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About .co Domains

GoDaddy Registry is the sponsor and is our backend provider for the country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) .co extension that represents Colombia.

Who can register .co domains?

Anyone can register .co, .com.co, .net.co, and .nom.co domain names.

  • .co: Intended for Colombian businesses or individuals.
  • .com.co: Intended for commercial entities.
  • .net.co: Intended for network infrastructures, such as Internet Service Providers.
  • .nom.co: Intended for private individuals.

Registration restrictions

When registering a .co domain, you must follow specific requirements.

  • Must use: 1-63 Characters
  • Can use: Letters (a-z characters), numbers (0-9) and hyphens (except in the 1st or last characters of the domain name), consecutive hyphens (except IDNs)
  • Cannot use: Special characters (e.g., & and #)
  • IDNs: Supported (Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish)

Features

  • Registration length: 1-5 years
  • Renewal length: 1-5 years
    • You must renew your .co domain by its expiration date. If auto-renew is turned on, we'll attempt renewal on the morning of the expiration date. If the first renewal attempt fails, we'll continue attempting auto-renewal multiple times until the 12th day after the domain's expiration date.
    • If we cannot auto-renew the domain name and you do not manually renew it by the expiration date, you can attempt to recover your domain with any applicable fees or contact a GoDaddy Guide for assistance.
    • .CO Internet SAS parks your domain name five days after expiration if you do not renew or recover it.
  • Backorders: Supported
  • Transfers to GoDaddy: Supported
    • At the time of a domain transfer in, only a 1 year renewal can be added, but additional years can be added once the domain is in your account.
  • Transfers away from GoDaddy: Supported
  • Transfers to another GoDaddy account: Supported
  • Domain Privacy: Supported
  • Domain Protection: Supported
  • CashParking: Supported
  • Contact Updates: Supported

Nameserver requirements

  • Must use: 2-13 Nameservers
  • Can use: IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC

Refunds

For details on refunds, review our refund policy

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