Over the last few days there has been quite a few sales of .Co domain names.
Here are the one’s I spotted:
Mp3.co 3,600 Euro’s ($5,500)
Minijuegos.co 2,450 Euro’s (4K USD)
Prestamos.co 2,300 Euro ($3,900 USD)
Watersports.co $3K
Judo.co $1,600
Axe.co $1,600
Fiction.Co sold for $750 on Sedo as well
No huge money sales but if you registered any of these domains for $30 its not a horrible return for an investment of less than one year
Mp3.co at $5,500 is a true gift!
Hype or else? Really don’t know but many .co sold these last days. Looks like LLL.co and keywords .co are the Buzz now!
Not sure if it’s quite heating up but showing some life. I do think that many of the recent prices have a nice risk/reward.
MP3.co, a super premium universal 3-letter word, going for $5,500 does NOT equal “heating up” – pretty sure that means it’s bottoming out and crashing.
I clicked on the link for Fiction (dot) CO and it seems that it has already sold. Winner was 500GBP (little more then $800).
As long as the they picked it up for normal reg, I think its a good sale.
Anyone know what sedo’s cut is?
Cheers
Like Shane said risk to reward is nice.
I think more companies outside of the US will drive .co prices upwards in the next 2 years. People will look back at these prices at kick themselves.
Hard to lose if you have the correct generic names in any extension. Even .mobi is fetching 1 to 5k for certain names. They are also even being used more. Look at gettag.mobi by micro. This is not an endorsement on any extension just a observation. DD
Donny
idomainmedia.com
had offers on 6 different .co names this week.
only one in the x,xxx range though.
Sold one for 3,500 a week and a half ago.
I can’t complain.
I would buy more .co domains but it’s not easy to find not yet registered .co domains, that aren’t .co versions of TM .com names or .com typo or nonsense words
that’s why I own only two .co names and only one of them is on sale
I observed that, too (but thought they were from a previous auction). After all, it was/is an opportunity to get long gone keywords for not much money in a memorable extension. I won´t be surprised if a good amount ended up with an actual website.
if you handreg one or two domains for $30 and sell one for x,xxx then it’s a good investments but if it takes to sell one for x,xxx with a few hundred handregs in portfolio – then it’s not as good
I think .CO is closing in on 1,000,000 registrations according to this video:
http://www.cointernet.co/blog/guide-to-marketing-co
LLL.CO s are hot.
I am receiving a check for $600 this week on an LLL.CO
cheers.
P.S. – one other thing is that a lot of the smaller registrars are also going to be marketing and putting .CO in the forefront of domain registrations. Enom and all their resellers are.
@MHB
“No huge money sales but if you registered any of these domains for $30 its not a horrible return for an investment of less than one year”
How many of these sales were actually $30 regs? The top 3 sales were all registered long before open registration.
MP3.co-
Domain Registration Date: Wed Feb 24 23:23:25 GMT 2010
Minijuegos.co –
Domain Registration Date: Thu Feb 25 00:13:40 GMT 2010
Prestamos.co –
Domain Registration Date: Wed Feb 24 23:29:35 GMT 2010
Brad
AdSpace.CO sold for $1,100 (DNJournal).
Horoscopo.CO sold for €3,250 ($4,580) via Sedo.
The good thing about
.CO
is that over 200 countries can and are using it.
This is in contrast to other gTLDs like
.US
which is only good in just 1 country.
@ Robert Cline
.US has nexus requirements as many other ccTLD have.
.CO has done everything it can to distance itself for the true meaning (Colombia ccTLD). To some people bastardizing a ccTLD for a repurposed usage is not a good thing.
If you can make money with .CO though, then more power to you.
Brad
A nice slideshow presentation about .CO has just been posted on YouTube: http://youtu.be/uZHxYnVI7LA
In MEMORY of one of the GOOD GUYS – Very Few People Knew
Paul Baran (April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011)
PaulBaran.RIP
Brad
Then those domains were released before the revised roll out maybe they were grandfathered in.
Not sure what the cost would have been but still seems like a hang reg under the old system
Heating?
more like kicks from a drowning victim.
Prestamos.co 2,300 Euro ($3,900 USD)
= Loans, sold for a morsel…!
If this doesn’t tell where this is heading nothing will…
Wake up and smeel the coffee.
Hi yes you guys are right .co domains are selling for good money my friend sold a few LLL.co’s to end users for low x,xxx range, i just been looking on Godaddy auction and Gay.co is up for auction i think its a $100,000 plus domain i wounder what it will sell for at Godaddy auction any guesses ?
