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
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jueves, 15 de julio de 2010
miércoles, 5 de mayo de 2010
ICANN ON CARTAGENA DE INDIAS - DECEMBER 2010
During the 2010 Colombian will be triply proud:
First of all, one of the most beautiful cities of Colombia was chosen to have the ICANN meeting between December 5th and 10th: Cartagena of Indies.
Cartagena of Indies was founded in 1533 by Pedro Heredia in one of the most beautiful bays of America. Because of its commercial importance was attacked by the French pirate Roberto Baal and during the next years, Cartagena new many attacks by Juan Hawkins, Juan and Martin Côté brothers and Francis Drake.
The kings of Spain sent to build Castles, fortresses and walls to border the city, at the end Cartagena had 11 kilometers that protected the city, the castle of San Felipe de Barajas, constructed to confront ground attacks, fortress like San Sebastian de Pastelillo, the battery of San Angel in Bomb Earth, the fortress of San Fernando and the battery of San Jose in Bocachica.
Other outstanding religious architecture building are the Cathedral, the Church and the San Pedro Claver Cloister, the Santo Domingo Church and the Popa Monastery constructed in the beginning of XVII century at the top of a hill, the Palace of Inquisition, the Square of the Tombs and the Gold Museum.
This fortified city, with its pirate stories, golden beaches, its colonial architecture and its squares, its cultural festivals, its great variety of food and its pleasant weather around 28ºC is the ideal place to celebrate the last ICANN of the year.
In second place July 20th the domain .CO is launch for general registration.
The extension .CO will open new spaces for those that could not register their .COM domains enriching worldwide the offering of domain in the cyberspace.
Last but not least, the same day the domain .CO is launch to General Public, Colombia celebrates 200 years of the Declaration of Independence.
The story of the first Independence shout is very interesting and starts with the borrowing of a vase which was denied.
In the year 1810 a well known group of Creoles of Santa Fe (today Bogotá) looks for a way to disturb the public order and therefore seize the Spanish power.
Mr. Antonio Morales proposed to borrow a vase from one of the most known Spanish traders, Mr. Jose Gonzalez-Llorente, to be used in the party in honor of Captain of the Real Army. Mr. Luis Rubio offered himself.
The refusal of the Spanish trader to lend the vase would make an argument and if he decided to lend the vase or refused politely, another Creole would enter the store and greet the trader which would start critics and an argument from Mr. Luis Rubio’s side.
On July 20th 1810, day of market in the square, Mr. Luis Rubio asks for the vase and Mr. Jose Gonzalez-Llorente politely refused that with so many lending the vase had deteriorated and lost its worthiness. Then, another Creole enters and greets the Spanish trader provoking huge critics from Mr. Luis Rubio, and an argument starts. Quickly all the conspiracy start screaming in the Square: They are insulting the Americans! We want meeting! We want Counsel! Down the bad government!
This comes to be the first Independence Shout from the until that moment incipient Colombian Nation.
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
First of all, one of the most beautiful cities of Colombia was chosen to have the ICANN meeting between December 5th and 10th: Cartagena of Indies.
Cartagena of Indies was founded in 1533 by Pedro Heredia in one of the most beautiful bays of America. Because of its commercial importance was attacked by the French pirate Roberto Baal and during the next years, Cartagena new many attacks by Juan Hawkins, Juan and Martin Côté brothers and Francis Drake.
The kings of Spain sent to build Castles, fortresses and walls to border the city, at the end Cartagena had 11 kilometers that protected the city, the castle of San Felipe de Barajas, constructed to confront ground attacks, fortress like San Sebastian de Pastelillo, the battery of San Angel in Bomb Earth, the fortress of San Fernando and the battery of San Jose in Bocachica.
Other outstanding religious architecture building are the Cathedral, the Church and the San Pedro Claver Cloister, the Santo Domingo Church and the Popa Monastery constructed in the beginning of XVII century at the top of a hill, the Palace of Inquisition, the Square of the Tombs and the Gold Museum.
This fortified city, with its pirate stories, golden beaches, its colonial architecture and its squares, its cultural festivals, its great variety of food and its pleasant weather around 28ºC is the ideal place to celebrate the last ICANN of the year.
In second place July 20th the domain .CO is launch for general registration.
