[ericd]

This is ridiculous... why is this TLD being allowed? Its main use is going to be abuse, ranging from squatting to phishing (chase.co, paypal.co, anyone?).

[SkyMarshal]

It looks like they're giving trademarks registered before 2008 first dibs, so as long as those big companies' IT departments are on the ball, they can pre-empt the squatters.

[ericd]

Yeah, but for a tax of $300. The big companies will doubtless all register theirs, but there are countless other sites that won't have the time/resources to do this.

[papachito]

> why is this TLD being allowed?

Colombia?

[ericd]

Yeah, I saw that. They should have been given .cl or something that's not a common misspelling of the de facto standard TLD.

[papachito]

.cl is for Chile.

[ericd]

.cb? Is there a rule against 3 letter country TLDs? (And, thanks for the info).