.Coop
now supports the registration of both single and two character domain
names. These special domains can be registered through participating
.coop registrars after the submission of a brief Expression of Interest
and dotCoop approval.
On
7 November 2008 at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, Egypt, the ICANN Board
approved the contract amendment requested by dotCoop in May 2008 to
allow the registration of these unique domain names in the .coop name
space.
dotCoop has now established an application process for any eligible
.coop registrant to submit an Expression of Interest to register any of
these select names. Please review the Application Process for Single and Two Character .Coop Domain Names on this site.
dotCoop’s request was approved at the same time as a similar request
was approved for the .mobi TLD but the approval clearly noted that
restrictions on these special and valuable domains for other TLDs such
as .com will continue at this time.
Single character domains include the letters a-z and
single-digit numerals (0-9). There are still restrictions on
2-character names that are the same as country codes (such as .us or
.de) – please review the Application document for more details.
The process basically asks those interested in the domains to
submit a short memo or Expression of Interest (EOI). Initial EOI’s will
be accumulated for a three month period to ensure equal access during
this initial release. Any unique EOIs that meet the general criteria
will be approved and can be registered. Any domains with more than one
EOI will be evaluated during the three month period and awarded to the
eligible registrant that provides the best and highest value of the
domain to the cooperative community.
To assure that these names are equally available to all co-ops, these
registrations are available to registrars at the standard price and the
whole process is streamlined to make it easy for co-ops to qualify and
use these special names that are only available to co-ops at this time!
Please contact dotCoop with any questions at +1-202-383-5453 or at
support@nic.coop. Your .coop registrar will also be able to tell you
how you can register one of these domains.
This .coop news release was sourced from nic.coop//News/coopNews-128.aspx.