Tag Archives: sweden

November, 2009

• 25 November

  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 …

October, 2009

• 13 October

  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 …

July, 2009

• 16 July

  "James Bond" data center can withstand hydrogen bomb

  In the first part of an online video series, Data Center Knowledge tours a Stockholm data center that looks just like something out of James Bond. A former military bunker built during the Cold War for civil defense, the server room sits under hundreds of feet of bedrock and can …