The .Co registry announced today that is has registered it 500,000 domain in less than 2 months after it launched the .Co extension.
The .Co registry released the following tonight:
“”””.CO Domain Hits 500,000 Registrations Milestone”
“””.CO Poised to Become World’s Fastest Growing Domain Extension”
“CO Internet S.A.S. (www.COinternet.co) announced that as of today it has officially taken registrations for more than a half a million .CO domain names.”
“Hitting this major milestone less than two months from the public launch of the .CO extension reinforces the high consumer demand and global nature of the .CO domain.”
“As of today, companies, web developers, agencies, entrepreneurs and individuals from nearly 200 countries around the world have registered .CO domains. While nearly 37% of current registrations have come from inside of the United States, the domain is growing in popularity in many other countries.”
In terms of .CO registrations here is the breakdown of countries where registrants live:
1. United States 37%
2. United Kingdom 17%
3. Colombia 12%
4. Australia 4%
5. Canada 4%
6. Germany 3%
7. India 2%
8. China 2%
9. France 2%
10. Poland 2%
“In passing the half-million registrations mark so quickly, the Internet and business communities have voiced their desire for new and better options in branding their online presence,” said Juan Diego Calle, CEO of .CO Internet S.A.S. “The strong demand for .CO domains validates our business strategy and the work we have done to bring .CO to market. We are extremely pleased with our results to date – and look forward to continued growth in the coming months and years.”
A key factor contributing to the success of the .CO launch has been the strong distribution network the .CO Registry has formed by partnering with many of the world’s leading registrars and domain resellers, including, among others, GoDaddy.com, OpenSRS, Network Solutions, eNom, Inc. and 1&1 Internet AG.
“With a global domain launch of this magnitude, the .CO Registry needed a state-of-the-art back-end registry provider that’s been proven to be secure, reliable and robust,” said Tim Switzer, Vice President of Domain Name Registry Services, Neustar. “We are proud to say that Neustar’s global registry platform provides the technical infrastructure to seamlessly power the operation of the .CO domain.”
“Currently, the .CO registry is engaged in settling via auction more than 2,500 .CO domains that had multiple bidders during the pre-launch “Landrush” period. Some recent notable auction sales include: Mesothelioma.co for $76,000; Insure.co for $60,000; DuiAttorney.co for $44,500; Slots.co for $41,000; Aspen.co for $22,500; Vehicles.co for $18,500, Sites.co for $15,500 and UsedCars.co for $14,000, to name a few. ”
“The .CO Registry plans to auction single-letter and other premium domains in the coming months”
Congrats to Juan (our nominee for domainer of the year) and Lori Ward for writing the textbook on how to roll out a new extension.
test
Never have so many spent so much for so little.
I am amazed at the press coverage all the domain bloggers are giving the .co domains, some have gone to the xtent of saying that .co will beat .com 🙂
Are you really serving a good purpose by REGULARLY PUMPING .CO DOMAINS?
What makes .co so special? NOTHING imo.
.CO is going thru the same PUMP AND DUMP scheme from the veteran domainers as any other new TLD in the past……CO is NO DIFFERENT.
Please don’t go over board pumping this .CO as it will not only tarnish your blog’s great reputation but also hurt so many other new domainers who are getting sucked in to believing that .CO is going to be great.
.CO will be hard to find or hardly discussed in a year’s time.
The ONLY thing it will do is bleed traffic to the .com domains when .CO domains are developed.
Let us get realistic……please!
“What makes .CO so special?”
1. The .CO “Process” was largely handled without ICANN.
2. There has been a clear FREE.market.based statement by people willing to pay 3 or 4 times the .COM price, NOT to do business with ICANN or Verisign.
3. The .CO names selected by people with a FREE-Choice are NOT in line with Jon Postel’s IANA delusions of ccTLDs.
4. People are willing to do business with some of the same people who operate .US and the statistics confirm .CO business largely comes from the .USA
5. “What makes .CO so special?”…unlike .COM which is often pronounced DOT COM, .CO will likely become part of famous marks and brands because of the natural sound for English speakers. (who still pay some of the bills to run the Internet)
RKB
“”I am amazed at the press coverage all the domain bloggers are giving the .co domains, some have gone to the xtent of saying that .co will beat .com :)””
I have NEVER said that .co will beat .com not anything to the effect.
“Are you really serving a good purpose by REGULARLY PUMPING .CO DOMAINS?”
I’m not pumping .co domains.
I’m reporting on the sales they have achieved and the registrations they have reached.
The facts are the facts.
Stuff is selling for big money.
Hope you have some.
Point me to the quote where I said you should buy .co domains (however in retrospect its seems like a very good idea).
“””Please don’t go over board pumping this .CO as it will not only tarnish your blog’s great reputation but also hurt so many other new domainers who are getting sucked in to believing that .CO is going to be great.””
Again I am reporting INFORMATION as it is reported to me
@RKB..I guess 500,000 other people think otherwise.
@ Jim
.CO is bought mainly for TYPO traffic. period. (by domainers).
Brand bought .CO as a defensive purchase as they do with many other new TLDs.
