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Top-level Internet domain for Colombia the country-code top-level domain the second-level domain .co (second-level domain) CO (disambiguation)co July 2017 September 2023 .co DotCO logo.svgclass=skin-invert 150px 1991 12 24 Country code top-level domain Active Equipo Punto CO Equipo Punto CO 2,018,450 2016 https://cira.ca/factbook/domain-industry-data-and-canadian-Internet-trends/domain-name-industry Cira.ca (Canadian ccTLD registry 2016 report - top 20 ccTLDs July 25, 2017 November 18, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164609/https://cira.ca/factbook/domain-industry-data-and-canadian-Internet-trends/domain-name-industry dead Popular in Colombia and internationallySometimes used in typosquatting due to misspellings of .com domains Entities connected with Colombia None for .co, .com.co, and .net.co Top-level registration now permitted.Preguntas Frecuentes Frequently Asked Questions https://www.cointernet.com.co/preguntas-frecuentes .CO Internet SAS https://web.archive.org/web/20220811073805/https://www.cointernet.com.co/preguntas-frecuentes 11 August 2022 es dead Registration policies UDRP https://www.registry.co/ (English and Spanish)https://www.registrocolombia.co/ (restricted domains; Spanish only) yes .co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Colombia. It is administered by .CO Internet S.A.S.,August 1, 2023 registration date December 24, 1991 Delegation Record for .CO / .co Domain Delegation Data https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/co.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20230512025333/http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/co.html May 12, 2023 February 6, 2011 Root Database, Root Zone Management, Domain Names IANA a subsidiary of Neustar since 2014. 2010 7 10 US, there were no registration restrictions on second-level .co domains; any individual or entity in the world can register a .co domain. .CO Internet S.A.S. from Bogotá, Colombia, was appointed as the manager for the .co TLD through a public procurement process that took place in early 2009. .CO Internet received the re-delegation approval as the manager of the .co TLD by ICANN on December 9, 2009, and received formal confirmation of the request by the United States Department of Commerce on December 23, 2009.July 2017 Google treats .co as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and website owners frequently see [the domain] as being more generic than country-targeted".https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites 5 Oct 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191005224021/https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 5 October 2019 live May 2025 The relevancy of this comment needs elaboration. What does it matter that Google treats .co as a generic TLD? Second-level domain names When they took over administration of the .CO domain, .CO Internet S.A.S. implemented new domain policies that were more flexible than the historic ones that had been administered by the University of the Andes. The new policies were adjusted to international best practices and defined in consultation with local and international communities. With the new policies, Colombia would be able to sell second-level domain names to the world, such as widgets.co, where previously only third-level domain-names were available, such as widgets.com.co. Notable single letter .CO domain names that have been allocated include: [a.co] Amazon [b.co]Bestseller.com[g.co] Google[m.co]Volvo Car Mobility[o.co] Overstock.com [s.co] Snapchat[t.co] X (formerly Twitter)[y.co] Y.CO - The Yacht Company On September 15, 2010, .CO Internet S.A.S. had taken registrations for over 500,000 .CO domain names.September 15, 2010 .CO Domain Hits 500,000 Registrations Milestone https://press.go.co/59177-co-domain-hits-500-000-registrations-milestone September 20, 2023 .CO newsroom Miami, FL en October 9, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231009042044/https://press.go.co/59177-co-domain-hits-500-000-registrations-milestone dead As of January 2014, that number has grown to over 1.6 million .CO domains registered.September 2023 As of December 2018, there were 2.2 million. GO.CO Official Website for the .CO domain Learn About .CO Company https://www.go.co/company/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20230606223023/https://www.go.co/company/ June 6, 2023 September 20, 2023 GO.CO Registry Services, LLC en With respect to search engine optimization, Google confirmed that "it will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted".Kobie Nicole July 10, 2010 Google approves .CO for International Use http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100723161930/http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use July 23, 2010 July 22, 2010 PC Pro Dennis Publishing