Rick Schwartz just send out an email announcing that Sex.co would be on the auction block at TRAFFIC. This is certainly one of the high profile .Co domains so the question is what do you think it will sell for In some recent .Co sales Luxury.Co sold for $60K and Women.co sold for $30K. Sex.com as you know most recently sold for $13M Of course we don't know what the reserve price is of … [Read more...]
Twitter: T.Co Producing A 100 Million Clicks a Day
According to a story in cnet.com today, Twitter's Director of Web Business Development, April Underwood announced a new product for Twitter, called Twitter Web Analytics. The new analytics dashboard "focuses on Web sites, not just individual stories" In announcing the roll out Ms. Underwood said "T.co," is driving 100 million clicks a day to Web sites, and the traffic from T.co is … [Read more...]
Don’t Hate The Extension, Hate The Lousy Domains; Godaddy’s .Expired Co Auction Shows You What Crap People Registered On Day 1
Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform. What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability. With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap. So many horrible … [Read more...]
.Co Says They Are Getting A 68% Renewal Rate
The .CO Registry today announced on its blog today, "that as of July 31, 2011, it is seeing a cumulative first time renewal rate of 66%; with late renewals still being counted for an estimated overall 68% renewal." "Crystal Peterson, Director of Channel Marketing at .CO, notes in a blog post that “typically, first year domains (domains that have been in use for a year only) have a renewal rate … [Read more...]
.Me Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and .Co Celebrates its 1st
Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today. The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries. 52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States; 7.68% are from the United Kingdom. 3.82% were registered in Germany 3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan. "During the Registry’s … [Read more...]
Breaking: Google Acquires G.CO
Google has become the latest Internet company to acquire a one letter .Co domain. In a Press Release just issued by the .Co Registry, Google has acquired G.CO for an undisclosed amount (The full PR appears below). According to Google's blog; Gary Briggs, Google’s VP of Consumer Marketing, announced that G.CO would soon be the “official URL shortcut for Google websites.” "Only Google will … [Read more...]
According To Hosterstats 33% of All .Co Domains Are Hosted On Godaddy Servers: Here Are The Top 50 Servers
According to HosterStats.com, Godaddy.com is hosting 33% of all tracked .Co registrations. According to the service they are tracking just 616K domains even though there are over 1M .Co registrations, so it doesn't claim account for every .co registration, still none the less its an interesting look at the extension. In second place is Sedoparking which hosts just over 5% of the tracked .Co … [Read more...]