As the 1st .Nxt show in came to a close in San Francisco today, Juan Calle the CEO of the .Co registry took the stage and spoke on the future of domain names and the opportunity that new gTLD’s will bring.
Mr. Calle stated that the size of the opportunity is huge.”
“Relative to the growth of the Internet the registration of domain names is quite low”
“Presently the ratio of domain name registrations to Internet Users is 11%”
Actually I never though of it in that manner until Mr. Calle mentioned it, but currently there are an estimated 2.3 Billion Internet users.
According to the last Verisign report there are just over 200 million domains registered or just a little over 11% as Mr. Calle identified correctly.
By 2020 there is expected to be 5 Billion Internet Users so if that ratio stays the same there will be 550 Million domains registered by 2020.
Juan went onto say:
“However we believe the ratio will increase as more businesses migrate to the internet and as people and business understand the importance of having more than one domain associated with this business or site.
“Therefore we believe the ratio of domain name registrations to Internet users will be closer to 15% by 2020”
“That would mean by 2020 there would be approximately 800 million domain registrations where there are only 200 million registrations now.”
“This is why the opportunity is huge”
To launch a successful TLD Mr. Calle stated his three prong strategy for success.
1. Awareness
2. Growth
3. Use
” The more use, the more awareness.”
“The more awareness, the more growth, but all must work together at the same time.”
Mr. Calle then pointed out that the term Co has been used since for hundreds of years, well before all of us we’re born and certainly hundreds of years before the Internet as a short way of saying company.
The East India Company used “co”, as far back as the sixteen hundred’s.
Other company’s over the year have used .Co in their name such as Tiffany & .Co.
“Really when you think of it .com is actually a typo of .Co” said Mr. Calle.
One other interesting fact coming out of Mr. Calle presentation was that:
“90% of our registrant base are people who have 1-2 domain names.”
As for ICANN plan to allow an unlimited number of new gTLD extensions Mr. Calle said:
“There will some spectacular failures but some spectacular successes as well”
I believe the future of .Co is quite bright.
“Really when you think of it .com is actually a typo of .Co” said Mr. Calle.
Reeaalllyyy?? Based on the recent UDRP rulings I would have to say it’s the other way around.
I guess people will say whatever needs to be said in order to hype up their extension.
I wonder what other gtld spokespeople will say about the .com when they try to market their names to the mass crowd. Will anyone buy it? Doubt it. The masses know of only the BIG 3 extensions and that took 2 decades and billions if not trillions of dollars in marketing.
Having a superbowl ad with Joan Rivers a forking out a couple million does not make a .com the official typo of .CO.
i believe .co will someday be as big as .cc
I really dont think that .COM is a typo of .CO – I mean come on – his example doesnt even made sense.
Stating that the east india company used “co” as far back as the 1600s is absurd – did the east india company also accept paypal? Probably not – because al gore did not invent the internet yet..
.COM was released and everyone is using it. You cannot say .COM is a typo when the internet didnt even exist for the examples he mentioned.
Wow….I thought people can’t lose their brains but I was wrong 🙂 j/k
Don’t you guys think that was just a little tongue in cheek? Co has been an abbreviation for Company long before the internet came into being without a doubt. Since the internet, com is and probably always will be the standard, but of all the extensions .co makes the most sense to me – I don’t have any right now, but I could see how a business would go with that rather than paying for a .com that is already registered…
@ Clay Burts
I don’t have any right now!
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That said it all!
@ Todaro
i believe .co will someday be as big as .cc
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Since Joan Rivers opened her mouth it already is 🙂
“Really when you think of it .com is actually a typo of .Co” said Mr. Calle.
While I suspect it was said tongue-in-cheek (1842 meaning) he’d be kinda right if he took the “.” off the front of it 😉
However, the majority of .co(mpanies) operating in the .com(mercial) field have given up on the “co” tag over the last few decades, sure a few still use it to sound POSH but not that many.
Its a tall task turning that one around. There’s probably far more chance flares and tank tops come back into fashion first…eeek !
…..
“90% of our registrant base are people who have 1-2 domain names.”
Now that is surprising news.
I think .co’s window of opportunity is HUGE in size but for a very limited time scale, next comes .so then all the other .whatevers, that’ll make a dent in all extensions but will any of them outlast the .com & cctld’s ????
