Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy.
Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform.
What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability.
With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap.
So many horrible domains.
Domains I wouldn’t have registered in .Com much less .Co
Typo’s, misspells, trademark infringing domains and domains that simply don’t make any sense.
Its shocking considering on the 1st day of registration the whole world was basically opened to all and so many chose what would be described as pigeon shit by Rick Schwartz, yet these domains would be an insult to the pigeons.
So lets not blame the extension but those who register really bad domains in any extension.
The lesson is if you register mymotherusedtobemarriedtothemob.xxx and don’t sell it, don’t blame the ICM next year, blame yourself.
Here are just a few examples:
| bakofamerica.co |
| randmcnally.co |
| sarah-oliver.co |
| lekkertravel.co |
| urgentpropertysales.co |
| keralatour.co |
| razorsedge.co |
| cinima.co |
| electromenager.co |
| grubbellis.co |
| bingg.co |
| kfcmalaysia.co |
| mashkanta.co |
| szeed.co |
| abhishek.co |
| twiffer.co |
| saleisland.co |
| shopwildplanet.co |
| travelsteamboat.co |
| kaczynski.co |
| detectivess.co |
| premiumironentrys.co |
| zornia.co |
| globalopolis.co |
| bancomer.co |
| kitenhaus.co |
| vibramovil.co |
| alotofgames.co |
| liveclothing.co |
| gurukul.co |
| cougers.co |
| policybazar.co |
| camiseto.co |
| ivia.co |
| chocolat-frey.co |
| spiro.co |
| equitax.co |
| qrlaw.co |
| bookyourwork.co |
| estetik.co |
| bestipadapps.co |
| paymentech.co |
| blueshieldcalifornia.co |
| yogamama.co |
| kwanglee.co |
| caribbeangold.co |
| calstateconstructionloans.co |
| coatedconveyorrollers.co |
| buisness.co |
| wwwweather.co |
| mycardmyway.co |
| tdameritraderothira.co |
| teambuilding4good.co |
| lomaximoproductions.co |
| toddhouser.co |
| tellfaxemail.co |
| 9ku.co |
| runic.co |
| maruti.co |
| musiquepub.co |
| interfootbtofromto.co |
| hrmglobal.co |
| zionglass.co |
| hipermercado.co |
| doctorsuk.co |
| redoxsignaling.co |
| rqlaw.co |
| nextbesting.co |
| concorsi-pubblici.co |
| aduana.co |
| fearnet.co |
| lightening.co |
| ultimateentrepreneur.co |
| displayrolls.co |
| hublotreplica.co |
| yahoomobile.co |
| homecontentsinsurance.co |
| divertimenti.co |
| cityofmoscow.co |
| mahnam.co |
| pinkpound.co |
| focusoncustomersuccess.co |
| zahrani.co |
| wwwamericanexpress.co |
| paysagiste.co |
| valhalla.co |
| bankislam.co |
| linkinn.co |
| xboxstore.co |
| bizzo.co |
| jordanriver.co |
| blairportraits.co |
| androidcommunity.co |
| ocenet.co |
| peintre.co |
| chiron.co |
| hire-car.co |
| videoproducers.co |
| koldugmesi.co |
| lexjet.co |
| tanjong.co |
| dijaya.co |
| global-manufacturers.co |
| cancunbeaches.co |
| isatel.co |
| peruvianconnection.co |
| oddsguide.co |
| eagames.co |
| worldofcoca-cola.co |
| carinsurancemustang.co |
| donatecarca.co |
| qooza.co |
| taxibid.co |
| eastpak.co |
| minmax.co |
| conquistadorapts.co |
| absworkout.co |
| muezzapure.co |
| carhireportugal.co |
| buy-and-sell.co |
| ontargetccw.co |
| printerchips.co |
| ahmedbinzayedalnahyan.co |
| gleconsultants.co |
| digitaldigitalacar.co |
| robinsonpropertymanagement.co |
| elasticity.co |
