.se Domain
Sweden's Official Country Domain

No. The Swedish Internet Foundation states that anyone can register a .se provided the name is available and does not appear on its block list, and registration happens immediately. There is no residency requirement, no Swedish organisation number to supply and no local administrative contact to appoint, which makes .se one of the easier Nordic extensions for a UK company to hold in its own name. Compare that with .no, which requires a Norwegian organisation number and a Norwegian postal address.

Yes, and the Foundation says so directly: providing incorrect information puts your domain at risk even though it has been paid for. Registrars and the Foundation both run checks on holder data, validating identity numbers and organisation numbers and, where needed, asking for proof through electronic identification, an ID document, a registration certificate or email and telephone verification. A domain is only activated in the DNS once outstanding issues are resolved. Give accurate company details at the point of order.

Yes. A .se may use a to z, digits and hyphens, plus the letters needed to write Swedish and the official minority languages, Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami, Romani and Yiddish, along with the letters needed for Finnish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic. That covers å, ä, ö, ü and é. Two technical rules still apply: the name cannot start with a hyphen, and it cannot carry a hyphen in both the third and fourth positions. Register the plain a-to-z version alongside it, because people mistype accents.

For Swedish customers, usually yes. .se is a country-code extension tied to Sweden, so it carries a geographic signal in search that a .com cannot, and Swedish shoppers recognise it as a local seller before they have read anything on the page. A .com still wins where your audience is international or where the .se has already gone. The common arrangement is to hold both and point the .com at the .se for Swedish traffic rather than choosing one.