Limited licensed by Felden Summary of policies since 2010 Any person or entity in the world can register .co domain names There are no domicile or burdensome documentation requirements Registration period is between 1 and 5 years, subject to renewal Registrants can easily transfer domain names .CO domains became available via the following timeline: April 1, 2010 – April 20, 2010: Sunrise A allowed registered local trademarks to apply for exact match domains. April 26, 2010 – June 10, 2010: Sunrise B allowed trademarks of national effect to apply for exact match domains. June 21, 2010 – July 13, 2010: Landrush allowed anyone to apply for domain names of high commercial value. July 20, 2010: .co domains became generally available.Duhaime Diane May 21, 2010 U.S. trademark owners may now apply for registration of .co domain names https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1448d4a3-436e-44be-a496-20690bb744bf live https://web.archive.org/web/20221203084246/https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1448d4a3-436e-44be-a496-20690bb744bf December 3, 2022 July 16, 2020 Jorden Burt LLP Washington, DC (misinterpreted as "Colombia"), USA Lexology, Law Business Research Third-level domain registrations The third-level domain registrations closely mirror the "traditional" IANA .com/.net/.org/.gov/.edu/.mil-hierarchy, with the addition of a national equivalent of .name. Different from registrations directly under .co, which are used to signal globally-relevant interests, third-level domains are used to signal locally-relevant business, organizations, academic institutions, and government.July 2017 The registration of .gov.co, .edu.co, .mil.co, and .org.co domains is restricted. DomainIntended purpose.com.co Commercial.org.coOrganizations.edu.coEducational .gov.coGovernment.net.coNetwork infrastructure.mil.coMilitary.nom.coIndividuals History IANA delegates ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as country code top-level domains, and on December 24, 1991, the .co top-level domain was assigned to Colombia and delegated to the Universidad de los Andes.November 24, 2009 Redelegation of the .co domain representing Colombia to .CO Internet SAS https://www.iana.org/reports/2009/co-report-24nov2009.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20100430190646/https://www.iana.org/reports/2009/co-report-24nov2009.html April 30, 2010 June 12, 2010 IANA ICANN In 2001, the university began to consider the possibility of marketing the domain as an alternative to the generic top-level domains. The government of Colombia objected on the basis that the university, a private entity, did not have regulatory oversight of the TLD and the Minister of Communications, Angela Montoya Holguín, wrote to them requesting that they not continue. In turn the university wrote to ICANN, rejecting the government's objections and stating their intention to appoint a subcontractor to handle the commercialization of the domain. At a meeting on December 11, 2001, Holguín asked the Consultative Chamber and Civil Service of the Council of State to consider three issues:Salazar César Hoyos Church Ricardo H. Monroy Arce Flavio Augusto Rodriguez Jaramillo Augusto Trejos Reyes Elizabeth Castro Flórez Francisco December 11, 2001 documents created and posted on December 18, 2002, except that the English PDF has that as its modify date and November 25, 2002 as its create date Radicación número 1.376, Referencia: INTERNET Nombres de dominio. ¿El dominio ".co" tiene carácter público? ¿Tiene competencia el Estado colombiano para regularlo?. Radication number 1.376. Reference: INTERNET Domain names. Does the domain ".co" have a public nature? Does the Colombian State have the authority to regulate it? https://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/cctld011.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20221013024705/https://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/cctld011.html October 13, 2022 Workshop on Member States' Experiences with ccTLDs Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), International Telecommunication Union Bogota, D.C., Colombia Geneva 3-4 March 2003 ccTLD-011 The original document is in Spanish, but there is an official English translation available. The translator is not specified. whether the .co domain is a public resource if the domain is public resource, whether it is intrinsically-linked with telecommunications if the domain is linked with telecommunications, who should profit from its commercialization In relation to these three issues, the meeting concluded that: the .co domain, having been assigned to Colombia, is of public interest the administration of the domain is intrinsically-related to telecommunications, and hence falls under the purview of the Ministry of Communications, with the exception of those functions assigned to the ICFES