I have confirmed with the .Co registry that they have not hit One Million registrations.
An article published by Elespectador.com, a couple of days ago, stated that the .Co registry had hit the One million domain registration mark.
However that article is in error.
The .Co registry just put out a statement:
“Holy smokes! In the last couple of hours I have been swamped with emails asking if .CO really hit 1 million domain names registered today. As much as I love the sound of it, I regret to inform you that this is just a false alarm. We’re not quite there yet folks – but you can rest assured that the promised land is well within reach! We are growing every day – fast and furious – and you can bet your bottom dollar that when we do reach the 1 million milestone – we’ll be the first to tell you about it! : )”
Over the last couple of hours I received quite a few tweets, emails and comment to the blog as well.
Glad that the Registry cleared up this issue quickly.
Sure… for one dot co registered, 5 will drop.
I am wondering that how much 1 million sales of .co will effect the prices of domain .co domains? Will market price will rise ? and if yes! then how much in percentage ?
If I am not mistaken, all the LLL .COs have been sold.
I don’t know where LLLL stands, I would love an update on that.
What would be even nicer if they had an update number at where they stand now. I haven’t looked in a few months, but they should be getting up there in numbers.
It would be interesting none the less.
Cheers
Received a fat check from escrow.co today for $3,000.00
for my sale of
GEV.Co
Please, would someone report it to the sales websites so that it can be recorded properly.
@Robert Cline
Escrow.co ??
Anyone else feel .CO domains may be confusing to the general public? I wonder if the general public would see it in print and think that the M was left off by accident and it is a simple misspelling. Additionally, I wonder how often a user would hit the M at the end purely by habit.
@DomainDad
Imagine 1995:
Anyone else feel .COM domains may be confusing to the general public? I wonder if the general public would see it in print and think that the M was added by accident and it is a simple misspelling. Additionally, I wonder how often a user would left off the M at the end purely by habit.
I know I would have preferred .Co to .com back before .com had a foothold.
Which would you have preferred if you were a company?
The preferred is now available.
clearly, the hard-to-reach goal of the CO domains isn’t the 1 million milestone
The .co registry is laughing all of the way to the bank.
.co is going through the ‘pet rock’ cycle.
However, once you owned the ‘pet rock’ it didn’t cost you anything
more. Whereas, with .co you have to ante up again in 2 yrs.
I hope they reach 1 million.
@DomainDad Nope, nobody thought that in 1995.
Oops. I meant @Aniol.. Nobody thought that in ’95. @DomainDad is right, .co will bleed traffic to .coms everywhere. Reg away.
Don’t all extensions bleed to .com?
Sometimes it’s impossible to get the .com
The Good thing is that
.Co
is very rich extension
and marketing
has been extremely strong.
Calle and Lori, et al. are going to kick some butt.
In the end, if anyone who purchased .CO domains can turn a profit then as domainers they have done well.
As far as people adding M’s to the .CO here in the states. Yeah that is going to happen (for typed in domains which is not all to common now a days).
The bigger question is if there will actually be a penalty from the search engines for the use of the .CO extension. Considering that about 95% of the time, people use the search engine to find their websites.
The other thing is that in different countries, where .CO is used all the time (.co.uk) the question there is, how many will put the .UK on the end out of habit?
There is arguments that can be made both ways.
Either which way, it has already been proven that if you have a premium domain name you can sell it for a profit. Will it be as large as .COM (hell no) but still I would take buying a domain for $30 and selling it for $3,000 any day (as Robert Cline did with his GEV sale).
Just my opinion, looking at the big picture.
Cheers
it’s too late to make good profits with .CO since the best names are already registered
“it’s too late to make good profits with .CO since the best names are already registered”
Well from that logic, it means the people who got in early are the only ones who are going to do well.
That reminds me, did .CO ever hold the auction for he premium names it withheld from the general public? I recall that it was going to have a few auctions to include the single character/letter domain names and other premium domains.
I remember a few going to auction but I dont think that was all of them.
Maybe I am wrong
Cheers
All good .com’s are gone as well
))::
You know, back in 1998
I remember distinctly thinking that all the good .com
domains must be registered by now and that other smart people must have taken all the good ones and that they were gone.
