.se
.se is the ccTLD for The Internet Infrastructure Foundation (Internetstiftelsen i Sverige).[1]
Rules and Restrictions[edit | edit source]
Any natural person or legal entity with a personal identification number or corporate identity number, or that can be identified via a registration designation in a register maintained by a governmental authority, or by an organization exercising state authority, may apply for registration of a Domain Name.[2]
Blocked and Reserved Domain Names[edit | edit source]
There are categories of domain names that are blocked or reserved by The Swedish Internet Foundation:
- domain names that consists of number combinations in the format xxxxxx-xxxx and xxxxxxxx-xxxx. These domain names are blocked for registration since they are or may be a personal identity number;
- domain names that contains of two letters followed by two hyphens. The syntax containing two letters followed by two hyphens is reserved for IDN and is blocked in accordance with current standards to avoid common domain names being perceived as IDN domain names.
- some domains are reserved as example and test domains, these are therefore not possible to register. You can find these reserved domain names in this charter;
- designations according to the law (2014:812) about protection for certain characteristics in international humanitarian law and the law (1970:498) about protection of weapons and certain other official designations with the associated regulation (2019:167) cannot be freely used. Domain names that consist of the protected designations are therefore blocked for registration.
The blocked domain names are reserved for the organization that holds the right to the designation according to the law or regulation. The organization that holds the right to the designation can register the domain name by proving its right to the name, unless otherwise stated in the relevant legislation. If someone other than the holder requests the cancellation of the block, the applicant must be able to prove that he or she has the approval of the organization concerned. This applies if something else is not stated in the current legislation.
Some main domains, such as county letters, are blocked for new registrations. Already registered domain names under a main domain continue to be registered as long as they are renewed.[3]
Characters[edit | edit source]
A Domain Name shall include at least one character, and may contain a maximum of 63 characters.
A .se domain may contain of the letters a-z, numbers 0-9, hyphens, and all the letters required to write in Swedish and the Swedish official minority languages (Finnish, Meänkieli (Tornedal Finnish), Sami, Romani and Yiddish). It may also contain the letters required for writing in Finnish, Norwegian, Danish and Islandic. The full IDN characters table can be seen here. Also:
- characters from Latin set and Hebrew (Hebr) set must not be mixed in the same domain name;
- if a domain name contains a Hebrew character it must not start or end with a character from the Digits set;
- a domain name cannot have a hyphen in both position three and four;
- a domain name cannot begin with a hyphen;
- a domain name cannot have a hyphen directly before ".se".[3]