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.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on April 15th

April 2, 2013 by Michael Berkens

According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages.

“With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and our team. ”

“Over the past two and a half years, .CO has become the domain of choice for startups and entrepreneurs around the world – including an increasing number of non-English speakers.

For this reason, .CO has begun offering .CO domain names in alternate languages including Icelandic, Danish, Finnish, among others.

  • We will be launching three languages – Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
  • The launch date is 15 April 2013 at 18:00 UTC (this translates to Monday, 15 April, 2pm EDT).
  • All of the .CO product family will be launching the languages (.CO, .com.co, .net.co and .nom.co).

“As part of the Asian launch, we will not be conducting a formal trademark sunrise, landrush or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages.  ”

“If you own one or more trademarks and wish to take proactive steps to protect those marks, we urge you to contact your registrar or reseller as soon as possible.”

There are policies and documents available for download for registrars, resellers and the general public.  Please download the zip file

Filed Under: .CO, Domain Registries, IDN's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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