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 will paraphrase a tidbit of wisdom Mr Snoop at one point dispensed – when one has to showcase examples of websites using the extension to prove the extension is not dead, the extension is dead.
Jon
How can the extension be dead when its just a month old and growing everday?
These examples are not to show the extension is not dead, but to show people are using the extension to build out stand alone websites which many readers previously commented was not going to happen
And another site to add to your list. Launched today http://www.winprizes.co
Why would twitter and overstock pay so much if the domain was worthless?
Nice point. I guess some don’t see the point…
On another interesting note, NBC is using NBC.co as a cloaked redirect to its NBC.com site. Both NBC.co stays in the bar when looking at the NBC.com site. Very interesting.
“Is owned by a UK company called Cambridge Help Desk. Both the equivalent .com and .co.uk are owned by other companies which are parking the domains.”
I think you are going to see a lot more of that type of situation. My guess would be that there are a lot of small companies which cannot or do not want to deal with speculative .com registrants, and would simply prefer a .co to my favorite line from a conversation years ago… “The Western Samoan domain name hell that the rest of us must endure.”
I really don’t know what “success” or “failure” mean in this context. .CO has been around as a ccTLD for ages, and will continue to exist as one, whether or not any particular group of folks makes a pile of money.
But my guess was that opening it up to general registration would provide an alternative to folks who just want to get a domain name, and aren’t particularly bothered with whether the corresponding .com is a monetized page.
Check out http://angels.co . . . It’s a cool site
This is no difference than the dot net or org websites
People is still curious to see what the dot com looks like
Jon,there are people that talk about the news and there are the ones that make the news.
I bought 1,200 .cos and i will buy at list that mach moore as soon as the auctions are over.
Bit by bit the dotCOM ” supremacy” will FADE AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!! Thank god. Hallelujah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next year the internet will be FLOODED with the .CO WEBSITES.
Greezzzz,
The dot DE + .CO LOVER
Just built http://www.blenders.co/ on the Epik platform
People need to admit that .CO s are on the path to rivaling the .COM s in the coming year and years. As more and more of these sites come online, the awareness will increase which obviously will lead to even more registrations. $200,000 for T.CO and $350,000 for O.CO are just the beginning.
Developed.co is a very good idea for all parties involved to try to put .co on the map – but respectfully it will be nothing more than an exclusive club, .co support group or maybe even a cult – with very little exposure to the real world – didn’t eNom or someone else push the heck out of .tv as as the cross-promoting social networking tld – man did that take off or what !!!
Do any of the following do the same as Developed.co ?
Developed.info
Developed.org
Developed.net
Developed.biz
Developed.us
Developed.co.uk
Developed.mobi
– oops forgot one more – gee wiz
Developed.com
The simple fact of the matter is all the good .COMs have been taken a long time ago, now after 25 years, the next wave is the .CO s The fact that .CO s are international and not country specific anymore and reiterated by Google saying it will be treated just like .COM s and the fact that it is a shortened better version of .COM is want a few here do not realize.
Sheesh, here we go again…
My clients (non of them have any idea of domaining) are showing a good interest in the .co tld. coz they say it is easy to pronounce and almost very similler in pronouncement to .com. Only think keep them from reg few is, it’s expensive.
I should say the marketting of .co is best so far !
specially the logo
I think the .co domains will get broader acceptance as time goes on and be an acceptable variation like .net and .org are currently. That prime .com real estate is gone and the left overs are not that appealing. More businesses come online everyday that all need a domain to call home. The big boys will pony up for a high dollar .com, but everyone else will look to get creative with an alternate extension. I think .co is a great candidate for those people.
a very long list…
“Cambridge Help Desk”
if the TLD isn’t part of the name, there is no rational reasons to pay $29.99 to registrer chd.co rather than $0.89 (e.g. on GoDaddy and for the first year) to register chd.info that is also better for this purpose
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Per Broadway Tickets:
“.co …. an acceptable variation like .net and .org are currently. ”
Sure – that is a fair at-best assumption -
Look what happened to .cc 10 years ago – heavily marketed – Radio & TV stations were saying “…go to zzz.com zzz.cc” – the consumer got confused and only wanted to use the front door – .com.
