.co is the country code for Columbia. Please check your facts.

Edit: AFAIK are all 2 character TLD's by definition country codes.

I believe you are mistaken, or at least GoDaddy and network solutions are mis-representing this extension... also I'm pretty sure I read a news article confirming .co was for company/corporation.

Article: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/p...e,1387003.html
Current GoDaddy homepage:

You shouldn't base your opinion on what is written on unofficial pages. ;)

There is only 1 official page for this, the IANA Root Zone Database: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db

IANA is the organization within ICANN that assigns TLD's.

That some might want to misuse country TLD's is not something new. For example .TV is hardly used by companies or individuals based in Tuvalu but more for television related sites.

well if that page is "official" its missing alot domains :)

edit nvm am wrong :P .uk is there but not co.uk :P

Well I must say I am shocked... For GoDaddy and worse, Network Solutions to advertise this as a 'new' product and even charge ridiculous pre-registration fees is crazy- class action lawsuit crazy... I also fault the media for not pointing this out as there were hundreds or articles on the 'new' 'release' of this domain with no mention it had always been there for Columbia. Very upsetting,

A little history of it

http://www.iana.org/reports/2009/co-...24nov2009.html

Nice site by the way

Interesting read... and thanks. :)

Marketing tactics shouldn't be confused with actual intended use. Anyone can register a .co probably (like many of the other extensions).

GoDaddy isn't doing anything but trying to target a larger audience with the extension, and since it's a capitalistic world they work in, they're free to do that.

The only way to do anything about it, is use another registrar like Namecheap.

From the ICANN info it seems like they had to allow (or at least not prohibit) the general use of .co outside Columbia... I guess the 'blame' here is on Columbia for 'whoring out' its TLD simply because it's so close to .com... I guess the ICANN people should have thought about this before assigning .co to begin with but who can really blame them- who would have thought domain names were going to be such big business... Columbia just got lucky.

That they did, but generally speaking they don't get as much value as the .com does. Sure they'll be a few exceptions and factors that go in it, but 9/10 times a XXXX.com will sell for considerably more than a XXXX.whatever