The international sunrise for the Colombian .co extension starts today. This sunrise will end on June 10th. During this period, everyone who has a registered trademark can register this trademark under the .co extension as long as your trademark was registered and was in full force and effect on or before July 30th 2008. To give everbody a chance to protect his/her trademark, the registry has simplified the registration procedure. For instance: notarized paperwork isn’t needed any longer and local presence isn’t required anymore. So you don’t need to have a local Colombian contact anymore to be able to register a Colombian domain name.
The Colombian registry also asks to take into account that the .co extension only differs one letter for the .com domain which makes this extension very wanted by cybersquatters. So the best thing for you to do, is to make sure your trademark is registered under this new extension.
The sunrise period will be followed by a landrush, which starts on June 21st. On July 20th, this domain will become available to everyone.