Nek

What Nek does

Nek is a privately held Swedish company that provides land and facility solutions to clients in the energy, infrastructure, and construction sectors. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Luleå in northern Sweden and operates with a small team of 11–50 employees, consistent with a regionally focused B2B services firm serving industrial and infrastructure clients in the Nordic region.

The company's core offering centers on land and facility-related services — a category that typically encompasses site identification, permitting support, land access negotiation, and facility-related consulting for capital-intensive energy and infrastructure projects. Given its Luleå base, Nek is positioned within a strategic northern Swedish industrial cluster that is seeing significant investment tied to energy transition, mining, and large-scale infrastructure. The firm operates as a for-profit private company with no disclosed parent, subsidiaries, or external investors in the available data.

The input data does not document specific contracts, customer names, revenue figures, pricing structures, or partnership agreements attributable to Nek. Substantive operational, financial, and commercial detail is not available in the source material, which limits deeper assessment of the business model, customer concentration, and growth profile. The company's primary web presence (nekab.se) currently appears as a domain listing on a third-party marketplace (Nameshift.com), but no operational implications can be confirmed from this alone.

Name

Nek

Legal name

Nameshift.com

Website

https://nekab.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Nek is a privately held Swedish company, founded in 2014 and based in Luleå, that provides land and facility solutions for energy, infrastructure, and construction clients with a small team of 11–50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Domain Name Marketplace & Escrow Services

NAICS

Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (42512)

akta.pro primary industry

Domain Names & Digital Identity NFT Marketplaces (FSADANAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

NFT Marketplaces & Aggregators (primary/secondary, discovery, cross-market routing) (FSAPAFAB)

Keywords

• Domain escrow service
• Domain transfer
• Domain name marketplace
• Domain purchase service
• Escrow transaction platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Luleå

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Nek operates Nameshift.com, an online domain name escrow and transfer service. The platform facilitates safe purchases of domain names by holding the buyer's payment in escrow and only releasing funds to the seller after a successful domain transfer. The service is provided free of charge to buyers, with sellers paying the commission, and includes free domain transfer assistance and VAT invoicing. Average turnover time is approximately 24 hours.

Product overview

Nameshift.com offers a single unified domain name purchase and transfer service built around an escrow protection model. The platform connects domain buyers with sellers, handling the payment and transfer process to eliminate risk for buyers. Key service components include the escrow-protected transaction, free domain transfer assistance, and free VAT invoicing. The service emphasizes speed with an average 24-hour turnover time and charges no fees to buyers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nameshift Domain Purchase Service An online domain name escrow and transfer service that holds the buyer's payment in escrow and only releases funds to the seller once the domain has been successfully transferred. Free for buyers, with the seller paying the commission, and bundled with free domain transfer assistance and free VAT invoicing. Average transfer completion time is stated as 24 hours, with a full refund guarantee if the transfer cannot be completed.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average domain transfer completion time of 24 hours

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Dan.com: Dan.com is a domain marketplace (acquired by GoDaddy) that emphasizes fast, low-friction transactions including installment payments and built-in escrow. It directly competes with Nameshift in the buyer-friendly, fast-transfer segment of the market.
• Park.io: Park.io is a domain marketplace focused on developer-friendly TLDs with a streamlined purchase flow and transfer handling. It overlaps with Nameshift's marketplace and transfer facilitation services.
• Undeveloped: Undeveloped is a curated domain marketplace connecting buyers with premium domain owners, with an escrow-style purchase flow. It overlaps with Nameshift's core offering for SMB and individual buyers.
• Flippa: Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling digital assets including domains, websites, and online businesses. Its escrow service for domain transfers directly overlaps with Nameshift's offering.
• Saw.com: Saw.com is a domain name brokerage and marketplace offering assisted purchase and transfer services for premium domains. It competes in the same escrow-protected transfer category as Nameshift.
• Squadhelp: Squadhelp is a domain and brand-name marketplace that combines a curated inventory with naming contests. Its marketplace transactions and transfer handling overlap with Nameshift's core escrow service.
• Sedo: Sedo is the world's largest domain marketplace, offering domain sales, brokerage, and escrow services. It directly competes with Nameshift.com in domain escrow and transfer facilitation, with much larger inventory and brand recognition.

Emerging players

• Efty: Efty is a domain portfolio management platform that also enables peer-to-peer domain sales with built-in payment and transfer handling. It overlaps with Nameshift's transfer facilitation role while focusing on power sellers.

Broad incumbents

• Namecheap: Namecheap is a major domain registrar that also operates an aftermarket marketplace for domain sales. While its primary business is registration, its marketplace and transfer services overlap with Nameshift's escrow and transfer facilitation role.
• Afternic: Afternic is GoDaddy's domain aftermarket marketplace, distributing listings through the Uniregistry network. It competes directly with Nameshift as a sales and transfer platform but operates at much larger scale within GoDaddy's broader registrar ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nek-ab

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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