.Co Domain Names Go On Sale For $11.99 Starting Tonight
I have received notices from several registrars and it appears that the retail price of .Co domain name registration fees are dropping in conjunction with the big Super Bowl Ad.
Dotster.com announced today that as of 7:30pm EST tonight they are beginning a 7 day sale for .Co registrations for just $11.99
The current price on Dotster,com for a .Co registration is $29.99
For all registrars that use a Logic Boxes back end the .CO sale begins around 8Pm
I heard through the GrapeVine that Godaddy.com will drop its price as of midnight tonight for .Co registrations also to $11.99 and run that promo price for one week in conjunction with the Super Bowl Promotion.
Also Dotster.com has .Co as it default extension on its site for new registrations already
You might well see .Co again show up as the default extension on drop down menus on many registrar sites for before tomorrow big game
The $11.99 price is for new registration and is not in effect for renewals.
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Just saw this great quote from Juan Diego Calle, founder and CEO of .CO Internet
“I want to reaffirm our commitment to monitor, enforce, and develop the necessary safeguards against cyber-squatting and all other forms of domain name abuse, as those threats continue to evolve.”
What a bunch of crap.
How many of the top 1000 .com sites are registered in .co and going to parked pages?
An example….craigslist.co
Gazzip
“”What I will say is its understandable to me now (although it wasn’t before) that you might not want to discuss any potential downsides openly if you’re working with/for .co.”"
I have done this before and the biggest danger to .Co and most troubling is losing the domain:
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/01/20/purely-descriptive-commonly-used-generic-domain-pokerstrategy-co-taken-in-udrp/
I have also pointed out that I don’t like that registrars are selling .Co without disclosing its a country code:
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/07/25/shouldnt-registrars-at-least-mention-that-co-is-the-country-code-for-colombia/
@steven
Being a magnet for typo traffic .CO does need to take obvious squatting seriously if they want to be seen as a credible option, and not just a great squatter extension leeching off .COM
One I was looking at recently was Chase.co. It is owned by some guy in Korea, and until recently was a page with bank related ads.
I would like to see a list of all .CO regs, because I wonder what % of are just sheer TM squatting.
Brad
@Gazzip
MBH has been clean all along about this indirect association, in fact i called him out on it a couple months ago when Big Lie was bantering some spue,
and Michael was without hesitation gracious but adamant about expressing his views and plans for said future extensions association, i will add this, he also has allowed many comments to come thru that have been challenging to his position and personal interests, he is NOT filtering and is truly running a TRUE Free speech Blog here along, with Elliot and Rick he has the most progressive Honest / Radical Domainers Advocate Board on the Worldwide Internet.
Now excuse me i have to get back into character and wipe the brown of my nose.-)
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DOMAINER CELEBRATION:
The statistics are in, it appears that there is a new Cult
of dimwits who have bought into a flawed system called .CO
that will send FREE TRAFFIC to a .Com Internet Website.
Yes, this simple minded group has consented to this new MODEL .Co
and will send you there Traffic to your .COM to profit from FREE
This fanatical group of emotional and easily led simple minds
(who have been know to foam at the mouth, at the mere mention of .Co)
who will spend endless hours ranting non sensual abstract thoughts and
accusatory mumblings to anyone that will listen.
WARNING: This group of emotionally unstable and mentally unfit believers should be considered dangerous and a regarded as a Cult, should you encounter
a simple minded .Co believer you should avoid debate and eye contact at all costs
and lead them to believe there misguided thoughts have merit, and you shall
continue to receive there FREE money making traffic to YOUR Website.
SHOW CHARITY: I personally sent a .Co owner a cheap Xmas Card thanking them for the “Increase in MY annual Domain Website Traffic and Income”
I found it curious that someone asked this on another board:
Hi, i’m now really confused in choosing between .co domain & .com domain.
I’m now already have .co domain name, but after few days i’ll have .com domain too.
So i create this topic to ask, what domain name i should choose ? .co or .com ?? Which one will be better for SEO ???
“I have also pointed out that I don’t like that registrars are selling .Co without disclosing its a country code”
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1. The current “Staging” Market Trial for .CO allows people to get started.
2. The State of .COlorado will certainly make sure .CO continues to work.
3. Lawyers (and ex-Lawyers) really should learn some technical clue about DNS.
GoDaddy is giving new .CO domains for just $7.49 – you need to use the coupon SUPERCO
One of our new .co domains is:
coOPPORTUNITY.co, aka the “Community-Opportunity-Connection”. It’s going to be a local-job-search social-networking site.
