.co

Information about .co

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.co
Introduced	1991
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Los Andes University
Sponsor	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	[https://www.nic.co/dominio/ing_solsol.htm Registration instructions (in Spanish)]
Dispute policies	UDRP
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.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Colombia. It is administered by 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. Israel (.co.il), 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), Mexico (.com.mx) and China (.com.cn); 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, a Court order prohibited Andes University from doing so, and registration remains limited to third-level domains and to Colombian registrants.

Second-level domains

The second-level domain structure rather closely mirrors the "traditional IANA" .com / .net / .org / .gov / .edu / .mil hierarchy, with the addition of a national equivalent of .name

com.co - commercial
org.co - organizations
edu.co - educational
gov.co - government
net.co - network infrastructure
mil.co - military
nom.co - private person

External links

IANA .co whois information
NameAction (website) Local Presence for foreign registrants-to-be of ".com.co" domains.

• • [ e] Country code top-level domains
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Reserved/unassigned: .eh .kp .me .rs .um Allocated/unused: .bv .gb .pm .sj .so .yt Phaseout: .su .tp Deleted/retired: .cs .zr
See also: Generic top-level domains

19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
1988 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 1993 1994

Year 1991 (MCMXCI
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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
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Universidad de los Andes (also known as Uniandes) is a private university located in Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948, it currently offers a wide range of career paths, including Architecture, Design, Engineering, Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics,
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Motto
"Libertad y Orden" (Spanish)
"Liberty and Order"
Anthem
Oh, Gloria Inmarcesible!
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Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government
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Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1.
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top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.
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Motto
"Libertad y Orden" (Spanish)
"Liberty and Order"
Anthem
Oh, Gloria Inmarcesible!
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In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a second-level domain (SLD) is a domain that is directly below a top-level domain (TLD). For example, in wikipedia.org, wikipedia is the second-level domain of the .org TLD.
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A company is a form of business organization.

Types

There are various types of company that can be formed in different jurisdictions, but the most common forms of company are:

a company limited by shares.

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Anthem
Hatikvah
The Hope

Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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.il

Introduced 1985
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Israel Internet Association
Sponsor Internet Society of Israel
Intended use Entities connected with Israel
Actual use Popular in Israel
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" ^[2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" ^[3]
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.uk

Introduced 1985
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Nominet UK
Sponsor Nominet UK
Intended use Entities connected with
United Kingdom
Actual use Very popular in UK, especially .co.
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Anthem
"God Defend New Zealand"
"God Save the Queen"¹

Capital Wellington

Largest city Auckland
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.nz

Introduced 1987
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Domain Name Commissioner
Sponsor Internet Society of New Zealand
Intended use Entities connected with New Zealand
Actual use Popular in New Zealand
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.jp

Introduced 1986
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Japan Registry Service
Sponsor JPNIC
Intended use Entities connected with Japan
Actual use Very popular in Japan
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Motto
홍익인간(弘益人間) 널리 인간을 이롭게 하?
Anthem
Aegukga (애국가; 愛國歌)
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.kr

Introduced 1986
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry NIDA
Sponsor NIDA
Intended use Entities connected with
South Korea
Actual use Popular in South Korea
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Anthem
Te Atua Mou E
God is Truth

Capital
(and largest city) Avarua

Official languages English
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.ck

Introduced 1995
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Oyster Internet Services
Sponsor Telecom Cook Islands
Intended use Entities connected with the Cook Islands
Actual use Gets some use on Cook Islands
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair ^[1]

Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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.au

Introduced 1986
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Various
Sponsor .au Domain Administration
Intended use Entities connected with
Australia
Actual use Commonly used in Australia
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Anthem
Himno Nacional Mexicano

Capital
(and largest city) Mexico City

Official languages Spanish (
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.mx

Introduced 1989
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry NIC-Mexico
Sponsor ITESM
Intended use Entities connected with Mexico
Actual use No nexus requirement is enforced, but most use is in Mexico
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Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters.

China (Traditional Chinese:
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.cn

Introduced 1987
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry China Internet Network Information Center
Sponsor Chinese Academy of Sciences
Intended use Entities connected with China
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