Dear Eduardo, thank you again for taking the time to keep contributing to this interesting dialog. BTW, whoever is your PR person you should give her/him a rise :-). As I said before, I don't have any personal issues with .CO or what the people operating it are doing. I strongly believe that besides previous cases such as .CC, .CM .TV, .ME, and few others, this is the first opportunity that a major ccTLD shoots to reach a competitive market using a name space that was not originally designated as a generic anything goes name, and that is better positioned to make a dent than other previous attempts, due the particular combination of characters and similarity with .COM. It is very interesting to hear (actually read) your point of view and learn more what's cooking in the .CO kitchen, then there is no need for a corporate/PR/marketing response, a more casual tone will work just fine. I'd not judge who is or not buying names in .CO, from your words I now understand that your marketing campaign explicitly tells registrars to market it as the new dotCOM. Then the question of the original subject of this thread remains, is the new existence of .CO as a generic and global name space creating confusion in end users ? I really don't have an answer but I can tell for a fact that more than one, and these are not "confused children", neither ITC experts, asked me if when their .COM name is up for renewal, they have to do it now with .CO. The other topic that remains open for debate (again .CO is just a case example), is how the figure and associated rules of being a ccTLD change when you start to play as something completely different than a ccTLD. I don't have yet an educated answer for this question either. Thanks again for your participation and contributions. Warm Regards Jorge