Oh, btw, just wait for 100 other great TLDS (:)) to hit the market over next couple of years and then we will see where is .CO 🙂
I have dropped almost all of my non-dot-com domains in last 12 months including org/net/info/biz/us etc. I have seen it all in last 10 years…..this new great TLD game is played almost every year and then after all the pump and dump: some clever domainers make money and suckers/newbies are left holding the bag. It is being played again with .CO imo.
The funny thing is some domain bloggers go out of their way to pump the new TLDs and it happens almost every-time a new TLD comes….I wonder what benefit do they get doing this?
I been a domain blogger too, haven’t written anything in last one year but I can’t keep quiet when I see a bunch of bloggers just unreasonably pumping a new TLD be it .co or .asia or .crap 🙂
Sorry, someone need to have guts to put the way it is…..it is our duty to protect the new comers from getting ripped of in the domain industry.
Let me end by saying this (for many new TLDs):
– Doesn’t matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, a pig is still a pig.
– Doesn’t matter how much mayo you add to chicken shit, it will never become chicken salad.
The above is just my opinion and I may be wrong but I am just basing things on what I saw in last 10 years.
@ MHB
I am not saying that you said .co will beat .com or blaming you for other exaggerated claims made by other domainers.
I do somehow see pumping of .co going on in the blogger community and I am afraid we will burn so many new domainers with this kind of coverage.
Just my opinion and again I may be wrong.
RKB
Ok I will play
How long before you know if an extension is going to make a meaningful, long last impact?
Give me a timeline
I dare .co pumpers/fans to not sell their prized .co domains (in this hype) and wait 2 years to see what happens 🙂
Bluefire
To be fair there are not 500K different owners that one 1 domain a piece
I own about 30 .co domain names myself so that shoots that theory
@RKB
“basing things on what I saw in last 10 years.”
When you have 30 years of experience, things may look different. 🙂
One thing being left un-said…”The insiders behind .CO are not likely to allow grass to grow under their feet. One would expect they will continue to encourage changes to the basic infrastructure to favor .CO over .COM. Google for DNSMASQ as one example of software that will likely be changed to have a .CO flavor. .COM now has a true competitor.”
Despite all of the above, the smart money is probably still on FREE domains and Microsoft’s PNRP – Peer Name Resolution Protocol. Microsoft can flex their pinky finger in any future release/update of Windows and bury the legacy DNS industry. It would be a repeat of the IE vs. Netscape. “What part of FREE don’t you understand?”
If the above was not enough, we have the Frat Boy at ICANN running around
telling people the DNS could collapse… and his million dollar salary ?
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/09/icann-boss-international-domain-system-in-peril.ars
RKB
I’m not selling any of the .co domains I have for less than 6 figures
congrats to the players in the game of the .co era
There’s nothing wrong with getting excited about “this years” new extension…the auto industry does very well with that type of “hype”.
Are people supposed to endlessly buy .coms from each other into infinity, each one paying a higher price than the last owner?
.co has definitely the best PR Team among all the TLDs 😉 Well done .CO!
P.S I have ZERO .co domains.
After the hype the .co will feel like Detroit, meaning tons of vacant homes.
@ Jim
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One thing being left un-said…”The insiders behind .CO are not likely to allow grass to grow under their feet. One would expect they will continue to encourage changes to the basic infrastructure to favor .CO over .COM. Google for DNSMASQ as one example of software that will likely be changed to have a .CO flavor. .COM now has a true competitor.”
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We have all heard these arguments before:
– biz is for business while .com doesn’t mean anything 🙂
– mobile commerce is the new game and .mobi will beat .com soon: where is .mobi?
– cell phones will have a .mobi button….blah blah blah 🙂 which cell phone has .mobi button?
So you think that google will go aginst millions of brands/advertisers giving preference to .co over .com? Let’s be realistic:)
We are all free to buy any TLD we want and so is the case with .co
But we should not create hype by repeatedly covering almost same things over and over imo.
With all due respect, I have great regard for MHB and this blog and I am bringing my concerns in the open because I have seen these things play out so many times.
Like I said, I have dropped/sold almost all my non-dot com TLDs in last 12 months based on my experience/opinion and over 99% of our portfolio is now dot-com.
Again, just my opinion.
No one has to care about it 🙂
@RKB
“One thing being left un-said…”The insiders behind .CO are not likely to allow grass to grow under their feet.”
I can assure you that the State of .COlorado is very interested in the outcome.
The U.S. Air Force is also very interested, and they have nukes.
Visit AirForceAcademy.CO early and often. 🙂
“I’m not selling any of the .co domains I have for less than 6 figures”
Would it be a good guess to say you were the buyer of insure.co ?? 🙂
@ Jim 🙂
Btw, comparing .co to .com is
like
comparing a rock to a mountain.
It will be fun to watch .co (with 500k registrations) overtake .com (with some 80 million registrations) 🙂
Now lets talk about the next new TLD that will challenge .com, should we? 🙂
@RKB
🙂
“It will be fun to watch .co (with 500k registrations) overtake .com (with some 80 million registrations) ”
In theory, there are Zillions of .COM domains, they just are not all “active”. Registrations mean nothing in the new DNS. That is the Legacy DNS. The central COLO model.