| photovoltaicpower.co |
| abcdefg.co |
| warmtiles.co |
| sinusrelief.co |
| 212fashion.co |
| thequeenofthefruits.co |
| difesapersonale.co |
| superexpress.co |
| traviangames.co |
| stainlesssteelwater.co |
| jktech.co |
| unseen.co |
| rrado.co |
| schuheonline.co |
| maarsindia.co |
| californiahomebuildloan.co |
| derealestate.co |
| bionade.co |
| tipicon.co |
| goldenstatecommercialloan.co |
| ruskniga.co |
| sheilaswheels.co |
| finacialaid.co |
| highdog.co |
| insurancehomemotels.co |
| photo-school.co |
| storyvillestudios.co |
| indianoverseasbank.co |
| 8kmedals.co |
| cicso.co |
| htcphones.co |
| i-pad.co |
| caribecruise.co |
| albertamortgage.co |
| tama38.co |
| agentbox.co |
| buddhabelly.co |
| burgan.co |
| cbtestforco2.co |
| kiss925.co |
| criket.co |
| 8888sports.co |
| nikkeibp.co |
| central-islip-lawyer.co |
| sharelynx.co |
| performancetransformation.co |
| egitim.co |
| amirkhan.co |
| yeelee.co |
| tysonfood.co |
| parkmobile.co |
| cheapangeles.co |
| personalinjurynowinnofee.co |
| summerholiday.co |
| taxattorneystexas.co |
| reisestudio.co |
| dizifilm.co |
| recycleoldmobilephones.co |
| sherwin-williams.co |
| sedoparking.co |
| cassidyturley.co |
| vagaa.co |
| erpssearch.co |
| micrus.co |
| nr1brand.co |
| cerrejoncoal.co |
| cheaplifeassuranceuk.co |
| schoolhighyou.co |
| traneairconditioners.co |
| rentacoffin.co |
| worldofwar.co |
| siacargo.co |
| xmradio.co |
| miramax.co |
| culinaryartsschoolsinchicago.co |
| iwas.co |
| jupiterislandtradingcom.co |
| mobilephonerecyclingcompare.co |
| bryanwatson.co |
| bugleme.co |
| crystalscompleteestatesales.co |
| everythingbaby.co |
| ctrlwake.co |
| urbanfarmer.co |
| 52pk.co |
| bargin.co |
| 5c5c5c.co |
| gwinnetthomefinder.co |
| amcmo.co |
| foxsport.co |
| georgebush.co |
| financecalc.co |
| cyprusmall.co |
| 14er.co |
| natur.co |
| webtretho.co |
| carinsurancequoteinstant.co |
| cheapinsuranceukbreakdownuk.co |
| homebudhealthdepotinvestmentset.co |
| homeequityloansarizona.co |
| fishhawk.co |
| arizona-real-estate.co |
| barginhunters.co |
| abckj123.co |
| bucketlistassist.co |
| gdbulkco8.co |
| nestviewdrive.co |
| piperjaffray.co |
| allez-allez.co |
| envirophone.co |
| innerlightworkshop.co |
| ferramentas.co |
| sonicdrivein.co |
| divinelight.co |
| espnthe.co |
| olamonline.co |
| benelli.co |
| yigdigs.co |
| ipragaz.co |
OMG that list is beyond hysterical. Thanks for sharing Mike!
True, but what begs more of a question is why a pro like you is even looking at these lists? :-))
There will always be crap – but then there are also some great CO domains the dropped. I personally like the triple premium LLL co domains.
Heres a list I just posted with some recent sales:
utilities.co $1,506
weddingplanner.co $1,505
tweets.co $780
hoodie.co $773
exercising.co $411
wagers.co $408
copiers.co $371
crave.co $350
symphony.co $350
southern.co $305
beg.co $280
nda.co $256
printshop.co $255
455.co $255
powerboats.co $205
imb.co $205
dok.co $200
tots.co $171
ripped.co $162
finejewelry.co $156
bestrates.co $156
afa.co $155
dim.co $155
I picked up 1 from this list 😉
A Pigeon Shit Convention with “So-Called” domainers.
I have spent years trying to explain what constitutes a legitimate domain.
It is not that they were late to the game, they just REFUSE to listen to what works.
