Co.CC Closes Down Without Warning - Users Locked Out Of Their Own Site
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The ever popular Co.CC company which provided free as well as paid Co.CC domains has closed down, without giving any warning to the customers. All the Co.CC domains are currently down and can no longer be accessed. Co.CC had stopped accepting new users some time before they closed down. Users were used to be greeted with a message saying “A new .co.cc domain cannot be registered” .
The ever popular Co.CC company which provided free as well as paid Co.CC domains has closed down, without giving any warning to the customers. All the Co.CC domains are currently down and can no longer be accessed. Co.CC had stopped accepting new users some time before they closed down. Users were used to be greeted with a message saying “A new .co.cc domain cannot be registered” .
As of now, the company has not given any formal statement about the closing down of their service. Customers, unsure of what has happened and whether or not it is a “problem” which can be fixed, have taken to the company’s Facebook page to voice their anger.
Many speculations are being made as to what might have caused the company to close down their service(if it did close down.) Co.CC domains were notorious for their website contents. It was mostly used by spammers (to create “splogs”), hackers, and for hateful speeches, copyright infringement and different illegal purposes. In fact, in July 2011 Google had removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search results due to the domains being largely used by spammers. Google did start re-indexing the sites later, though. Facebook had also resorted to block the Co.CC domains from being mentioned on the chat.