The majority of the domains listed sold awhile back in the Sedo premium .co auction shortly after the Super Bowl and have been slowly completing.
Per Brad,
“If you can make money with .CO though, then more power to you.”
Problem is likely for every winner – several fortunes will have been lost and countless 10k-25k investments – something LoveYourBody.com eloquently implies
Per domo sapiens,
“heating” – well it is getting pretty hot at those reactors in Japan !!!!
.CO is like a fine wine. It will only get better with age.
Great buys listed above; most will be solid long-term investments.
e.co is my preferred .co domain and the one that may be sold at record price
The high profile sales of .co domains are interesting but what about all those domains that don’t sell? The marketing on .co has been quite good but the reality is that it is an attempt to apply dotcom logic (the same logic that drove non EU speculation in the .eu ccTLD launch) to what is essentially a ccTLD. Without the engine of development that drives many ccTLDs, the .co ccTLD will have a hard time sustaining registration growth.
While it is being pitched as a shorter alternative to .com, the main opportunity is brand protection and this might, if companies and brand owners consider it a serious threat, result in a few million registrations at best. The use of the term “co” to designate a company or corporation is very much a US one. Most other countries have their own official company designation (Ltd for Limited Company, GmBH, SARL etc). Brand protection domains are typically pointed to the primary brand website in much the same way as those in .net/org/biz/info/etc are pointed to the brand owner’s primary brand website. That’s not development – it is redirection.
Every launch (or relaunch) of a TLD depends a lot on domainer activity to promote it and the same fanboy activity can be seen with this one. Some of the high value sales contribute to the general frenzy and they can give a very skewed impression of the success of the TLD. Development in a new TLD is one of the things that helps make it a success.
There is also the uncomfortable argument that “.co is a typo of .com”. That means that there will be an element of traffic leakage to the more established TLD and the most widely known TLD in the world is .com. The most common domain pair registrations at the moment are those of .com/.ccTLD. Registrants in ccTLDs are registering the .com version of their domain if it is available and few register any more than that. This is one of the factors sustaining .com growth outside of the usual PPC and generic registrations. It is also a potential obstacle to the general acceptance of .co in the marketplace – people have heard of .com but not of .co. They may even have heard of .net and .org and .info. But getting mindshare for .co will take a while and the ccTLD markets are becoming more important as the gTLDs decline in favour of the ccTLDs. On Irish television, one rarely sees advertising for anything other than .ie or .com or .co.uk websites. On UK television, it is primarily .uk and .com websites. On German television, it is mainly .de websites. The ccTLDs are part of those markets’ psychology in that people identify with their ccTLDs in a way that they do not do so with .com or the gTLDs. This powerful trend is the one that .co is seeking to buck. It might happen but it will take longer than one renewal cycle.
Per John McCormac,
“It might happen but it will take longer than one renewal cycle.” – that says it all literally – and then some.
I have been at this for 13 years – even before PPC was a revenue source – outside of hand picked and a few lottery winners – the only winners are the registries themselves – .com and .xxx included.
Too many people are “WILLING” something that is simply not there – and WILLING the bill-of-goods they have been sold to mature at an unrealistic timeframe at that.
Correction:
” .com and .xxx included.”
I cant even type .co – I always end up typing .com – just like BILLIONS of other Internet users
try using .co for a week.
most of the popular domaining sites can be accessed with .co
report back on your likes/dislikes
I just seen GAY.CO on godaddy – last time i checked it was at $700
now there is another LLL.CO on sedo for $550
Im sure there will be many more notable sales soon – especially when you turn $30 into $xxx
The registration cost per year was about US 40 for the .com.co domains before. But we had to register either the trademark or make a company using the exact term, and that was more money. Otherwise we could not get the registration.
And there was no guarantee that the .co would ever open up leaving us with expensive .com.co domains.
“.CO is like a fine wine. It will only get better with age.”
20+ years? 🙂
Here is the newest .CO sale results and report
http://www.many.co/recent.php
Considering the keywords, some of these prices are low (Prestamos.co should be worth much more just to someone in Colombia). But, this way perhaps more domains are ending up in the hands of developers, which is a good thing in the long term.
just saw the news about:
google.co
is now forwarding to your local google site.
So if your mind knows you don’t need to type the m
eventually it may not
still
g.co
would be nicer.
