Sweden had a good system in place until last year. All.se names could only be owned by a registered business/organization located in Sweden. They then got greedy and opened up the registry to anyone. Now people have registered generic names and are commanding ridiculous prices for them.
I had a legitimate business with a.se name registered. My domain name expired at the same time they opened up the registry. During a renewal notice address mixup thanks to a bad ISP, I lost the name to a cybersquatter. If they hadn't changed the rules I could have just renewed it when the mixup was cleared up.
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Sweden had a good system in place until last year. All .se names could only be owned by a registered business/organization located in Sweden. They then got greedy and opened up the registry to anyone. Now people have registered generic names and are commanding ridiculous prices for them.
I had a legitimate business with a .se name registered. My domain name expired at the same time they opened up the registry. During a renewal notice address mixup thanks to a bad ISP, I lost the name to a cybersquatter. If they hadn't changed the rules I could have just renewed it when the mixup was cleared up.