Jul, 2010 : Key-Systems Successfully Completes .CO Launch

📅 July 22, 2010 - The domain Registrar could secure about two thirds of the pre-ordered domain names for its customers.

Key-Systems, a domain name Registrar, yesterday announced that it has successfully completed the .CO launch. The company articulates that during the final stage of the .CO launch yesterday, it could secure about two thirds of the pre-ordered domain names for its customers. From now on, anyone can register his desired .CO domains following the "first come, first served" principle. It offers the registration of domains with the extensions .CO, .COM.CO, .NET.CO and .NOM.CO via the end customer portal domaindiscount24.com, the reseller portal RRPproxy.net, and the corporate domain portal BrandShelter.com. It adds that the interest in the newly available domain ending .CO is immense, with already more than 216,000 .CO addresses registered currently.

The company claims that it was well prepared for the start of the General Availability (GA) of .CO yesterday, and had direct access to the Registry .CO Internet via various channels. It says that even after the begin of the GA, the domain ending .CO offers the registrants many options.

It explains that the top-level domain .CO can represent expressions like "Company," "Corporation" and "Commerce." Furthermore, the domain extension is associated with "Social Networking" buzzwords like "Communities," "Content," "Connect," "Communicate" or "Collaborate." .CO domains can be registered for a period of one year up to five years. The domain extension enjoys liberal registration policies: anyone in the world can register and transfer .CO domains without domicile or documentation requirements. The registration period for .CO domains is one year up to five years. A .CO domain name may consist of minimum three up to maximum 63 characters (without the top-level-domain .CO). Furthermore, it can include Spanish special characters as well as a hyphen (-).

According to the company, it currently administers more than 2,7 million internet addresses for more than 70,000 end customers and 1,700 resellers via its three domain portals RRPproxy.net, BrandShelter.com and domaindiscount24.com. It has direct access to the Registries of more than 200 country-code domain extensions such as the German .DE and generic extensions such as .COM.

"Compared to the large demand for the new .CO domain names, the success rate of 64 percent within the pre-registrations for our customers is a good result," described Key-Systems' CEO Alexander Siffrin. "There are still many memorable .CO domain names available, which are registered with popular endings such as .COM for a long time," explained Siffrin.

"The current status of more than 216,000 registrations shows, that .CO is on its way to become a popular domain extension," added Ricardo Ipina, Managing Director of KS Internet Solutions, Key-Systems' subsidiary in Mexico.