Now what would you call the folks that BID on the Pigeon Shit?
And Mike, you may be right. This would even piss off a pigeon. I think there should be a pigeon union or something to combat this terrible injustice. 😉
Abe
There was some gold in the lists, some I got some I missed (i hate Godaddy’s auction system but that’s another matter for another day)
I saw pays.co go for like $50
Are you kidding me.
Also there were some other nice names see Chris comment above
‘Now what would you call the folks that BID on the Pigeon Shit?……’
I’m still trying to work out what you call the folks who bid $200,000 on a .mobi…
Love it – Back to the Censorship
ffrankly, no more crap than what seen recently in some auctions 🙂
however, I’m sure that some of these domains will find a buyer!
To be fair, most if not all of the premium names were taken or reserved. I am no dummy I wanted a car.co, truck.co, train.co, airplane.co – they were all taken. So fine I will settle for a bike.co – but damn that was also reserved. Out of frustration I attempt to resgister bangkok.co and of course it is taken so I settle for the next best thing BANGCOCK.CO. I really did. Hahaha
A pigeon just flew by by window and said the people that bought these names a year ago ate the corn out of my shit.
Don
Razor
Nice cheap shot, but there really is a huge difference between when Rick bought flowers.mobi before the extension even launched, than registering domains that don’t have a chance.
You see when you invest in domains you are taking a chance, or your just throwing your money away on something that doesn’t have any chance of success.
Flowers.mobi was a shot.
It turned out to be a bad shot but it was a quality domain that had a chance of success (until the iPhone came out)
So lets look at the new .XXX extension.
So Frank as we know got some potentially great domains, like live.xxx and free.xxx to name a few.
He paid $x,xxx,xxx for the domains he got.
He took a chance.
Now as we sit today, I’m going to say he got 20 potentially $x,xxx,xxx domains each for the cost of them all.
Now if Frank registered 1,000 really crappy .xxx domains like the ones I placed into the post, that’s a whole different ballgame.
So we don’t always win in our investments.
I’ve made some bad one’s myself, plenty of times, but give yourself a chance to win.
Buy quality, not total crap.
Give yourself a chance at success.
You may not always win but you won’t always lose.
Uncle
Why settle?
Yes your right the top of the top, cream of the cream is reserved by the registry.
But did you see the domains listed by Chris above?
they were all available on day 1
There were NNN.co and LLL.co domains available on day 1.
You could have placed landrush applications for the better domains before GA.
It would have cost you $200 instead of $30.
and your wouldn’t have wound up with a totally worthless domain.
Great post, Mike.
This is what I picked up:
blur.co $12
geos.co $12 (for personal dev)
honeybee.co $12
bonafide $67
vse.co $17
whips.co $12
filmmaker.co $12
indoorgrills.co $12
studentcreditcard.co $12
nycinsurance.co $12
scratchandwin.co $12
harem.co $12
earlybird.co $12
sultan.co $11
kitsch.co $11
surfinglessons.co $11
druckerei.co $11 (De. for printing)
eisen.co $11 (De. for iron)
studenthealthinsurance.co $11
weiterbildung.co $11 (De. for adult education)
dharma.co $11
learntoread.co $11
stadt.co $11 (De. for city)
moonlight.co $11
motorcity.co $11
camerabags.co $11
bookworm.co $11
eire.co $11
grande.co $11
immobili.co $11 (It. for property)
surfen.co $11 (De. for surfing)
documentaries.co $11
partnervermittlung.co (De. for dating)
bankruptcy-lawyer.co
btg.co $95
tucsonrealestate.co $11
quickie.co $11
paradis.co $22
miningjobs.co $12
musicnews.co $12
dui-lawyer $12
pebblebeach.co $12
baufinanzierung.co $12 (De. for mortgages)
kingsize.co $40
aspenrentals.co $12
gent.co $27
skatepark.co $12
wanderlust.co $12
Like Michael said…lots of crap but quite a few gems in the auction.
@MHB:
One of your best headlines ever.
