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