Great launch though!
.co is a typo of .com since they are often digitized by mistake by users that have a keyboard with a defective M key 🙂
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To launch a successful TLD Juan stated his three prong strategy for a CON JOB.
1. Awareness
2. Growth
3. BULLSHIT
” The more BULLSHIT, the more awareness, and more people will
get conned into buying worthless PigionS**T” so we can buy more
SHOVELS to Shovel the S**T
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Hey Juan,
The Com ie’s (Communists) used .Com before the Internet …
Hey Juan,
Marketers used Com mercial long before the Internet …
Hey Jaun,
.Co really stands for COLUMBIA,
BEFORE THE “LIARS” TRIED TO PUT A SPIN ON IT.
..oooo that’s harsh Landon (cringe head here)
Yup the truth hurts…
And who cares what “Juan” has to say …
he is the one taking “Food out of Baby’s Mouths”
Conning Mom and Dad to spend the MILK Money! 🙂
anyone who doesn’t see .co as a typo of .com is blatantly ignoring the obvious.
It’s cybersquatting at it’s best and the more we hide from it the longer it’ll take this industry to ever be taken seriously.
When I think of .co, I think of Colombia.
If a business uses .co as the TLD for its domain name, I assume it’s a business based in that particular country.
Creative marketing can make you believe anything about just about anything.
.tv for “television”
.cc for “credit cards”
.ws for “web site”
And so on.
Now, the gullible are rushing to register .co for “company”, and the .co peddlers will likely reap huge profits from this latest snowjob.
Have fun, kids!
Clever. When I read your headline I read it the other way around and thought “no way Juan said that”. I had to read it a second time.
JUAN from Columbia:
This guy and his BS is where you would stake your future
business hope if you buy into his .Con
They must have strong weed over there to come up with this Bunk!
This speaker is one unique character….perhaps a master of BS.
I think .co is going to be a huge minefield of lawsuits for registry/registrars/registrants given the way people are being mislead in to registering a ccTLD disguised as global/company/commerce etc blah blah blah on purpose by the parties involved just to trick innocent registrants to register this ccTLD.
.co was never supposed to be called global or anything else ….. it is pure and simple ccTLD for Colombia. Nothing more and nothing less. Calling it something else is damaging the trademarks and business of all the dot-com owners.
It will get very ugly….just watch how many .co UDRP have been filed and so far almost 100% won by the complainants.
But I am willing to file a UDRP/lawsuit if I see my domains that we have registered for 10 years are being taken advantage of their originality and trademarks.
It is my opinion and I may be wrong.
Thanks.
@ Dan
Said Well…
.tv for “television”
.cc for “credit cards”
.ws for “web site”
and now …
.Co n
.Brrrr TLD for Earth poles 🙂
@
Portablepay
.Brrrr.N
.Brrrr.S
.Brrrr.E
.Brrrr.W
;_0
Unforunately, while it is Tiffany & Co it is Volkswagen AG
Perhaps Argentina needs to re-release its TLD.
As rick said enjoy defending udrp on each of one of your .co domains
Such hype on .co and its becoming old
Oh wait. Let’s wait see a sedo broker come in here and hear how great .co is
“I think .co is going to be a huge minefield of lawsuits for registry/registrars/registrants”
Me too, I bought one generic .co and then I thought about the “potential” outcome if I bought more and lost them all to UDRP/WIPO for being “confusingly similar” to the .com owners.
I played the safer option….not worth the risk of being labled as it might end up jeopardizing some of my .com’s further on down the road.
LOL @Andrew Allemann
Famous last words:
This ship will never sink! (Titanic)
I am not a crook! (Nixon)
.com is a typo of .co! (Juan Calle)
@ Steve M
Well said…..:)
Poor Landon, putting his foot in it again…
Hook, line and sinker.
And still he fails to see how his monotonous diatribe is creating the opposite effect for which it is intended.
As a disclaimer I’m all for .co, see great potential, and hold a select number. But it never ceases to crack me up to see how the likes of the Roberts and the Landons (and yes, I put them in the same box) bless us with their litany of crap thinking (hoping) it will actually make the slightest bit of difference to the end result.