John,
Considering your thoughtful comment on this blog I felt inclined to jump in and give you a different POV.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that “without the engine of development … .CO will have a hard time sustaining registration growth.” Whether its a ccTLD, gTLD, sTLD, or nTLD, that concept holds true and .CO is not exempt from it.
Fortunately, development on .CO is booming. We are seeing the number of developed sites on .CO growing by the day in every corner of the globe (check out a few examples on opportunity.co: angel.co, bza.co, enter.co, sociable.co, ourrevolution.co, rana.co, nwc.co – etc, etc, etc – the list goes on). That development activity is pushed along further by focusing most of our marketing dollars within the start-up community and in events such as Web 2.0 (w2tv.co), Internet Week, and SxSW.
Yes, in the path to established use and development there will be a handful of headlines and plenty of disappointments in the secondary market as the extension finds its place in world – that’s fine with us. In fact, I would encourage anyone to invest with care… there’s no conceivable reason for an extension to grow in value in the absence of scarcity and established use. Furthermore, big chunks of registrations will drop in the first or the second renewal cycle (Say 50%?) from those that got in early and took a shot gun approach. That’s fine too. They’ll eventually get picked up by the next guy who actually plans to build a website.
You see, at the most fundamental level, .CO is attractive to the average entrepreneur or company that is just getting online. I’m telling you that as an entrepreneur who got into this business after spending ridiculous money buying .COM’s for a venture. And there are plenty of people like me who need options: In 2010 alone, 546,000 businesses were started in the US per month. Millions if you include growing economies such as India, Brazil, Russia, China, etc – PER MONTH. Can you really say that .COM is the only option for those individuals/entrepreneurs/businesses? Can you really say that the ccTLD of their country is the only thing they will choose? What about an exporter of toys from China? Will they settle with a .CN and forgo an international “presence” because they couldn’t get the .COM?
Could it be that a company in Russia or the UK will choose .CO because they associate it with the word COmpany? with COmmerce? with COrporation? You bet. And they are doing it in droves – and that’s why .CO will hit 1 million regs before the first anniversary of its launch.
So, quite frankly, to assert that the main opportunity for .CO is brand protection – is simply shortsighted. In fact, the smart folks I’m lucky to call my colleagues; the people behind everything that you see us doing, would probably quit and do something truly rewarding if that was the opportunity. No sir. The main opportunity lies in reaching MILLIONS of entrepreneurs and businesses that are getting online around the world every single month. THAT is a HUGE opportunity. That’s the opportunity that drives every aspect of our company and it’s the reason every person on our team is sooooo passionate about what we do.
I won’t argue with you on one thing: We have our share of challenges and our future is far from certain. Awareness is a big one. Another is cybersquatting and the security problems affecting our entire industry. But those are not insurmountable – they are simply big challenges that need to be dealt with having a long term vision and a dedicate team.
It will happen – and as you accurately point out, “it will take longer than one renewal cycle”.
Juan
Juan,
It is good that development is booming in .co. The lack of development and over speculation killed off .eu as a viable alternative TLD to the ccTLDs in the European Union. My comment about brand protection being the main opportunity requires some expansion.
In the launch of a new TLD, the brand protection aspect accounts for a significant part of the registrations. However if a TLD becomes successful, the brand protection registrations share increases to such an extent that it becomes a “must register” TLD. This is where hosters and registrars will add it to the package of domain options that the purchaser sees in their shopping cart. A lot of the domains in net/org/biz/info are “must register” domains where the registrant of the com or ccTLD registers the equivalent to their domain in those TLDs if they are available. Brand protection registrations are, in to a certain extent, a validation of the importance of a new TLD.
The development in a new TLD moves from the ground up. While there might be large pure play sites using the TLD, (and .co has no shortage of those), it is the small businesses that will drive the numbers in development terms and in SERP terms. These are the ones that provide that critical mass for the new TLD. It is almost a virtuous circle in that if businesses see other businesses registering and developing in that TLD, they may consider doing so too. After a while, that TLD gains critical mass and becomes a major player. But this takes time.
The attractiveness of .co to new business startups and entrepreneurs is a curious thing. It will allow some of them to access a global market for a reasonably low cost. However that will depend on the promotion of .co as a global alternative.
