Are .Co Domains Worth More Than .Org Domains?
I couldn’t help but notice (especially when one of the readers pointed it out to me) that DuiAttorney.co sold for $44,500 in the Land Rush Auctions, which is more than I sold duiattorney.org for earlier this year.
Several months ago I sold DuiAttorney.org through Sedo.com for $35,000 which at the time most thought was a fair price.
However in the latest .Co Land Rush Auction report I posted yesterday, DuiAttorney.co sold for $10K more than the .Org.
So the question is are .Co domain now worth more than .Org domains or are ALL domains now worth more because of the amounts being paid in the land rush auctions.
How much more is DuiAttorney.com worth now that someone has ponied up $45K for the .co?
Or are they completely different animals having no bearing on each other?
Personally my domain name, Duilawyer.org is going to now be priced into the six figures based off of these sales.
Are you going to increase the asking prices of your .com’s based off these .co sales?
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…and the hype is only going to get bigger (just published):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-snow/how-to-become-an-internet_b_705175.html
i think at the end of the day .org’s currently are worth more seeing that most people associate them with charity/non-profit companies.
(you tend to trust a .org more when you make donations etc)
the way .co will increase in value rapidly and become a ‘household brand’ is with help from marketers/advertising agencies as these guys will take it by the horns and hopefully get some tv space in commercials etc (educating the general public).
.co.uk and similar have their place seeing that most people consider it being a ‘local’ site and would shop there.
typo’s and that are for the birds. and if your trying to compete with the .com? sorry your gonna loose. Getting typo traffic of a nice established site (brand) is just messing with danger……look at aaa****.com disputes with aaa (american auto assoc) winning nearly everytime.
the more that build and with the help of good seo will drive this
if people sit on em…..then it will go the same way as .me etc.
however, the comparison has no sense since it’s like ask if .travel worths more than .jobs … they’re two different things
So you all speak and can read Spanish huh .. everybody wants to visit a Columbian website .. what a load of B/S ..
This has been and still is the slickest marketing campaign ever pulled over the eyes of the domain community ever .. The marketing is perfect .. the resellers are slick as they come Mr.Mann ect .. what are you going to do when Google say enough is enough .Co is Columbian! non related Spanish content for Columbia = no G ranking Geo targeting the TLD .. that could happen .. The public maybe dumb but sooner or later there will be anti .CO blogs informing them that .CO is Columbia .. .TV who doesn’t know that is Tuvelu .. The Columbian gov could pull the plug on .CO anytime they feel like it they have done it before ..
//In 2001 the University began to consider the possibility of marketing the domain as an alternative to the generic top-level domains, based on its resemblance to the .com domain. The Government of Colombia objected, and the Minister of Communications, Angela Montoya Holguín, wrote to the University to request that they not continue. In turn the University wrote to ICANN, rejecting the Government′s objections and stating their intention to appoint a subcontractor to handle the commercialisation of the domain.[3]
At a meeting on 11 December 2001, Holguín asked the Consultative Chamber and Civil Service of the Council of State to consider three issues:[4]
whether the .co domain is a public resource
if the domain is public resource, whether it is intrinsically linked with telecommunications
if the domain is linked with telecommunications, who should profit from its commercialisation
In relation to these three issues, the meeting concluded that:[4]
the .co domain, having been assigned to Colombia, is of public interest
the administration of the domain is intrinsically related to telecommunications, and hence falls under the purview of the Ministry of Communications, with the exception of those functions assigned to the ICFES by the Ministry of National Education
unless the Congress of Colombia adopts an act allowing tax to be collected in relation to the registration of domain names, no amount can be charged for such a service
In response to the Council of State meeting, the University wrote to ICANN on 12 February 2002 stating that it had abandoned plans to commercialise the domain, and that as it could “no longer bear the administrative and operational responsibilities” it wished to discontinue its responsibility for operating the domain.[3]//
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co
Only the registry and the slick operators will profit from .CO when it’s over they will move onto the next ..
@ Robert Cline: I have invested in a number of .co’s, intend to develop some and really hope they do well. Your commentary on all these threads is however really starting to become very repetitive and annoying.
