The .Co registry just announced "the public launch of an exclusive membership program, featuring high-value education, networking and promotional support designed to help .CO users to build and grow successful businesses". "The free program is the first of its kind within the top-level domain industry". According to the press release. the beta program will be made available to the first … [Read more...]
Walmart Picks A .Co For Its New Store, Goodies.Co & No It Doesn’t Own the Matching .Com
Walmart Stores, a division of Walmart (WMT) has just launched a new shopping site at Goodies.co. And no Walmart doesn't own the Matching .Com. The store which launched in "Exclusive Beta" this week, has unique product offering. Sign up for $7 a month and you get samples of new food products, you participate in surveys which earns you points to buy full sized versions of the product you … [Read more...]
The .Co Numbers Are In: Over 1.35 Million Registered .Co Domains: Our Chat With The COO
Its been just over two years since the .Co TLD launched and we reached out to Nicolai Bezsonoff, the Chief Operating Officer of .CO Internet, SAS the company that operates the .Co ccTLD to see if we could get some solid numbers on renewal rates and registrations. Not only did we get numbers but we got an interview with … [Read more...]
Our Chat With The Owner Of Urban Times On Why They Moved From a .Com To A .Co
We had a chance to chat with Charlie Hilton-Petrou who changed the domain name of his site from a .com to a .Co domain last week. We wrote about the planned move of the Urban Times which used the domain name theurbn.com and decided to switch over to urbantimes.co There were plenty of comments to the previous post, many quite negative of the move so Mr. Petrou wanted to explain his … [Read more...]
Urban Times Moves To UT.co On September 19th
For the second day in the row a online media source announced plans to change its URL from a .com to a shorter .Co address Today Urban Times whose URL is theurbn.com writes that effective September 19th, its moving its site to the domain UT.co "Urban Times, which as of 19th September will be redirecting from the vowel-dropping obscurity of theurbn.com to the simple clarity … [Read more...]
TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co
According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Tech.co ""We are thrilled to announce that as part of a partnership with .CO, Tech Cocktail has found a new home at tech.co. … [Read more...]
In The Biggest Reported .Co Sale of 2012, Cruises.co Sold For $82,500
In what appears to be the biggest .Co sale of 2012, I received an a copy of an escrow transaction from the seller showing they sold the domain name Cruises.co for $82,500. The buyer seems to be the same buyer who bought Cruise.co from one of Mike Mann's company's Codom Holdings, LLC, in 2010 for $25K, Cruise.Co.Uk Ltd. Cruise.co has the same logo Cruise.co.uk but a clearly different … [Read more...]