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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in 2015

July 20, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats:

• Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management

• 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year)

• Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States

• New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered

• Twitter® (T.co), AngelList® (Angel.co) and 500 Startups® (500.co), as well as by innovative Fortune 500 companies, such as Google® (g.co) and American Express® (amex.co) are all using a .Co domain and startups like
Meerkat, Brit + Co, Hinge, Vine, VSCO and NewCo

.Co is the ccTLD for the country of Colombia and at 1.8 million registrations beats the number of .US registrations by 100,000.

According to RegistrarStats.com .US has just over 1.7 million domain names registered.

.US if of course the ccTLD for the United States.

However .CO rebranded itself to represent a generic extension and concentrated its efforts on the startup community like some other ccTLD’s; .TV, .Me. .IO

Neustar bought the .Co domain name extension for $109 million dollars in March 2014.

Here are a couple of Infographics published to celebrate the 5th birthday of .Co.

Congrats guys and Happy Birthday

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Filed Under: .CO, Domain Industry, Domain Registries, Neustar

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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