Some Officials in Niue Decry Deal Over .nu Domain Name

Some officials in Niue -- a tiny, impoverished island in the South Pacific -- charge they were cheated out of what they now see as an important and profitable national asset: the dot-nu domain name. The island's government has locked horns with an entrepreneur in Medfield, Mass., named Bill Semich, who acquired the rights to operate and sell the dot-nu domain name in the late 1990s.