One may be more interested to see what domains are being INVITED to the new .NET Platform. All 80 million .COM domains are not on that list. That is called “The.A.List”.
The Deloitte A.List has 100
http://www.deloitte.com/be/brand-list
In 1999, the People’s A.List had 2,048 extensions… How many has ICANN invited?
http://www.icann.org/en/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
.COOP?
Anyone can make a list. Anyone can spend $100,000,000 on new DNS software. In 1998 Jon Postel was told that $50 UNIX boxes would be developed to replace IANA. He said, “That would cost Billions…”. Our answer was…”So?”… it is worth it for future generations to be FREE of YOU
@bluefire ; 500K Reg doesn’t equal 500K people.
@RKB ; IMHO .co will not go the route of other hyped ccTLDs, but we ona side note, we had .CM hype, .CO hype, next is .OM ?
“”I’m not selling any of the .co domains I have for less than 6 figures””
@MHB,
Ok now you have me interested. What names do you have on your list?
@ACE
Next up would be .INC
…
in 1999 but this is 2010 – Shock and awe may be coming…
“The U.S. Air Force is also very interested, and they have nukes.
Visit AirForceAcademy.CO early and often. 🙂 ”
1st off… I love Nukes… We need more Nukes.
MORE NUKES… MORE NUKES!!!
Second thought…. AirforceAcademy.CO resolves to AVE4.com???
A bit weird.
I have hedged my bets with .CO. I have registered 12 names.
Fairly strong names in my opinion.
.co didn’t get a dime of my money.
I say if you haven’t sold yet you’re holding the bag.
Just a greater fool play and that’s it.
Most people will loose more money than they care to on .co.
Any .me domains selling for good money lately? .mobi? .tv?
Prices go down when the hype goes down.
Beanie babies, real estate, tulips, etc.
I vote the dot co’s companies that did not get the dot com they wanted are snapping up these names. Not surprised at the .co numbers in the UK people in the UK are use to .co.uk over the .com so typing in .co is no big deal.
Gazzip
No that would be a bad guess
NOTE WELL: Do not under-estimate the ability of the .CO and the .COM insiders to partner and further solidify their base. Each is not stupid. Jointly they are deadly. Not even the Air Force with nukes can stop those two 900 lb. gorillas.
They could have their Sock.Puppets launch a SPIN Campaign to encourage the same COmpany to own BOTH the .CO and .COM domains. If you do not have that, you do not make the “A.List”, and don’t exist on The.Real.Internet (i.e. .TV)
On the bizarre techie front, you could easily change DNSMASQ to take 32-bits via .CO and 32-bits via .COM and create a 64-bit AAAA DNS record. The routing happens 32-bits at a time. It is like a COmpany with a front door and back door. You end up at the same place from either path.
going get very ugly for the buyers of .co and these rich prices.
pure speculation+ bubble= a lot of people going show losses imo
the crazy thing is .co is columbia, if your going invest go spanish imo. adult .co will work as well.
time will tell, if im wrong im wrong … focusing on .com
the thing most of the people forget i think is, the .co is already there in the internet world for years now. millions of people are already get used to it. ex co.in, co.il, co.uk etc. what new is, two months ago .co has got a promotion from a sub domain like status to the top level. thats it. so should be even more populer in next few years imho.
do any body sad before the launch of .co ” don’t go for .co.uk or co.in. insted use .com. because .co is for colombia. so if you register a domain like .co.uk, which mean uk in columbia lol
.CO is very special.
The buzz on this board attests to this fact.
In life, you either have it or you don’t. .CO has it. .CO has the goods.
I would like to see .CO send out APIs to all the smaller registrars out there. .CO is aligned with the top 12 registrars but there are 100s smaller registrars and if .CO build out an easy API for the smaller registrars I think we can almost double the number of registrations.
No matter what some detractors say, the facts are:
1) .CO is COmpany, COrporation, COmmercial …
2) Same as .COM but shorter, which is a big plus
3) Less is More and .CO has it
4) .CO sound better, i.e. – business.CO
5) .CO actually looks better on the URL address bar in my opinion, either because it is shorter, I don’t know but just look at it on the URL address bar and you will see it looks better.
6) .COM has come to its end
7) no more available or credible domains with .COM
8) most people are looking to develop their excellent .CO domains. Just type site:.co is google search and you will see all the .CO developed sites.
9) The fact there are people on this post spending their energy poo-pooing. I guess misery loves company and they spend their energy trying to destroy other people’s success.
10) The simple fact is:
.CO is the new king. And long live the new king.
Out goes the old, In comes the new. This is how the world has always worked. When a new king arrives there have always been dissenters. But everyone knows what happens with the few dissenters, they get mowed down. If you can’t beat them, join .CO
The facts are the facts. No one here can deny:
The prodigious number of registrations in such a short period of time. There has never been and there will never be another better extension than .CO
You either get on board now or you miss the boat. period.
