.coop TLD audit hub
Sponsored TLD for verified cooperative organizations.
The .coop TLD launched in 2002 as a sponsored TLD restricted to cooperatives — businesses owned and operated by their members under the cooperative principles defined by the International Cooperative Alliance. Registration requires verification of cooperative status, which is administered by DotCooperation and DotCoop. The namespace has fewer than 10,000 active registrations because the restriction is real and enforced. Common adopters include credit unions, agricultural cooperatives, food co-ops, and cooperative-structured worker-owned businesses. The namespace supports DNSSEC and operates under standard registry hygiene. SEO treats .coop as a generic gTLD without country-bound geotargeting. Email deliverability is on parity with major gTLDs. We rarely audit .coop sites but find that the audited cohort tends to score well on accessibility because cooperative-principle adoption usually correlates with progressive accessibility-policy adoption.