As a Scandinavian I find the squatting of .viking by a Bermuda company to be annoying.
Niue (NU) is a former British colony "in free association with New Zealand", and whatever the situation there it's nothing to do with Scandinavia.
Just like I bought "och.glass" which means "and.icecream" in Swedish, even though "glass" has a different meaning in English.
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I can't remember when I last saw a .nu domain advertised recently, they seem on the way out. But it seems business domains in general are also disappearing in favor of Facebook pages or Instagram accounts.
I don't feel we in Norway did that a lot. There were some restrictions on .no, but mainly that you needed to be an organization of some sorts, which was fairly easy to do if you just wanted (could make a dormant single person company). Those not bothering just used .com