jueves, 22 de julio de 2010

100.000 Domains .CO in the first hour.

.CO domains already started for General Public and on the first hour more than 100.000 domains, 8.200 in the first minute and 100.000 on the first 22 minutes, all without technical problems and working perfectly.

At this time there are more than 279.000 domains .CO registered.

As it was commented before, the domain .CO has brought fresh air to the over populated .COM world and many well known companies are using the .CO extension like Twitter using t.co or the political blog in the United States “Politico” using politi.co.

The three most highlighted characteristics of domains .CO is that, they are Global, Trustworthy and of easy to remember.

One of the most notorious facts is the effort that .CO Internet S.A.S. has put in transforming domains .CO in one of the most trustworthy extension there is.

The technological capacity was demonstrated considerably in responding to thousand requests in less than half an hour during the opening.

The domain .CO offers optimum protection and security measures for users and their intellectual property forcing them to use their information and with that assure a transparent WHOIS which moves away the cybersquatters and this is also combined with other legal protection measures.

Source: http://www.cointernet.com.co/

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

jueves, 15 de julio de 2010

STATISTICS AND IMPORTANTE OF DOMAINS .CO

The statistics that are known about the process of registration for domains .CO are giving a very potent signal about the importance this extension is acquiring on the Internet.

The numbers are revealing and seems that no important company wants to be kept out of the .CO domain circle.

Some important data that are guaranteeing .CO domains:

- Of the 500 most important global brands more than half has subscribe to request their domain .CO.

- Over 70% of the best brands of the world (says BrandFinance) will have requested their .CO domain before it opens for general public.

- 1.500 requests have been decline during the Sunrise period because of no brand rights and this indicates that there are cybersquatters.

- Under Sunrise period more than 11.000 requests were received and more than 15.000 during the LandRush period.

The World Trademark Review has notice that many famous brands are thinking about promoting their new services and products using the .CO extension, this showing that this new extension can even take market share from .COM.

On July 16th the Landrush stage ends and on July 20th it opens for general public.

Source:
http://assets.cointernet.co/COinternet/Media/2010-0712_WTR-BigBrandsOnlyHaveDays.pdf

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