by the Ministry of National Education unless the Congress of Colombia adopts an act allowing tax to be collected in relation to the registration of domain names, no amount can be charged for such a service In response to the Council of State meeting, the university wrote to ICANN on 12 February 2002 stating that it had abandoned plans to commercialize the domain, and that as it could "no longer bear the administrative and operational responsibilities" it wished to discontinue its responsibility for operating the domain. Finally, with the enactment of Law 1065 of 2006, the Ministry of Communications of Colombia initiated a public consultation process involving local and international participants, including members of the ICANN community, with the objective of defining the future of the .CO TLD. As a result of that process, through Resolution 001652 of 2008, the Ministry approved new policies that would govern the administration of the .CO TLD.March 16, 2010 Restricted Domain Names List https://www.go.co/company/sites/default/files/docs/CO-Restricted%20Domain%20Names%2003-16-10.pdf GO.CO Registry Services, LLC Pursuant to Article 3.4 of Resolution 001652, 2008, the Administrator of the .CO ccTLD submitted before the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications during the Domain Names Policy Advisory Committee meeting held on November 9, 2009, a preliminary restricted domain names list. [...] the “Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications” (MINTIC for its acronym in Spanish) approved the following restricted domain name list June 2026 InternetArchiveBot A public procurement process began which resulted in the award of the administration contract to .CO Internet SAS. Finally, on February 7, 2010, the administration of the TLD was transitioned from the University of Andes to .CO Internet SAS, under the regulatory and policy supervision of the Ministry of Communications of Colombia.November 5, 2019 uploaded November 6, 2019 Plan de acción: Proceso de selección operador de registro dominio .co https://micrositios.mintic.gov.co/dominio.co/pdf/plan_accion_dominio_co.pdf Dominio .CO Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC) Bogotá, ColombiaMay 21, 2019 uploaded May 22, 2019 Plan de acción: Proceso de selección dominio .co https://www.mintic.gov.co/portal/715/articles-100681_recurso_1.pdf Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (MinTIC) Bogotá, Colombia On July 20, 2010, second level .co domains became available to the rest of the world on a first-come, first-served basis. In 2014, .CO Internet S.A.S was acquired by Neustar for US$109 Million, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Neustar.Murphy Kevin March 20, 2014 Neustar pays $109 million for .CO Internet http://domainincite.com/16166-neustar-pays-109-million-for-co-internet live https://web.archive.org/web/20150415225832/http://domainincite.com/16166-neustar-pays-109-million-for-co-internet April 15, 2015 April 10, 2015 Domain Incite It is responsible for the promotion, administration, and technical operation of the .co TLD. In 2020, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) acquired Neustar Registry and became the operator of .CO domain names.August 4, 2020 GoDaddy completes Neustar Registry acquisition https://domainnamewire.com/2020/08/04/godaddy-completes-neustar-registry-acquisition/ October 15, 2024 Domain Name Wire April 8, 2020 GoDaddy Acquires Domain Registry of .US, .Biz, .In and .Co https://www.searchenginejournal.com/godaddy-acquires-neustar/360128/ October 15, 2024 Search Engine Journal April 6, 2020 GoDaddy Acquires Neustar's Registry Business https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2020/GoDaddy-Acquires-Neustars-Registry-Business/default.aspx October 15, 2024 GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC. Accredited registrars Only accredited registrars are able to sell .co domain names directly; other registrars selling .co domain names are acting as resellers. The list of accredited registrars is available on the .CO Internet website, Accredited Registrars https://www.go.co/partners/accredited-registrars September 20, 2023 GO.CO Registry Services, LLC en and as of October 2011 there are 20 accredited registrars. Some of the 20 registrars operate under multiple brands. http://www.go.co/partners/get-involved/co-registrars .CO Accredited Registrars (.CO Partners) .CO Internet S.A.S., Bogotá, Colombia 2015-08-16 As a premium domain name space, .CO is available through a select list of Accredited Registrar partners and their resellers See also Internet in Colombia References 30em External links .co whois IANA .co information collapsed Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Mass media in Colombia Category:Internet in Colombia Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Internet properties established in 1991