The extension .CO will open new spaces for those that could not register their .COM domains enriching worldwide the offering of domain in the cyberspace.
Last but not least, the same day the domain .CO is launch to General Public, Colombia celebrates 200 years of the Declaration of Independence.
The story of the first Independence shout is very interesting and starts with the borrowing of a vase which was denied.
In the year 1810 a well known group of Creoles of Santa Fe (today Bogotá) looks for a way to disturb the public order and therefore seize the Spanish power.
Mr. Antonio Morales proposed to borrow a vase from one of the most known Spanish traders, Mr. Jose Gonzalez-Llorente, to be used in the party in honor of Captain of the Real Army. Mr. Luis Rubio offered himself.
The refusal of the Spanish trader to lend the vase would make an argument and if he decided to lend the vase or refused politely, another Creole would enter the store and greet the trader which would start critics and an argument from Mr. Luis Rubio’s side.
On July 20th 1810, day of market in the square, Mr. Luis Rubio asks for the vase and Mr. Jose Gonzalez-Llorente politely refused that with so many lending the vase had deteriorated and lost its worthiness. Then, another Creole enters and greets the Spanish trader provoking huge critics from Mr. Luis Rubio, and an argument starts. Quickly all the conspiracy start screaming in the Square: They are insulting the Americans! We want meeting! We want Counsel! Down the bad government!
This comes to be the first Independence Shout from the until that moment incipient Colombian Nation.
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
viernes, 12 de marzo de 2010
NIC Colombia Interview.
NameAction visited Colombia to follow closely the process of registration of domain there.
Juan Diego Calle (General Manager), Eduardo Santoyo (Vice-president of Corporate affairs) and Nicolai Bezsonoff (Vice-president of Operations) of NIC Colombia had the kindness of receiving us and respond our questions.
Here we are transcribing the interview made on February 25th 2010.
1.- How many new domain name have been registered since the opening of domains .com.co and how many you expect to register in the first year?
Since the opening of domains .com.co we have registered 4.000 domains and expect to register 400.000 during the first year.
2.- How was the process of registration during this stage?
We believe it was good, the peak of 3rd level domains was a pleasant surprise. On the other hand the lack of accredited registrars was not good since it increased the prices because of lack of competition. From the 9 accredited registrars, only 3 participated: GoDaddy, my.com.co and InternetX.
3.- Is it possible to know the proportion of companied from Latin America, USA and Europe?
At least half of the companies were Latin and mainly Colombians.
4.- Why people needs to register their domain .CO?
The answer is in 3 ideas we use here constantly:
I.- The .CO is a global domain, with this we mean that it is distributed globally by the main net registrars.
II.- It has recognition, is intuitive and globally legible.
III.- The .CO has credibility.
In more than 20 ccTLD´s the .CO is sued as part of the domain, practically in every continent there is one .CO.
The letters .CO are known around the world and they have a significance. In a survey made to 600 people in the United States where the question was, what does .CO signifies? 75% responded “Company”.
It is not necessary to sell .CO as synonym of “Company”, it has immediate recognition. Additionally .CO means the same thing in the main languages.
Also, .CO has a lot of technical credibility since it has the support of a strong, solid and with a lot of experience company like Neustar that already operates domains like .BIZ, .Travel, etc.
There is a policy of keeping the domain clean and a technical operation top of the line.
The management policies also give credibility to the .CO since they have been adjusted to the international setting. The management is regulated by the Ministry of Communication.
5.- Which is your main market?
There are 2 products:
I.- Global product which is the new domain under second level .CO.
The focus is to search for small and medium companies that are starting on the Internet, at the time of registering their domain, to give priority to .CO over other extensions.
II.- Product for Colombia .COM.CO.
The idea is that this extension works for local companies like dentists or others for which the .COM.CO is perfect.
6.- How does cybersquatting gets solved?
There are various tools that help in this subject.
I.- Have a group of registrars that have control points.
II.- A higher price that demotivates piracy.
III.- A policy that punishes false information on a domain. If there is false information the domain can be cancel.
IV.- A robust WHOIS that prevents anonymity and allows visibility for the registrant.
V.- The UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) allows to recover the domain through arbitration.
VI.- Through the regulations approved by the Ministry a person that tries to damage a third party is punished with the domains cancellation and also allows to go to civil courts.