Like it or not, .com is the Titanic in this analogy, even if it might take a few years for it to sink into the literal and virtual sea of gtlds that will abound by then…
Grab your life jackets and to the rafts boys 🙂
95% of end users don’t know it Columbia’s itld..what the first thing they are going to associate? Narcoterrorrism, drug lords, death squads , and what else? I am not saying this is true, but perception is 80% reality
The marketing strategy of .Co has been focused in the US, outside the US it’s not even recognized as a viable alternative extension, except for in Columbia. It will be decades (if even then) that .Co rises to the prominence of .Com.
For me it’s about practicality. For $10.99 you can register a domain that has an extension (.Com) that is universally (globally) recognized and accepted or for $29.99 you can register a domain that has an extension (.Co) that is limited to recognition in two countries. The math is easy.
a lot of fricken little .com people getting gutted here it feels like.
why are you all working so hard to defend .com
you all seem desparate to fend off the inevitable decline in .com
Chill!
it’s all good if you know that world is changing.
if you can’t beat them, join em.
.CO is the new King.
even Rick Schartz knows what is coming; he invested in 2350 .CO
chill, take a deep breath before the colonoscopy.
.COM is really the typo of .CO
and here is why:
I did a search for COMPANY VS COMMERCIAL on google and do you know what I found
COMPANY 2,300,000,000 records on google
COMMERCIAL 780,000,000 records on google
.CO for company is 3x bigger than .COM for commercial
Juan is absolutely correct in this assessment. Google it yourself to be convinced.
so heres a little test for yall, run your top 2% of names or anything where the .com is priced at $25k or above.
now run them and see if the .co is available, hint it is (unless your just a million dollar plus name owner)
now see what youd register in .co at $25.99 , i took 4 out of 70.
then with name.com’s promo at $7.77 go for another look…….. and i cant make a case for many of my better .com names to want the .co- not even to protect.
what am i missing?
funny thiny while i was doing this saturday nite during pre super bowl hype 2 of my names were taken in .co, as soon as the better prices came out.
ok if your still not convinced.. ask your self whether youd renew those $7.77’s at $25.99.
interested to hear other thoughts.
page howe
I am sure what Juan said was in jest, because factually it is totally ridiculous.
First of all .COM is known and used around the world. The internet grew up as .COM grew up.
Not to mention the “M” is nowhere near the “O” on the keyword, so how is “com” a typo of “co”?
They can market and brand it how they want, but .CO clearly is the typo of .COM, and there is no way around that.
Brad
@Brad
Typo by definition means typing something you are not suppose to type
and in this case you are typing the extra letter typo of ‘M’
.com sorry to say has always been the typo of .CO
.CO was all we were ever suppose to type.
@ Robert
Leaving out a letter is a typo as well.
.CM is a typo of .COM, as is .CO
At least .CO is from a reasonable sized country, and they are not marketing it as a squatting typo like .CM did. However, at the same time the fact remains .CO is a typo of .COM. You can see that appeal by the countless number of squatters in the .CO space.
Brad
The real fact of the matter is all perspective.
.CO for company has 2,300,000,000
Whereas
.COM for commercial had 780,000,000
records.
.CO wins by 3 to 1 margin. This is a very important distinction.
UDRP lol. Get ready
You pro .co guys are a trip and we .com players appreciate your fffuture traffic
Thanks in the future traffic to our .com sites
@ Robert
I think I could have a more intellectual discussion with a brick.
Brad
“The East India Company used “co”, as far back as the sixteen hundred’s.”
The South Sea Company didn’t start using it until the early 1700’s.
JuanTheCon …
This out right LIAR with his NEW green card is what the .CO idiots
on here base there financial future (they have no future, LOL)
His absurd con-artist statement i am sure
will be referenced as core proof and become a standard at EVERY
UDRP/WIPO Hearing as intent and pre-meditated PROOF of “Bad Faith”
JuanTheCon … STEPPED IN IT! lmao
I’m sure Juan was joking, but, like Andrew, I did have to read that headline twice 🙂
@Robert Cline
Next time I put together a scratch football game I want you on my team. We could be down 70-0 in the bottom of the 4th quarter and you’ll be the guy to face the other team and scream, “You’re dead!”
Juan has some nerve calling .Com a typo of .Co.
That is absurd, ridiculous, and insulting.
First of all, a tld alone is not a URL.
