Colombia accelerates bidding for .CO domain name management rights
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Recently, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC) of Colombia announced that it will accelerate the bidding process for the management rights of the country top-level domain name (ccTLD) .CO. As the management department of the .CO domain name, MinTIC plans to select a new operator to manage more than 3 million .CO domain names for a period of 10 years. The extension of the contract period from the current 5 years to 10 years undoubtedly marks a major change in the management model of the .CO domain name.
It is worth noting that this bidding is just on the eve of ICANN's plan to launch a new generic top-level domain name (gTLD) in 2026. At present, the management rights of many well-known TLDs around the world have entered the bidding stage. Since MinTIC first revealed the bidding plan at the ICANN annual meeting in November last year, it has actively promoted related work and released the draft bidding on March 14, 2025.
At present, the .CO domain name is operated by .CO Internet S.A.S., a subsidiary of GoDaddy Registry Services. Since the commercialization of the .CO domain name in 2010, the company has managed this domain name for 15 years. According to the plan, the management transfer of this tender is expected to be completed before October 2025, and the winning bidder will be announced on May 22.
The following are the key time nodes of this tender:
March 14: Release the tender draft and solicit public opinions.
March 31: Public opinion solicitation deadline.
April 8: Release the final tender document.
May 6: Bid deadline.
May 22: Announce the winning bidder.
It should be noted that all dates may be adjusted according to Colombian law. Institutions interested in participating in the bidding can obtain detailed information through the Colombian public procurement platform. The results of this tender will have a decisive impact on the global development of .CO domain names in the next decade.
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