Comments on: 195,000 .Co Registrations

By: movie2k

movie2k — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:12:11 +0000

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.

By: DotCO Domain Era Is Here | eDomaining.com

DotCO Domain Era Is Here | eDomaining.com — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:00:19 +0000

[...] the first 15 minutes there were 90,000 .CO domains registered and within the first couple of hours 195,000 domains had been claimed. On Friday the registry reported over 300,000 domain names had found a home. North [...]

By: Slate

Slate — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:57:30 +0000

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

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:05:24 +0000

Hey Andrew…

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/22/report-google-to-treat-co-as-international-domain/

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:01:37 +0000

I posted a link here…maybe its not moderated yet

pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use

By: Andrew Rosener

Andrew Rosener — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:56:28 +0000

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.

By: Slate

Slate — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:15:54 +0000

@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.

By: Other ccTLD .CO - The OFFICIAL Discussion Thread! - Page 42 - NamePros.com

Other ccTLD .CO - The OFFICIAL Discussion Thread! - Page 42 - NamePros.com — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:29:02 +0000

[...] According to the article below ~195000 .co domains have been registered in the first day. 195,000 .Co Registrations | The Domains [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:08:39 +0000

buyorsell.co
pledgeofallegiance.co
weyerhaeuser.co
stumble.co
businessinc.co
mysavings.co
business1.co
vday.co
a11.co
porn1.co

By: fizz

fizz — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:29:31 +0000

“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