Google approves .co domain for international use

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Joe Williams talks about "fit for purpose". This is neither the responsibility of Colombia or Google. They were never "not fit for purpose" since purpose is the responsibility of the domain owner, not the registrar or search engine.

By milliganp on 22 Jul 2010

MediaOptions.com on .CO

This announcement is huge and I wish Google had defined their intentions before the land rush registration.

.CO serves an entirely different purpose if treated as a gTLD instead of a ccTLD.

They are now far more valuable! .CO truly has a good shot now of becoming mainstream.

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By mediaoptions on 22 Jul 2010

Fit for purpose

The fit for purpose quote was in regards to how web hosting companies have advertised the .CO domains, nothing to do with Columbia or Google. Many do not mention the domain extension has Columbian roots and promote it as being ‘commercial’, ‘commerce’ or ‘company’. This is what I think is misleading and a little irresponsible.

Quotes do not always come out in the bigger picture of the context that was intended :).

By Joe_W on 23 Jul 2010

FTTC.CO

I just got my .co domain! all dictionary words got snapped up by the big domain resellers pretty quickly. According to melbourne IT there are approx 500,000 registered .co domains as of today.

Brad
http://www.compsmart.co.uk

By Compsmart on 25 Aug 2010

.CO DOMAIN NEWS

First Off, Not to stroke Nicole’s ego but the two articles written here are probably the best I have read online in terms of facts…

A couple of points;
1. The real burning question is whether Google will treat .CO as "Country Neutral? Who cares if I can Geo-Target --- as a company from the UK or wherever --- if I sell products internationally?

“Some country specific domains have crossed over, such as Tuvalu's .tv or Montenegro's .me, which Google now treats generically.”

2. My take is that if those domains have crossed over; then .CO will cross over also.

---While the .co domain is still assigned to Colombia at the moment, a Google spokesperson said that would soon change. "We will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted. ---

3. I have only found a single .CO website that is Google searchable; Type in “bimmer co” and it will come up. Google needs to tune their search engine...

---Webmasters will soon have the functionality to be able to specify this by using the geotargeting options in Google Webmaster Tools." ---
4. This is active, currently you can Geo-Target .CO to 239 countries worldwide --- from "AF" Afghanistan to "ZW" Zimbabwe, in Google’s Webmaster Tools; their last entry is "ZZ" Unlisted, probably an inside joke for those who forget to Geo-Target and fall asleep at the wheel. The question is? When will it start working in the search?

5. Lastly, as of today’s date there are 460,797 .CO Registrations, however the 500,000th .CO registration will happen in the next few weeks based on an average of approximately 12,000 registrations per day since inception of “General Availability”.
We are counting down daily at .CO Domain News.com

EDITOR
CO Domain News .COM http://www.codomainnews.com/

By codomainnews on 28 Aug 2010

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