Dear Jorge While I appreciate the amount of interest and dialogue this topic has generated-- I hope this response will help to allay any concerns you have had about the .CO 2010/8/3 Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
I believe that .CO has the right to commercialize their cc as they deem necessary. Is good to know that they are taking action to prevent well known bad practices in the domain name ambient.
You mean .CO Internet SAS/Neustar.
The corporate structure of the .CO Registry should not be the cause for any confusion. .CO Internet S.A.S. is a new company that was formed by Arcelandia S.A., a wholly-owned Colombian company, and the U.S. public company Neustar, Inc., for the specific purpose of developing, operating and managing the .CO domain registry. Please note that .CO Internet S.A.S. is an independent Colombian company – and should not under any circumstances be considered synonymous with Neustar, which happens to be one of its shareholders.
The IANA delegation record for .CO says: "Country-code top-level domain designated for Colombia"
Yes, on this point we fully agree! .CO is and will always remain the country-code top-level domain designated for The Republic of Colombia.
.CO Internet SAS website says about What is .CO: "CO is the new domain extension that offers a truly global, recognizable and credible domain name for individuals and organizations to build their businesses and brands. It’s the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world’s next great enterprises will have a home. "
Yes, this is absolutely all true. When Colombia decided to liberalize its domain policies, after many years of consideration and debate, it was expressly intended that the domain would be opened at the second level to individuals and businesses around the world. Why? Simply stated, because Colombia recognized the fact that the .CO domain is a unique digital resource with broad, global appeal.
CO is being offered in the second level for precisely the reasons you quote: to offer a “truly global, recognizable and credible domain name for individuals and organizations to build their businesses and brands... [and to be] the online space where possibility meets opportunity; where people can fulfill their dreams and the world's next great enterprises will have a home.” AFAIK, it is not a "new domain extension" and IANA/ICANN still
considers it the ccTLD for Colombia.
Again, we agree. .CO is and will always be the ccTLD for Colombia.
However, in taking the ambitious step to liberalize its domain policies and to share its valuable domain asset with the global Internet community, Colombia has for the very first time opened the 2nd level of .CO as a brand “new” name space – one that has never before been available. While distinctions between 2nd and 3rd level domains means a lot in this forum, when we are speaking to consumer audiences (who do not likely know 2nd from 3rd level or gTLD from ccTLD) – these technical distinctions are not meaningful. For that reason, in our commercial outreach (quoted above), we try to keep our communications very simple. To the global domain buying public, “.CO” *IS *“new” – in that it has never before been made available to the public under any circumstances. This is the context in which the word “new” was used in the text above.
Then if it is no longer used and promoted as the domain designated for Colombia (given that the Colombian government is not even listed as sponsoring organization), there is no sovereignty claims that apply and the name should be considered as a gTLD.
.CO is and will continue to used and promoted as the domain designated for Colombia, by Colombia, and made available to the entire world. This is the choice that has been made by the government of the sovereign nation state of the Republic of Colombia.
It is perfectly understandable that .CO wants to make money and as long as it is following the rules like many other ccTLDs we have nothing to complain about. I fully support Eduardo and the .CO people
When making money is the top priority, the end user gets always screwed up.
In the short time since .CO Internet started implementing Colombia’s newly
defined administration policies, end users both within Colombia and around the world can now: · Easily register .CO domain names that were once restricted without burdensome documentation or other requirements; · Quickly register .CO domain names online in just a few minutes - a manual process that took upward of 36 hours to complete just a few short months ago; · Choose to register .CO domain names at both/either the 2nd and/or 3rd levels, depending on their needs; · Pay, on average, half the price that registering a .CO domain name previously cost them prior to the transition; · Shop around to find competitive prices, promotions and offers from the world’s leading domain registrars and resellers; and · Feel confident that the .CO domain is built on a platform of world leading technology, and will enjoy regular product and service enhancements that will keep the domain on the cutting edge; I hope these facts help to clarify the current situation. In the short time since the transition to .CO Internet has taken place, upward of 380,000 domain names have been registered by individuals and entities. Most importantly, there is a true sense of excitement in the air expressed by real end users who are literally thrilled to have access to a short, meaningful, memorable and globally credible domain to build the businesses and brands of their dreams. We are very proud to be able to offer end users this opportunity. Regards Eduardo
Regards Jorge
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