7.- Will ICANN be in Cartagena this year?
There is interest. The proposal to have ICANN in Cartagena was already presented because it is congruent with the new era of the .CO, plus there has never been an ICANN in Colombia.
The technical evaluation of Cartagena was already made and it fulfilled all the requirements.
This will be define in Nairobi.
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
Juan Diego Calle (General Manager), Eduardo Santoyo (Vice-president of Corporate affairs) and Nicolai Bezsonoff (Vice-president of Operations) of NIC Colombia had the kindness of receiving us and respond our questions.
Here we are transcribing the interview made on February 25th 2010.
1.- How many new domain name have been registered since the opening of domains .com.co and how many you expect to register in the first year?
Since the opening of domains .com.co we have registered 4.000 domains and expect to register 400.000 during the first year.
2.- How was the process of registration during this stage?
We believe it was good, the peak of 3rd level domains was a pleasant surprise. On the other hand the lack of accredited registrars was not good since it increased the prices because of lack of competition. From the 9 accredited registrars, only 3 participated: GoDaddy, my.com.co and InternetX.
3.- Is it possible to know the proportion of companied from Latin America, USA and Europe?
At least half of the companies were Latin and mainly Colombians.
4.- Why people needs to register their domain .CO?
The answer is in 3 ideas we use here constantly:
I.- The .CO is a global domain, with this we mean that it is distributed globally by the main net registrars.
II.- It has recognition, is intuitive and globally legible.
III.- The .CO has credibility.
In more than 20 ccTLD´s the .CO is sued as part of the domain, practically in every continent there is one .CO.
The letters .CO are known around the world and they have a significance. In a survey made to 600 people in the United States where the question was, what does .CO signifies? 75% responded “Company”.
It is not necessary to sell .CO as synonym of “Company”, it has immediate recognition. Additionally .CO means the same thing in the main languages.
Also, .CO has a lot of technical credibility since it has the support of a strong, solid and with a lot of experience company like Neustar that already operates domains like .BIZ, .Travel, etc.
There is a policy of keeping the domain clean and a technical operation top of the line.
The management policies also give credibility to the .CO since they have been adjusted to the international setting. The management is regulated by the Ministry of Communication.
5.- Which is your main market?
There are 2 products:
I.- Global product which is the new domain under second level .CO.
The focus is to search for small and medium companies that are starting on the Internet, at the time of registering their domain, to give priority to .CO over other extensions.
II.- Product for Colombia .COM.CO.
The idea is that this extension works for local companies like dentists or others for which the .COM.CO is perfect.
6.- How does cybersquatting gets solved?
There are various tools that help in this subject.
I.- Have a group of registrars that have control points.
II.- A higher price that demotivates piracy.
III.- A policy that punishes false information on a domain. If there is false information the domain can be cancel.
IV.- A robust WHOIS that prevents anonymity and allows visibility for the registrant.
V.- The UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) allows to recover the domain through arbitration.
VI.- Through the regulations approved by the Ministry a person that tries to damage a third party is punished with the domains cancellation and also allows to go to civil courts.
7.- Will ICANN be in Cartagena this year?
There is interest. The proposal to have ICANN in Cartagena was already presented because it is congruent with the new era of the .CO, plus there has never been an ICANN in Colombia.
The technical evaluation of Cartagena was already made and it fulfilled all the requirements.
This will be define in Nairobi.
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
lunes, 1 de febrero de 2010
February 7th, COM.CO domains without restrictions.
Good news to those that tired to register their domain .com.co (Colombia) and could not because of the requirements of having a trademark and the obligation of sending notarized documents to prover the existence of the company.
From February 7th any person or company, either national or foreigner could register domains com.co and net.co without any restriction based on the system "First come, first served".
Juan Enrique Sánchez
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
From February 7th any person or company, either national or foreigner could register domains com.co and net.co without any restriction based on the system "First come, first served".
Juan Enrique Sánchez
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
viernes, 22 de enero de 2010
.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
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
martes, 18 de agosto de 2009
New operator for ccTLD .CO
Eduardo Botero from the Ministry of Communications in Colombia has informed that the process of Tender for ccTLD .CO in Colombia has concluded and that the consortium that won the Tender was .CO INTERNET S.A.S. This is a Colombian company that resulted from the interest of an important group of Colombian companies, Arcelandia S.A. and NeuStar, an American company with a lot of experience in the domain registration business.
