.CO LandRush & Pre-Registration Are Open At GoDaddy & Other Registrars W/ Different Prices

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The Land Rush period for the .CO extension starts on June 21st and application are already being accepted at least at 3 registrars.

The Landrush is going to be a bit pricey.

There are 10 registrars in total that will be allowed to sell .CO domains and each can have slightly different pricing.

For Landrush which is opened to everyone, each registrar is charging a non-refundable application fee of $10.

For each domain registered in the Land Rush period, the fees are running from $295 at Godaddy to $325 at Domain.com per domain.

DomainMonster.com has a special price of $249.99 per domain if you apply for 25 or more Land Rush .CO domains at one time.

Any domain not applied for in the Land Rush will be available for general registration starting on July 2oth.

You can pre-order general availability domains now.

Unlike the Land Rush there is no application fee for pre-ordering the General Avaliabity .CO domains.

The cost is set at $29.99 for any domain you get, at Godaddy.com and Domain.com.

DomainMonster.com is only charging $24.99 for a pre-order if you order 25 or more .CO domains at the same time.

Dotster.com is charging $34.95 per domain for a pre-order.

According to the registrars you will be refunded for any domain you don’t get.

Once GA is opened you can register any available domain for what I would guess will be around $20.

Filed Under: .CO

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. .CO Domains says

    Landrush registration of domains are always pricey, and the .co domains will be no different. This is part of the domains business and a way to make more money from premium .co domains and generic words that will get a bigger impact and may be auctioned in the future.

    .CO Domains

  4. MHB says

    Alan

    Normally renewal fees will apply to landrush domains, so the same as general registration renewal fees

  5. MHB says

    Domo

    Think this is different than .cm.

    First Columbia is a real country with a huge population of like 45 Million with growing internet saturation.

    .CO is spending a lot of money marketing this extension to end users to use it to stand for company or corporation.

    As far as I know .CM did not spend a dime to promote the extension and it certainly didn’t stand for anything.

  7. Cartoonz says

    “EnCirca is charging $245 for Landrush registrations.”

    Which all sounds great until you have to agree to this:

    “I understand the landrush price includes a $215 non-refundable fee.”

    So what happens when you do not secure the domain? We get fleeced for $215 anyway?

    That’s how it reads….

  8. sdfsdf says

    “Columbia is a real country”
    Kind of “Rednecky” statement saying between the lines “Cameroon is not a real country”.

  9. snicksnack says

    It will be interesting to see how much the domains will fetch in the auction. The pricing of go live is accetable and their should be plenty of domains worth the registration fee, unless they all end up getting registered during landrush.

  10. Kerim Temel says

    I grabbed roulette.co, to be honest I would of grabbed more but it is a bit pricey don’t even know if its going to even make anything.

  12. Domo says

    MHB
    Think this is different than .cm.

    First Columbia is a real country with a huge population of like 45 Million with growing internet saturation.

    .CO is spending a lot of money marketing this extension to end users to use it to stand for company or corporation.

    ************************
    I should had elaborated more, as far as Colombia beign a big country … agree but…

    I see a high ” Country Risk” just like the ones carriedby Foreign Investments , they could become a Socialist Govmnt overnight (a la Chavez) and do something funny or impose restrictions with domains a la “.com.ar” eg: 200 per capita .

    I think most Foreign domainers are playing the “typo” huge traffic play, and I what I noticed is that only the Huge Brands TM have decent traffic such as ebay.co amazon .co etc etc and more etc , as far as spanish premiums even the King of Kings juegos.com has very meek traffic ( alexa; Alexa Traffic Rank: 9,555,129) not warranting any Huge investment unless you are Juan Valdez of course…

    Additionaly : If you take the .mx as an example (Bigger more devloped Country) you see that it went nowhere… to little to late , they Can’t overcome the .com domainance and the trend..
    A lesson for Argentina to take the .ar out ASAP , swallow that pill pronto like bad medicine.