Did very good out of the gates – but ran out of gas before the finish line.
Although the abbreviation for Company is appealing – should .co gain the traction some expect, the consumer will get confused with the Brand of the Internet .com and histroy WILL repeat itself.
and, no one of the really used .co is a mexi.co like domain
Consumers know .com , maybe a few less know .org and even less .net and so on. No major consumer facing entity has yet to put all their cards on .co (without having the .com) and I’m betting they won’t either. It will confuse the consumer.
Names like o.co and t.co are just redirects or alternate uses (url shortening,etc) . That isn’t the same. When a major company starts advertising themselves as brand.co , then you can start saying things are looking brighter but 1 move like that is not a groundswell or any sort of a paradigm shift
not even e.co is a devloped site!
Per Adam:
Yes – I have always looks at .net as the unwanted step child – not even the avis of TLDs.
You are dead on with the redirect comments as well
People have to face the truth: the supremacy of .COM can’t last forever.
The market will be, one day, totally saturated, even on the second market.
@Alex,
Respectfully – you are confusing your frustration and others with why the consumer has been programmed by billions and billions of dollars of advertizing , Corporate America and the Courts and UDRP that the .com is the only one on the shelf (minus a few dangling carrots).
What you propose is no longer the Internet Al Gore invented !!!
BrianWick -> Speak for you country, not mine.
In Japan, it has always been .co.jp. In Thailand, it has always been .co.th. In the United Kingdom, it has always been .co.uk. In New Zealand, it has always been .co.nz. In France, it has always been .fr.
I agree with you on one point: for an international business, .com is the best.
But when the market will be COMPLETELY saturated (nearly every meaningful combination used), be prepared to see some change.
People need to admit that .CO s are on the path to rivaling the .COM s in the coming year and years.
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I’d be willing to wager any sum of money that nothing even resembling this statement ever comes to pass.
Cubic Co sounds the best so far.
“.CO s are on the path to rivaling the .COM”
apart all, millions US companies will never put the future of their sites (and business) in the hand of a foreign country using mainly (or only) the .co TLD
maybe, if the .co TLD becomes an US property… but this is unlikely to happen
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can you imagine eBay or Dell or IBM or Facebook leave the .com to adopt the .co ???
“Cubic Co sounds the best so far.”
I am sure the guys at Cubico.com and CubicCo.com will appreciate that as well.
Maybe they will put the owner of Cubic.Co on their Christmas Card list and thanks them for the traffic
“Cubic.Co sounds the best so far.”
why?
so far, only mexi.co and e.co have a meaning
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despite the large hype it generated, the .co TLD clearly is a flop and a very small source of business for domainers
.CO wokrs for what they are, “an alternate” if you can’t get the most recognizable (.com) .
The .co arguments above sound very similar to .mobi , .tv etc .. . . the registry play book is even very similar.
History repeating itself.
How can you compare .co to .tv or .mobi , apples and oranges
…apples and oranges that taste identical.
So how old is .CO now? I think its a month and a half since its official launch in the terms that we are talking about it.
That is hardly enough time to prove its self as a good or bad extension.
A month and a half is a very short time and for the sites that are developed already its moving right along.
Right now its still a speculation extension. I dont know why some domainers insist on rallying against the extension. If anything, if it winds up a failure it will only strengthen the .COM brand more then it already is.
Out of the onslaught of past *NEW* extensions and their failures, this one has history going against it. I still think that this extension has the best chance (out of the recent NEW extensions) to be something that is well worth your time to drop your money into. I am not saying that it will rival .COM but I am sure it will be worth something more then the registration fee.
Maybe I am just missing something.