So what he is really saying is that apple.com is a typo of apple.co which is impossible since apple.com came first.
So how can something that came first be called a typo?
Of course Juan was joking, but it was too good of a quote to pass up
However if you don’t understand & can’t respect what his company accomplished in less than a year, you have a lot to learn about business & especially the domain business
Did I read “use” ?
Obviously it was a provocation. And, as MHB correctly pointed out, one can be pro, anti or uninterested about the extension, but the successes Juan, Lori and the rest of the team have been able to achieve can’t be denied. Obviously they were in a good starting position, since .CO was obviously easier to market than most (if not all) of the previous extensions, but the fact they are all qualified professionals is an acknowledged truth.
Anyway I can’t understand why some seem to express pure anger in their comments against the extension and anyone involved in it. LOL
The fact of the matter is there are more Companies than there are Commercial properties.
Apple.co for Apple company
rather than
Apple.com for Apple commercial
.COM is the typo of .CO ; Apple is a company not a commercial
Technically, he is correct. When we remove the dot from both and compare co with com, co has the much richer history. “com’ is a contemporary advent spanning only 25 years. TV commercials and financial matters were never shortened to “com”. In the 1950s, it wasn’t “hey how about that new TV com”. But we have been hearing for centuries, “What’s the name of your new business…oh yeah ABC Trade CO”. .com never took off as an abbreviation and even to this day, maybe .ooo1% of the public can identify “com” as “commercial”.
“.tv” is also a very nice extension because it has the “television” recogniton already spanning several decades which is technically older than “com” as well. When we get into the technicalities of the abbreviations, com is the young guy. This is why Juan Calle called out this whole typo argument that has gone on. For people who want to believe co is a typo of com, clearly, history proves differently.
Even in terms of branding, co has been around a lot longer than com. Go to the annals of any trademark registry and find out how long they have been trademarking “co” and how long they have been trademarking “com”.
I registered a .CO yesterday but I can’t say I plan to use it. Is “redirecting” a URL to another qualified as using a domain name ? It it is then yes, I use .CO domain names…but I bought my .CO not to have someone else to grab it because I already own the same domain name in .COM.
It is the only reason why I bought it actually.
HEE HAW FOR JuanTheCon …
I CANT WAIT FOR THE LAWSUITS TO START!
AND JUST LIKE “Google” (who just lost a liable Lawsuit)
the >.CO Registrar WILL be named as
Cybersquating co-defendants.
AND ..CO WILL BE WORTH “less then .MOBI
Soon-Soon-Soon-Soon-Soon-Soon-Soon-Soon-
lmao, lmao, lmao, lmao, lmao, lmao, lmao,lmao.
Hello Mike,
And the .co FANTASY continues! Old Juan (Castaneda) is weaving a psychadelic dream of massive proportions for all to possibly take up on. He is using a thought identification scheme to correlate .co with .com ! Domainers do not drink the Kool-Aid, could be bad for your health!
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
@ Brad
Your “facts” make it seem like history began when the internet began. History did not begin with the internet. There were many trademarks with CO in them long before com came around. One could argue that, for example, if I trademarked “Ice Centre Co.” back in 1975, that I have rights over IceCentre.com (TM infringement) which was registered clearly after 1975 and that it is confusingly similar to “Ice Centre Co”. The trademark registry existed long before the domain registries, so it would come down to which registry has more power. That would be the Trademark registry.
Did he indicate in his speech he was kidding/joking?
If so, then isn’t he admitting that *.Co is a typo of *.Com?
The Calle cartel!
@Jeff
Who is “Juan Castaneda”?! I only know Carlos.
How quickly people turn on .co!
Yes, Juan should be given a lot of credit for launching .co but that’s all he did was marketing and hype.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
Not sure the general public will “drink” .co.
I love the quote above that .co could be as big as .cc.
Sounds about right.
…this is pretty funny
1. find someone who has never used the internet and knows nothing about domains.
Ask them what the abbreviation of Company is: (Most likely answer CO)
2. Now find someone who knows everything about the internet and domains. Ask them what the abbreviation of Company is: (Most likely answer CO)
.com
.co
.net
.org
.tv
.me
I would say, all have transcended their original meaning…..If more than 50% of the domains registered for a certain extension do not match/fit with the original meaning of that extension…then the extension will likely take on a new meaning.
