Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today.
The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries.
52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States;
7.68% are from the United Kingdom.
3.82% were registered in Germany
3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan.
“During the Registry’s last fiscal year (July 2010-June 2011), the registration of .ME domains grew by 27%; which, according to VeriSign’s May 2011 Domain Name Industry Brief, is more than three times the average industry increase during the report’s measured 12-month period (7.9%).”
“”.ME has also become extraordinarily popular recently for its value in the world of mobile apps and as a URL shortener for some of the world’s biggest companies, such as WordPress (WP.Me), Facebook (FB.Me), Yahoo (ME.Me), VKontakte (VK.Me) and Time Magazine (TI.Me). ”
Of course as we all know some giant corporation has adopted a single letter .co domain including, Overstock which is in the process of renaming their company to O.co, and corporate users like Twitter (t.co), Godaddy (X.com) Google (g.co); and Amazon (a.co, K.co, Z.co and Cloud.co).
Congrats to both the .Me and the .Co registry.
Funny – Godaddy (X.com)
@Seb
lol, the .co typo extension in full form rearing its ugly head. Not even domain experts can avoid it.
interesting stats. thanks for the info.
I knew my only .co domain was one in a million 🙂
Time has set in for .CO its smoking right now just wait.
A very news worthy sale has taken place with the
.Co
an LLL.Co has sold for $33,000
FSO.Co sold for $33,000. Here is the article:
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2011/07/we-are-plus-31k-happier-today-from-co.html
That’s because they were my client and that was their initials and there were 8 other hand rigged doctors in the bundle that to them were depreciated for half the price.
And I have you, Robert, to thank for that.
Your post about.co L LLs on Elliot’s thread led me to discover that end users were buying these as well as the marketing story perpetuated by Google and Overstock that these are “shortcut domains.”
While writing the post giving you still really great advice about targeting $1500 plus custom monogrammed shirt makers to resell the initials you hold as vanity domainers for their customers of the same initials, it occurred to me to look up FSO.co and I saw it had just expired. I swept in before it went to auction.
And my client had just seen an Overstock commercial and read about the Google purchase in USA today, so they were predisposed to buy. That’s a lot different model than what you are promoting here that will tie up finds of people who don’t have them, maxing out their credit cards and leading them into bankruptcy. Been here done that. I like my life and my approach to domains better today.
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2011/07/robert-cline-marketing-plan-to-sell.html
hand regged domains- please excuse my hands and typos- I can no longer not be forthcoming and admit this is due to a disability that was in remission and has now flared up big time