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This one can be tracked back to the fact that these domains are free. They’re not very popular at all beyond the free aspect. A lot of spammers will use these domains because of this. With the low popularity of the domain extension, a lot of places consider co.cc to be the domain, and the actual domain to be a sub-domain, which means “abc.co.cc” is considered to be the same as “xyz.co.cc”. This is why I changed my site over to a new domain.
You’ll find the explanation in Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cc – co.cc is a domain owned by a company which sells subdomains for redirection, and most of them are used by spammers.