.org is an interesting one….its meaning maybe organization or seo …close to call.
whats next Juan .or .ne .inf .mob. c
This .co is an absolute joke, Hurry get your before someone else does only 30.00
Run hurry
Two rumours floating around:
1. A large corp. with a $75m limit may be stepping into the .co auction on the last day to grab most of the best keywords.
2. Talks taking place that may eventually lead to ALL ccTld’s becoming gTld’s – reason given is pressure to help these small countries, plus will lessen the need for creation of new gTld’s.
There is a 3rd rumour that is very interesting, but must wait until we get further confirmation of what was said.
“but the successes Juan, Lori and the rest of the team have been able to achieve can’t be denied.”
Of course they have done excellent in terms of launching a new extension but I’m not worried about them, I’m more concerned about all of us.
What remains to be seen is at what risk to domainers in general, its High Reward for them but potentially High Risk for all us.
“IF” the .co extension becomes the most squatted domain in internet history the laws will be changed and they are going to come down ON ALL OF US like a ton of bricks.
Good luck defending your valuable .com’s if that happens.
Just one of other issues I’v already mentioned
This extension is VERY likely a game changer but NOT in the way Roberts hopes 😉
Hello Mike,
We at “Crouching Dragon – Hidden Tiger” believe the .Co registry is great and will sell LOADS of .Co domains.
Gratefully, Scott Jeffries (I’m in my basement) (Crouching Dragon – Hidden Tiger)
@Rob
I’ve heard you say this before. “You can lead a horse to water but can’t make him drink.” For me, it doesn’t really apply with .CO. Change is happening as we speak, and the horse may be thirsty enough to drink.
@Yves,
Rumours are rumours. Anything concrete?
.CO should be listed on top of .COM
i am not sure why registrars are still thinking.
what is there to think about.
There is already $billions going to be pouring into
.CO from silicon valley alone.
think about it this way.. lets say there is a company
called DOTCOM and it was solely born to promote you
and your name is DOTCO
the question is, how much power does DOTCOM have
how much budget does DOTCOM the daddy have to promote
DOTCO.
every company that ever existed and still does exist as
a .COM company , their revenues, earnings, weather you
like it or not, will be inherited by DOTCO
this is the biggest advertising budget in the history
of history for any company on the internet.
even us government does not have this kind of money.
period.
– Sumer Kolcak
Dan
There can’t be a TLD shorter than 3 letters.
ccTLD’s are two letters but are already predetermined by IANA
There is no one letter extensions & under current rules a one letter extension is not possible
@MHB,
There can’t be a TLD shorter than 3 letters, according to current rules, which can change.
ccTLD’s are two letters but are already predetermined by IANA, according to current rules, which can change.
There is no one letter extensions & under current rules a one letter extension is not possible; but of course, current rules can be changed.
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The only constant in life is change, my friend.
@MHB
Yeah, I’m aware of that. I was just kidding around. Should’ve added a smiley face.
So how about Hee.Hee.Hee instead? I could apply to operate the .hee gTLD.
You see, I want to publish a website where I can laugh about all the suckers who are snapping up .co and other ccTLD domains to use the way marketers suggest they be used, instead of the way they were intended.
according to Internet World Stats the internet users are 1.8 billions
internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
@Yes Oiam sofullofit
Two rumours floating around:
—
1. your are so full of it!
2. you are so full of it!
3. we just received conformation that …
“you are full of IT!” .Co SUCKS!
Framed as a new Poster
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There can’t be a TLD shorter than 3 letters.
ccTLD’s are two letters but are already predetermined by IANA
There is no one letter extensions & under current rules a one letter extension is not possible
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WOW – We did not know the above to be true…thanks for that info 🙂
People with knowledge like the above should certainly be New TLD “owners”.
The .Co auction is looking good. I see at least 10+ .Co’s going for $250K each by Thursday. Time will tell – here’s my Top 10 list:
Banks.Co
LasVegas.Co
Business.Co
Casino.Co
News.Co
Advertising.Co
CreditCard.Co
Pokerville.Co
Art.Co
Health.Co
@ SonnyC
Yup Sonny, and the rest of the “FOOLS GOLD” dreamers
will face the fact that they don’t HOLD anything close
to that quality, as the KW’s were RESERVED for the REAL investors
BEFORE day 1. and they were just picking thru the bargain basement leftovers.