We wanted Opportunity.co, but it was already taken…
- TBC
Anyone know what’s wrong with NameJet?
I haven’t been able to access the site the last 12 hrs.
I just tried to type in “thedomains.com” and accidentally left the “m” off…
.Co just makes more sense, don’t you think. Brevity, baby…brevity…
- TBC
Just picked up:
CANED.CO
CATCHES.CO
COMINGS.CO
CLEAVAGES.CO
CLEAVE.CO
All for just $35 bucks. What do you guys think? Any you like?
@ Robert
I am sorry but I don’t see much commercial value in any of those domains. Even in .COM they would not exactly be top shelf keywords.
Are there really many companies that deal in any of those terms? I seriously doubt it.
Brad
Name.com has .CO for $7.77. No promo needed.
@Robert
I like Cleavages.co the best. Its busting with potential.
@Brad
I think you and I are on different planets.
I am thinking more from development perspective
I plan on building a domain drop site with
CATCHES.CO
and
CLEAVAGES.CO
You can guess what that’s going to be about. hahahaha.
@Brad
keywords?
what are you talking about?
I just picked up:
nyand.co
tennishoes.co
I am still looking for other ones.
@sandcastle
we actually own thedomains.co since the launch, why its not pointing to thedomains.com, you would have to ask my tech guy been asking him to get it done, however I do see that the .Co domain has an alexa rank of 7M.
@ Tony
I haven’t had any issues accessing Namejet.com
Just hand-reg’d Electrolysis.TV for 10-bucks…still alot of good .TV’s out there. I could sell this domain next week for $2K, easy…I think I’ll just hang on to it for awhile
- TBC
@ Robert
If you don’t know what keywords are, I would suggest you learn a little bit more before buying any more domains.
What drives the value of domains is commercial value, branding value, memorability, competition, etc.
Brad
@Brad
Are you talking about like:
MATURETUBE.COM
Someone offered $37.5k for this.
but I learned matureporn.com went for $130k
so I said higher.
Rules for buying and selling .CO:
1. The .com is parked
2. GeoKeyword or pure Geo or Industry category killer which are all but gone.
3. Can easily target buyers who understand internet marketing and heavily use PPC like realtors, insurance, law.
4. Price to move at $1,000 or less to end users
I am happy to share because I have bought up all I will. There are many GeoInsurance.co, GeoRealEstate.co, GeoHomes.co, GeoAttorneys.co and GeoLawyers.co available still. Go get em’ !
Love it or hate it, .CO has a place in the Keyword PPC world which is growing too. It will never over-come .com but Kia is no BMW either, yet Kia still has a place in the market. Robert Cline is sharp as a bowling ball and the haters have every right to their opinions. But, some of us chug along selling .CO every week making hundreds for a few minutes of “work.”
@Brad
I took you advice and registered
SEXINCITY.CO
it had over 6,000,000 google searches so it has to be worth something right? What do you think Brad?
I also just registered:
MATURE.COM.CO
DIPPED.CO
COURTING.CO
What do you think? Do you like these? O my god I am setting up for a lot of web site development work.
@ Robert
My advice is to register commercially viable keywords.
“Sex in City” only has 2400 exact Google global searches, and I am sure most of those are to do with the TV show.
Does .CO have a grace delete?
@ Bfitz
Good post. I agree with most of your points. If you deal in solid keywords, and ask realistic prices, money can be made in .CO like in many alternate extensions.
Buying domains with some clear use is is the key.
Brad
@Brad
I think you are wrong about that.
SexinCity all together only has 2400 exact google searches.
However, Sex in City has over 6,000,000
and most are going to type Sex in City not sexincity
@ Robert
Where are you getting these numbers from?
In Google Keyword Tool, which shows search volume, I see 2400 monthly Global searches.
In the keyword tool you need to choose “Exact” under match types. Otherwise you are getting irrelevant results.
Brad
@Brad
I don’t think so. Someone typing in “sex in city” on google search will bring up
SEXINCITY.CO
when properly developed. This is what is most important.
@ Robert
I am trying to help you. If you are not willing to listen I don’t care.
It is your money you are wasting.
Brad
@Brad
for example, if you type in “i love the beach” on google search you will get
ILOVETHEBEACH.COM
Come up first on the search. This makes my point.
“we actually own thedomains.co since the launch, why its not pointing to thedomains.com, you would have to ask my tech guy been asking him to get it done”
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WOW, 75,000 domains and a 10 second tech job can not “get done” ?
Round.TUIT.CO ?
@Brad
‘Buying domains with some clear use is is the key.’
Too right. We can all learn by that. The more uses, the higher the price. That’s why generics command so much money.
