Revision as of 18:49, 11 March 2014

.CO is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Colombia. .CO offers individuals and organizations exciting new options in branding their online presence. Research has shown that .CO is immediately recognizable by registrants around the world to mean "company", "corporation" and/or other types of commercial ventures.

Introduced	1991
Country	Columbia
Registry	CO Internet S.A.S.
IDN Capable	Yes
Webpage	Register .CO

Registry

Periods

API

Domain Registration

Domains can be registered with the API AddDomain command.

command = AddDomain
domain  = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

ownercontact0 = (CONTACT)
admincontact0 = (CONTACT)
techcontact0 = (CONTACT)
billingcontact0 = (CONTACT)
nameserver0 = (NAMESERVER)
nameserver1 = (NAMESERVER)

OPTIONAL

auth = <TEXT> | <NULL>
transferlock = 0 | 1 | <NULL>
subuser = <TEXT> | <NULL>

Domain Transfer

There is a special procedure to handle a domain transfer. Please contact our Support-Team if you should need further information.

Please note that you cannot transfer a .CO domain name in these cases:

• within the first 60 days after a domain registration
• within the first 60 days after the transfer of a domain name

command = TransferDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

REQUIRED

action = REQUEST | APPROVE | DENY | CANCEL | USERTRANSFER
auth = <TEXT>

OPTIONAL

order = CREATE | REPLACE | UPDATE

subuser = <TEXT> | <NULL>
period = <PERIOD>
transferlock = 0 | 1 | <NULL>

Delete Domain

Domains can be deleted with the API DeleteDomain command.
There is no Deletion Restorable Period.

command = DeleteDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

Restore Domain

command = RestoreDomain
domain = (DOMAIN)

OPTIONAL

renewalmode = <NULL> | <TEXT>
subuser = <TEXT>

Ownerchange

TLD specific

Domain renewal

Although a .CO domain stays in your account for 44 days after a failed renewal before it gets deleted, the registry deactivates the DNS resolving for the domain during this period.

Whois Reseller Branding

The .CO registry allows registrars to insert information about its resellers into the .CO WHOIS records, on a per domain basis. For this purpose, they have introduced two new fields within the whois output, the reseller name and homepage url, e.g.:

  Domain Name:                     SOMEDOMAIN.CO
  Domain ID:                             D12345-CO
  Registrar-Reseller Name:  Reseller LLC
  Registrar-Reseller URL:     http://www.resellerhomepage.com
  ...

Addons

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