Frick, I am kicking myself for not spending full full tilt time registering domain names back then.
I think I could have been a $Billionaire by now, if I only spent all my waking hours registering then.
The same thing with .Co right now.
Some are making excuses, but you know what
time flies by you before you know it
and people will be talking about
.Co
as if they should have done this and done that today.
“All good .com’s are gone as well”
not true, I’ve found several good .com
also, while .com don’t need to have a good name but only an original name, the .co are mainly bought to prevent .com sites typosquatting
the best .co are those that have the TLD as part of the name, like e.co or mexi.co
these good .co names are only a few and probably all already taken
lati la la le la
have fricken 1200 .com’s and even my best ones
have only gotten $70 offer
I write
Are you fricken kidding me.
My time to write this little note to you is $100
I’ll send you my bill next.
Lesson 101 on how to make a proper offer on a domain you want from me:
It should go no less than like this:
“Hello
I would like to buy GEV.co from you and my offer is $2000 USD.
Transaction with Escrow.com and fees paid 100% by me.
Please let me know.
Regards
Buyer”
This is the proper email you send. You got it.
with the proper hype any domain in any tld can be flipped for a good profit.
.co’s are being flipped. hence they are not worthless.
but what if we subtract the hype?
the .co registry’s marketing claimed .co “has meaning”
what meaning?
it’s a colombian domain.
it’s potential tld typo.
is there something else?
reminds me of .tv, .nu (swedish), .la (usa), etc.
they can all have several meanings.
how many meanings can .com have?
what if someone pays icann $10,000 to start a .inc tld registry?
or a .corp registry?
or .ltd?
and the other relevant abbrevations in various countries used to symobolise corporations.
isn’t there a story behind .bv, for example?
no marketing needed in those cases. the public already knows what bv means.
.co, if it’s to be sold to persons other than colombians and domainers, is reliant on nurturing a meaning in the public’s mind.
what is it?
.com has a clear meaning in the public’s mind.
if .co is some sort of option for when a .com is unavailable (is that what their marketing is usggesting?), then .co already has got something working against it. why should anyone wanting a .com settle for a sub-par .co when .com is the norm? buyers are drawn to scarcity and it’s perceived scarcity that can help create value. .com is valuable because it’s a limited quantity and it’s meaning is crystal clear.
Maybe I am lost. What do you consider a good domain name?
Do you go by size? (single word?)
Do you go by searches per month?
Do you go by the way it sounds?
CPC?
I think people have different ideas of what a good domain name is.
What would you consider a good domain name in this extension?
Cheers
Many who bought .co did so because they felt forced to, since they owned the .com version of the name. I know this was the case for me, especially with all the marketing done for .co.
I didn’t do it for all my names though, just the very best ones. I could care less if someone registers a .co of a name I own that isn’t one of my best… it’s like if they register a .us or a .name version of it. Anyway, good luck to them if they do so, since I wouldn’t waste my time if the roles were reversed.
if you start a new company called AMOCO (now part of BP) or CocaCola Co use a CO domain surely has a meaning
Eh, not so sure it’s really all that important for big companies, except to secure them so that they don’t have to deal with going through the trademark issues (which they would surely win) if someone registered the .co before them.
cocacola.co may seem cute, but the .com extension is what people are used to and expect with a big company.
So what would someone consider a premium .CO domain?
Egyptian.CO?
MP3converter.CO?
Ork.CO?
I am curious on what is considered a premium .CO domain name.
Would any of those 3 qualify?
Ork is an actual word, normally geared towards fantasy games. There is a second spelling Orc but the one with the “K” is more popular. Its a LLL domain, so does that make it a premium domain?
MP3 Converter has high broad monthly searches (about 5m with nice exact searches also 550k). Does that make it considered premium?
Egyptian is a very common name. It has high broad searches, but low exact searches. Would this be a premium name?
Just looking to see what people consider premium domain names are.
What would be a reasonable price for names like these?
This is a serious question, I am curious on what people consider premium domain names, especially in this extension.
Cheers