The number of new businesses started in the US each month is impressive but there is one important point about this – not all new businesses are export orientated. Many of them will be targeting their local markets and as such, they may opt for the local ccTLD, or in the case of the US, the .com TLD. If .co manages to position itself as a viable global alternative, then it has massive potential. However the trend for locally orientated businesses is that that they are now choosing their local ccTLDs in greater numbers but they also register their .com equivalent if it is available. This ccTLD/.com pair effect explains some of the high number of unique registrations in .com’s DNA ( http://www.hosterstats.com/com-tld.php ). These 77.235 million .com domains have no equivalent registration in net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia/tel TLDs. Naturally some will be PPC registrations and others will be just one-off registrations. But for targeting local markets, the ccTLDs are the most efficient routes to those markets. With ccTLDs, people don’t have to remember the extension because it is their TLD – part of their identity.
At a global level, I think that .co can compete and it may have an attraction for export led businesses. However the challenges in various country level markets are large enough to reduce .com to a second choice registration when it comes to locally orientated businesses and .co will face these same challenges.
The growing economies of India, Brazil, Russia and China all have strong ccTLDs. India has between 500K and 1M registrations. (The .in registry doesn’t publish statistics.) Brazil has approximately 2.366 million registrations. Russia has over 3 million registrations and China has over 3 million registrations. So it is possible that entrepreneurs in those markets who are targeting those markets will choose the local ccTLD. The .co may have an opportunity in getting some of the export orientated registrations from those countries but most of those export orientated businesses will focus on .com as the choice for their export domain.
While some UK businesses are registering .co domains, there may be a more logical reason behind these registrations. The commercial subdomain for .uk is .co.uk so some of these registrations could well be brand protection registrations. The most common company designation in the UK is the abbreviation LTD as in Limited Company. The only country that really uses “co” for company or corporation would be the US. The US market is big enough market if any new TLD gets a share of it.
Having Godaddy onside is an important thing for the growth of .co as a kind of gTLD. Godaddy is the biggest registrar of gTLD domains in the world. However .co registry will also have to have similar arrangements with the leading hosters and registrars in each of the country level markets. Otherwise .co risks being mainly a US centric TLD with little marketshare outside of the US (when compared to the ccTLD/gTLD footprints in those country level markets). And the most effective way of gaining mindshare in these country level markets is through development and awareness.
The next few years for .co will be very interesting. The people working on .co are obviously smart enough and dedicated enough to realise the crucial importance of development for .co. In the country level markets, (the ones where the numbers of local ccTLD domains are greater than the numbers of local .com registrations), .co is competing in very different markets to that of the US. The .com is the de facto ccTLD for the USA but the .us ccTLD has around 1.6 million registrations. The dotcom logic of what’s good in .com is good everywhere may not work well in those markets. This will be a challenge in marketing and promotion for .co registry as each marketing campaign will have to be carefully tailored for each market.
The biggest challenge of all will be in establishing .co as being both a viable global alternative and a TLD that is strong enough to stand on its own as a unique brand. So far, .co is doing well at it.
Thanks John. I appreciate your thoughtful comments. Not many are like that.
Not sure I agree that CO for COmpany, COmmerce, and COrporation is purely a US based designation. It’s currently used within 40+ ccTLDs and can be traced back to the British Empire in the 1600’s +/-, depending on who’s updating Wikipedia. :):)
Anyway, to the more serious matter:
In the foreseeable future, you will continue to see us focusing our own consumer & registrant marketing efforts in the US market (particularly the start-up / internet dev. community). In the absence of unlimited resources, that’s where we feel we’ll have the greatest impact positioning .CO for global branding needs. We are betting that, being early adopters of all things digital, a lot of what happens at the consumer level (at least a big portion) in that market trickles “down” and spreads throughout the Internet to the other fast growing markets I mentioned before.
That, coupled with localized marketing by our channel partners (once we open up to more registrars) is probably as far as we can go. Again, in the absence of unlimited resources.
A lot of moving parts in this puzzle… Add to this discussion nTLDs and it’s going to get really interesting!
Juan
“Not sure I agree that CO for COmpany, COmmerce, and COrporation is purely a US based designation.”
=====
It will be interesting to see how .COlorado plays into .CO
Thanks to .CO – All of the important elected officials in other major States are now more aware.
.KY will be another one to watch
John,
By the way, feel free to reach out to me directly whenever you want. I’ve also noticed your interesting comments on Name pros – would be happy continue this or any other discussion about the registry in a more private setting.
Juan AT CO internet . CO
Every non.com, including .xxx, .tv & .co define themselves based on what is right of the dot- where .com today means absolutely nothing – not COMpany, not COMmercial or whatever.
The facts speak for themselves – the free world is dictated lawyers and judges. How many UDRP /ACPA cases have there been where the TM holder lays claim to the non.com but has no interest in or does not own the .com – maybe 1% – only because of ccTLDs.
