26, 2010 – June 10, 2010: Sunrise B allowed trademarks of national effect to apply for exact match domains. June 21, 2010 – July 13, 2010: Landrush allowed anyone to apply for domain names of high commercial value. July 20, 2010: .co domains became generally available. Third-level domain registrations The third-level domain registrations closely mirror the "traditional" IANA .com / .net / .org / .gov / .edu / .mil hierarchy, with the addition of a national equivalent of .name. Different from registrations directly under .co, which are used to signal globally relevant interests, third-level domains are used to signal locally relevant business, organizations, academic institutions, and government. – commercial – organizations – educational – government – network infrastructure – military – private person History IANA delegates ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as country code top-level domains, and on December 24, 1991, the .co top-level domain was assigned to Colombia and delegated to the Universidad de los Andes. In 2001, the university began to consider the possibility of marketing the domain as an alternative to the generic top-level domains. The government of Colombia objected on the basis that the university, a private entity, did not have regulatory oversight of the TLD and the Minister of Communications, Angela Montoya Holguín, wrote to them requesting that they not continue. In turn the university wrote to ICANN, rejecting the government's objections and stating their intention to appoint a subcontractor to handle the commercialisation of the domain. At a meeting on December 11, 2001, Holguín asked the Consultative Chamber and Civil Service of the Council of State to consider three issues: whether the .co domain is a public resource if the domain is public resource, whether it is intrinsically linked with telecommunications if the domain is linked with telecommunications, who should profit from its commercialisation In relation to these three issues, the meeting concluded that: the .co domain, having been assigned to Colombia, is of public interest the administration of the domain is intrinsically related to telecommunications, and hence falls under the purview of the Ministry of Communications, with the exception of those functions assigned to the ICFES by the Ministry of National Education unless the Congress of Colombia adopts an act allowing tax to be collected in relation to the registration of domain names, no amount can be charged for such a service In response to the Council of State meeting, the university wrote to