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.co — should you use it?
Country code (Colombia), used generically · introduced 1991
- Shortest credible .com alternative
- Marketed globally as 'company' for 15+ years
- Great availability
- Typo traffic leaks to the .com
- Renewals cost 2–3x .com
The longer take
Twitter used t.co and half of Y Combinator went through a .co phase — the TLD is fully domesticated. The one structural flaw never goes away: some fraction of your users will type .com and land on someone else's site. Budget for buying the .com later if you win.
Where .co ranks
.co and Colombia
.co is the country-code top-level domain assigned to Colombia, administered by the registry Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (MinTIC).
.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Colombia.
Source: Wikipedia — .co (CC BY-SA)
Where to buy .co
Renewal trap: .co costs $15.76 in year one but $31.20/yr to renew — 2× the intro price. Budget for the renewal, not the promo. Full Renewal-Trap Index
| Registrar | First year | Renews | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namecheap Sponsored | Live price unavailable — confirm at the registrar. | Go → | |
| Dynadot Sponsored | Live price unavailable — confirm at the registrar. | Go → | |
| Porkbun Trust pick cheapest | $15.76 promo | $31.20 | Go → |
| Cloudflare Trust pick at-cost | $30.00 | $30.00 | Go → |
Porkbun & Cloudflare prices in USD, pulled from their daily feeds (checked 2026-08-30). Cloudflare sells at wholesale cost but requires using Cloudflare’s nameservers. Full comparison: where to buy .co.
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