MSB.se sells for $141,550
A Swedish government agency, the Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap (MSB), has purchased the domain MSB.se for 950,000 SEK ($141,550 USD).
The ccTLD’s sale is the second-highest ever on the .se extension. The number-one name is Spel.se, which garnered a price of $264,442 USD– almost double MSB.se’s cost.
While Sweden has one of the highest Internet adoption rates in the world, its .se suffix doesn’t get much attention because of the country’s relatively small population. The extension last made news in October, when a maintenance error made all of its domains unreachable for 20 minutes.
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Maintenance error shuts down .se domain
An error made during routine maintenance on the .se domain last night shut down all 905,000 names on the ccTLD for a period of around 20 minutes.
Though the exact cause of the outage has yet to be determined, many believe it to be the result of a typo in the registry zone files.
As far as failures go, this one is fairly serious. While the downtime was only 20 minutes, all .se domains were affected. Sweden is lucky the problem was caught and fixed so quickly. When new gTLDs come online next year, expect to hear more stories like this.
Source | Domain Name News
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