It will be interesting to see how many realyPAY after the auction closes.
p.s.what’s his name, got lucky with his lv one
@Landon,
Why so negative? I hand-registered four great .Co’s for $29 each – all are extremely brandable. The above list of premium domains will be great business portals for whomever has the cash – no reason to be so jealous.
@ SonnyC
The owner of .Com will welcome Dora from COLOMBIA
to Las Vegas,Nevada to the U.S.A. via legal litigation,
something to be super positive about! ;-0
Las Vegas.co
Administrative Contact Name Dora Nelly Mesa
Administrative Contact Address1 Calle 94 No. 16-72 Apt. 501
Administrative Contact City Bogota
Administrative Contact State/Province CO
Administrative Contact Postal Code 1
Administrative Contact Country Colombia
Administrative Contact Country Code CO
@SonnyC
A “brandable” domain is worthless unless you put money into branding it. Oops!
@Landon,
LasVegas.Co is ULTRA-GENERIC – no worries there.
@Dan,
No kidding? Wow, thanks for educating me…doh! 🙂
@ SonnyC
No problem. I like to help newbies like yourself save money so you can buy some premium .com domains instead of this fool’s gold.
I’ll invoice you for the advice. 🙂
I will never buy an old school .com again.
Compared to .CO it is worthless IMHO.
Which makes more sense:
MyBusiness.commercial
or
MyBusiness.company
and
MyBusiness.corporation
Who the f*** says my business. commercial ?
@Landon White
“The owner of .Com will welcome Dora from COLOMBIA
to Las Vegas,Nevada to the U.S.A. via legal litigation,
something to be super positive about! ;-0″
The funny part is that the”Trade Mark” that is registered for LasVegas.com Only specifies travel services (read below) and is a “SERVICE MARK”.
If the owner of LasVegas.CO attempts to make a travel service site/reservations then the .COM may have a suite for infringing on their “SERVICE MARK”
If LasVegas.CO is an informative site, or any other site that does not infringe on the “SERVICE MARK” for Las Vegas travel, then the site is safe.
You may want to consider looking at what types of trademarks a site has before you go and attempt to issue threats.
Just an FYI.
Cheers
**********************************
“Word Mark LASVEGAS.COM
Goods and Services IC 039. US 100 105. G & S: Travel services, namely reservations and booking services for transportation in connection with trips and vacations to and from Las Vegas and the surrounding vicinity.
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK”
@ Robert
Considering how you feel about .CO, why are you still running your website on the .COM typo – epier.com? Seems kinda odd.
Brad
@ Robert Cline
Well, who says “mybusiness company”? That sounds ridiculous, too.
“I’m launching my business company in April.”
.CO for company or corporation
my bad
it can go either way; don’t want to short change myself.
but .com is only for commercial. Who wants a commercial parking lot which I am sorry to say there are more fricken parking sites on .com than any other extension.
@ Robert
You said, “but .com is only for commercial”.
Absurd. There are plenty of non-commercial sites built on .com domains.
That’s like saying .rob is only for Robert sites.
May GOD have mercy on the .com owners. .com party’s over if you didn’t know. chasing last year’s party is bad ideas. last ones leaving make sure to pick up the trash and tidy up.
Party’s Moved Over to .CO
whohoowhoowhoo!!
In every industry, the ones that have foresight got in early and profited from the late comers wanting to join the party and pushed up that industry.
Like we all know the best time to buy is before the IPO for example. Or got in early on google, etc.
Well this is your opportunity to get in early on the next big thing .CO
by the time many of you .com followers admit defeat and cake over, you will have missed the main course; it is sad and unfortunate but true, oh, well, I guess that’s how I and the few get rich I guess.
@ Robert
Virtually every large company in the world is invested in .COM. It is the global brand.
You are the only person I have seen make the ridiculous argument that .CO will surpass .COM
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid buddy.
Brad
@ Robert,
Your dedication to .co is admirable, but as those of us who’ve been around the domain block for a while, we’ve seen several ccTLDs and new gTLDs touted as “the next big thing” fail miserably.
