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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fools and their money = .co
fact
make money noobs while u can, the registry is
I love reading these posts because the pro and con passion here demonstrates what a truly exciting industry we’ve become. The bottom line is that dotCo’s success is great for all domainers and the domain industry.
“sem means search engine marketing, a several hundred billion dollar industry”
if this is the meaning, then, the winner already is sem.com not the .co or .cc or .ws versions
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definitely, we MUST wait to know the truth
three are the data we must wait to see within a year or so:
- how many .co domains will be sold after today’s hype
- how many .co will be used for real sites, redirect and domaining
- the total value of the .co domains market (compared with others)
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I like how all these other extensions are riding on the coat tales of the success of the .CO s, like .co.uk, .co.in, .co.es
It seems like there are 60 other ccTLDs that are riding on the coat tale of .CO
It’s clear the leader is going to be .CO hence forth.
“I like how all these other extensions are riding on the coat tales of the success of the .CO s, like .co.uk, .co.in, .co.es”
.co.uk is riding on the “coattails” of .co? LOL.
Brad
@Brad
If you like .CO.UK
you must be loving the .CO
“@Brad
If you like .CO.UK
you must be loving the .CO”
Why? I will go with the ccTLD of the United Kingdom every time over the ccTLD of Colombia.
Brad
@Brad
If you haven’t heard the news and need to be taught.
.CO is now a gTLD, same as .COM as google has announced it will be treated as such globally.
You are uninformed and obviously inclined to disseminate incorrect information.
.CO.UK is a true ccTLD and twice as long, actually 2.5 times longer.
.CO encompasses everything that .CO.UK can do and 283 other countries. That is why the .CO s will dominate.
If you can now get a .CO shorter and broader, why in the world would anyone now get .CO.UK or for that matter .co.cr
.co.id
.co.uk
.co.uz
.co.ch
.co.pe
.co.pk
.co.lv
You can essentially look at .CO as being the ruler and mother of al these other longer and harder to remember extensions.
My case made. Checkmate.
That’s ‘checkmate’ only in some sort of new form of ‘idiots-chess’ where the winner is he who understands least about the game.
Every single metric you pointed out as to why .co will become ‘dominant’ is totally irrelevant in terms of how consumers digest a web address. One of the biggest ‘cases’ made for .cc back in the day was that it was just so easier and faster to type than pesky, ‘longer’ .com. Nothing in your hypothesis has any legs. The sad thing is, we aren’t even dealing in ‘theory’. So many of those weak lines of reason have already been shown to be fallacious as hell with the pumpers of other new and ‘repurposed’ TLDs. You could choose to learn from history, but I’m guessing you’re new to all of this, so these sorts of things are still fresh and exciting to you- a world of wonder and unlimited potential- when to people who have been around this game for a while, it’s a well-worn path with the map already written.
.co.uk in United Kingdom has reached ubiquity- in spite of already being ‘longer’ than the global, standard bearer and preeminent generic brand, .com- with any number of shorter or ‘more generic’ options available. The reason people choose a ccTLD isn’t because of its length. If you don’t get this, you’re still playing at Level 0 of this game. Of course, so are many of the .co proponents, “3d domain investors”, etc.
I do think repurposed use of .co might have a bit more distance than the repurposing of any other random ccTLD (for example, people in Minnesota using .mn or people in Indiana using .in or doctors using .md- both have their isolated examples of use, but it’s scant), but the idea that .co will supplant anything is just absurd for a billion reasons, the articulation of said would take up more space than is permitted in a blog comment.
@Morgan,
You make my point. You have to write an essay to make your point.
I simply represent the everyday common person registering.
That is why, in the first month, .CO has 500,000 registrations while
.asia has 177,872 registrations in 6 years.
.tel has only 245.976 registrations
.me has only 427,619 registrations
In 1 month .CO has done more than all these others combined in 10 years.
Case made. Checkmate again.
