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Top-level Internet domain for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands information about various licenses Creative Commons the source code file extension ".cc" C++ May 2011 December 2018 December 2018 .cc Verisign-dotcc-logo.svg 150px 13 October 1997 Country code top-level domain Active eNIC (a VeriSign company) Island Internet Services Entities connected with Cocos (Keeling) Islands None Registrations permitted at second level Registration agreement UDRP Verisign .cc Registry See usage .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. Management It is administered by an American company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company, eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com". The .cc domain was originally assigned to eNIC in October 1997 by the IANA; eNIC manages the TLD alongside SamsDirect Internet.S. Hrg. 107-1100 - Icann Governance https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CHRG-107shrg87255/CHRG-107shrg87255 GovInfo.gov U.S. Government Printing Office 1 July 2023 14 February 2001 Registration Registration is made directly at second-level. Second level domains gov.cu.cc, com.cc, net.cc, edu.cc, org.cc A number of second-level domain names are also maintained by CoCCA, including "com.cc", "net.cc", "edu.cc", and "org.cc". cc.cc, co.cc, cu.cc, cz.cc These are not official hierarchies of .cc, but domains held by companies who offer no charge subdomain registration. co.cc The co.cc URL has been known to host spammers, who create spam blogs, or "splogs", often with nonsense names. Due to such spamming, in July 2011 Google removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search results. Legitimate sites (per Google's Webmaster Guidelines) on the .co.cc subdomain could send a reconsideration request to Google to have their specific site excluded from the ban.2011-07-06 Google dumps all 11+ million .co.cc sites from its results https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/google_cans_11m_dot_co_dot_cc_sites/ The Registerhttp://searchengineland.com/google-delists-all-co-cc-domains-from-index-83931 Google Delists All CO.CC Domains From Index Searchengineland.com 2011-07-01 2012-06-17https://www.seroundtable.com/co-cc-google-removal-13644.html Google Bans A Complete Subdomain From Index: co.cc July 2011 Seroundtable.com 2012-06-17http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=10735eb11a40c0c8&hl=en Google Discussiegroepen 2012-06-17 The abundance of cheap .co.cc domains had also been used by those who sold fake "anti-virus" programs.David Talbot http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37718/ The Perfect Scam MIT Technology Review Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012-06-17 29 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120129003309/http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37718/ dead From 2012 to 2014, the co.cc website and name servers were not online. There was no formal statement by the company, but they did stop accepting new registrations some time before they closed.https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/15/2215256/free-registrar-cocc-goes-the-way-of-the-dodo Free Registrar co.cc Goes the Way of the Dodo slashdot.org 2012-11-15 2012-11-15 In 2018, co.cc was listed for sale for US$500,000.https://co.cc This domain name CO.CC is for sale As of 2019, co.cc is registered to and in use by another entity.https://co.cc Cobra Browser Usage section November 2025 The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus also uses the .cc domain, along with .nc.tr. Google treats .cc as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and website owners frequently see [the domain] as being more generic than country-targeted."Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 Google Support live https://web.archive.org/web/20191005224021/https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192 5 October 2019 5 Oct 2019 The TLD is preferred by many cricket and cycling clubs, as well as churches and Christian organisations, since "CC" can be an abbreviation for "Christian Church" or "Catholic Church". Some open-source/open-hardware projects, such as the Arduino project, use .cc for their home pages, since "CC" is also the abbreviation for "Creative Commons", whose licences are used in the projects. Business owners in Southern Massachusetts are rapidly adopting Cape Cod CC domains for local identity. Canadian Club whiskey has also used .cc domains for marketing purposes.March 2014 It is also used for some community colleges, though other domains, such as .edu, are more popular. Issues In 2016, the Anti-Phishing Working Group stated that the .cc, .com, .pw, and .tk domain names account for 75% of all malicious domain registrations.Judah Jacob 2023-11-02 How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/02/1082798/tiny-pacific-island-global-capital-cybercrime/ 2023-11-10 MIT Technology Review Massachusetts Institute of Technology en-US See also .au References External links VeriSign .cc whois database lookup collapsed Category:Internet properties established in 1997 Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Science and technology in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands he:סיומת אינטרנט#טבלת סיומות המדינות sv:Toppdomän#C