Ok first of all. The biggest reason why those prices where so high was because Nunames and Sedo emailed all the spectators about the auction. Without that, there would never be so high offers for the domains.
Nunames emailed all nu-owners and Sedo emailed both Swedish and foreigners about the auction.
I didn't say I dont like nu-domains, but your giving a illusion without all the facts behind it. I own a couple nu-domains.
Yes, your DVD.nu was a good catch, I also bidded on it, but registering all "generic" words in the nu-domain wont help, why? Because the combo between english words and the nu-domain isn't good.
Just look at the list of the domains that were sold, many of them fits Swedish ppl or NL/Scandinavian ppl.
About the Nuie Island story, I found a old article about that but it wasn't long time ago (a few weeks) the story came up on DN.se, so Im guessing they still struggle to get the domain back.
Heres more about it: (old article)
http://www.techworld.com/networking...cfm?newsid=8328
It's questionable "why" now Nunames using the topdomain for auctions. To me it looks like they trying to bring in all the cash they can now. Not just trough the auction but the redirecting of unregistered domains to parkingpages.