Sure, there will be a few big sales, but most people will lose money on this. It will not be “the next big thing”, it will be “the next big waste of money” for 99.9% of registrants. Most of them will be speculators, very few of them will be end-users.
But go ahead and register The-Next-Big-Thing.co if you want, and have yourself a great party!
What some of you don’t understand is that .CO owners are developers, business, and corporation owners that are looking to build their sites. There in lies the magic.
I think some on this board have the wrong mentality than the average .CO registering person.
Look, you see, we buy .CO to develop a web site and build a business on because the name is just right.
I now understand some of you low minded pigeon sized people on this board looking to scalp others by trying to make a business with domain names.
shame shame shame
I suspect most of you will lose that game. It is like lottery you see, you all follow the dream of being the 5 lottery winners and keep buying those .com tickets. That’s a long route to take. 999 out of a 1000 of you will lose. Make sure to keep your housekeeping day jobs.
@ Robert
Get your .co scratch tickets! Pick your .co lottery numbers! Don’t forget the .co bonus ball number!
Looks like some of you who live under a bridge are already in line to get your lottery tickets!
Looks like Sedo is radio advertising the .CO auctions.
.CO is killing it.
why buy dotCO names and other exotic domains?
there are MANY good DOTcom domains still unregistered
Hurry, register your .bz names soon — because .biz is so old-school !
LOL
Robert is right about .Co being looked at by non-domainers differently.
http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Is-GoDaddy-ushering-in-new-internet-era-115536904.html
@ MHB
That’s because non-domainers have no idea WHY .co is different. They just hear what the marketing machine tells them, and because .co is so similar to .com, those people may simply believe it’s a new viable alternative introduced by the internet powers that be, when in fact it’s really not that at all. .co may have some success initially because of the similarity to .com but it’s still wool over sheep’s eyes, and it’s a bad option for anyone considering branding a site with .co domain.
I know what Overstock has done, but they can afford to be the guinea pig with this. They can afford to be the first to plunge a lot of money into a “new” TLD, in order to make it seem worthwhile to others to register and use. But they were already branded as “Overstock.com” so this “O.co” thing is probably not a total rebrand, but a secondary brand.
.co is the country code TLD for the nation of Colombia, and I’d be very hesitant to build and market my U.S.-based business with a ccTLD that is controlled by a foreign country. I’d use a gTLD or a .us domain instead.
It will be interesting to see how .co’s are going to be used and how it plays out for those
companies/developers that build them out that don’t have monster marketing budgets.
Sure it has branding applications clothing.com news.co ticket.co and on and on.
But I am still of the opinion that if anyone chooses to truly develop an internet business/brand
on anything but a .com they should without question own the .com as well. Otherwise they
are going to be sending a large numbers of potential customers/targeted eyes to that other
person/company who does own the .com of their “brand”.
For right now anyhow … the reality is the first thing that comes to mind for internet users
is .com on the end of everything. If anyone can find studies showing otherwise please post
some links.
So those .co owners who spend lots of money buying that .co should make sure to save some
money for their marketing as they are going to have to beat that .co into peoples heads not to
go to the .com first. I’m not saying don’t buy .co’s … but those that are doing anything that
is going to lead to building out a real business should make sure to cover all their bases
before putting all their “eggs” in one .co basket.
Believe it guys .co is going to be the next big thing in coming years. Its definitely short version of .com. Have you guys every considers what teenagers like? Teenagers like short words. they chat in short words, they don’t like to read much. Teenagers are the future..
.com is not going to be on top anymore in a little distance future.
.CO is favored over .com by teenagers who will dictate the direction of the Internet plus
.CO is favored over .com in an increasingly mobile world where short is at a premium. No one wants to type any more than they have to on a mobile device.
M is for Morons! Co is the first half of Cool, use it and you will rule!
Hmmm … These posts are fairly reminiscent of those about .mobi and all the others that have faded away. How much did flowers.mobi sell for at last auction?
If anybody out there feels the need too liquid date their worthless generic .com’s cheap to make they don’t lose all their money … Lemme know:)
It is comical how these .com holdouts like to denigrate .CO by bringing up .mobi, and all the sewer systems in the world.
Get through your heads, it goes like this:
.CO for company or corporation
.COM for commercial
.NET
.ORG
.MOBI
.
.