The management structure for the service of .co domains is compose of Eduardo Santoyo (ccTLD manager), Juan Diego Calle (CEO of .CO Internet) and Nicoli Bezsonoff (Project Director).
The new policies, that, along others, will open the registration on the second level, the integration of IDNs and make the registration the process more time effective, also the appearance of Registrars and the development of spaces and mechanisms of protection of rights and the solution of controversies.
Important points:
· The domain registration will be completely open.
· More competitive and accessible prices are expected
· For the launching of the second level, once of the requirement of the Ministry is have a gradual offering (Sunrise).
· For domains of second level those who have registered a domain before the approval of the new politics (July 30th, 2008) will have priority.
Source: Juan Diego Calle (Demene.com).
Details as the terms, prices and proceeding for the functioning of the new management of domains .CO are still pending definition.
Source: http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/1996
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
The management structure for the service of .co domains is compose of Eduardo Santoyo (ccTLD manager), Juan Diego Calle (CEO of .CO Internet) and Nicoli Bezsonoff (Project Director).
The new policies, that, along others, will open the registration on the second level, the integration of IDNs and make the registration the process more time effective, also the appearance of Registrars and the development of spaces and mechanisms of protection of rights and the solution of controversies.
Important points:
· The domain registration will be completely open.
· More competitive and accessible prices are expected
· For the launching of the second level, once of the requirement of the Ministry is have a gradual offering (Sunrise).
· For domains of second level those who have registered a domain before the approval of the new politics (July 30th, 2008) will have priority.
Source: Juan Diego Calle (Demene.com).
Details as the terms, prices and proceeding for the functioning of the new management of domains .CO are still pending definition.
Source: http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/1996
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
jueves, 18 de junio de 2009
Colombia will be accepting bids for .CO on June 23rd.
Rick Latona comments on his blog that on June 23rd. Colombia will be accepting bids to manage the .co extension. His source tells him that “Verisign, Straat Investments, Affilias, Argus and Technology Services (GTS), among others, have all expressed interest in and will most likely place bids to be the administrator of the extension.”
Rick Latona points out “finally real competition to .com”. “After all, .com means (commercial) where .co traditionally means Company. In many ways .co makes more sense than .com for a company´s domain name”.
See complete information at:
http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/06/14/co-is-coming-expect-huge-prices-and-an-intense-aftermarket-finally-real-competition-to-com
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
Rick Latona points out “finally real competition to .com”. “After all, .com means (commercial) where .co traditionally means Company. In many ways .co makes more sense than .com for a company´s domain name”.
See complete information at:
http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/06/14/co-is-coming-expect-huge-prices-and-an-intense-aftermarket-finally-real-competition-to-com
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America
jueves, 2 de abril de 2009
The Tender for the .CO domains starts
On March 31st the Ministry of Communications of Colombia has opened the tender for domains .CO.
The new administrator will be in charge of promotions, management and technical operations for the domains .CO although the Ministry will have under its responsibility the definition of politics, control of the activities and the surveillance of domains .CO.
Second level domain will be approved, therefore directly under .CO, for example business.co. Also, it is said that the cost of the domains .CO could go down in an 80%.
After the selection of the administrator of domain.co, starts the approval from the responsible entity of the coordination of the worlds domain names system (ICANN) so that the politics approved by the Ministry of Communications come to effect.
Source:
http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co/mincom/src/index.jsp?page=./mods/contenido/noticia_user_view&id=1043
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
Presidente
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin América
The new administrator will be in charge of promotions, management and technical operations for the domains .CO although the Ministry will have under its responsibility the definition of politics, control of the activities and the surveillance of domains .CO.
Second level domain will be approved, therefore directly under .CO, for example business.co. Also, it is said that the cost of the domains .CO could go down in an 80%.
After the selection of the administrator of domain.co, starts the approval from the responsible entity of the coordination of the worlds domain names system (ICANN) so that the politics approved by the Ministry of Communications come to effect.
Source:
http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co/mincom/src/index.jsp?page=./mods/contenido/noticia_user_view&id=1043
Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
Presidente
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin América
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