Comments on: NameJet.com Starts 1st Public .Co Domain Auction

By: Danielito

Danielito — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:10:30 +0000

I like the .co domain but I think is going to take a long time until it becomes profitable. People should wait because it could be a few years until they can make money.

By: MHB

MHB — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:02:39 +0000

Here are some sales from this auction:

tornados.co $139
sunsets.co $219
obituraries.co $130
nena.co $159
miniskirts.co $219
instructor.co $461
emailaccounts.co $289

These are the ones I just followed not an all inclusive result

By: brianwick

brianwick — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:22:09 +0000

Per EM John-
”
A lot of people are registering .co’s because finally they can get the name they want, at a reasonable price, with a nice little extension.
”

What happens when a 3rd person wants a domain and the “.co” and “.com” are already taken – are they getting the domain they want ?

By: Em John

Em John — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:57:47 +0000

This auction went over pretty well. Instructor.co was really nice. Now there is another auction at namejet for 100 single word .co’s ending August 6th.

Since General Registraion kickoff, there has been a steadily rising number of .co’s being registered everyday. It looks that it’s around 15000 a day right now and climbing fast. A lot of people are registering .co’s because finally they can get the name they want, at a reasonable price, with a nice little extension.

Did everyone check out jco.co? That’s a pretty cool site.

By: Hemant Kohli

Hemant Kohli — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:03:49 +0000

I got cardiologist.co, simply couldn’t walk away although did reserve six had one come through. Curious to see what this might do in the future, to be quite honest, I might just keep this and make it into an ecommerce store. Thoughts on value anyone?

Hemant

By: Em John

Em John — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:27:31 +0000

Christopher,

So right. Sometimes when a person is so involved in something, it’s hard to see the forest through the trees. I agree that you probably have an insight being a “non-domainer”. It’s nice to have insights from people who are distanced.

I guess I was wrong in thinking only 5 or 6 in the namejet auction would go. Out of the 45 domains, only 13 don’t have bids and almost half have multiple bids…go figure! Instructor.co has 12 bids.

By: Ron Wells

Ron Wells — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:46:21 +0000

“If the people running .CO really want to see this domain go forward, they would get large companies to utilize their domain extension. They have a good jump with O.co, T.co, and a few others.”

So far, Experian.com is using the name Credit-Report.co to redirect traffic to their website.

By: slate

slate — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:30:25 +0000

It will take a little bit of time for .CO to become common place (if it ever does).
I personally do not find it hard to say .CO at the end of a domain name.
I still say that domainers will not be the ones that will accept or reject this domain.
It will be the Businesses. If they latch onto .CO and use it, then it will become common place in the average persons vernacular.
If the people running .CO really want to see this domain go forward, they would get large companies to utilize their domain extension. They have a good jump with O.co, T.co, and a few others.
Now that they are a week old, its time for them to step up the game.

**Still waiting for the 2,000 +/- domains that where held back from the landrush and general registration to go to auction. I would like to see what they will fetch on the open market.

By: Domo Sapiens

Domo Sapiens — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:41:27 +0000

I would love to hear the opinion of somebody from Madison Ave “hands on ” or with experience ( urls campaigns and Old media outside .com ) …
I personally have to think gard before saying DOT CO (the M is nearly impossilbe to restrain)
Imagine somebody verbatim referring somebody else to a Dot CO site…
eg: go and check out cars.co ….where does that person will end?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:22:26 +0000

Haters, please…

You are only showing the strength of your ignorance. BullS, you might want to look at some .ca or .de sale prices before you say .com is the only game in town. M. Menius, how can you say .co’s 15 minutes are up…it’s barely been out for 5 seconds and it has 340k regs. Everyone knows this one is different than the other tld’s so you should stop pretending you can predict it’s relegation to the heap of discarded tld’s. These particular domains on NameJet are mostly a lot of rubbish save for miniskirts.co but that has no bearing on the extension itself. I am not a domainer but I saw an opportunity here with .co. I think not being a domainer actually gives me the advantage of looking at this without the jaded cynicism of a grizzled domainer. I may be wrong, I can accept.