.Co Domains Managment Begins on February 7, 2010

Next February 7th initiate his operations as manager of the domain .CO, the Company: CO INTERNET SAS.

From this date the most important changes will be:

Any natural or juridical person, resident or foreign will be able to register a domain .CO. excluding the extensions org.co, edu.co, mil.co, and gov.co which have special requirements.

The domains will be registered through several registrars, allowing competitive prices and services of “added value”.

The documentation and the steps are simplified, therefore it will be possible to register a domain on line just in a few minutes. The previous verification will be eliminated.

It will be possible to register an unlimited number of domains

Domains will be able to be registered from 1 to 5 years.

Domains will be able to be transferred between holders.

Since March 2010 it will be possible to register Second level domains like www.example.co the process is in 4 phases:

Phase 1:
Those that have a domain registered .co before July 30, 2008 will have priority to register the same domain in the second level. Between April 1 and April 20, 2010.

Phase 2:
Those that have trademark in Colombia before July 30.2008, will be able to register his domains.
Between April 26 and June 10, 2010.

Phase 3:
Anyone will be able to request a domain with a fee higher to the normal one.
In case of coincidences an auction will be done.
Between June 21 and July 13

Phase 4:
the registration will be open to the general public on the base of " First Come, First Served ".

The registration will be done with the registrars and from 1 to 5 years.
It begins On July 20.

*All the dates are tentative and them could be change

Source: http://www.cointernet.com.co/administrador/medios/el-7-de-febrero-de-2010-el-dominio-co-tendra-un-nuevo-administrador/


Juan Enrique Sánchez
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America