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.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Colombia. It is administered by the Los Andes University.
"co" is also frequently used as a second-level domain within other country-code domains, in which registrants (usually companies) may register second-level domains 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) are all examples. Some other country codes use "com" instead, such as Australia (.com.au) and Mexico (.com.mx); this includes .co itself, which uses .com.co.
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 the above-noted use of "co" as a second-level domain in other country codes. However, nothing ever came of this, and registration remains limited to third-level domains and to Colombian registrants.
External links
- [IANA .co whois information]
- NameAction ([website]) Local Presence for foreign registrants-to-be of ".com.co" domains.
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