Buy .se Domain Name

Yes, a .se domain can be registered from any country as long as the applicant is identifiable in an official register; Swedish residency is not required. The registration terms set that single condition and explicitly let foreign applicants supply “foreign equivalent identification information”. In practice a company states its trade register number and an individual a national identity number. No Swedish branch, address or representative is needed, and no trustee service is involved.

Search for the name on the domain name search page, add it to your cart if it is free and choose a registration period between 1 and 10 years. The holder details must carry a correct identifier — a company's trade register number or an individual's national identity number — because The Swedish Internet Foundation identifies every applicant against an official register. You upload no documents at registration; the foundation may compare the data with external registers later. Once payment is complete the name is registered to you.

No documents are required to register a .se domain; you supply information, not paperwork. The registration terms ask for four items only: full company name and contact person (or first and last name for an individual), corporate or personal identity number, telephone and e-mail. Documents enter later: the foundation continuously cross-checks registry data against external sources such as the Swedish Companies Registration Office and the population register, and may then ask for electronic identification or a physical ID or registration certificate. Incorrect information can lead to deactivation.

Yes, .se accepts internationalised domain names (IDNs), but only with the characters in the table the registry publishes for .se. Beyond a-z and 0-9 the table covers the Swedish letters å, ä and ö together with the letters needed for Sweden's official minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, the Sami languages, Yiddish and Romani. The set is defined by that table rather than by Unicode at large, so confirm that your preferred spelling is covered before you order.

To transfer a .se domain, request the authorisation code from your current registrar and give it to the new one; the losing registrar has two duties: it must release the authorisation code within five working days of your request, and it may not charge a fee for the registrar change. If the code does not arrive in time, The Swedish Internet Foundation is entitled to generate and pass it to you itself. A change of holder is a separate operation and must be completed within five working days once the new holder has accepted the terms. Start your .se transfer on the domain transfer page.

A .se domain that is not renewed first spends ten days in “expired” status and then sixty days “deactivated”; throughout those sixty days the existing holder can still renew. If the period passes, the holder is deregistered and the name is held in quarantine by the foundation until its release date. Release happens no earlier than 04:00 UTC, and the list of deactivated names is refreshed every night, so upcoming releases are public information.

Yes: .se is not among the country codes Google treats as generic, such as .io, .co and .nu, and Google Search Central describes a country code like this as a strong signal to users and search engines that a site is meant for one country. That signal covers Sweden only: if you also sell to Norway or Denmark, those markets need country versions of their own. Swedish-language content completes the signal; the extension alone does not earn rankings.

The difference is the operator: .se is Sweden's national extension, run by The Swedish Internet Foundation under an act of parliament, while com.se is an ordinary name inside the .se register whose third level is operated by CentralNic. Under the .se terms, subdomains are administered by the holder of the name in question. Eligibility is looser at com.se, while national identity is strongest directly under .se.

.se domain disputes are resolved through Internetstiftelsen's own alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedure, administered by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. A complaint succeeds only if three conditions are met together: similarity to a sign legally recognised in Sweden, bad faith, and the absence of any right or legitimate interest on the holder's side. The list of grounds goes well beyond trademarks — surnames, artist names, titles of copyrighted works and EU geographical indications all count. Decisions take effect fourteen days after the foundation receives them.