There is one other important thing that no one here mentions and that is the fact that .CO is a global domain. While most posters here are based here on mainland United States, .CO is global, unlike .CA or .US, which are restricted to just their country.
The fact that .CO is already used in 60 plus other countries is huge. This virtually means the market for .CO is at least 60x times bigger than .CA or .US
Unlike any one country specific extension, .CO can be registered in over 280 countries worldwide. That means .CO is bigger and huger by 280x times plus than any other extension. My case in point, hence the prodigious number of registrations in such a short period of time.
Every poster on this board will be quietly registering .CO s, the new king.
with all the hype of course it was going to get 500k regges. it has a long way to go to catch .biz on a couple of million even lol
it will slow massively in a few months and drops will happen bigtime in a couple of years
the typo and tm monsters will have a bit of fun
either way, not touching with a barge pole
@Atteys
What is your interest being here? Why do you spend any energy posting here trying to put .CO down? Is it our fault that you do not have any .CO s and are trying to cause an implosion so everyone can join in your misery.
.CO will be bigger than .net, .org, .biz, .ca, .mx, mobi, .info, etc.
This is the bottomline.
Well we had .cm, now we have .co. I’m going to get together with some investors and launch .om and we’ll have the whole typo maket covered. I’ll make a deal with Oman to do this and then we’ll market it as extension for “online marketing” or “open markets” or whatever stupid tie in I can dream up and people will buy into. I’ll make millions…
hello ↲
all .co will not be a hype, if you bought domain i the past and today find out you made a wrong investment it means you pay little attention to what your still small voice says that consign the matter at hand, learn how to listen and obey your still small voice before taking business decision, the still small voice is the voice of the infinite being and he knows our tomm. Take or leave it the .co is a very good investment..co is a five star brand.
“nearly 37% of current registrations have come from inside of the United States”
just typosquatting prevention + redirect
i am happy about the 3rd place for columbia but wished it would be higher.
@Shaun
.CO *****
.com ****
.biz **
.ca **
.mobi **
.co.uk **
.cm *
.mo *
.om *
.cim *
.cox *
.ksl *
.Shaun *
.okay *
I hope you see the pattern. Get it?
“There has never been and there will never be another better extension than .CO”
@Robert Cline – that’s a pretty bold statement. Can you back it up? Can you predict the future and honestly tell us that we’ll NEVER see another extension that will be better than .CO?
What defines “better”? Do you mean in terms of popularity? I’m pretty sure you’re pretty far off with that statement, or plain out wrong!
The fact that 37% of all .Co registrations have been made within the US borders says it all. Why? Because the US is the only country mostly rotating around .COM. If you look at other countries you’ll notice other TLD’s are far more popular than .COM & your beloved .CO.
Time will tell where .CO ends up, but I’m pretty sure more popular extensions will come along in the future. Never say never!
You can get some great .net domains for much less than .co…
if the market is so desperate for an alternatives, why not .net?
.CO versus .COM
.CO can stand for everything .COM stands for and more:
.CO can also stand for collaboration, cohabitation, coexistence, copulation, continental, cooperative, country, COOP, co-opportunity, co-working, and many more.
@Mr. T
If you can think of a better extension than .CO, I’d like to hear it. Go ahead give it to me.
The new DNS has ICONS.
The .™ may give .TM a challenge.
.©
.®
Google for IPv3 Alphabet…
a@ b♠ c© d♦ e= f☺ g& h# i| j♫ k♣ l( m₪ n! o* p% q♥ r) s$ t~ u_ v^ w? x☼ y¥ z▒ -™ .®
.co has sold so many domains in two months mainly because it’s a .com without the last “m” but (again) we must wait one-two years to know if it is also a long term success
personally I believe that it will be NOT a long term success because, those who needed a .co (mainly for redirect) have already registered their domains
“we must wait one-two years to know if it is also a long term success…”
Yes, in 2 years we will be back in 1980…
SCEPTRE – Circa 1980 – One year BEFORE the IBM PC
http://g99k.yolasite.com/resources/sceptre.jpg
So many cocksuckers here.
They have missed the .co launch and are pissed off, so they bash the TLD.
You have the right to hate .co, but ignoring the facts just make your arguments worthless.
.co is already used in important ccTLDS worlwide (.co.uk, .co.jp, .co.th, .co.nz, etc.)
So people are used to type .co in their address bar and not .com.
Co has a meaning. Whether you like it or not. It has always standed for company/corporation in the English-speaking world.
Com, intrisically, has not a terrible meaning. Remember it stands for Commercial, even if its popularity and seniority has made that most people ignore it.
If .co had 80 million registrations and 15 years of seniority, would you bash it? Certainly not.
So it’s popularity that makes the success of a TLD, and 500,000 registrations in 2 months are a good start.
.MOBI only sold for 250,000 in ONE YEAR.