David
Mucho Gratis
I bought my second dot co today on a drop. My company does stump removal so I figured stump.co ( I see stump company when I see the domain) for under $20 will be a sound investment. End user pricing. If you’re wondering (and you’re probably not) what the first one was, it was bobo.co a name for my new start-up. I loved the the rhyming and the way it flowed.
My opinion has always been the same. Dot co is OK to use to start a company website but one would be much better off investing in dot coms if they intend to flip.
“..and your wouldn’t have wound up with a totally worthless domain.”
Mike we must keep in mind, that .co was/is going to be ‘bigger’ than .com (because it’s one letter shorter!) so ‘everything’ regged in .co was/is going to be valuable!! Words making ‘some’ sense or not, at $25+ a pop, didn’t matter! ..and for some, still doesn’t.
@MHB
Oh man. Do you have to rub it in? I settle every single day of my life.
Kevin
“Mike we must keep in mind, that .co was/is going to be ‘bigger’ than .com ”
Not by anyone except by our friend Robert
The .Co registry owners never claimed and to this day would not say it was going to be bigger than .com.
.xxx isn’t going to be bigger than .com either but its still not to say that live.xx or free.xxx or great adult terms are not going to make money in the future.
Again its a shot.
Point being if you can take a shot from right outside the 3 point line why would you try to hit the net from the other side of the court?
bakofamerica.co
randmcnally.co
Take it easy on the guy that registered the Winehouse name
Mike, I wasn’t referring to the .co Registry, just the fan boys (ala RC), and their ‘this is the one’ hype.
Same
“Take it easy on the guy that registered the Winehouse name”
Why?
There is more than 1 person on earth without any understanding of domains and the law.
You missed sleepless.co – this could have explained the people’s choice 😉
Big Lie
Soon its going back to the banning of you new IP address
@MHB – Not such a cheap shot. When someone self proclaims himself to be a DOMAIN KING, he puts his own calls under scrutiny.
Now most of his domains he has done extremely well with and has a strong history of selling mega domains at mega prices – no arguments there.
But while flowers is obviously a great keyword – .mobi never stood a chance, and cannot be isolated to the success of the iphone – there were plenty reasons why it failed so spectacularly – and a domain king should have seen it coming…..so in that sense i would argue it was a pigeon shit purchase..
@razorblade
You can still be the homerun king and strike out a few times.
@shane
Agreed.
But lets call the strike for what it is.
Razor
We all make bad calls or what turns out to be bad calls.
I’m still sitting with 30 .mobi from the launch.
I didn’t spend $200K on them but still I got some domains that made sense to me based on the extension like 511.mobi (511 is the number you dial from your cell phone to get live traffic updates)
Now 511.mobi turned out to be pretty worthless but it made sense and had a shot had the extension taken off.
So in hindsight we all know what we should have done.
My point is that the domains In my post had NO shot of every making money, no logic behind it, just pure crap.
So when I see a domainer saying I registered 100 .Co domains and none of them sold, so the extension sucks, then I see the crap registered on day 1, when there was virgin territory I had to say what I said.
Actually I think Shane makes a great point.
The best hitter in baseball made outs more than hits 60% of the time
If you play baseball and only make an out 70% of the time your probably off to the hall of fame with a .300 average
when 1,100,000 domains are registered in record time
of course you are going to get at least 2%-3% of the bell curve
that are not good.
On the other hand there are
LLL.Co
are are real gems.
@MHB –
What company with any common sense will want a .co when the .com is owned by someone else? If .co had to be accepted as part of the gTLD it probably wouldn’t pass due to confusion, but its “supposedly” a ccTLD. Money talks but it sure as hell doesn’t tell the truth. Icann does what it is told to do.
Anyway, scene is going to change. This is the old game.
Frank took a leap, which is a nice leap and will give him a nice profit, but he is also missing the boat. The data and facts are there.
Abe
In fact end users have bought the .co without owning the .com, you may not do it but its happening
“”Frank took a leap, which is a nice leap and will give him a nice profit, but he is also missing the boat””
How is exactly frank missing the boat?
.Co
is gaining gound
when you do a google search: site:.co
it is now up to
191,000,000
Robert
I believe this is a year or so overdue but what the hell are you talking about?
