How to register a .nu domain: requirements, price and transfer

A .nu domain is officially the country code domain of Niue, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Because "nu" means "now" in Dutch, Swedish and Danish, the extension suits names that invite people to act. Anyone can register a .nu domain, as long as they provide a personal or organisation number, such as a company registration number. At LJPc hosting a .nu domain costs €24.99 a year excluding VAT, with DNS management included, and you order it in the customer portal.

Below you can read who runs .nu, which number you need to provide, which naming rules apply, what it costs and how to register, transfer or recover a .nu domain.

What is a .nu domain?

.nu is the country code top-level domain of Niue. According to IANA, which maintains the list of all top-level domains, the manager is The IUSN Foundation in Niue. The registry of all .nu names is run by The Swedish Internet Foundation (Internetstiftelsen), which also runs .se and sets the rules for .nu.

You always register a .nu domain through a registrar, such as LJPc hosting. The registrar records the registration with The Swedish Internet Foundation, renews it and passes on changes to your details. The Swedish Internet Foundation's terms apply at every registrar and take precedence over the registrar's own terms.

Who can register a .nu domain?

Under the .nu terms and conditions of registration (PDF, valid from 15 January 2026), any person or organisation with a personal identification number or corporate identity number, or that is listed in a government register, can register a .nu domain. You do not need to live in Sweden or Niue. You do provide such a number when you register:

As an individual in the Netherlands, use your document number and keep your citizen service number (BSN) to yourself: organisations outside the government may only use your BSN when a law allows it, as the Dutch government explains (in Dutch).

What else The Swedish Internet Foundation asks of you

• Complete details. The full name of your company with a contact person, or your first name and surname as an individual, plus your number, a phone number and a working email address.
• Your own details. The details must be complete and correct. Details intended to hide who the holder is may be treated as incorrect.
• Changes passed on straight away. If something changes, such as your email address, pass it on to your registrar at once. At LJPc you do this yourself in the portal, as described in manage the WHOIS data of your domain.
• A name you are entitled to. The name must not infringe the rights of others, such as a trademark, and must not break the law.

If your details are incorrect or incomplete, you receive a notice with a deadline to put them right. If that does not happen in time, the domain is deactivated: it is removed from the .nu zone, and the website and email on that domain stop working. You then have 60 days to complete your details and reactivate the domain. A new registration with missing details can also stay deactivated until everything is complete.

.nu naming rules

• Length. A .nu name has 1 to 63 characters, not counting .nu.
• Characters. You can use the letters a to z, the digits 0 to 9 and the hyphen. Accented letters used in Swedish, the other Nordic languages and other Western European languages are allowed too, such as é, ë, ü, å and ø. The German ß is written as ss.
• Hyphens. A name cannot start or end with a hyphen and cannot have hyphens in both the third and fourth position.
• Available names. Some names are blocked, such as digit strings in the format of a Swedish personal identity number, names of two letters followed by two hyphens, example and test names, and designations protected by law. Otherwise, the first to apply for an available name gets it.

At The Swedish Internet Foundation a registration can run for 1 to 10 years. At LJPc hosting a .nu domain runs per year and we renew it automatically every year.

Is .nu good for SEO?

Google treats .nu as a generic extension, like .com. Google's guidance on multi-regional sites lists .nu among the country code domains it does not link to one country. A .nu domain therefore does not tell Google which country your site targets, while a country extension such as .nl does. Here is how to choose:

How to redirect a second domain to your main site is explained in redirect a domain to another website.

How much does a .nu domain cost at LJPc?

A .nu domain costs €24.99 a year at LJPc hosting, excluding VAT. You pay the same amount to transfer an existing .nu domain to us, which covers your first year with us. The order wizard shows the price before you order, and our domain names page lists the current prices of all extensions.

You add hosting for your website and email as you need it. You can also choose DNS management only, or redirect the domain to another website. Our packages are on the web hosting page.

How to register a .nu domain at LJPc

1. Log in at portal.ljpc.nl and click Add a website on the dashboard, or go straight to the order wizard. No account yet? Create one first.
2. Choose I am looking for one or want to register one and type the name with .nu, for example yourcompany.nu. You see right away whether it is available and what it costs per year, with other extensions alongside.
3. Select the .nu domain and then what it should do: a hosting package, DNS management only, a redirect package, or a server or hosting space you already have with us.
4. In the cart, check the Registration contact: the details The Swedish Internet Foundation registers the domain under.
5. If the cart shows WHOIS data still missing for .nu, click Fill in. In the window, enter your company registration number or document number under Personal or Organization number and click Save and send. You can then complete your order.
6. Accept the terms and conditions and complete your order. As soon as your order is complete, we register the domain with The Swedish Internet Foundation.

