You Think No One Will Develop .Co Sites? Wrong: Here’s A List Of Developed .Co Sites Already Up & Running
Over the weeks I have posted the results from the land rush auctions and other stories about .Co.
Many of the comments I have received, are along the lines of no one will ever build out .co domains as stand alone sites.
The reasoning goes that .Co will only be used for defensive registrations by .Com holders and by those looking to get traffic on typo’s on their .com equivalent.
Wrong.
Just a month or so after launch there are already stand alone sites using the .Co extension.
The companies who own the .Co domain name do NOT own the equivalent .com.
Let’s look at a few
Owned by a company called Lehmer & Associates, which is a Missouri company doing web and logo designs. Lehmer.com is for sale at BuyDomains.com
A rather nice looking site owned by a company out of the UK selling business advice.. Brxnet.com is owned by a company in Germany and the domain does not resolve.
Owned by a company selling customized visual systems out of Minnesota. Cubic.com is a defense contractor.
Is owned by a real estate company is the UK. It does not appear they own the equivalent .co.ok domain.
Communivation.co
Is owned by a New York company called communivation communications. The equivalent .com is owned by Verizon registered with MarkMonitor.com
Is owned by a group with a trademark, the Nation Energy Rating. Ner.com is owned by New England Research out of Vermont.
Is owned by a UK company called Cambridge Help Desk. Both the equivalent .com and .co.uk are owned by othe company’s which are parking the domains.
This is just a small sampling of developed .Co sites.
Want to see some more?
Just visit Developed.co which lists many developed .Co domains and includes screenshots of developed .Co sites.
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I think we need to wait a full year and look back to see how .co did. It’s still too early to tell.
Yeah, everytime i see a link to last.fm i close my browser immediatly.Thats only for the people of the federated states of micronesia!
now there is the big hype around .CO
the max number of .CO will be reached soon and will not change so much in the next years
.CO will never be a big success, simply, because 99.99% of people and companies don’t need it
old people and companies that already have the right .com don’t need to shift to a .co
new people and companies that find the right .com still not registered don’t need .co
and new people and companies that find the right .com already registered can’t use a .co for trademark reason
in other words, if you call a new web service bestinkjets.com but a company and service with this name already exists, you can’t use the bestinkjets.co domain without risk to be sued by the original service
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The .Co’s future will depend on the investors to build equity in their domains just like any other TLD. Did we witness 6 & 7 figure .Com sales in the early 90′s? No, we didn’t. Did the public understand the value of internet real estate until the late 90′s early 2000s? Not really. I have witnessed many TLD/CCTLD launches and to date I haven’t witnessed a new launch with this much momentum. Even I chose to brand and develop on the .CO TLD. It’s new, it’s fresh, it provides new opportunity and most importantly it’s geared towards businesses.
It is encouraging to see sites being developed this quickly. It was also very astute of the folks marketing this too allow people access to domains if they agreed to develop them (Sunrise period?). Last but not least, we also have a very strong following with large entities such as NBC, Overstock, Twitter and MySpace to name a few.
As we know in order for the extension to succeed long term with the general public, they need to contiually see .CO’s when searching for everyday things. While the above mentioned items in the first paragraph are important, we also don’t have much control over those external factors.
To those folks who have purchased .CO’s, it is imperative we take time to build out sites on these domains. This will play a significant role in establishing .CO as long term success. One of the best things we can do to increase the value of our .CO domains is to invest in the domains themselves by building out sites. Waiting around for someone else to build out their sites is only going to prove all the naysayers right. Take some time and money and invest in what you believe in.
“Come on, do you seriously think .com should be the only extension on Earth?”
Yes – only if you are in the business of making dough – other than selling domains that will likely never be used in production
“I’ve tried typing in .co’s and I always typo to the .com.”
Me too – that is why I double check every entry involving .com threads – sorry .co’ers
“Ask yourself this simple question, which is more likely to double in size? .CO or .COM”
Denial can only be doubled in size so many times – when after all that it is still irrelevant
Thanks for posting this. Didn’t know any .co domains were developed.
Good to see there is still speculation in the market.
Maybe when the ccTLD for Oman (.om) comes public, there will be another rush
I think the real proof will be showing sites that are ranked in google or yahoo that are a .co, so far I havent had sucess and notice quite a few of the promoted sites are not ranking for any type of competitive terms…I suspect that if there is quite a hurdle in achieving rankings this will greatly de-value the .co extension..
Don’t underestimate the power of viral marketing. Things can change on a dime.
I do NOT think there will be a rush for the extension .OM.
.OM serves no purpose. It has no meaning in the English language (I have no idea about other languages).
I dont see any clear way that .OM can be marketed toward businesses.
.CO at least stands a chance to be something good.
It has a clear meaning in the English language as the shortened expression of Company. It has had that for well over 100 years.
.CO is also recognized and used world wide as a business extension (for secondary ccTLDs… Example .co.in, .co.cc, .co.de, and the list goes on).
So there is already the base of a fundamental understanding that .CO is a business extension.
Those reasons (and the fact that its looked on by Google as a gTLD) are what gives .CO a CHANCE at becoming a good extension.
It still has a long way to go, and a lot to prove. Lets keep an eye on it for a year and see what happens.
You will see people buy make some huge money buying and selling .co names during the next 6 months.
>.co is new so you always have excitement around a new extension.
>.tv is still a good extension also. Some great buys in that area. With google and everyone moving towards the tv set you will that extension stay around for a long time. Unlimited channels tied to websites which produce shows or information. >tv has a nice niche.
We still sell .mobi names out of the US. So even though it did not take off like people thought. Opp still exists. Esp if you have generic words.
