 The IUSN Foundation,
based in Massachusetts, is a mission-driven nonprofit organization and
recognized leader in Internet governance. IUSN leverages its longstanding Internet industry leadership, pioneering
technological expertise and innovative delivery of charitable services to help
emerging nations enter the global internet community.
Founded in 1997 and
led by American Internet pioneer Bill Semich, IUSN is an internationally
respected charitable organization that relies on a longstanding
marketing partnership with WorldNames, Inc., operator of the .NU domain name,
to generate the funds needed to carry out
its charitable mission on Niue. IUSN
is able to fund free Internet service for Niue – the only country in the
world with free Internet – through revenues generated from the sale of
.NU domain names in Scandinavia (where nu means "now").
IUSN, in fact, derives
its operating income entirely from the sale of .NU domain names by WorldNames,
which pays a portion of this revenue to the foundation. IUSN, in turn, uses the money from
WorldNames to fund free Internet access for islanders through Internet Niue as
well as infrastructure upgrades needed to ensure world-class service quality
and reliability.
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