The .Co auctions from the Land Rush application started a couple of weeks ago and now we have the first reported sales.
This information comes from various sources including the .Co registry.
A few disclaimers:
Many of the auctions are still going on, even those that started at the beginning.
Under the bidding system, if a new bid is received in the final day of the auction which beats the then high proxy bid on the domain, the auction gets extended for another full day.
So for example, there are auctions that I’m in, that have been extended more than a week already.
That means there are not as many results as you would think by this point due to the extending of the auctions.
Moreover most of the higher priced sales have not closed due to the auction getting extended.
Also the .CO registry doesn’t look like they are going to report sales of explicit adult terms or pretty much any adult domains.
The .CO registry is also hypersensitive to bang on well know trademarks of global brands and will not be reporting such sales that will most likely be lost in UDRP’s.
With that having been said here are the results of some closed .CO land rush auctions:
| Gei.co | $6,200 |
| 163.co | $5,778 |
| cityjobs.co | $4,600 |
| dedicated.co | $3,600 |
| airporttransfers.co | $3,200 |
| christchurch.co | $3,100 |
| boaterexam.co | $2,550 |
| economist.co | $2,550 |
| center.co | $2,150 |
| globo.co | $2,050 |
| exchangerates.co | $2,050 |
| bonus.co | $2,000 |
| customer.co | $1,550 |
| abel.co | $1,470 |
| communicate.co | $1,350 |
| addiction.co | $1,300 |
| elevator.co | $1,251 |
| acid.co | $1,250 |
| herbal.co | $1,202 |
| duo.co | $1,161 |
| cycles.co | $1,150 |
| developers.co | $1,001 |
| baker.co | $1,000 |
| ace.co | $1,000 |
| bombay.co | $1,560 |
| Cycles.co | $1,150 |
| Cookware.co | $725 |
| christianity | $725 |
| arsenal | $660 |
| carglass | $645 |
| allergies | $625 |
| fairfax | $625 |
| 5173 | $611 |
A positive sign to see some two-worders in the list. Good times.
I admit…they are very good prices for a TLD that’s ONLY a .COpy of .com
Prediction…
http://TheBigLieSociety.com
will SPIN this as a NEW gTLD to compete with .COM
Then, the real curve ball will be IDN ccTLDs like .CO which looks like .CO
Many American vISPs will default out IDN ccTLDs and offer those as an “up-sell”
The SPIN machines will be busy for years.
Does anyone know where I can go to bid on some of the auctions? What is the website to go to to bid? I cant find it anywhere. Thanks
@Christian: you needed to apply during the land rush in order to be able to bid.
“The .CO registry is also hypersensitive to bang on well know trademarks of global brands and will not be reporting such sales that will most likely be lost in UDRP’s.”
Unless it’s a domain hack.
Gei.co $6,200
“The .CO registry is also hypersensitive to bang on well know trademarks of global brands and will not be reporting such sales that will most likely be lost in UDRP’s.”
So the registry’s happy to earn big dollars from their sale, just not gonna tell how much, LOL. Why allow their sale in the first place?
yep
the gei.co it’s an accident waiting to happen, unless of course it was the company making a defensive move.
Hey Fizz: How is Fizzerland?
does They still serve fancy little umbrellas in the cocktails?
LOL Domo, as they say in our part of the Pacific, things are sweet as! Hope all’s good with you and domaining!
Prices are very fair.
i think the price will be fair if they do it in public auction.
despite some good selling prices, the .CO domains still don’t “excite” me…
help! can you suggest me half dozen affiliate-programs top companies as good as Amazon? (no Google, please) thanks
funny how .me gets smacked down, the .tv extension been around for 10 years and doing well but domainers in usa clueless, people critized the .mx extension with american words by well respected domainers but chasing on the .co
very hard to find a not yet registered .CO that means something
I think it is so funny that people think they will be able to keep names like gei.co or cis.co, or even cost.co
Not going to happen.
Domain hacks are pretty tough, litigiously speaking. That dot in there makes things difficult. Who is to argue that “cost” in cost.co doesnt just mean a website where you can find the price of something? I would not like to be the judge who has to decide that. TM issues like costco.com are pretty clearcut, otherwise….
There was a German businessman who tried to take his hands on project dot me – and lost of course: http://thatis.me/!b$ML
Here is full link to the article, as wordpress seems to cut short urls with !:
http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2010/01/22/lessons-of-project-me/
2010 August 22 ::: GooStation.com VERY GOOD for GoogleTV websites and services ::: permalink
very hard to find a not yet registered .CO that means something
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Try
lemmings.co
PGF
Where are these auctions taking place?
Bruce
These auctions are taking place on a closed platform open to only those who placed a land rush application on certain .co domains.
You can read more about it here
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/07/31/co-landrush-notices-go-out-to-applicants/
and here:
http://www.coauctions.co/
The auctions are “powered” by pool but are not in pool.com system as such but separately run by the registry similar to the .me auctions when that extension rolled out
As we hoped these prices are going to continue to rise. The landrush auction results are only going to drive additional confidence is those who were sitting on the fence.
Once some of these sites are built out and marketing plans have been deployed, then will we start to see some even larger sales.
Great for those who are getting in early!
Good luck to all
I have the bidding rights to:
insure.co
forsalebyowner.co
zip.co
please call me at: 310 702 7693
I just bought LLC.co for $5200
dumbest purchase I’ve ever made, dead on, or a steal??? LLC.com is a huge domain (Short for limited liability company)