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title: ".co Domain Names — Register a .co Domain | Name.ai"
description: "Register a .co domain. Pricing, registration terms, when .co works as a .com alternative, and .co domains available now on the Name.ai marketplace."
url: https://name.ai/domains/tld/co
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# .co Domain Names — Register a .co Domain | Name.ai

.co is the country-code extension for Colombia, marketed globally as a short alternative to .com and commonly read as "company". Its strength is availability of short, meaningful names; its weakness is that traffic and email can leak to the matching .com when people mistype.

## Character

- Operated as an open global extension despite being a ccTLD, with no local presence requirement.
- One character shorter than .com and visually close to it, which is both the appeal and the risk.
- Widely used by startups that wanted a specific word and found the .com unavailable or unaffordable.

## Good for

- Startups wanting a short, memorable name without an aftermarket purchase
- Companies whose exact-match .com is priced out of range
- Campaign and product sites that need a clean short URL

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## Frequently asked questions

### Is .co a good alternative to .com?

It is the closest widely-accepted alternative, and short meaningful names are far more available. The trade-off is real though: some visitors will type the .com out of habit, so if that .com is held by someone else you may lose traffic and misdirected email to them.

### Do I need a Colombian address for a .co domain?

No. .co is operated as an open extension available worldwide with no local presence requirement.

## Live data

Registration price, minimum term, registrant and nameserver requirements for .co are read from registry data at request time and are not reproduced here. Machine-readable equivalents:

- Pricing: `GET https://name.ai/api/pricing/tld`
- Requirements: `GET https://name.ai/api/tlds/co/metadata`
- Availability for a specific name: `POST https://name.ai/api/domain/search`

Premium .co domains available now: [https://name.ai/market?tld=co](https://name.ai/market?tld=co).

Copy last revised 2026-08-19.

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