@ Adam. I dont see the correlation between .TV/.MOBI and .CO other then being new extensions.
.TV was pushed towards sites/businesses that are TV related or are video dependent. It is LIMITED in its scope and appeal to many sites that do not pertain to either one of those areas.
.MOBI was marketed as a website extension for the mobile device. It failed because (1) its longer (2) why use .mobi (which needed to build up recognition) when any other gTLD will do the same thing. (3) it is also limited in its scope to only be on mobile devices, again something that any gTLD can do.
I dont see the correlation between the extensions.
.CO still has to prove itself! but of all the recent extensions. This one hold the best chance at becoming a good extension.
Cheers
These guys know a thing or 2 about investing capital in some useful start-ups.
See what they’re using: http://dfj.co
Yes, although they are niche specific, extensions have marketed themselves in similar fashions. Read the marketing materials. The early adopters and the domain speculators who are deeply entrenched in any of these spaces are very defensive about how their specific investments are going to be “the next big thing”. It’s what you would expect of people deeply invested in anything. I think .co is great for it’s alternate uses btw.
.CO isn’t (nor can be) “an alternate” .com
if the .com is not available, it’s always best to register a .net or an .us or (best) use a different (but similar) domain name
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It’s funny to see that some crappy extensions like .tel or .mobi had a warmer welcome by domainers than .co, which is far away.
Some domainers are just frustrated by the failure of previous TLDs and think every single new TLD will fail.
Come on, do you seriously think .com should be the only extension on Earth?
“Come on, do you seriously think .com should be the only extension on Earth?”
YES
For a domainer focusing on development I wouldn’t care that much about the pecking order my domain extension belongs to as long as I can get a good SERP rank, get a lot of traffic and convert well with my websites.
It is shorter!
So from a purely logical/technical point of view, it is better.
Emotionally it’s not as good. But that’s our generation.
What about the next few generations that weren’t around for the .com start?
Over time, value of .COM will go down and value of .CO will go up. I hate to own a lot of .COM s and have to admit this but it is the truth. Just look at the domains, there really is no difference except for the fact .CO is better because it is like an accesskey to the .COM s.
Plus, people need to realize, that .CO is being registered globally. And this is huge, gigantic, enormous. I see people registering from all over the world. This is different than .us where virtually all are registered by us citizens.
I think as more .CO sites are developed like angel.co we will see an acceleration in .CO registrations just because of increasing awareness. What do you think?
This only points to one direction in the value of .CO real estate. And it is Up, straight up.
For those in the US, just look at your own web surfing data and you’ll see 99% of the sites you go to everyday on a regular basis are .com’s.
Out of 400,000 reg’d .co’s how many are developed so far and what level of quality? How much money is going to be spent for brand advertising and marketing those sites? That’s the big question. Unless the public becomes aware of .co in a major way you’ve got a very limited audience.
I’ve tried typing in .co’s and I always typo to the .com.
Hey good luck to the .co investors and all the other TLD’s in the pipeline. But I think your money would be better spent on high quality .com investments.
The fact of the matter is the .CO momentum is already here. Ask yourself this simple question, which is more likely to double in size? .CO or .COM
Bingo. You have your answer.
This guy with his comment is spot on:
BroadwayTickets
I think the .co domains will get broader acceptance as time goes on and be an acceptable variation like .net and .org are currently. That prime .com real estate is gone and the left overs are not that appealing. More businesses come online everyday that all need a domain to call home. The big boys will pony up for a high dollar .com, but everyone else will look to get creative with an alternate extension. I think .co is a great candidate for those people.
and this guy with his comment should indicate the general sentiment:
zamaan
My clients (non of them have any idea of domaining) are showing a good interest in the .co tld. coz they say it is easy to pronounce and almost very similler in pronouncement to .com. Only think keep them from reg few is, it’s expensive.
I should say the marketting of .co is best so far !
specially the logo
But don’t let a few extra bucks stop you from grabbing top .CO domains now.