I have had some limited success in getting .co’s to rank in google and bing, and I think the prices are right on the drops if u want something to develop out,….less than 1 mile from my office there is a company advertising on a major metro freeway with a dot co address metrooutdoor.co and I think lots of companies may opt for this route. I seem to have won one the above names, curious how quick the transfer occurs.
You can still be the homerun king and strike out a few times.
—
Or, you could be the homerun king who hit a lot of homeruns in 1963, but now make your living from selling the old memorabilia and the annuities you bought back in the day… but you still continue to delude yourself into believing that you can step up to the plate today and succeed, in spite of the fact that the few times you’ve done it publicly, you’ve shown that the touch isn’t there.
LS
Only problem with that theory is the old guy just sold 2 domains for $4M one of which he picked up like 5 years ago or less.
.co=FoolsGold
@Don
I have not had any problems with ranking well with my .co domain.
I have a comic con blog – sdcc[.]co – and it ranked #1 for many keywords right around sdcc – which is a huge comic convention and was getting thousands of hits / day.
It also bumped me up to a PR3 (if anyone looks at that anymore)
Now, I still rank in the top 3 for certain keywords, so yes there is a chance to rank high with a .CO domain
Only problem with that theory is the old guy just sold 2 domains for $4M one of which he picked up like 5 years ago or less.
—
You mean Rick Schwartz specifically?
He can use the money he’s made from domain names to make money with domain names. No one is saying he can’t.
clarify:
“can” should’ve been “has the ability to”. I’d also bet he does a lot of stuff that isn’t public.
Its odd that double hyphenated names were getting regged the first day.
SandCastle.co
WineMarket.co
coCASINO.co
coPOKER.co
coTRAVEL.co
coBUSINESS.co
RH perhaps some SEO guys went to get those. Google uses hyphens as seperators.
You can do some real fun stuff with those.
Those domains belong to Robert Cline….?
Not calling these “good” registrations by any stretch but some of these might have been names of companies, words in other languages, or something similar. For instance “Mashkanta” in Hebrew means “Mortgage”. Doesn’t change the fact that these are definitely pigeon droppings but at least there is some explanation for a few of them.
Now you know what I’ve been seeing. And there is more to come. The big challenge for .co and COINTERNET is getting development underway in the ccTLD. High profile speculator to speculator sales are not development. The .co registry has at least 3500 premium domains that are reserved and they have not made it to market yet. With non-core TLDs, development rates are going to be lower than .com or main ccTLDs. I think that COINTERNET has fumbled the renewals phase in that it removed the drop frenzy from the process.
The earlier comment about a high percentage (70%?) of drops being reregistered may not work out given the low quality of many of the Landrush registrations.
Up until yesterday I only had one .co name – now I’ve got 4 – tried for 6. Very happy to have got them at the prices I did…that’s all I’ve got to say on the subject.
Love it when you brag that you got a good dot co domain and your dot co is rank #1 on SEO and blah blah blah…
Don’t forget to save some money for the dot xxx and other gtld coming out and please drop all your dot com which you don’t have faith in them.
People are still paying money for domains ?
What year is this ?
Re: domain names with hyphen – search engines do not discriminate against these as permalinks in URLs are also made up of hyphens.
While I only own 4 .co domains- never was a fan of extension but will maintain my 4
Funny how people always remember your bad investment.
You don’t need a home run on each name.
Buy a name for 500. Sell for 2500
Profit is 2k
Second name buy at 1000. Sell for 300.
Loss is 700 on this.
So what’s your overall profit between the 2? Loss of 700? 2k? Or 1300
Answer 1300
Does anyone know how to do simple math and whole picture?
I’ve seen barely any evidence whatsoever that .CO is selling well or ranking well. Hardly any of them are mentioned in the weekly sales lists. Hardly any major brands building on them. If you buy into this, you are a gambler or collector, not a domain seller.
The optimistic comments here don’t make any sense, which leads me to believe they are mostly BS comments.
You see, this is like the Casino—you go in and bet and bet and lose about 100K $ and then out of a sudden,you win $100 plus the nice cute gal gives you a free drink of water and she smiles at you.
