Tuesday, 03 April 2012 14:43 Domain News
Startup Weekend™ announced a one year partnership with .CO Internet ,the company behind .CO domain names,to offer short memorable .CO web addresses to startups worldwide. You can read the press release after the jump :"Startup Weekend™ today announced a one-year Global Partnership with .CO Internet, the company behind the fast-growing .CO domain extensionSeattle, WA (PRWEB) April 03, 2012Startup Weekend™ today announced a one-year Global Partnership with .CO Internet, the company behind the fast-growing .CO domain extension. Through the partnership, .CO domain name scholarships will be granted to all Startup Weekend participants, reaching more than 45,000 entrepreneurs in over 100 countries across the globe. The domain name scholarships will help these entrepreneurs kickstart their businesses with a 12-month .CO domain registration at no cost to them for the first year.".CO has quickly established itself as the hot, new domain of choice for startups worldwide," said Marc Nager, CEO of Startup Weekend, "and we couldn’t be more excited to be able to provide Startup Weekend participants with the chance to launch their new products, services and brands on the .CO platform."Since the recent launch of .CO, over 1.3 million .CO web addresses have been registered in more than 200 countries, making .CO a global Internet phenomenon and new entrant into the World Finance 100. Following the lead of many of Silicon Valley’s most notable startup evangelists, such as Angel List (angel.co), 500 Startups (500.co), The Founder Institute (fi.co) and Startup America Partnership (s.co), web savvy entrepreneurs are increasingly leveraging .CO web addresses to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses and brands."We’re beyond inspired by the work that Startup Weekend is doing to help aspiring entrepreneurs to come together, build teams and launch startups," said Lori Anne Wardi, Vice President of .CO Internet. "As a startup ourselves, we’re honored to be able to grant the next generation of startups with scholarships to access the .CO domain names they need to position their new businesses and brands for global success."
The .CO domain name scholarship program will kick off at over 40 Startup Weekend events to be held during the month of April in China, India, Norway, France, Algeria, Albania, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Czech Republic, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, Belarus, Iceland, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Poland, Turkey, Uganda, Mongolia, the Philippines, and the United States."
