195,000 .Co Registrations
2010 July 20
Just got an email from the .CO registry, claiming almost 195,000 registrations have been processed through today (194,576 to be exact).
This number is being updated on the registry site from time to time, and includes prior registrations as well as domains applied for during Sunrise and Landrush.
Apparently there were 90,000 registrations in the first 15 minutes.
This would make the .Co launch the most successful in many years.
I will keep you updated with any new info
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The one problem which you are all forgetting is that .CO no matter what you say or think is still a ccTLD for Colombia and will be treated as such for the foreseeable future by Google.
You will do great in the search engines IN COLOMBIA, but all things being equal, a .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO & yes, even .BIZ will still outrank you in global search. Remember, I said all things being equal, meaning the same keyword domain and same level of content and development.
.CO generics and trademarks may get some typo traffic, but there will not be any purposeful type-in traffic except for other domain investors looking to see what’s there – OR Colombians if you have good spanish generics.
That brings me to another point – those of you who registered premium spanish generics in .CO are going to do very well. Colombia is a big country which is growing rapidly and has a tremendous amount of commerce and a large population, including a rapidly growing and thriving middle-class.
But remember, at the end of the day, like .me & .tv – .CO is a ccTLD and has a handicap for foreign search. It will be much harder to get a .co ranked well for the american or european audience than it will for a .com, .net, .org, etc…
I REALLY LIKE .CO – BIG TIME! But ONLY as it applies to Colombia and also for some premium “domain hacks” (in spanish).
I live in Panama and Colombia is my neighbor to the south. I can tell you first hand, that the growth and hunger in Colombia will be a major driving factor in the future of .CO (once they start to get developed). Plus, there is a lot of pride in Colombia and they will hang on to .CO as their own. But if you aren’t targeting the Colombian market – Good luck.
“Moreover I registered some purely defensive registrations. I registered Mostwanteddomains.co, thedomains.co and berkens.com just to mention a few.”
MHB makes the first documented .com typo of a .co domain LOL
buyorsell.co
pledgeofallegiance.co
weyerhaeuser.co
stumble.co
businessinc.co
mysavings.co
business1.co
vday.co
a11.co
porn1.co
@Andrew Rosener
“.CO generics and trademarks may get some typo traffic, but there will not be any purposeful type-in traffic except for other domain investors looking to see what’s there”
I have to ask a question. I just cant wrap my head around this. What is the big obsession with typo traffic? Anyone who speaks out against .co extension always brings up typo traffic.
I consider myself a normal person. I do things any normal person would. I think it would be safe to assume that I use the internet the same way as any other normal person. So when I am looking for something. I (personally) never type in the extension. I just go up to my Google tool bar and type in what I am looking for.
If I am looking for a widget, I will just go to Google and type in “Widget” and see what pops up. I will assume that normal people do the same thing.
With that said, ONLY… if I know exactly what site I am looking for will I ever find myself (and this is only sometimes) typing in the extension. But that is NOT always the case. If I am going to Ebay, I will just Google toolbar Ebay and take the first listing. I know its going to be Ebay. No need to type in the extension.
My point being is that I don’t think typos is a legitimate argument for or against anything.
With that being said, Google now claims that .co extension will be treated the same as all other generic TLD’s. It will be a global extension and will rank the same with the other global extensions.
So if you develop a .co site, you have the same chance of getting listed rank 1 as a .com, .net, .org, .info, .tv and so on. It will REQUIRE some serious amount of SEO on the end users part (as any extension would) to break into the top of a very very popular field.
Maybe I am seeing this in the wrong light.
Where did you read that Google will treat .CO as a gTLD and not a ccTLD ????
If that is the case, then I take back everything I said and .CO might have a damn good shot at making the mainstream.
I posted a link here…maybe its not moderated yet
pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use
Hey Andrew…
http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/22/report-google-to-treat-co-as-international-domain/
Thank you Jason for posting the link.
I think I may have been a little slow to react to the .co extension. Last I read over 275,000 .co domains have been registered. I am pretty sure most of the good ones are taken.
Now I will have to begin the process to find maybe one or two that will be worth while to hold onto.
Cheers