet Foundation in Sweden Internet in Sweden