You get the feeling that you are a winner and keeps on playing forgetting about the 100K you dropped in the toilet.
Do you see casino commercials showing Losers instead of young couples playing happily and winning and then show you the room where they screw !!
“Do you see casino commercials showing Losers…”
Are you saying Domain Registries fabricate (BS) domainers with large portfolios and big deals ?
Pump and Dump ?
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
so what one considers crap is actually gold for another.
here are just a sampling that has shown a great opportunity for those that have bought:
utilities.co $1,506
weddingplanner.co $1,505
tweets.co $780
hoodie.co $773
exercising.co $411
wagers.co $408
copiers.co $371
crave.co $350
symphony.co $350
southern.co $305
beg.co $280
nda.co $256
printshop.co $255
455.co $255
powerboats.co $205
imb.co $205
dok.co $200
tots.co $171
ripped.co $162
finejewelry.co $156
bestrates.co $156
afa.co $155
dim.co $155
distributor.co $150
medx.co $145
auctioneer.co $132
delete.co $130
tnn.co $122
mld.co $106
ohl.co $106
wack.co $106
veal.co $106
onlinelawyer.co $105
yep.co $105
kot.co $100
mno.co $95
ckn.co $94
hdf.co $85
pjb.co $80
ibuyer.co $75
icards.co $72
ayg.co $70
oed.co $70
cee.co $62
roo.co $61
Average LLL wholesale price is now $135
retail price $3000 – $20,000
Mike@
Believe it or not 222 out of 246 are taken in .com. Amazing !!!
Cline@
You forgot one vuedotco $2,022
And onother thing…when you list the names in the future for resale value it would help the domainers if you don’t write the .co or the extension for that matter.
If the end user does a little research and he sees that deletedotco was sold at the auction for $130 he might have a problem paying x amount of dollars.
BLS and Robert Cline posting on the same topic.
The streams have crossed, prepare for a new reality.
Yes,There are so many good sales on Godaddy Auction.
Nearly 50% .co domains registered in Godaddy,that means most of the good .co domains will not actual drop,because it will bid and renew by Godaddy’s pre release
ManydotCo –stop BSing and go ahead and get those dot co domains.
Talk with your money…
@RobertCline – only time will tell if those were prudent purchases or the people who will be left holding the bag.
Remember the .asia, .tel and .me fanboys? Don’t see many of them nowadays.
And imho, you can make money in ANY extension, as long as you get good / great keywords… what MHB is trying to point out with this post.
@mhb-
Yes, I’m aware that some end users bought the .co without owning the .com and in fact as you know some .co were bought while the .com is still available.
There are obviously many factors to take into consideration as in losing traffic to .com with a .co , building your business and raising enough money to buy later on the .com. There are also advantages for shorter urls and .co is shorter than .com. There are many points arguable for each side.
Yes, Rick tried with .mobi and it didn’t work but as you said nicely: Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but he didn’t register pigeon s***, and it’s also a nice loss to balance against profit.
Anyway, its nice to see that Mike M is a good listner and is following Rob Hall
by selling swarmshop.com for a mere 1K+. “Mann”, prices are dropping…
Wow…browsing through the expiring auctions for .co I discovered the biggest waste of money I’ve ever seen! Approx. 1500 geo overheaddoor domains…that’s right 1500!!!! Thats probably $30,000 minimum and I’m sure it’s from one person because they were all reg’d at the same time. I’m going to assume they didn’t just register these alone. This domainer could have bought tens of thousands of domains…all of similar ‘quality’. Ugh…I feel sick about the waste of $$$. Disgusting really. It would be very interesting to find out who it is. Maybe you could interview them, Michael. 🙂
@Christopher
Who else–the great dot co king aka Diarrhea Mouth- R Cline
Not strictly related to the post, but did anyone notice that Apple owns iPad.CO but not the .com?
@Robert Cline, I sold Kreuzfahrt.co = cruise in German, I still have a good one Kreditkarten.co credit cards in German and Rechtsanwalt.co = Lawyer in German