If you have something useful or constructive to say, say it, but stop pushing .co like it’s going out of fashion! The extension will be successful on its own merits. Spend your time and energy developing your .co sites rather than roaming and writing these articles trying to get a plug-in wherever you can! Much better use of your time…
check out these couple developed .CO sites:
http://www.findjobs.co
and
http://www.dfj.co
You would have to think that Twitter’s most recent announcement that they will be using the T.co for all future URL shorteners on their parent Twitter site as HUGE news for the dot co extension.
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/twitter-to-launch-official-tweet-button/
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To follow up on your original post MB …
3DTV.org sold last year for $1,200 .. and since has been relisted recently at the same $1,200 with no bites
.. but 3dTV.co sold for $5,200 at landrush
… hmmm…
… i don’t necessarily believe the bump in dot co raises the bar for dot org… this could just be the beginning of big things for dot co
What a silly post. A domain is worth what some will pay for it. Doesn’t mean all .co’s are worth more just cos one sold for more than a .org
All boils down to the buyer and the size of the market they operate in, and whether they have no chance of getting it in any more well known extensions..
Because you sold your .org previously for $35k , they have no chance of getting that one either, so maybe weren’t prepared to let the .co slip through the net..
I acquired ATTY.co and Rechtsanwalt.co = lawyer in german are they worth 5 figures ?
i got one InjuryLawyer.de
Any value?
thanks
.co is still feeding on landrush hype. This is like saying is .mobi worth more than .org because of the handful of high .mobi sales that were higher than .org sales. The high .mobi sales were fueled entirely from hype and most of this .co landrush is as well. Once it settles, they’ll be lower than .org for sure.
I love how the ones who don’t want .CO to succeed keep referencing ‘history’ and keep comparing this launch to dot mobi, and dot asia and dot tel etc
- but the REALITY is the ONLY history you have to compare this to IS the dot com – ya know – being as this was THE most successful extension launch SINCE the dot com.
So please boys n girls – enough comparing apples to oranges.
We will see in a couple short years, won’t we?
.mobi, .eu, and .asia were successful LAUNCHES too… .co being a more successful LAUNCH doesn’t matter because it is still a LAUNCH, and as history has shown, the performance of the LAUNCH doesn’t dictate the longterm success of the extension. I witnessed the launch of a ccTLD for international use and even have the highest public sale in that extension, but for international use it has since become quite a dud despite my success in it even though it was hyped as the next big thing when it was launched. That extension was .in. Anyhow, widespread adoption amongst the average person is what matters…both in usage for popular websites and in the mindsets of the people that visit them. How many of these people still think when they see a .co that it’s a typo of .com?
However, if you want to look at an “apple” to compare .co to, how about .biz? Like .biz, it is supposedly suitable for businesses and you can get the stronger domains in it for a lot less. We’ve seen how that’s done for .biz longterm. Oh yea, and I’ve made a nice sale in .biz too and can say it’s pretty well a failure compared to how it was built up to be when it was launched. Even extensions that for a time had showed promise, like .info, have not amounted to anything close to what they were supposed to be.
So yea, we’ll see what happens, sir or madam anonymous commenter.
You were completely wrong on one thing though. I actually would love to see .co succeed. I don’t like it when extensions that are highly touted don’t succeed, because it prolongs the separation of the domain industry from the mainstream. So assuming you are heavily invested into .co, I hope you DO succeed along with the others. That would be excellent and if anything would help the other extensions grow in value as well.
.co have only had an INCREDIBLE blogs coverage!
I do not own a single .org name that I would trade for the same in .co.
“I do not own a single .org name”
nothing strange if you don’t have a charity-like .ORGanization
“that I would trade for the same in .co”
why do you should? they’re “apples and oranges” (as in the american old say)
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Steve
I don’t know if any of the extensions you mentioned had nearly as many registrations as .co did in its 1st months, and I don’t know if any had so many high priced domains so deep into the auctions.
“I don’t know if any of the extensions you mentioned had nearly as many registrations as .co did in its 1st months, and I don’t know if any had so many high priced domains so deep into the auctions.”
They don’t.