“they bash the TLD”
no one bashes the .co TLD here… we only think that a “.co fanaticism” is ridiculous
if and when we’ll think and want to make business with .co we’ll always have millions of good .co domains to register (at least, all the .com .net .org etc. that haven’t a registered .co yet) and to sell
so, if only 500,000 .co have been registered, so far, rather than millions of .co, that’s NOT due to a lack of “good .co domains” to register, but it’s due to the fact, that ,only a small number of companies and domainers, really believe that .co is a so extraordinary TLD
.
“If .co had 80 million registrations and 15 years of seniority, would you bash it?”
it’s a nonsense… why should all (or many) .com owners change it with (or buy also a .co) a .co domain?
it’s like say that all people that already have a Ferrari (a .com) should soon change it with a Smart (a .co)
.
we will NEVER see a banner like…
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hey, eBay.com users!
we’ve moved to our new eBay.co site!
so, now, you can “save” an “m” when typing our URL !!! 🙂
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absurd
You forget, millions of new businesses are formed everyday. In fact, there are more great businesses that have not formed yet, than there are in existence today that will need URL addresses. And .CO will be there to provide them with the perfect URL address.
Out goes the old, in comes the new .CO
I predict many great future start-ups will have the .CO as their web address.
MyGreatStartUp.CO
Diversification. To all naysayers who stood on the sidelines with their tails between their legs, this is the word. No one knew .co would be this special and successful. But like Mr. Fleming suggested, if you did your homework and due diligence on the .co infrastructure, you would know how superbly it has been constructed.
By the way, who gives a hoot about 2 years time anyway? Decisions need to be made and work done in the moment and then the future takes care of itself. No risk, no reward. Ask any successful athlete, businessman etc. It’s such a shame that some people base their decisions all on past experience rather than doing their homework and looking what’s around them in the present.
“And .CO will be there to provide them with the perfect URL address.”
why “perfect”???
the best TLD already IS the .com since well recognized worldwide
I can’t imagine a new spartup that uses the .co as its MAIN or SOLE domain… NOT EVEN A COLOMBIAN’S STARTUP IF ITS MARKET IS THE WORLD
while, I believe that many new startups will buy the .com AND also the .co (as already happens today with .net .org .biz etc.)
And millions of business emails and hits will go to acmewidgetsforsale.com instead of acmewidgetsforsale.co.
.org, or a dense ccTLD like .de, are sufficiently different to stick out in the collective consciousness. .co won’t be there for a long time, if ever. But, like .me, it’s fine for certain applications; just not a magic bullet like .com.
Btw, anyone know how .co is being treated by the publisher networks? Is it treated like .me, .us, etc. and/or smartpriced?
I have seem several .CO domains fully developed already and I go to their .COM counterpart and it is friggin parked.
How ironic. It only goes to show how some of you don’t know what you are saying.
This tread is friggin lit up.
.CO is on FIRE.CO
@RKB
And how many of those 80. million dot coms are used and how many actually have a quality name and go to a quality site? A very small fraction indeed. Quality over quantity any day. The statistic that will be interesting to see is how many “quality” .co registrations there are compared to how many quality .coms.
Let’s also not forget that .com has been the extension for a lot of god aweful domain names and sites. .co has had the advantage of learning from the mistakes of others.
“Gazzip
No that would be a bad guess”
Oh well, I’m wrong again 🙂
Any chance you can let us know a few that you have bought so far saying as you’ve got our interest with a min of 6 figures ?
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@ Robert
“1) .CO is COmpany, COrporation, COmmercial …”
…or COmpanies nightmare
“2) Same as .COM but shorter, which is a big plus”
…nothing like .com but a slight advantage perhaps for the bone-idle
3) Less is More and .CO has it
..it sure does, less traffic !
4) .CO sound better, i.e. – business.CO
..I don’t think I’v ever heard anyone say Co to describe their company in the UK…and I ain’t no spring chicken either.
5) “.CO actually looks better on the URL address bar in my opinion, either because it is shorter, I don’t know but just look at it on the URL address bar and you will see it looks better.”
…beauty is in the eye of the beholder…or you’re just infactuated already. Sometimes Love is Blind.
6) “.COM has come to its end”
Are you the new NostraDomainus? …..not much I can say to that except LMAO
7) “no more available or credible domains with .COM”
….There’s hundreds of thousands of them if you can pay the asking price, same thing will happen when all the best generic .Co’s are auctioned off by the register and then put up for resale.”
8) “most people are looking to develop their excellent .CO domains. Just type site:.co is google search and you will see all the .CO developed sites.”
…..somehow I really don’t think it will be most people! was it so with .us, .eu, .tv, .mobi, .asia etc etc etc ?
9) “The fact there are people on this post spending their energy poo-pooing. I guess misery loves company and they spend their energy trying to destroy other people’s success.”
…Not at all, the name of the game is speculation, nothing wrong with that and most domainers are very happy to see other domainers making sales in any extension whatever it is, it’s good news for us all when it happens. With .Co it’s been the register that’s making the vast majority of the money so far.
You on the other hand are hyping .Co up like it has already been a success for most domainers. The simple fact is: it has’nt yet.
10) “The simple fact is:
.CO is the new king. And long live the new king.”
