Our Partners

.CO Internet has assembled a multidisciplinary team of leading experts to ensure that the global launch and ongoing management of the .CO TLD is broadly communicated, efficiently executed and fairly implemented from start to finish.

Back End Registry Services / Technology Partner
Neustar, Inc. www.neustar.biz operates the technical infrastructure and back-end registry services of the .CO domain. Neustar is a public company with close to a decade of experience in offering full technical, operational, and policy expertise for numerous domains including .biz, .us, .travel and .TEL. Neustar also operates worldwide registry gateways for other top ccTLDs; offers Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in 15 languages; and provides comprehensive managed DNS and full-scale registry services with 24/7 customer support on five continents. 

Global Public Relations
For global public relations, communications and outreach, we have retained the world-leading firm of Edelman, www.Edelman.com. Edelman's strategic insights and innovative programming help us to build and sustain a strong corporate and brand reputation. They provide .CO with counsel and program development across the spectrum of public relations, public affairs, brand design, digital media, social media marketing, and other communications services.

Marketing / Creative
Pappas Group www.pappasgroup.com partners with .CO to create engaging experiences for consumers inside and outside of the digital world  – including compelling marketing materials that can be used directly by registrars and resellers to inform, educate, inspire, increase conversion and drive more sales. As one of our early adopters, they extend their brand reach with use of pappas.co as their social media blog.

Sunrise Validation
The .CO Sunrise Validation was managed by the Belgian Law Firm of Laga www.laga.be, which has significant experience in designing, coordinating and implementing the validation processes for the .EU, .MOBI, .ASIA, .TEL, .NL, .ME, and .CO.NL sunrises.  Laga has played an integral role in helping to set many of the internationally recognized individual best practice standards that exist in the establishment of pre-launch rights validation and verification methods. In addition to the full support of the 100 plus member Laga law firm, we had the global capabilities of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (“Deloitte”) www.deloitte.com, through Deloitte Risk Services, its Belgian Member firm – and Laga’s partner in providing validation services to top-level domain registries.

Domain Name Auction Services (Sunrise & Landrush)
Pool.com www.pool.com provided the technology platform for .CO domain name auctions during the Sunrise and Landrush phases of the Launch Plan.  Pool.com, an Ottawa, Canada-based,  Momentous.ca company, is the market leading provider of auction services.  It helped define the market as the strategic partner for the launch of .ASIA, the first top level domain to use auctions ensuring both the integrity of trademarks and financial viability of the registry.  Most recently, it was selected as a strategic partner with Neustar to auction two-character .BIZ domain names www.twodotbiz.biz.  Pool.com’s proven record makes the process easy with well established  links to registries and registrars.