Yes, indeed, your mentality totally represents the ‘everyday, common person’ registering domain names. If you want an even better look at the wisdom of your crowd, I’d suggest perusing a drop list sometime.
.co could have 10,000,000 registrants in the first 5 hours. That does nothing to prove anything, other than domainers are mostly idiots who lose more money than they make.
No one here can argue with .CO success.
Everyone’s other extension misery wants company for their misery.
Well, my advice to them, if you can’t beat them, join .CO success.
Bow down to the new king.
.CO era is here. It’s now the .CO era.
yo LS
go out and learn how to make money and actually have some decent names..your portfolio sucks and the .com guys love the extra traffic off your dumb .org developments
to many egos, so little time..funny comments
.COM is like the old lion, it had its hay day. It has matured and now is on the decline. The old always make way for the new.
.CO is the new stud, supplanting the old lion. It is just starting its reign and the new king has arrived. Any hyenas here will be squashed like a lion does to a hyena.
LS your buying .co
“LS your buying .co”
hahahahaha That is the best line. I fell off my chair laughing. Oh that is so funny.
That has to be the best line I have read in the history of all these threads. You made my weekend. hahahaha.
You have made the .CO point:
LESS IS MORE
You hear the lion roar, all hyenas wimper scampering away.
“.CO is now a gTLD, same as .COM as google has announced it will be treated as such globally.”
Actually .CO is the ccTLD of Colombia. Anything else is a fancy marketing campaign.
Nrad
Go to Google Insights and plug in .EU / .MOBI / .ASIA / .ME / .TEL / etc.
I know, I know. CO is different. I have heard the same thing with every new extension recently.
They all pretty much show a massive peak of interest at the start then flatline.
Brad
Brad your buying .co too
and I am off to barbeque dinner. Yum.
Long live the new king.
Are either of you willing to wager (and escrow) actual money on the future of .co development? I’m open to some pretty liberal terms.
I mean, I know how this turns out. Just like the people with .mobi or .tel or the ones who insisted that .biz or .info would soon rival .com, you both will fade away from the domain game once you’ve been proven wrong and go back to making Big Macs or whatever it is you do on a daily basis… Turds like you are aplenty in the dustbin of domain investing… But in the mean time, just let it be known that I’m perfectly willing to augment your massive, future .co profits by making an actual, real-world, real money wager on its future.
It’s time for either of you to put up or shut up.
I think a fun bet would be an over/under on the collective market capitalization of all publicly traded companies using .co as their primary web presence after a set period of time… It’s dead easy to quantify and if you are right regarding the future of .co, that number should be huge in a relatively short period of time.
So, to either of you, please, please dear god, tell me you’re willing to escrow and bet. If you’re just willing to post blog comments and rant about a brighter tomorrow, then sit down over there next to the .mobi people and learn something. Otherwise, I’m right here, willing to bet you’re both totally, totally wrong.
save your money LS.. Maybe one day Namepros will let you back inn with your ego and your shit names..
your struggling now and need to rant on blogs because namepros dislikes you little punk
big macs thats a trip..hope one day you can eat lobster each day and work on your own..
i suggest you save your money Ls little man and maybe go out in aftermarket.. acquire one decent name.. Maybe after 10 years you can acquire one name…
your .com names suck, your .org developments suck.. do you have anything to share?
LS buying .co
So, I’m willing to bet real money against the future of .co, you’re not, but you *are* willing to make free blog posts about how great it will be?
I think that says everything that needs to be said here.
I used Google Insights and .CO interest has stayed real high all the time while other extensions fall off. That is the difference. Here it is:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=.co&cmpt=q
Long live the new .CO king.
LS buying .co funny stuff
LS your buying .co
whoever is buying .co, good luck to you
Richard your buying .co
^ Behold, the sort of intellectual framework that gets behind something like .co ^
When they can no longer articulate a case or cogently defend their position, it devolves into howling and mindless chanting.
