Article highlights commercialization of two letter country code domains.

The New York Times published an article today about the commercialization of country code top level domain names.

Colombia’s .co will get major attention after a Go Daddy commercial plugs it today, and .co was front and center in the article.

.Co Internet CEO Juan Calle noted that Colombia gets 25% of revenue from sales of .co. This is the first time I’ve seen this number published.

.Co grossed $20 million last year thanks to higher prices for sunrise and premium domain names. Calle thinks the number will be $30 million this year. He hope to hit five million .co domain names within five years, according to the article.

Last month I somewhat humorously suggested that the new “south Sudan” could name itself for domain name profits. I was a bit surprised to get a note from someone working on the renaming the next week asking for my opinion.

Other popular commercialized ccTLDs include .tv (Tuvalu) and .me (Montenegro).