.co
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| .co | |
| Image:Dotco.jpg | |
| Introduced | 1991 |
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Los Andes University |
| Sponsoring organization | None |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Colombia |
| Actual use | Used in Colombia; talk of capitalizing on similarity to .com and .co.uk and selling second-level registrations worldwide never materialized |
| Registration restrictions | Limited to registrants located in Colombia; other restrictions vary by second-level subdomain |
| Structure | Registration is only permitted at third level beneath various second-level names such as .com.co |
| Documents | Registration agreement |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Web site | nic.co |
.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Colombia. It is administered by the Los Andes University.
See also .com, as many countries allow registrants (usually companies) to have second-level domains usually of the form .co.xx, where xx is the ccTLD. The United Kingdom (.co.uk), New Zealand (.co.nz), Japan (.co.jp), South Korea (.co.kr) and Cook Islands (co.ck.)(-despite this unfortunate abbreviation) are all examples.
Around the year 2000 when many country-code domains were being remarketed as worldwide generic domains, there was some talk of allowing second-level registrations in .co for registrants worldwide in order to capitalize on the similarity of this name to .com and to second-level names in other country codes such as .co.uk. However, nothing ever came of this, and registration remains limited to third-level domains beneath second-level names such as .com.co, and is limited to Colombian registrants.
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