European domains: Northern Ireland (Nicaragua) (.co.ni)

Once the domain is registered

All Northern Irish (Nicaraguan) domain names registered with us are stored on our international server. Domains registered with us are automatically provided with their own under-construction page - this notifies potential registrants that the name has been acquired and is now registered. The under-construction page is offered free of charge and may be used indefinitely.

It is possible for Web and/or Mail forwarding to be provided for Northern Irish (Nicaraguan) domains.

Domain transfer/release fees are charged are by a majority of registrars, but BB Online make no charge to transfer a domain to another Northern Irish (Nicaraguan) domain name registrar.

Background

.co is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Colombia. It is administered by Universidad de los Andes.

"co" is also frequently used as a second-level domain within other country-code domains, in which registrants (usually companies) may register second-level domains of the form .co.xx, where xx is the ccTLD. Israel (.co.il), United Kingdom (.co.uk), ew Zealand (.co.nz), Japan (.co.jp), South Korea (.co.kr) and Cook Islands (.co.ck) are examples. Some other country codes use "com" instead, such as Australia (.com.au), Mexico (.com.mx) and Taiwan (.com.tw); this includes Colombia itself, which uses .com.co.

Around the year 2000 when many country-code domains were being remarketed as worldwide generic domains, there was some talk of allowing second-level registrations in .co for registrants worldwide in order to capitalize on the similarity of this nameto .com and to the above-noted use of "co" as a second-level domain in other country codes. However, a Court order prohibited Universidad de los Andes from doing so, and registration remains limited to third-level domains and to Colombian registrants.