Reuters.com in a story today is quoting Juan Calle CEO of the .Co Regsitry as saying:
“After Amazon and after a few of the other deals that we’ve done over the past few months, the price of one character .Co domain is already north of $1.5 million”.
Reuters.com was quick to point out that there were only 28,000 .Co registrations before the relaunch which passed 1 million registered domains.
“Colombia, which had only 28,000 registered Internet addresses before it opened up the .co domain a year ago, has just signed up its millionth customer.”
Another interesting point from the Reuters story:
“Juan Calle, a Colombian and a serial Internet entrepreneur, raised $5 million to start .CO Internet and beat rivals including VeriSign (VRSN.O), which serves as the global registry for .com and .net, to win the government contract to operate the .co domain.”
what is the prices of the four .co purchased by Amazon?
Not disclosed
WOW – thats pretty impressive.
I would love to see how much amazon paid for their single letter .CO’s
Nice.
I wonder how he came up with that number? Can we assume that he has added the total amount of all the single letter/character names sold and divided by the number?
If so, then we can assume that the ones purchased by Amazon where greatly valued and a significant amount was paid for them.
But that is just a hunch and my own opinion.
Cheers
“After Amazon and after a few of the other deals that we’ve done over the past few months, the price of one character .Co domain is already north of $1.5 million”.
They can ask whatever they want, they question is how many takers they have.
Sooner or later they are going to run out of L.co to sell.
Brad
“Sooner or later they are going to run out of L.co to sell.”
That is very true, considering there is only 26 letters and 10 characters.
But, I think that is the appeal of single letter/character domains, the rarity of them.
Just my opinion.
Cheers
🙂
The main reason why this “BIG” co announcement is because to drum up the business as the renewal date is coming close.
Lots of co are dropping like pigeohshit… for $30…you can feed a family of 10!!
@BullS
Dont worry we’ll pick those .co that are dropping out! More .co domains on my portfolio. Yipppyyy!!! lol
PS. I wonder how much will 3 and 4 letters .co domain names will be?
Just subscribing to the comments 🙂
So O.co at $350,000 was a deal 🙂
Hype Rubbish
Joe
Not as good as e.co for $81K and for charity at that.
@Jack
Amazon will have paid SOUTH of $1.5 million.
The new value will have increased as it’s likely that 1/6 of the total (and less of the total available) are now PERMANENTLY removed from the market place.
Of course, O.Co might be sold to creditors sooner or later 🙂
He may as well set the bar high -he needs to continue to show a profit bubble for the next year or so before bailing onto a new project. Juan is a smart mofo.
@MHB
Yes, you’re right, I had forgotten it. BTW, it’s at F. Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com
yeah, yeah, yeah
lets watch the rivers of blood coming with the drops
the only person making $$$ is the registry and mike mann
even RS has admitted things are in the toilet for .co and the drops will not be pretty
oh, and then add all the wipo and lawsuits coming
you can rank high on the colombian search engines though LOL
How much is tv.co worth?
Now this time is really reach the 1 million registrations
I’ve a funny feeling that if e.co went to auction again, winning price would be a lot nearer $150k than $1.5m.
As I have said
LLL.Co are worth $5,000 – $20,000
these may be too low given the state of affairs now.
I have been gone all day
on a huge project due tomorrow
but I will be back later today. But in the meantime
basically I want everyone that has bad mouthed me to
grovel at my foot and beg for my forgiveness
starting with MHB
Everyone of you have consistently underestimated the
.Co company corporation commercial …
I have have said
.Co is the new KIng
and now is the time for you to pay up.
@Mr. “Cline”
LOL
What’s the hype with LLL.co? What does it stands for?
LLL.CO letter abc.co, ajd.co etc.
NNN.CO number 123.co or 930.co etc
@Mr. “Cline”
.co is a typo of .com (unless you live in Columbia).
JC is a marketing machine & the hype is thick.
Of course there is money to be made, but .co supplanting .com is laughable.
Are 1 letter more valuabe than 1 number and if so how much. For example, 1.co versus A.co, which is more valuabe and by how much. I know in the Asian world Numbers are more valuable, in the US market “letters” are more valuable.
Love to hear your guys imput on this?
If you haven’t heard, the new trend and fashion is that everyone is upgrading and trading in their .com for .Co company corporation commercial
I haven’t heard Robert, tell us all about it 🙂
Currently selling my .CO
I have plan to buy another 200 .CO’s I have carefully chosen.
Lots of blinded .COM thinkers out there
@Derek Pater
Which .CO you are selling,and what’s your plan to buy
Manydotco,
Contact me and I can send you a selling list
Thanks
Hope to hear the new trend on Monday, apparently a big announcement coming up on the 6th June.
Co vs Com
Co wins because it stands for
Company
Corporation
Commercial
Collaboration
Cool
Cohabit
Cooperation
Robert,
you are right and COM is old hat, .CO is the future with T.CO for twitter being a brilliant example, shorter than .COM the future is bright for .CO
.Co is gonna go a long way. Stop hatin!
The Recent Dot Co deals is really a great news and really shuts up the mouth of the critics who had put all efforts to downgrade Dot Co Domains.
If you see the WHOis Big Investors Like Rick Schwartz are also invested.
I have almost 20 LLL.COs,1 NNN.CO,And some really great One word Domains like Stereo.co,Authentic.co,Desperate.co,Hierarchy.co,Vetting.co,Fats.co…..and lot more.
Already received offers from 5 big investors at almost 1000 % profits.
Wont sell them this Cheap and this early.