@ Mr. Cline
Please go develop a .co the way many of us are. Am I selling .co domains too? Absolutely, because there is only so many hours in a day to develop and I am flipping at reasonable prices, leaving upside for the buyer. Making a quick 300-500% on $30 or $300 is fine and easy. Taking the profits and using them to develop .co sites is an investment for all .co investors. In addition some of us have plans with .co for our brick and mortar businesses. We are currently planning a launch and are well aware of the public issues. (“Did they forget the m on this ad?”)
But, you are mudding the waters for us who have actual plans with .co and making the entire investment community look a-fool with your boasting. Develop, sell do whatever you want. But just because you say something, does not make it true. Your point is made and 15 minutes are up. Show us a .co site Mr. Believer. Otherwise you are leading the pump and dump, shamelessly I might add.
When a person has to resort to name calling, or predicting the future of random people over the internet in a debate.He or she has already lost.
1.)It doesn’t matter if your willing to bet your house, car, or your entire portfolio on .co, what matters is CONSUMERS. Consumers don’t know(or even care for that matter) that .co is the cctld of Columbia. How many people do you know that even know Tuvalu exists?Just 3 years ago how many average internet users knew about twitter?
2.)How can you compare .CO to .WS(no meaning), .US(limited uses, .TV(again limited uses), .CC(originally intended for Creative Commons).Its apples and oranges. DotCo is a beast we have never seen before, and it has PROVEN that simply by the FACT it has already outsold .TV, .TV, .ASIA , in a VERY short time.To simply put it under a bus with other ccTLDs saying it has followed the same pattern would be very dumb statement to make.NO of the other cctlds had anywhere near as much marketing as .CO(nor have non of them been used by Twitter)
3.)The fact is dotCo is close to selling half a million domains in under a month.Men lie, women lie, NUMBERS DON’T!
@LS, feel free to write a 2 page reply, I wont be reading it.I will be busy developing .CO domains!
“How can you compare .CO to .WS(no meaning), .US(limited uses, .TV(again limited uses), .CC(originally intended for Creative Commons). DotCo is a beast we have never seen before, and it has PROVEN that simply by the FACT it has already outsold .TV, .TV, .ASIA , in a VERY short time.”
EU has 3M+ regs and very limited reseller value. The total number of regs does not mean all that much.
So we have .CO (Colombia) vs .US (United States). I find it amusing that .US is “limited use” when it is the ccTLD of the richest country on the planet, but the Colombian ccTLD is the second coming. Many of the seasoned domains have seen the same thing repeat itself over and over.
Many domainers seem to live in a bubble and don’t ever deal with the average consumer.
Sooner or later reality wins. It always does.
Brad
LS Morgan, Bluefire just took you to school.
Morgan you have been school.
Bluefire made no relevant points whatsoever, other than to say “this time, it’s different!” (Newbie Domainer Failboat #1) and how what matters are CONSUMERS, without bothering to articulate the nexus between consumers actually adopting .co and it’s introduction into the namespace. It would be like if I said “You know what’s important? OXYGEN!” , as if making a self-evident point somehow supports my position, without bothering to interrelate the two.
He then said that whatever I reply with, he won’t be reading- that’s pretty much a blinking neon sign that someone is taking an indefensible position for emotional, rather than logical, reasons.
But, yeah. HE TOOK ME TO SCHOOL!
