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.co.no opens for business after court win
Kevin Murphy,
July 3, 2012, 09:23:32 (UTC),
Domain Registries
The Norwegian registrant of the domain name co.no has won a court case against .no registry Norid that will allow it to finally launch as a pseudo-ccTLD, according to the company.
A Trondheim court ruled that Norid cannot revoke Elineweb’s registration of co.no for alleged policy violations, but has also ruled that the domain cannot be transferred to a third party.
Therefore, Elineweb plans to start offering third-level .co.no domain names to companies and individuals unable to register the names they want under Norid’s strict policy regime.
The company will open .co.no on a first-come, first-served basis — having already conducted sunrise and landrush periods — tomorrow at 10am Central European Time.
The full list of 70+ accredited registrars can be found here.
DI first covered the lawsuit back in October 2011.
The .co.no namespace is managed by CoDNS, a subsidiary of the registrar EuroDNS that already operates .co.nl as a pseudo-ccTLD, in partnership with Elineweb.
The two namespaces are not official ccTLDs, but they are both recognized by the Public Suffix List, which makes them behave similarly in browsers.
Recent Comments
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The inherent stupidity of taking forehead temperature measurements on people who have just walked inside from the sun is... read more
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I'm going for sure. And I'm selected as ICANN fellow and excited to be there. Very hope nothing will be canceled.... read more
That one will get cancelled aswell.... read more
Would be much better, anyways, for the Sub Pro participants to have some productive F2F in ICANN LA offices .ICANN can y... read more
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You have it backwards, Rick. Verisign needs domainers, not the other way around. Also, your bias shows everytime you ... read more
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We leave it up to a judge to determine exactly what the registry operator did or did not do. They may indeed have ... read more
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