What are the conditions for Columbian domains ?

Must you be located in Columbia, or can anyone register one ?
Is it expensive ?

.co has its perspectives for the subdomain market :)

I'm surprised anybody would even be thinking about it after the .uk.co fiasco...

http://www.uk.co

Hi,

Current Colombia domain registration policies:

- Registrant must be a company registered in Colombia or a person residing in Colombia (only *.nom.com). If you are not based in Colombia you can also have a local company register the domain for you.

- Domain name must be related to the company (Company name, trademarks...), although services or products offered by the company are ok, but take longer to be accepted. This is manually reviewed...

- Minimum length 3 characters, max 63

You can find the .co domain registration policies (in Spanish) here:

www . nic . co/nuevo/politicas.htm

Cost for both registration and renewals is 150,000 pesos for 2 years (around 66 USD).

Regards,

xport

nice typo for .com :D

What happened to .uk.co anyway ?

Looks it's quite complex to get a .co domain
You can also go for a third-level .co.co domain :)

Originally posted by Gerrit
What happened to .uk.co anyway ?



Thousands of UK companies registered under .uk.co, either because they couldn't get what they wanted under .co.uk or because they didn't know any better.

They all lost their domains overnight.

We are currently seeing Attempt No 2 at selling .la (Laos) as the cool new domain for Los Angeles, and the umpteenth attempt at selling .md (Moldova) to medical doctors. I'd steer clear of all of these.

Originally posted by Lubeca
We are currently seeing Attempt No 2 at selling .la (Laos) as the cool new domain for Los Angeles, and the umpteenth attempt at selling .md (Moldova) to medical doctors. I'd steer clear of all of these.

Why is that :? One thing is registering a third-level domain from a company which is not a registrar but just a merely domain registrant (as in .uk.co - they are not commited to IANA in any way), but registering a .la or .md domain with the registrar for the ccTLD - which is supposed to be a stable and trustable source for domains under that ccTLD, I can't see why it is a bad thing. Even banana republics have to abide by IANA regulations in order to delegate ccTLD domains :)

Unless you know of any horror stories with the .la or .md ccTLD registrars/registry, which I would be willing to hear :)

Regards,

xport

wow i just read the rule at www.uk.co , how bad

Hi,

You cannot have a domain like domain.co though.

You can have a domain like domain.com.co or domain.net.co

Everything else xport said is right.

Greetings,

Eboy
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Originally posted by xport
Why is that :? One thing is registering a third-level domain from a company which is not a registrar but just a merely domain registrant (as in .uk.co - they are not commited to IANA in any way), but registering a .la or .md domain with the registrar for the ccTLD - which is supposed to be a stable and trustable source for domains under that ccTLD, I can't see why it is a bad thing. Even banana republics have to abide by IANA regulations in order to delegate ccTLD domains :)


Contrary to what some people think ICANN/IANA does not rule the world and has no influence over the day-to-day running of ccTLD registries, or deals struck between ccTLD registries and commercial companies.

.la is delegated to the Science Technology and Environment Organisaton of the Republic of Laos - THE LA REGISTRY. In about 2000 the LA Registry struck a deal with a company in Australia to take over the day-to-day running of .la - a commercial transaction, nothing to do with IANA. The relationship was severed after a year or so, and .la went back to being run from Laos. The registry has now struck another deal, this time with a company run from an accommodation address in Guernsey. What guarantee is there that this commercial deal will last any longer than the previous one?

As for .md - the full story is here:

http://www.iana.org/reports/md-report-22oct03.htm

I understand that people who had registered under .md lost their domains at the time of the redelegation. Things may well be more stable now - time will tell.

Personally I would never rely on a domain registered under a foreign ccTLD, unless it's a country know well. (I'm deliberately saying "rely on" rather than "register" - I might register someting exotic for a laugh, but would never base a business on it)