Now, say “LSMorgan, your buying .co!” once again, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean.
it’s not clear yet IF .co domains will produce a big business, but, surely, we must admit that .co domains have produced a big and unprecedented debate!
and what is incredible is that, this big debate about .co, doesn’t happened BEFORE the early .co registrations, but, months AFTER, when nearly all the best .co domains have been already registered and, often, already resold with a profit
@ Brad, “How can you compare .CO to .WS(no meaning), .US(limited uses, .TV(again limited uses), .CC(originally intended for Creative Commons)”
FACTS: .WS = Western Samoa .CC = Cocos and (Keeling) Islands. Not creative Commons. .TV = Tuvalu (tiny Pacific Island Nation) .US is a restricted TLD restricted to US citizens/US businesses/Companies with proven business presence in the US also qualify for .US, “NEXUS” http://www.neustar.biz Similar to .CA = Canada, .CO is the Republic of Columbia as is com.co – commercial, org.co – organizations, edu.co – educational, gov.co – government, net.co – network infrastructure, mil.co – military, nom.co – private person, For the United Kingdom .UK is no longer available to register, CO.UK is the CCTLD.
We develop our domains and were delighted to have secured so many premium .CO domains. In fact, CO Internet rewarded us with a few great names after finding out about a site we had put up the very first week following the landrush.
If I were a DUI Attourney and paying $25.04 for the click, I too would go after DuiAttorney.co. What other options are there, I ask? All the extensions are taken.
In our case, we grabbed MarketingJobs.co and AccountingJobs.co for the very same reason. The .com names are not available, and likely never will. And even if they were avaiable, I doubt I could afford them. We launched these two .CO sites tonight and expect to do very well in the long run. We also own over 200 other .CO Jobs domains that we plan to launch soon. We’ll subdomain each and have UK sites and many more.
As for choosing between a .ORG or a .CO? That is a tough one, something that we too are wrestling with. We own both extensions for BiotechnologyJobs and still undecided which one to launch.
What Michael is saying is exactly what I have been trying to get through.
Once all the .CO domains are developed and indexed, a PPC of $25.04 is a PPC of $25.04 no matter which site the ad is advertised on.
Here is an opportunity that comes around once every 25 years. You can still grab $xx,xxx domains for $30. It is here for the taking.
Yet, there are people wasting their time talking about .me, .asia, .tel, and all these crap when they can be making money searching for good .CO domain names right now.
despite some good selling of .co domains, the fragmentation of TLDs will not kill the .com and other old TLDs, but will much more REINFORCE them, since, more the TLDs market will be fragmented, even more the .com TLD (but also the .net .org .co.uk .cn ecc.) will emerge as the ABSOLUTE LEADER and the .com domains prices will INCREASE very much… that why the .com owners should say thank you to the .co and to all other new TLDs that could fragment the non-.com market
Just added smallcars.co and conceptcars.co
what you guys think
@Matt
They are excellent if you are into cars.
144 comments… is it a record here?
To know how credible .CO has become, you only need to look at Apple Inc.
The only iPad domain name that they even bothered to register was, a drum roll please, you guessed it:
IPAD.CO , not IPAD.COM
@ Michael. Freebee for you,
//In our case, we grabbed MarketingJobs.co and AccountingJobs.co for the very same reason. The .com names are not available, and likely never will. And even if they were avaiable, I doubt I could afford them//
You could go get MarketingJobs.CM and AccountingJobs.CM the only thing missing is the O cant be any worse than a missing M.
Oh and lets not forget DUILawyer.CM is available in Cameroon Africa, lots of DUIs in Central Africa.
Talk about confusingly similar might be time for a WIPO action.
No record for the comments here, record is over 500
@R0bert Cline
ipad.com was registered in 1997 long before the ipad was a twinkle in Mr. Jobs’ eye. Give them time to allow the ipad to be 100% understood as their product and they will get the .com, one way or another. Did you know Walmart recently got a trade-mark on the smiley face which was created in the 60′s by a bank to boost staff morale? Again Mr. Cline, your boasting is not helping the value of the extension. I know a brick and mortar guy who told me he recently heard of .CO. He Googled it, came across ridiculous statements about it replacing .com and determined it was all hot air. .CO has a great chance to be a distant second to .com in five years, unless those of us who hold .CO mess it up through outrageous prices to re-sell or refusal to really put our money where our mouth is and develop quality properties.