.
Just type:
site:.co 211,000,000 records
site:.mobi 194,000,000 records
.CO has already passed .mobi in less than half a year.
@ Robert
Here are some rankings for you.
site:.com – 25,270,000,000
site:.org – 6,860,000,00
site:.net – 3,930,000,000
site:.us – 1,100,000,000
site:.info – 644,000,000
site:.biz – 310,000,000
site:.cc – 223,000,000
site:.co – 211,000,000
Brad
Sorry Mr. Cline, but that is a misleading statistic, since such a search also pulls in the second level extensions .com.co, .gov.co, and .edu.co. These have been around since the early 90s.
My point exactly
.CO
has surpassed
several extensions
in matter of months
there is no such extension as .co
.com has an m at the end of it
but nice try robert
u tried to fool us
want to dream up another extension?
@Robert … you’re welcome to whatever opinion you desire. Put your money whereever
you desire. I’ll stick with my .com’s for now. Again .. I don’t have anything against .co’s …
I even own a few.
But I will stick with what 15 years of hands on experience with domains as well as
Advertising/marketing has taught me … never develop anything you intend to be
a “true brand” on anything besides a .com unless you own that .com as well as
whatever you’ve chosen as the main .whatever.
You can’t protect your brand, your traffic or your over all business with any where
near the control as if you hold the most visible and common .com.
You think Overstock or any of the other companies throwing barrels of cash at
their .co advertising will be getting rid of their .com’s anytime soon?
Again … jmho 🙂
.mobi Parte Deux (in steroids)
Name of the game: make as much money as you can and then Run Forrest Run…
Even Colombians have shunned :
last week cupones.co 900 USD sold at Sedo.(a quintessential spanish domains)
Zero enduser interest
the o.co is an aberration reminiscent of the New Coke fiasco.(I wonder what people are typing in?)
Nothing wrong for speculators to make as much moolah as possible from unsuspected buyers, as long as the public doesn’t get lied , integrity means a lot in this business.
the exodus will start soon…dropping like hot potatoes.
can’t teach old dog new tricks. 15 yr habit is bad to break for sure.
but the new generation of mobile teenage kids are coming up real fast, and .CO is what is COOL to them and most people.
I used to search dropped .com s before last year. guess what?
not anymore.
bon voyage old timers.
If .co is so popular with teenagers, why doesn’t Facebook.co resolve to anything?
LOL
“I used to search dropped .com s before last year. guess what?”
@ Robert
It will be your .co’s in the drops before long 😉
How many .co’s do you own right now?
@Robert …
Well buy up those .co’s while you can … if all those teenagers get their hands
on them first you’ll never get the opportunity to make your fortune.co
LLL.CO
Threee letter domains are iconic, usually operated by large well known companies. I have begun compiling the largest LLL.CO database. Here is a list of just a few that are already up and running.
http://hnw.co/
http://www.cos.co/
http://www.tsi.co/
http://www.ecf.co/
http://www.csd.co/
http://nwb.co/
http://www.llc.co/
http://www.rov.co
http://www.lyh.co/
http://qiq.co/
http://ww.ogl.co/
http://surfing.cbd.co/?tag=llc
http://pwl.co/
http://bmt.co/
http://iws.co/
http://www.wdc.co/
http://www.roe.co/
http://www.tga.co/
http://www.pbf.co/
http://www.sra.co/
http://www.stb.co/
http://ipe.co/
http://0rz.co/
http://www.jak.co/
http://www.l10.co/
http://www.tde.co/
http://jdr.co/
http://www.ceu.co/
http://www.ivp.co/
http://hau.co/
http://www.s60.co/
http://www.xyg.co/
http://www.1ct.co/
http://apa.co/index.htm
http://www.hia.co
http://www.bnr.co/
@R. Cline
BMR.CO is a very large established hardware chain with 180 stores in Eastern Canada.
Just read a well-researched report that estimates the value of the average .Co domain will be on par with .com by the year 2018. That’s all I’m gonna’ say, and I’m not sharing the report with you all yet until I gobble up a few more juicy .co’s.
@hammer
Comments like those give credibility only to the .co nay Sayers.
If you have information, then share it, otherwise just shut up and enjoy the ride.
My opinion
Cheers
yes indeed fire when CO domain