But there’s nothing surprising in the .CO hatred among some people, even if they defend themselves of being .CO haters.
People who have invested a lot in .COM see from a very angry eye the rise of other TLDs. Especially when this TLD has just been launched, and when they realize they may have missed some opportunities.
I just finished my deep meditation and I have come to a very deep understanding and my final conclusion is:
.CO will be either the #1 or #2 extension within the next 5 years.
Furthermore, it will be more popular than .org and .net
So whatever you see their corresponding name has gone for or go for, you can be sure, you will get more with a .CO
Cheers. Thanxs for listening. My deep meditated thoughts are beyond reproach and considered to be very accurate. What are you thoughts on my conclusion?
“may have missed some opportunities”
why? there are many other TLD domains that sells well, and, ONLY a good .com could become “the [million$] opportunity of the life” while, a good .co selling, could only help his seller to change the car with a new model…
“.CO will be either the #1 or #2 extension within the next 5 years. ”
ok, now we only need to wait 5 years…
Robert Cline -> .COM will rule as the absolute master for at least the next 6 or 7 years.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if .CO overtakes .NET and .ORG.
“But it wouldn’t surprise me if .CO overtakes .NET and .ORG.”
no, the .co hype will ends soon
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“why? there are many other TLD domains that sells well, and, ONLY a good .com could become “the [million$] opportunity of the life” while, a good .co selling, could only help his seller to change the car with a new model…
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Most TLDs are crap compared to .CO.
I don’t think there are still many big .COM opportunities left. The premiums of the premiums like pizza.com or insurance.com are already priced at millions, so the entry ticket for further speculation is quite expensive.
There may be some opportunities in the aftermarket, but now even crappy .COMs sell at prohibitive prices. Maybe it’s some kind of bubble… (because the end-users are quite lacking).
Based on my Buddha like meditation, that is over 5 hours, sheer number of registrations .CO will overtake .ORG and .NET
However, .CO will sell far more even in the coming weeks and months.
In just a few months, when the only .COM left for first registration will be “xszvb.com” or “thebestofthebestcars.com”, the end-users will prefer to register .COs for $30 rather than pay a lot for their .COM counterparts.
The title of this thread is “Are .CO s worth more than .ORG s ?” The answer to this is a resounding:
YES YES YES YES YES
I have no absolute doubt in my mind about this after my 5 hour long meditation this afternoon. I went over every conceivable possibilities and probabilities and my calculations have come to this conclusion. A supercomputer would also come out with my same conclusion.
we DEFINITELY need to wait a year or so to know the TRUE answer about the .co success or failure
I wish there was a way to securitize some of the deusionally optimistic sentiments in this thread so they were a marketable offering. I would leverage myself to the hilt taking a short position against that product.
“I wish there was a way to securitize some of the deusionally optimistic sentiments in this thread so they were a marketable offering. I would leverage myself to the hilt taking a short position against that product.”
Whatever .CO haters say, it won’t really affect its success. As already said on this thread, wait and see.
“Whatever .CO haters say, it won’t really affect its success. As already said on this thread, wait and see.”
You’re certainly entitled to think that and put your money where your mouth is by buying .co. I just wish there was a way I could do the same by betting against you.
Anyway, one thing we both agree on is ‘wait and see’. You think the paradigm is about to shift, I think .co doesn’t budge the paradigm one single inch (like, not even a little bit). Whatever success .co has seen thus far is restricted entirely to the ‘domainer landrush speculation’ community, which has brought us such mind-bogglingly stupid examples as $200K for flowers.mobi, etc. Does this tulip-mania frenzy set some sort of a comparative benchmark against which we can judge the value of other, more established extensions? No. All it does is prove there are idiots out there in this world who have more money than judgment.
Like I said. Of the .org names I own (and I do own a few decent ones, including pure geos of decent sized cities, etc), there isn’t a single one that I would trade for a .co, right now, if such a trade were proposed to me.
no one “hates” .co
it (simply) isn’t a so “stellar” TLD as expected
of course, some could earn money with .co but not so many and not so much
forgive me if i’m mistaken – but did any major company pay a significant amount of money for a dot asia, a dot mobi, a dot biz, a dot in or any of the other new extension when it came out and begin branding and marketing it within the first six months of existence – like twitter has planned for december?
or did any other major company do anything comparable to what Overstock did by paying $300,000 + for O.co with any other new extension?
