One Million Domains for .CO Registry

Pete Prestipino — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:35:00 GMT

The .Co Registry announced that it passed one million registrations this week, less than one year from its global launch in July 2010. The one millionth domain name was officially registered at GoDaddy.com, the largest retailer of .CO domain names globally.

“Entrepreneurs and innovative businesses around the globe are adopting .CO web addresses at an unprecedented pace, way beyond my initial expectations,” said Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet.

While .CO has its detractors, and may eventually suffer from the introduction of the new top-level domains, the popularity of .CO is pretty spectacular. Many well-known brands including Twitter (T.CO) Overstock (O.CO) have adopted the extension and put it to good use. Overstock even went as far as to rebrand its company internationally as O.CO.

According to .CO Internet S.A.S. (www.Opportunity.CO), the official registry operator for the .CO domain, customer penetration is currently greatest in North America (which accounts for approximately 50% of .CO domain registrations), and throughout Europe, (which accounts for approximately 25% of registrations).

Can .CO Grow?

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:44:00 GMT

The launch of the .CO top level domain was arguably one of the most successful in recent memory. .CO Internet SAS, the Registry operator of the .CO top level domain, is now looking to expand to twenty the number of registrars able to sell the extension to their customers.

Due to governing policy restrictions, only ten registrar partners could be directly accredited by the .CO Registry during the company’s first year of operations. Currently, just two local Colombian and eight global registrars (including Go Daddy, Network Solutions, Tucows and eNom, among others) are accredited by .CO.

“As one of the fastest growing domain extensions in the world, with registrants in over 200 countries, adoption of .CO continues to grow,” says Crystal Peterson, Senior Marketing Manager of the .CO Registry, “so too has the number of potential partners from every corner of the world who have expressed a keen interest in becoming an official .CO Accredited Registrar.”

Taking a measured approach to accreditation, the .CO Registry will be accepting only twenty (20) new Accredited Registrars through April 2012. In future years, the accreditation process will be opened progressively to additional potential partners that meet the established standards and criteria.

So can .CO grow in light of new top-level domain extensions arriving?

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One Million Domains for .CO Registry

Can .CO Grow?