Team Internet and Newly Formed Partner Wins 10-Year Contract to Administer .CO Domain Names

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Team Internet and Newly Formed Partner Wins 10-Year Contract to Administer .CO Domain Names

For the past 10 years the popular .co top level domain has been administered by GoDaddy. However that contract recently expired and the Colombian Ministerio de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones (MINTIC) decided to put a new contract out for competitive bidding. Today Team Internet (TI) announced that Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo – a partnership between TI and Central Comercializadora de Internet (CCI) - has been awarded a a 10-year license from MINTIC to operate the .co TLD.

As most of our readers know, .co is officially the ccTLD for Colombia but years ago it was successfully re-purposed to also serve a broader market - companies and corporations around the world for whom the CO letters were a natural fit. That strategy has worked very well, making the right to administer .co a prize that several major industry players had hoped to land.

Team Internet Group CEO Michael Riedl said, “This win reinforces Team Internet’s leadership in the domain infrastructure space and adds one of the most dynamic and globally recognized ccTLDs to our portfolio. We are humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of Colombia. This privilege is testament to our trusted role in managing critical internet infrastructure around the world."

The .co domain, with over 3 million active registrations, enjoys a strong international reputation and serves as a vital platform for individuals and businesses in Colombia and worldwide to establish their digital presence. Consórcio Equipo PuntoCo will operate the registry and retain 8% of gross revenues from .co registrations and renewals as compensation for its services.

Gerardo Aristizabal, CEO of Colombian company CCI, Team Internet’s partner in the bid, added, “We couldn’t be happier about the news and the opportunity to work together with Team Internet

Michael Riedl
CEO, Team Internet Group

in developing the .co domain, both locally for entrepreneurs and internationally as one of the most adopted web addresses in the world. The teams working on this represent the best opportunity for the namespace and will definitely be taking the .co domain to a new level over the coming years.”

(Posted June 12, 2025)

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