Posts tagged with 'domain names'

Hey .COmmunity -- I hope by now you've all started tuning in to "This Week in Startups" for inspiration from some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs -- and for ideas you can use right now to get your own business or brand launched online.  If not, get cracking!

When we established the launch policies for the .CO domain, we took a hard line position against proxy registrations -- also known as "privacy protection." While common in many TLDs, and certainly a useful and important business tool when properly utilized -- our first priority was to ensure for a clean name-space.  We decided to prohibit proxy registrations in all cases in order to deter

25 years ago, with the dawn of the .com domain, no one could have predicted the impact that this thing called “the Internet” would have on the world. Its flexible all-access ecosystem has allowed it to become the largest information sharing network the world has ever seen.

These days, sophisticated web users understand and respect the fact that they can't register domain names that belong to individuals or businesses who own trademarks (like McDonald's or Starbucks), in hopes of later selling the domain names back to them for large sums of money. Beyond being morally questionable, this behavior is illegal.

Today, .CO domain registrations reached over 400,000!  This is just 18 days after the official launch on July 20, 2010.  I dare to say that this is the most successful launch of a domain extension in recent history!  With registrations in over 182 countries around the world, the online community is clearly showing .CO favor.   Some of the top countries are the USA, Colo

Yesterday, Google announced that the .CO TLD will have all the same geo-targeting options available to the other generic TLDs, such as .com, .net, .biz and .org.

Today, 25 years after the introduction of .com, at 2:00pm EDT, a new era of the Internet was born -- an era where the name of your website, business or brand is based on what you really want and need - not just what's left over!

We are thrilled to announce that the e-commerce powerhouse Overstock.com Inc (Nasdaq: OSTK) has acquired the domain name O.CO and related URLs for USD350,000.

It’s almost here! The .CO era is almost upon us and I’m so excited I can hardly wait. With Landrush closing on Friday and General Availability only a few days away, we have some great statistics to share.

Stats & Facts:

Here are a few statistics and facts about .CO to date that I thought you may like to hear.

Due to a massive influx of applications, the .CO Registry announced that it has extended the Landrush phase by three days from July 13th to July 16th – at 12:00 Noon EDT. The extra time will give anyone interested in securing high priority .CO domain names an extra few days to do so before .CO domain names become available to the general public on July 20th.