Finally last night I got an e-mail from the .CO registry concerning the land rush applications I placed.
This is the first notice or any information regarding the land rush applications I have received since placing the orders.
The first notice tells you to set up your account:
“”As a result of your recent application(s) for a .CO domain name, you have been registered as a possible participant in the .CO Domain Auctions. Your account has been automtically created based on the information provided with your application. Before you can participate in any .CO auction, you must activate your account.””
You then click on a link which is already coded with the email on the application and you select a password.
About 6 hours after I activated by account I got a notice for each of the 35 auctions I will be in.
The auctions all have a different starting date.
The earliest start date I have on my auction is on August 9.
The latest start date is September 6th.
Each auction runs for 7 days.
All auctions end at 12am GMT which is 8pm EST and 5PM PST and 2am in much of Europe.
Although the rules are not stated for the auction yet, since they will be powered by Pool.com, we assume the auctions will be extended when bids are received in the last minutes for additional time so if your going to play in the land rush auctions and live on the east coast plan on some very early or some very late dinners for a month.
All auctions start at $10 (not counting the land rush fee which was $199-$249)
Good to see some notices coming in on these.
Good Luck MHB. I think it will be difficult to gauge how some of these Landrush auctions will go. I think we’ll see some pretty high bids.
Guess we will see.
obviously with 28K landrush applications I’m not even in a discernible fraction of them.
MHB- your chances of getting has improved because I did not participate….LOL
.co is big for us in Colorado as that is our state abbreviation. I got 420.co in landrush, and there is one other bidding against me for thc.co and one other against me for mmj.co. The larger name medicalmarijuana.co has 6 bidders. This surprises me for how big of news medical marijuana is in Colorado. 420.co, and marijuanaphotos.co are doing really good right now, twice as much traffic with the .co extension
MHB
For your .co names going to auction, when do you expect to get your application fees back from the registrars?
In particular, I have an app in with GoDaddy and wondering how the registration fees are handled when names weren’t secured by the registrar. I’ve spoken with GD since receiving the auction notice and was told I have to wait until the auction is complete. That doesn’t seem correct to me.
@420Colorado — how do you know how many bidders you’ll be competing against?
The auction site has all the info and they email you if you were in landrush
Is there a list of Domain names that are in the Landrush auction?
I am trying to figure out if names that I had lost, during the pre-registration for the general (non landrush) where in fact lost to some landrush registration.
If there is a list of the domain names that are up for auction, could someone please post it.
I just want to see the list for specific names to see if they where lost to Landrush or withheld from that list of 2,000+/- premium names to be auctioned later.
Thank you
Slate
I have asked for the list of land rush domains and it doesn’t appear the registry is going to issue such a list.
But
If you do a whois on a domain and nothing comes back like on slots.co, and the domain is not available its in land rush.
If the domain is reserved for future auctions by the registry is will show as a reserved or restricted domain on the whois
@420co — thanks…I found that info on the auction site.
MHB — Am I misunderstanding the way the landrush applications work at the registrars?
Thanks for any insight.