Buy .com.co Domain Name

No. The operating rules the registry gives its registrars place .com.co firmly on the open side: the extension is registered from anywhere in the world through accredited registrars. You do not need a company in Colombia, a local address, a representative or a trustee, and the registry asks for no supporting documents. Private individuals register on exactly the same terms as companies. All that is required of you is accurate, current contact data: name or trading name, postal address, email and telephone, plus technical and administrative contacts. Data that is wrong or left out of date is grounds for suspension or cancellation, so keep the registered email address working.

In whole years, from one to five. The registry's operating rules tie both the initial registration and every renewal to the same ceiling: the expiry date of a .com.co name may never sit more than five years ahead of today. So you cannot add three years to a name that already runs for four; you wait until the expiry date comes closer. On renewal the new term starts from the current expiry date rather than the day you renew, which means renewing early costs you no days. A transfer between registrars also carries at least a one-year renewal, applied automatically by the system.

The difference is both eligibility and sales channel. .com.co, .net.co and .nom.co are the trio the registry treats as open: they are registered from anywhere, through any accredited registrar, with no documents requested. .org.co, .edu.co, .gov.co and .mil.co form the restricted group. Those are obtained only through the local portal the registry runs, and the application asks you to produce evidence that you are a Colombian institution. In practice that means the restricted extensions cannot be ordered from an international registrar at all. If you are entering the Colombian market with a commercial brand or storefront, .com.co is the layer you want.

The name does not switch off on the expiry date. The registry's rules renew it automatically for one year, and that automatic renewal can be reversed for 45 days. If the name is deleted within that window it enters a 30-day redemption period: the delegation is removed from the zone, so your website and mail stop working, but the name can still be recovered. Redemption is followed by a final 5-day wait, and recovery is no longer possible at that stage. At the end of it the name is purged and opened for registration again. The registry releases names throughout the day rather than in one daily batch.

You start by asking your current provider for the name's authorisation code; registrars are obliged to hand that code to the registrant on request. If a transfer lock sits on the name, ask for it to be lifted too. You pass the code to the new provider, which files the request with the registry, and the registry notifies the losing provider. That provider has five calendar days to approve or reject explicitly; if it does neither, the transfer is approved automatically. Once approved, the name moves within a minute. Two hard rules apply: a newly registered name cannot be transferred for 60 days, and another 60-day wait follows every transfer. Start on the domain transfer page.

No. The registry's whois server publishes no registrant name, organisation, address or telephone at all; where a contact value would sit, a fixed sentence tells you to request the information from the name's registrar instead. What you do see is technical: the domain, its creation and expiry dates, the registrar, status codes, name servers and DNSSEC state. The registry also rate-limits the service and states the reason plainly, which is to prevent unauthorised access to registrants' personal information. You can read a name's technical record on the whois search page.

Yes. The Colombian registry signs every zone it runs with DNSSEC, and the key for .co is validated through a DS record published in the root zone; the registry uses NSEC3 with the opt-out flag to make zone enumeration harder. Support on the registrant side is real too: you can add a DS record to a .com.co name, and measurement confirms it, since some .com.co names show up in lookups as signed delegations. Using it is optional and the decision is yours. One note: the registry offers no separate registry lock service, so DNSSEC and your registrar's own transfer lock carry the protective weight.

The registry has adopted UDRP for disputes and the registration agreement says so explicitly: the registrant accepts being bound by the rules, processes and decisions of UDRP for the term of the registration, and a name may be suspended, cancelled or transferred as a result. Separately, the registry maintains an anti-abuse policy, so phishing, malware distribution, unsolicited bulk email and comparable practices can be reported and can lead to the same three outcomes. Disputes between a registrant and the registry itself fall under Colombian law and are heard in the courts of Bogotá. If you need help, write to us from the contact page.