All choices in the order wizard are covered in register a domain and link it to your hosting. Your .nu domain then appears in the portal under Services > Domain names.

Add your number to your WHOIS contact in advance

You can also add your personal or organisation number beforehand, so the cart no longer asks for it:

1. Log in to the customer portal and choose WHOIS contacts in the Services menu.
2. Click the pencil icon next to the contact you register the domain with. This is usually the contact labelled Default.
3. Under TLD-specific properties, choose .nu in the list. The required field Personal or Organization number appears by itself: enter your number there.
4. If your business has a VAT number, you can add it as Vat number under Add property. This field is optional.
5. Click Save.

Is the name you want already taken? Read backorder a domain name to claim it the moment it becomes available. Add your number to your default WHOIS contact first: a backorder registers the name with that contact, so it goes into your name straight away.

What LJPc takes care of for your .nu domain

• Automatic yearly renewal. Automatic renewal is on by default, so your .nu domain stays active for as long as your subscription runs. To stop, see cancel a domain or hosting.
• DNS and DNSSEC. Your domain gets our nameservers ns1.ljpc.network, ns2.ljpc.network and ns3.ljpc.network, and we switch on DNSSEC automatically. How that protection works is explained in what is DNSSEC.
• Your transfer code in one click. On the page of your domain in the portal you request the transfer code yourself. It is ready within a few seconds.
• Domain email in your portal. The email address on your domain is an address of your customer portal, so email about your domain arrives in the Inbox of the portal.
• Your details under your control. You update the holder and contact details of your domain yourself in the portal. To put the domain in someone else's name, see change the owner of a domain. For .nu, the new holder provides a personal or organisation number too.

Transfer your .nu domain to LJPc

You transfer a .nu domain with a transfer code, also called an authorisation code or auth code. You get it from your current registrar. Under The Swedish Internet Foundation's terms, that registrar must provide the code within five working days and may not charge for the change of registrar. If you do not receive the code within five working days, The Swedish Internet Foundation may provide it to you. A .nu domain has no transfer lock to switch off.

1. Is your website or email moving too? Set them up with us first, because after the transfer the nameservers of your domain point to LJPc. See migrate your website to LJPc.
2. Get the transfer code from your current registrar.
3. Open the order wizard, choose I already have one at another registrar, enter your .nu domain and choose Transfer to LJPc. Enter the transfer code. The portal checks right away whether the transfer can go ahead with that code.
4. Choose hosting or DNS management only. If the cart asks for missing WHOIS data, add your personal or organisation number as described above. Then complete your order. We start the transfer and you follow its status in the portal.

If there is a dispute about the name, or The Swedish Internet Foundation has asked you to complete your details, the domain can only be transferred once that is resolved. To follow the transfer step by step until it is done, see transfer your domain to LJPc.

Transfer your .nu domain from LJPc to another provider

To move your .nu domain to another provider, request the transfer code yourself in the portal:

1. Open the page of your .nu domain in the portal.
2. In the Authorization code block, click Request transfer code. The code is ready within a few seconds. If a code already exists, you see it right away and it stays as it is.
3. Give the code to your new provider, who uses it to request the transfer.

What else is involved, such as the end of your subscription with us, is covered in get your EPP code and transfer your domain.

Keep your .nu domain at another registrar

Want to keep your .nu domain at your current registrar and only host your website or email with us? Then the domain does not need to move. Connect it with our nameservers, as described in change your nameservers, or with individual DNS records, as described in point a domain to LJPc hosting. The Swedish Internet Foundation updates the .nu zone every hour at half past, so a nameserver change is in the zone within an hour after your registrar has submitted it.

Not renewed: expired, deactivated and released

If a .nu domain is not renewed in time, it goes through these stages at The Swedish Internet Foundation, as described on the page .se and .nu domains that may soon be available:

Every night, The Swedish Internet Foundation publishes a list of deactivated .nu names with their release dates. If your .nu domain shows Expired, Redemption period or Pending delete in the portal, open a support ticket straight away. What these statuses mean is explained in expired domain or quarantine. Want to claim a name that someone else lets expire? Use a backorder.

Not sure whether .nu suits you, or is a transfer stuck? Open a support ticket and we will look into it with you.