**BTW – @LS Morgan – if you’re going to TRY and impress us all with your ‘BIG WORDS’ and rambling sentences that wreak of boredom – at least get the big words right!!
It’s “reek of boredom”.
@ Ls Morgan
If your the punk at Namepros and got kicked out you can Gfy
You talk a big game and work for some website outfit. Until you quit your job and quit your day job shut up
If your not him then my apology
It’s “you’re not him”
If you’re going to be in the business of buying and selling words, at least try to not suck so desperately with them. You come off as a completely illiterate retard.
Anyway, stupid blog flames aside, I stand by what I said. If you want to bet on the future of .co and escrow your side with any established industry participant, propose terms and let me know. I’m absolutely game to put my money where my mouth is. I bet you aren’t.
The fact that these boards are so active tells me a lot. One of my calculations during my meditation was the interest and activity of these boards.
The real fact of the matter is that the organization behind .CO internet SAS is led by Harvard Business School educated young energetic 32 year old who has sold successful internet businesses to Yahoo and are not going to be sitting back. I believe they will act aggressively to market .CO on national TV ads with all the money flowing in with these auctions and registrations.
@ Domainer:
LOL @ ‘can’t be independent’. You haven’t the slightest clue what you’re talking about our partnership. If you did, you’d probably feel pretty dumb right now, although people like you rarely feel as dumb inside as others view you from the outside. If you did, you wouldn’t talk as much.
Anyway, game over. Trying to have a discussion with people like you is totally pointless. Let me know about that bet and best of luck with your “.co investments”. You’re going to need it, just as soon as you recover from your .tel adventures.
” LS Morgan (Not Morgan Linton)” -> Morgan, no offense but you sound a bit like a frustrated guy who’s terribly jealous of the success of others. I can sense the hatred behind your sentences.
By the way, when someone tells in his pseudo that he is not someone, that means he actually is.
Morgan (simple curiosity), in which TLDs do you invest?
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in my opinion, the .CO domains that have a real meaning and an high value are those that include part of the name, like…
mexi.co
e.co
etc.
well, apart nar.co ( °o° ) do you know other registered .CO domain of the same kind?
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“Morgan (simple curiosity), in which TLDs do you invest?”
I’m 90% developer and 10% domain speculator.
Of that 10%, 90% is .com, the other 10% is a smattering of .org, .net and ccTLDs. I own less than 10.biz/.info’s and a lone .tv.
.co is fine as a Spanish Language ccTLD and a lovely typo (you will see the typo factor in play with some keywords) and I’m sure there will be the isolated examples of (dumb) people staking their claim on that extension as some sort of repurposed TLD ala .tv, but some of the pie-eyed speculations made in threads like this regarding the future of .co are just belly-laugh hilarious.
The sad (and pathetic) thing is, we aren’t breaking new ground. We’ve seen the same thing, time and time and time again, with the release of every new TLD… How this time, it’s different and how this time, things are going to change and how this time, it’s a game changer… and it never, ever is. There’s nothing inherent to this TLD that suggests things will be any different, this go round.
The people making money right now are fools selling to greater fools. No one is realizing any sort of inherent value, no one is unlocking any potential. It’s windhandel.
“.co is fine as a Spanish Language ccTLD”
yes… like… lo.co (…who buys .co?
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so…
- mexi.co
- e.co
- o.co
- nar.co
- lo.co
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sem.co is at $5200 right now
sem.co isn’t a name but (probably) a company (sem or semco?)
People are offbase by calling other posters derogatory names
because they disagree with them.
No one knows what is going to happen in the future.
WE ARE ALL GUESSING.
Therefore, one person’s opinion is as good as another.
Lets try to maintain a quality level of discussion.
The best way to predict the future is to “Invent It”…or program it via DNS Software…
“sem.co isn’t a name but (probably) a company (sem or semco?)”
sem means search engine marketing, a several hundred billion dollar industry…