I just picked up another .co domain name. Hopefully, I can flip it or maybe I will develop it. Tell me what ya’ll think.
computercrash.co
godaddy just sent an email about this – also heres a little helpful coupon..
Type in: SUPERCO for $7.49 CO domains on godaddy – just verifed and it works
CO.NECT.CO
CON.NECT.CO
KI.NECT.CO
@Brad
why no response. I am right. wasn’t I?
anyways, things are going crazy here.
.CO anything has 100+ posts.
nothing comes close to this.
This tells me the immense interest in .CO
Long live the new KING!
Just picked up Pokerville.co.
- TBC
“I have done this before and the biggest danger to .Co and most troubling is losing the domain:
I have also pointed out that I don’t like that registrars are selling .Co without disclosing its a country code:”
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@ MHB True, You have, although I think there is far more for us to lose than just the .co domain which is what I “was” hoping/trying to discuss further.
Last attempt below then I’ll STHU if noone is interested
Rick can say in a minute what I can say in days and in far less words….and I hate typing
So I’ll point to his last post made today which is in the same vein:
ricksblog.com/my_weblog/
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There are of course other knock on effects that have’nt been mentioned much about .co so far but I think they are worthy of discussion.
Off the top of my head….
1) Generic.co’s fall foul to UDRP/WIPO from .com, .co.uk, .co.kr owners etc = alot of money pissed down the drain and a bloody nose for the domain industry/market (which we’ve kinda taked about about before)
2) New company A) starts a business with a spanky new $20 .co, files/receives a TM & builds a site.
6 months, 1 year later down the road the same domain in .com goes to the drops (as they do), DOMAINER pays $40,000 for it in auction, then Business A) files for “confusingly similar” – eeek
3) Domainer that buys 1,000 .co’s loses 25 in WIPO/UDRP for being “confusing similar” = Labeled cybersquatter which may go against them if they end up in UDRP for one of their VALUABLE .coms that they paid $100,000 for – good chance they could lose it – eeek
4) And then of course the very important one, “if” .co turns out to be the most squatted extension (due to the similarity of .com issue) then the suits may rush FAR REACHING LAWS into place to protect business & TM holders and they sure as hell won’t be in favour of us – eeek
There is a HUGE amount riding on the outcome of this .co extension and the general public will just be hearing about it right now – overtaking the .com or missing the boat is’nt even on my mind at this point TBH.
Personally speaking I don’t think it should have been released/marketed in the way it has been but its much too late for that……the genie is out of the bottle and it will either be magic or mayhem.
@ Landon
I totally agree with what you said in your reply about MHB and other top bloggers being open to comments/other opinions – no question there
“Now excuse me i have to get back into character and wipe the brown of my nose”
LOL
“@Brad
why no response. I am right. wasn’t I?”
I think he gave up trying to help, you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
I am glad to see that most who own dotCO are now considering developing their names. As someone who has been doing it for fourteen years I’d like to make those new to this game aware of something – development success/monetization is MUCH easier if the name gets any direct navigation.
Just reg’d Zork.co, which will eventually be the world’s premier search engine…bigger than Google. We launch in 2013.
Zork.co
- TBC
Instead of people saying, “just google it”, they’ll say “just zork it!”.
Brevity, baby…brevity…;)
- TBC
I see TotalPlay.co is unreg’d…TotalPlay.com gets a ton of traffic. Who’s gonna’ grab it?
TotalPlay.Co could be a sporting goods site, no?
I am going on a buying rampage. I just picked up:
COUGHMEDICINE.CO
I think that has good potential.
Name.com getting in the game. Spoofing Godaddy on their website and offering $7.77 .co registration for a limited time.
@TBC
I like that ‘just zork it’. Brevity is king. Agreed.
@TBC
I just asked a room full of people, and everyone digs ‘zork’. Sparkling idea. Good luck with zork.co.
LOL.
TBC, Zork is an interesting name.
I happen to own Ork.CO…..
Hmmmm… Just “Ork” it…..???
Even smaller.
LOL…. Just having fun with you.
Cheers
Joan Rivers is the new GoDaddy .CO Girl, really…….
Go to GoDaddy.co and see the new GoDaddy “girl”
Joan Rivers? To help build credibility? Wow.
Brad
WOW! WOW! WOW!
That blew me away.
That was great! Everyone is going to be talking about this commercial.
Joan Rivers is very business savvy. She did win the Apprentice afterall.
What a twist. Everyone was thinking some type of physique and it is Joan Rivers. hahaha
WOW! WOW! WOW! that was great!