Company Timeline
2012
July 20
.CO Internet celebrates the 2nd anniversary of the global launch of the .CO domain name
Sedo Domain Market Report examines the .CO extension two years after its global launch
May 10
LeWeb upgrades to LeWeb.co: Europe's largest Tech conference rebrands from .net to .CO
February 6
.CO participates with GoDaddy.com in its 2nd Super Bowl commerical
February 2
Startup America Partnership rebrands to S.CO
January 4
.CO Internet Recognized as World Finance 100 Business Leader
2011
November 10
.CO Internet Wins International Business Leadership Award in Entrepreneurship
November 9
Founder Institute rebrands to FI.CO
July 18
Google goes .CO and announces launch of G.CO as official shortcut for Google products and services
June 6
Overstock.com announces the unveiling of the O.CO coliseum
June 2
.CO reaches 1 Million domain name registrations - less than 1 year from the global launch in July 2010 and is the fastest growing new global domain name in modern history.
May 18
Amazon.com aquires A.CO, Z.CO, K.CO and Cloud.CO Domain Names
March 2
DNSSEC is deployed in the .CO name space
February 6
.CO participates in its first-ever Super Bowl commercial announcing the new GoDaddy.CO Girl
2010
December 5-10
.CO hosts the 39th Public Meeting of ICANN in Cartagena, Colombia with CEO, Juan Diego Calle giving the Opening Speech
September 15
.CO reaches 500,000 domain name registrations worldwide and is poised to become the world's fastest growing extension
July 20
Overstock.com announces the purchase of O.CO for $350,000 USD
.CO Internet officially launches for Global General Availability on a first come, first serve basis with record setting statistics
- 8,000 domains first minute
- 100,000 first 22 minutes
- 233,000 first 24 hours
July 16
The .CO Sunrise and Landrush phases close with 39,000 applications from over 133 countries worldwide
June 10
Historic first-ever charity auction for 1-letter domain e.CO sells for $81,000 USD
March 9
Twitter launches the t.CO URL shortening service for all links shared through Twitter.com
March 1
The official start of the .CO Launch Plan making .CO domains available globally
February 7
Successful transition of 28,000 existing .CO domains from UNIANDES to .CO Internet S.A.S.
2009
December 24
The US Department of Commerce approves the re-delegation of .CO and IANA executes the official change in the database passing responsibility of the .CO Registry to .CO Internet S.A.S
December 9
ICANN’s Board of Directors approves the re-delegation of .CO to .CO Internet S.A.S.
September 16
.CO Internet S.A.S. presents IANA with a formal application for re-delegation of .CO with approval of MINTIC and UNIANDES
August 20
Ministry of Colombia (MINTIC) awards concession contract to .CO Internet S.A.S
2008
Colombia defines liberalized policies and a new operations model for the .CO domain. A public procurement process commences to identify the future .CO registry operator
1991
.CO ccTLD is delegated to Colombia’s UNIANDES by IANA
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