… see what I mean Nostradomainus ? Are you sure you don’t work for cointernet? 🙂
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@ Shaun
“Well we had .cm, now we have .co. I’m going to get together with some investors and launch .om and we’ll have the whole typo maket covered.”
you missed the best one, .con, that would probably get more typo traffic than any of them….coming soon to a register near you 🙂
ps, just because someone may have a different opinion than the majority it does’nt make them a “jealous hater”, that’s childs talk.
Good luck all 🙂
Another trend is Domain Hacks…
http://C.hick.CO
…young people seem to accept them quicker than Internet Clerics
there is no need to wait 15 years (as for .com) to buy 80 millions of .co
several millions of .co can be registered in a matter of weeks!
so, why only 500,000 (and not ten+ millions) of .co have been sold in two months?
the answer is simple: because ONLY a few companies and people need a .co
if one needs a .co there is no reasons to wait months or years to buy it (if still available)
so, those who need a .co, have already registered their domains
and that’s why I don’t see any reason for a great increase of .co registrations in the next months/years
les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus
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The moment that the self proclaimed “Domainers” stop careing to talk about the .CO extension is the time I would worry about getting out of the .CO extension business.
While they continue to talk about it (Good, Bad, or other) . It means its alive and well and my speculative investments are going up in value.
The moment threads like these go silent, or you get nothing but people agreeing that .CO is the best. That would tell me its time to get out.
So lets continue to have this debate. Lets continue to keep this extension in the limelight for as long as possible. Lets keep facts and opinions from both sides coming.
Pappa needs a new pair of shoes.
Just my thoughts.
“”so, why only 500,000 (and not ten+ millions) of .co have been sold in two months?””
It does take a little time for something to permeate the market.
Look how long it took the Phone, the TV, hell… even the cell phone to reach critical mass.
It took years. Its going to take a little while for .CO to reach the main market.
The shear fact that its doing so well soo quickly tells a lot.
Considering that .MOBI (which soo many hold up as the way .CO will go) only registered half of the domains in 1 year that .CO has in 2 months, shows that its a little more then ill advised domainers buying here.
I am just saying. The (what some of you call) HYPE around the .CO will continue for a long while. Considering that they still have to get through all the Landrush names (there was several thousand landrush names going to auction as I recall reading). Then after that they are going to start to auction off premium domain names that have been withheld. Single letter domains.
Something that you dont find all to often. These will surely fetch a nice price. Even anti .CO domainers will try to get in on those auctions because regardless the extension, the domain will be very very valuable.
Yeah, the HYPE will be around for a long time to come.
Just my thoughts.
“millions of new businesses are formed everyday”
so, why they don’t register millions of .co domains every day?
“It does take a little time for something to permeate the market.”
if we consider that 50, 60, 70% or more .co hace been bought by domainers, only a very small fraction (0.0000-something%) of those who run an old or new blog or site or business have bought a .co
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also, I believe that not everybody likes to pay $30 for a domain that (most users believe) have LESS value of a $8 .com
“”so, why they don’t register millions of .co domains every day?””
Even better question, why dont they register millions of .COM domains every day?
Why is .ORG, .TV and the likes registrations only going UP to the tune of 12% and 85% (respectively) .
Could it be that people/companies are searching outside the COMmon box for better domain names?
Just a thought.
“”if we consider that 50, 60, 70% or more .co have been bought by domainers, only a very small fraction (0.0000-something%) of those who run an old or new blog or site or business have bought a .co””
So are you saying that domainers are more in support of .CO then there are against it?
Are you also insinuating that the other 30-50% just fell off the face of the map since they do not belong to domainers nor do they belong to business according to your stats?
150,000-250,000 is a lot of domains to just drop off and not belong to anything.
I mean if they do not belong to domainers and they do not belong to new or old businesses… who do they belong to?
Even better question, is see how many .COMs belong to domainers.
If you consider that a domainer MUST have several domains to be a domainer.
(S)HE must have some sort of portfolio. How many of those sites are sitting?
Just saying… that is all
“”also, I believe that not everybody likes to pay $30 for a domain that (most users believe) have LESS value of a $8 .com””
Wow, could you imagine if .CO was only 8 dollars. How many domains would be sold by now?
Lets do the logical math
8 goes into 30 .
3.75 times
so if there is 500,000 .CO registrations… logically there would be 1,875,000 .CO domains registered in the first 2 months.
You make a great point there.
Bravo to you for pointing out that the 500,000 .CO registrations should be higher but has been held back due to the price.
Cheers
See…
As ::: could BreakingNewsBlog.us become a record selling .us domain??? ::: Points out…. CO is probably much better then we give it credit for.
And here I was thinking that ::: could BreakingNewsBlog.us become a record selling .us domain??? ::: was anti .CO for what ever reason.
I am sorry, forgive me for thinking ill of you. You have made some of the best points yet.