    Lastly you wrote:
    ” .CO is spending a lot of money marketing this extension to end users to use it to stand for company or corporation.”
    I say “smoke and mirrrors”
    I ttink that only exists in thier mind , nobody semi educated will buy that premise, .com stands for anything COmercial… whether is a Corporation a Company or a Conglomerate…

    One more thing (colombo style):
    There is huge conflict of interest already exposed , one fo the .co Directors (and its family) has already adquired some of the premiums names , he candily admitted that, same goes for registrar employees.
    Best
    Domo.

  13. MHB says

    Domo

    “”I see a high ” Country Risk” just like the ones carriedby Foreign Investments , they could become a Socialist Government overnight (a la Chavez) and do something funny or impose restrictions with domains a la “.com.ar” eg: 200 per capita””

    Any ccTLD can place restrictions on the extension or change the rules, however there is no indication that they would do this. Its a democratic country which I think has not had a revolution or overthrow of a government in my lifetime.

    I guess you can make that argument for almost every ccTLD including .me or .tv.

    “King of Kings juegos.com has very meek traffic ( alexa; Alexa Traffic Rank: 9,555,129) ”

    Juegos.co is forwarding to juegos.com and I have that being ranked by Alexa as 951:

    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juegos.com#trafficstats

    Also 136,000 monthly visitors according to Compete:

    http://siteanalytics.compete.com/juegos.com/?src=ff-tb

    In a future post, we’ll be interviewing the .CO CEO to see what he has to say about the registry.

  14. tom barrett says

    reply from, EnCirca regarding:
    “EnCirca is charging $245 for Landrush registrations.”
    Which all sounds great until you have to agree to this:
    “I understand the landrush price includes a $215 non-refundable fee.”
    So what happens when you do not secure the domain? We get fleeced for $215 anyway?

    The non-refundable fee is one imposed by the registry for all resellers. Most companies should be able to get their company names and brands without going to auction and the non-refundable issue should be moot.

    There will be competition for the more common names and those will go to auction. The nonrefundable fee is the entry fee for participation in each auction.

    Tom Barrett
    EnCirca

  16. tom barrett says

    oops. You are right, this is strange… The EnCirca page has been corrected to read $15 non-refundable fee.

    Thanks for the catch.

    Tom

  23. Louise says

    Did you notice in the rules about .co:

    proxy registrations are prohibited

    It’s a Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) proposed by ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) to protect trademarks with regard to new TLD’s.

    Publicly available registrant info denotes correctness, stability, and accountability, conveying institution and permanence – I prefer it!

  24. DomainMan says

    Hello everybody

    In April I applied for 4 domain names Car.co, TEA.co, Fish.co and ABC.co for the Landrush fee through GoDaddy

    Now back in April their system allowed me to register for those(now they changed it and it doesnt allow applying for ‘reserved’ .co names).

    Sure they knew they belonged to the so called ‘reserved’ list from the .CO registry.

    Now they say they cannot go ahead and apply for them on my behalf and refunded the money less the $10 application fee.

    I’m not happy with that. I find it not fair. Because they KNEW you wouldnt be apply to apply on my behalf for these names in the first place yet they allowed me and other people to pre-register these names and charged big money for them, kept the money all this time and then just refunded it keeping the $10 per each.

    I am sure there’re many people who were misled by GoDaddy’s system allowing to apply for these names back in April and then rejecting these applications based on the fact they were on the some reserved list

    I want to bring public attention to it!

  25. Juan says

    @ DomainMan

    Thanks for your note. We have actually been investigating this case since you first sent it in to our support email a day or two ago.

    In the case of TEA.co and ABC.co, those were registered as part of one of the previous stages (Grandfathering or Sunrise). Naturally, they are no longer available for Landrush or GA. In terms of refunds, each registrar treats these cases differently depending on their terms and conditions.

    In the case of FISH.co and CAR.co, those two have been in our Premium List since April. They require further investigation on my part so I’ll provide feedback by email later this afternoon.

    Thanks!

    Juan

  26. Isaac says

    I tried pre-registering a domain through GoDaddy for the general availability launch.
    It seems like they are letting multiple people pre-register the same domains…
    Does anyone have any idea how that works, why they let more than one person pre-register a domain, and what happens if more than one person registers a name?