The biggest potential is tv. Is has a certain niche that only .com can compete with.
Don
Check out Go Daddy’s newest URL Shortener on http://nima.co – Go Daddy is developing on the .CO TLD.
.com is dead. PPC… dead.
Hype and misinformation? That stopped eons ago.
Get with it. .co is the way to go. Yo.
PetFoods.co is up & running. It is running on the EPIK Product portal platform.
Get your Broadway Tickets here:
http://broadwaytickets.co/
My god check this out:
PetFoods.com
What a waste.
PetFoods.co is the real pet foods site.
someone with a lot of respected experience on this thread – or another .co thread shed a little light on non.com’s – have fun with it – but remember 99.99% of the money invested will get burned
I’m working on a Forex Trading blog website (FXD.co) and should be fully functional with content soon.
Can’t wait to see the .CO domain expand over the next few months. So far there are 524,206 .CO registered according to cointernet.co
.CO = Columbia some of you guys are smarter than this you know that .CO is a junk extension for the USA and globaly same as .CM is .CO is only good for Columbia your either making a lot of money from selling and promoting .CO or your clutching at staws hoping to make a lot money from gullible people this little storm will be over sooner than later.
dont they offer the trademark site for instance nationwide.com the right to purchase the .co before they do the landrush? so why would they come back and sue you if they could have bought it and it was offered to them first? i guess you can be sued by anyone …
I have myself developed http://www.200.co. I love .co domains.
I was one of the ones who purchased .co extensions. Hopefully, the .co extensions are good investments.
Add one more to the list of developed .co domains. I’m putting the finishing touches on my new site http://www.petforum.co. I hope you would please check it out!
I also have some other undeveloped .co domains I want to sell to endusers at some point:
CloudComputing.co (the hyphenated version in .de sold for US$38,000)
NatGas.co (whoever owns the .com is asking $400,000)
CleanEnergy.co
BioFuels.co
FuelCells.co
@Eric
Wow… nice names.
I mean those are really nice names. Good catch on those names.
You should attempt to keep some of those to a little while. If .CO ever catches on (given its current trend… it just may do that) then you would have some really nice names to sell at a large profit.
Just my opinion.
Cheers
I wonder what I could potentially sell those domains for to an end user that i listed in my previous post. Now or say 10 years from now!
@ Eric
@Slate
@ Whoever
It is not about dropping the “M” or some other logic –
The person that buys the .co will not get to the holy grail they expect to achieve.
Sorry friends
Hate me if you will – BUT – I am all about save family fortunes, savings and other resources from being lost , You cannot “WILL” something that is not there
Best,
@BrianWick
I agree with you partially, However, would you not agree that paying a few dollars now is better than paying a fortune in the future? What i mean is, it is a small investment in just a few names that have the Potential for a huge payoff at sometime in the future. It is not like I’m spending thousands of dollars or even hundreds. Why not get a few names for a few bucks and sit on them for a while. If one day .co really does achieve widespread use then some names gotten today in the right industry may be worth a large sum. I don’t smoke cigarrettes or go hang out at the bar and drop $100+ a week like some people do so i can afford a $100 or $200 small investment on a couple of domain names!
Cheers!
@Brian
Sorry buddy but there was no talk what so ever about the letter “M”.
This was a conversation about domain names that end with the extension .CO. Not comparing them in any shape, form, or fashion to .COM.
We all know that .COM holds the money for premium domain names. I am not disputing that. Infact 90%+/- of my portfolio is .COM.
Now with that said, the discussion was on his .CO domain names, and they are nice domain names. He can sell them for a profit already (all be it, much smaller profit then if he had the .COM version of the names…. but still a profit).
For the life of me, I do not understand why some “Domainers” will call foul if someone purchases a domain outside of .COM.
In the end, anyone who purchases a domain (outside of developing it), just want to hold onto it for the potential of making a profit.
I dont buy beach front property for 2 reasons.
1) I cant afford it. I dont have millions to shell out, and they are not making anymore beachfront. So, if I wanted beachfront… I have to lay out the money
2) Beachfront has its price already set. Its not really going to inflate or deflate anytime soon. Its pretty much plateaued, (in other words… if I buy it for 1 million now… and sell it a year from now… it will pretty much only be worth 1 million +/- a few dollars).
*in case you missed the reference… beachfront property = premium .COM domains*
Now, I can afford to *SPECULATE* on some other land, with *HOPES* that it will see a boom later in life. *IF* it does, my *SPECULATION* investment will go up in price. *IF* it does not… I lost little.
I have around 500 domain names, out of that 11 are .CO domains.
My interest in .CO is minimal but I will like to see how it plays out.
I do not let other perceived failures from other extensions get in the way of SPECULATION. Speculation is a risk, but a risk that has the best “ROI” (return on investment… for those who do not know).
Now dont come back with a once in a life time sale that you saw where some guy bought a premium .COM domain name for 300 dollars and turned around to sell it for six figures. Those are the exception and not the rule. Now a days you will pay six figures for a six figure domain name and 5 years down the road… its still worth about the same as you paid for it.
It held its value… and hopefully you where able to monetize off of it.
If you dont have six figures, your not looking to monetize a site (i.e. develop), you dont mind a gamble, and you are hoping for a high ROI, then maybe you can look to other domain extensions outside of .COM.
Anyways, I am off my soap box.
Cheers
.COM investors like myself are worried that .CO will devalue .COM.
With more public awareness I am afraid it will continue to reduce .COM value.
Innovators try different things. People that put down .CO are either sheep that are too afraid to walk out of their tiny little box that they live in, or they missed the boat.
Take the risk (wuth the right names)