Cheers
“why dont they register millions of .COM domains every day?”
because the new sites and blogs are shared by dozens TLDs and .co or .com are just two of them
there are no reasons to register only .co domains nor to register only .com domains
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“So are you saying that domainers are more in support of .CO then there are against it?”
no, they buy .co domains just because they hope to resell some of them with profit… some have already sold .co domains at good prices and surely other will do that in future
but that doesn’t mean that .co is the best TLD of the world
that is already happened with many of the past TLDs and will happen with the future new ones
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“logically there would be 1,875,000 .CO domains registered in the first 2 months”
it’s not so automatic… but surely a lower price (maybe, $10-15) could help to sell more .co
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“”because the new sites and blogs are shared by dozens TLDs and .co or .com are just two of them
there are no reasons to register only .co domains nor to register only .com domains””
So why did you ask the question about .COs? Since you already knew the answer.
Where you trying to insinuate that 500,000 in 2 months is not a feat for any extension?
Where you trying to give .CO a bad name?
I mean you just answered your own question in less then 10 posts.
Weird dont you think?
Cheers
“”no, they buy .co domains just because they hope to resell some of them with profit… some have already sold .co domains at good prices and surely other will do that in future
but that doesn’t mean that .co is the best TLD of the world
that is already happened with many of the past TLDs and will happen with the future new ones””
I agree with you that anyone who says that its the best in the world doesn’t know what (s)he is talking about. Its an extension and there are many to choose from.
It is different the others that we have seen in the past. See, I wasnt around when .ME was being touted as the next coming of Christ. Nor was I around when .MOBI was being pushed onto the world. The same can be said about .ASIA.
Why, because those extensions sucked. Any person with half a brain can see that from the onset. They mean nothing to the outside world and the backing for them was virtually non existent. They where marketed poorly with no clear cut direction.
Who in gods green earth would want a website marketed as “ME”… all about ME. Well maybe some narcissistic fool, but clearly a business would not want that kind of a site!
Or who would want a site that is geo targeted to a land mass (not really set by any boundaries) named Asia. Its NOT a country. Its NOT a continent. Its really nothing excepted something that certain people have developed as a reference to a certain region of the world. I just dont see businesses latching onto that.
And then you have MOBI. Doomed from the beginning. People pushed the idea that all the manufactures would remodel their phones to incorporate a MOBI button. They would spend millions of dollars to redesign something… A little common scenes would have helped here or just realizing that why care about a mobi site when a .com, .net, or .co would do just as well.
My point is that the other extensions where wrong from the get go. Smart people like yourself probably already knew that.
I saw that. I did not invest in that. Just like I will NOT touch .SO when its supposed to launch. Nor will I touch .XXX.
2 more worthless extensions coming our way. BUT I do believe that .CO has the best fighting chance that we have seen in a long time. Its been marketed properly. Its HYPE (as some people call it) is being handled very well to keep it going as long as possible. We keep talking about it and the sales numbers are only going up. Still the best domains have yet to come out.
Just the way I see it.
Cheers
Awesome stuff….Keep it coming.
*grabs popcorn*
I am just pointing out certain discrepancies in the arguments laid out before.
I am on neither side.
I have made my position clear. I have hedged my bets with .CO extension.
I have made a speculative investment in this extension just as any investor would. Same thing is done in the stock market daily, or even with real estate.
You take the given information and sort out what is real, what is opinion, and the current trend then make an educated decision from there.
The current trend seems that other extensions outside of .COM are going up in registrations. The current trend even tells me that a flop of an extension like .ASIA, having registered 250,000 (+/-) in the last 4 years but has only seen a drop rate of 50,000 in the same 4 years… still tells me that there are still 4 to 1 odds.
** I still wont touch it but it does factor into seeing how these domains work**
83% more registrations for .TV in the last 2 years. 83%… that is a hell of a lot of numbers.
Even 12% for .ORG that is up there in age (as far as extensions go) is a lot. It used to be the 3rd choice for extensions, it has since slipped in the years but still 12% is a huge number given the large base number it already had.
Looking at this extension without having any bias, just taking the information that is relevant, along with market trends puts this extension (from the best I can tell) as a good candidate to being worth something in the near future.
I mean I would gladly pay $30 to make $1000 a month later, Wouldn’t you?
That is over 3300% market. Stock market holder would kill for that.
Just the way I see it.
national-lottery.CO $3,600 with a hyphen, my god
allergy.CO $16.286
teethwhitening.CO $4,600
crucero.CO $3,100 what is this anyone?
socialmedia.CO $3,000
floridarealestate.CO $3,000
apply.CO $12,000
assessment.co $6,437
usedcars.CO $14,000
groceries.CO $6,600
freebets.CO $4,644
newcars.CO $8,000
socialsecuritydisability.CO $6,900
Wow, welcome to the .CO era, the new king.
etf.com $5,000,000 WTF! They are auctioning this for 5Million
Good thing I own a bunch of 3 letter domains. Very few left now.
“”Wow, welcome to the .CO era, the new king.””
I dont know about the new king. It still has a way to go.
I will grant you that .CO has had a successful launch and seems that the trend would only go up for the foreseeable future… but KING. Not yet.
Dont get me wrong. I want .CO to do well. I would love to see my .CO collection do well enough to sell and pay off my car, I just cant say that its the KINGPIN domain yet.