  27. Alon says

    Isaac,

    I work at Go Daddy, and I wanted to answer your question about pre-registration.

    We do not allow multiple “pre-registrations” for the same domain name. However, we do allow multiple Landrush orders for a domain name. The purpose of the Landrush is to gauge interest in a domain, and if there are multiple orders, it goes to private auction for those who put in a Landrush order for it.

    There may also be a single pre-registration order even if there are multiple Landrush orders. This is because we cannot guarantee that the Landrush auction would result in a real registration.

    So, to summarize:

    Landrush: multiple orders per domain allowed; if multiple orders, goes to auction
    Pre-registration: single order per domain

    I hope this clears things up for you. If you have additional questions about how Go Daddy works, please contact our Support team at http://go.me/help

    Thank you,

    Alon
    Go Daddy Social Media Specialist

  28. MHB says

    Alon

    And of course if there are Land Rush order and pre-registration orders than the Landrush order get filled either on an one off or through auction and the pre-registrations on that domain don’t get filled.

  29. Isaac says

    Alon – thanks for the info.
    One more question –
    Does GoDaddy check with the other registrars to see if there is another pre-registration on the domain?
    So if I pre-register a domain, and no one else orders it with LandRush, does that mean I’ll automatically get it?
    Or is it possible that someone else pre-registered it with another registrar, and then I may not necessarily get it?
    Thanks!

  30. Alon says

    Isaac,

    Pre-registration cannot guarantee registration for exactly the reason you are considering. Although we will attempt to register all eligible pre-registered domains as quickly as possible, it is technically possible that another registrar attempts to register the same name when general availability begins.

    Thank you,

    Alon
    Go Daddy Social Media Specialist

  31. Mike says

    Alon,
    Thanks for your input, but correct me if I am wrong…so there is going to be a massive submission of hundreds of thousands of pre-registered domains by 10 different registrars on July 20th at exactly 2pm ET?

    Given that I pre-registered for a domain on June 22nd at registrar X, if registrar Y submits their pre-registrations first, they could have had a single pre-registration for the same domain that morning and they’d get it? Sure sounds like a system designed for corruption.

    Is that how it has worked in the past for other TLDs? That seems a bit ridiculous. I’d much prefer that all pre-registrations be submitted immediately, with the first pre-registration receiving the domain July 20th.

  32. Juan says

    Hi Alon,

    I’ll take your question as it’s related to the design of the Launch Process and not something specific to a single registrar:

    Yes, at 2pm EST on July 20th registrars will attempt to process their back-log of pre-registrations through our systems.

    As a standard in the industry, on that day, all registrars get the same level of access to the registry’s systems (same number of connections) and they start processing registrations once we open the floodgates.

    We do not take into consideration when domains were pre-registered as that would essentially move the launch date backwards in time, benefiting the few registrars that managed to get their systems up and running sooner than others.

    To address your concern, we designed the launch with a stage called Landrush. Landrush is NOT first-come, first-served, meaning that you can submit your application for a domain at any point in time during the Phase (June 20th to July 13th). At the end, if we received matching applications, those domain names go to auction. Because it’s a “priority service”, Landrush carries a premium over registrations for general availability.

    I hope that helps.

    Juan.

  33. Mike says

    Juan,

    Thank you for your response. Although, that does sound like an incentive to make my pre-registrations with the very smallest of the 10 registrars.

  34. Isaac says

    Is there any way to see which domains were already registered with Landrush?
    Or were they all already processed, and would they come up in the .co whois?
    Thanks.

  35. MHB says

    Isaac

    To the best of my knowledge there is no place where you can see the domains applied for at auction, yet

  37. movie2k says

    .co domain names is already great and can rank well in serp’s one of my domains is .co and i purchased it from godaddy so far this domain is doing a great job.

  38. HAmza says

    i am from pakistan no paypal ! anyone knows when godady will going to accept alertpay or when papal come in pakistan ! ?