Just the way I see it.
ETF stands for “Exchange Traded Fund”, a very popular term in the financial realm. It’s about attracting moneyed clients.
And since it’s a .com, a price between $1-5m wouldn’t be unreasonable to a financial firm. They wouldn’t have any interest messing around with other TLDs.
I don’t care what etf.com stands for. Grab the etf.CO
That is exactly what is going to happen is we’ll start to see more and more companies start to use .CO s and the popularity, visibility, and value is only going to go up.
.CO era is only beginning.
Robert Cline
I like the way you talk about .co i have read about you for quite some time ,you put so much pasion like noboday else in regards to .co.Personaly i think .com is the king and that the way is going to stay.I olso think that .co will get up there with beeing second in the years to come,maybe 5yrs.I olso bought a lot of .cos and if i sell them for $1,000 a pc.in the near future not only that i will pay my car off, but my house too.That’s the point.I’m the new pigeon in town and you will here from me more often.Hope for the best to all of you us that bought .co
This is why I grabbed PEG.co
PEG= Price/Earnings-to-Growth Ratio in the financial world.
Also means:
*To fix the price of a new security issue during the issuance period through buying and selling it in the open market in order to ensure that the price in the secondary market will not fall below the offering price.
*A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water
*A small, pointed piece of wood
*To work diligently
*Its also an abbreviation of a woman’s name (like Peggy)
I am sticking with the financial meaning of the term. I think it can come in handy later.
Cheers
I have ACIDS.CO
I showed it to my girlfriend and she fell off my lap.
She thought that it would be worth mucho bucks.
I have ACIDS.CO
I showed it to my girlfriend and she fell off my lap.
She thought that it would be worth mucho bucks.
She is never wrong.
I think the people that are bashing the .co are just pissed because they got out bid in the land rush auction. I got the .Co I wanted so get over it. One question for the basher’s. Why spend so much of your time posting here? If you are not interested in a .Co why are you waisting your time posting here? The .Co will ge great so get over it!
I have Cabins.Co. What do you think? It will be a web site in about 30 days for cabin rentals. I did not buy it to flip. I did not buy it to get hits from the .Com. I bought it to make a great web site.
Where do you want to Go?? Cabins.Co :0)
@Daniel
Another trend may apply to you Cabins.CO
Because of the shorter .CO and the new group of owners serious about developing
domains vs. parking them, we may see more 3rd-level domains put into service.
http://LOG.Cabins.co
http://Mountain.Cabins.co
http://Rental.Cabins.co
…there is also a natural .COlorado play with cabins being popular there…
Daniel
Congrats! Cabins.CO is an awesome name. Looks nice too.
I looked at my domain http://www.acids.CO and I said wow that looks nice; I can really build an awesome site with a name like this I thought to myself.
@Robert
“national-lottery.CO $3,600 with a hyphen, my god”
The UK lottery uses the domain national-lottery.co.uk with a hyphen…my god, what a strange .COincidence
A down-side of .CO is that the eCO.system knows we have a product/service that costs about $1 to manufacture each year. The insiders have already stated that they set the $30 annual retail pricing artificially high to discourage a “run on the Registry”.
It would be interesting to see how many Internet Clerics get their “cut” as the $1 product moves to the $30 retail distribution. Who are the insiders ?
.US Public SEC companies in the eCO.system provide the general public with an opportunity to own a piece of the Registry.
What happens if the insiders decide that $30 should be $300 per year ?
Some of the free market dynamics seen in major shopping malls start to emerge. The largest stores may pay the least (per sq foot) because they are “Anchor Tenants”.
Has the .CO eCO.system decided that Anchor.Tenants pay less or nothing ?
Are there ways to protect the majority of .CO owners ?
Should the State of .COlorado run parallel infrastructure (for $1) just in case ?
Will all of the .CO owners be registered for FREE in http://OpenDNS.com ?
Will the 4-Letter .CO owners form an alliance to deploy parallel and backup infrastructure to help protect against eCO.System insiders who decide to cash out ?
You guys are a failure when it comes to measuring statistics.
Anyone that thought the .CO would be a success should be humiliated. Goes to show why domainers are not professional business men but rather they are hobbiests – at best.
Troubling signs already …not to my suprise.
Today I was the highest bidder at 313 Euros (resvere not met/3 bidders )
for one of the quintessential spanish names
creditos .co ( LOANS)
Hey domo, where’s this auction happening? I’m in…
Brad,
Talk about statistics?! It appears you are taking vignettes about .co and trying to turn them into facts supporting your own cause or statistics for all past companies. Why do you even bother about .co? Why do you even care? Are you the black-masked crusader from the .com good who must sway the poor, ignorant crowd away from the throes of .co darkness and bankruptcy? Tune-in caped crusader…big boys can handle their own successes and failures. Sideliners should stay on the sideline and not bother. “I told ya so” is such a weak position. Better to fail and to find a silver lining.
It’s over @ Sedo.
another baffling to some (not to me)
highest bid for
vuelo.co ( FLIGHT) 350 Euros