Everything else is rhetoric and frustration.
Remember – only a non.com cares what is right of the dot !!!!
EEI.co and Poet.co on auction at Sedo (currently @ $750 and $775, respectively).
@Juan Diego Calle
My one request that I have is to help us with the renewal fees.
yes, perhaps I was too overly eager the first week and registered too many .CO domains last July.
But can you blame me for the excitement, I love the .CO and I spent over $23,000 and broke my bank account.
But now, I don’t have this kind of money anymore, so my one request is to help us with the renewal fees.
This will of course be very encouraging to all of us and would only accelerate higher growth and adoption of .CO domains.
domainers make up 1 – 2% of .CO registrants but
we are the most vocal and ardent supporters of .CO from day one.
And it is domainers like us that help to get the word out the benefits of .CO domains.
Lower fees would encourage new prospective registrants as well.
For me I would like to see .CO really be at the same level as .COM with tens of million of registered domains.
High renewal fees would result in not only a mass dropping of domains that many of us were excited about but would put the brakes on the incredible momentum that we .CO enjoy today. And once the momentum goes, .CO might never regain it back again.
So in the interest of our beloved .CO domain, please help us all by bringing the renewal fees down to earth where majority of the population can afford.
Thank you.
Recipes.CO actually sold for $5,600, sorry.
Tequila.CO and Recipes.CO sold for $14,500 and $5,600 respectively.
http://www.elliotsblog.com/mike-mann-news-2-co-sales-and-webinar-video-3894
Hi,
I’m interested in selling some of my .CO domains.
I have 3 letter domains. where would be the best place to list them and get appraisals.
Thanks
Tequila.CO and Recipes.CO sold for $14,500 and $5,600 respectively.
elliotsblog.com/mike-mann-news-2-co-sales-and-webinar-video-3894
Now their are two .CO domains auction on Sedo:
eei.co current price:$750
https://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=eei.co&trackingRequestId=10745237&language=us
poet.co current price:$775
https://sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?language=us&auction_id=113041&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us
Stories.CO sold for $7,500 (DNJoournal).
eei.co sold on sedo for $750
http://sedo.com/auction/auction_history.php?language=us&auction_id=112875&tracked=&partnerid=35426&language=us
Another sale
divorcios.co Sedo $1,000
great time to have a .co name. I heard that stumble.co is in the works for a big deal coming soon.
“Move Over .CO– The Real Growth is on .AZ”
://www.dncrunch.com/?p=10906
So how many US States (oops ccTLDs) are there now
.co
.ky
.ca
.az
ALABAMA AL
ALASKA AK
AMERICAN SAMOA AS
ARIZONA AZ
ARKANSAS AR
CALIFORNIA CA
COLORADO CO
CONNECTICUT CT
DELAWARE DE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC
FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FM
FLORIDA FL
GEORGIA GA
GUAM GU
HAWAII HI
IDAHO ID
ILLINOIS IL
INDIANA IN
IOWA IA
KANSAS KS
KENTUCKY KY
LOUISIANA LA
MAINE ME
MARSHALL ISLANDS MH
MARYLAND MD
MASSACHUSETTS MA
MICHIGAN MI
MINNESOTA MN
MISSISSIPPI MS
MISSOURI MO
MONTANA MT
NEBRASKA NE
NEVADA NV
NEW HAMPSHIRE NH
NEW JERSEY NJ
NEW MEXICO NM
NEW YORK NY
NORTH CAROLINA NC
NORTH DAKOTA ND
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS MP
OHIO OH
OKLAHOMA OK
OREGON OR
PALAU PW
PENNSYLVANIA PA
PUERTO RICO PR
RHODE ISLAND RI
SOUTH CAROLINA SC
SOUTH DAKOTA SD
TENNESSEE TN
TEXAS TX
UTAH UT
VERMONT VT
VIRGIN ISLANDS VI
VIRGINIA VA
WASHINGTON WA
WEST VIRGINIA WV
WISCONSIN WI
WYOMING WY
So BigLie –
Should have asked are there any states that do not have an associated cctld
Did anyone ever try to find any “common sense” with the Great.IANA ?
“the lack of common sense that could be put in place”
[ ]
“And then there’s a big hole at the bottom of our little box square here, and that big hole is DNS. That big hole is ICANN. That big hole is the registrars. That big hole is the lack of effort, the lack of common sense that could be put in place” – Detective Sergeant, Michael Moran
://svsf40.icann.org/meetings/siliconvalley2011/transcript-dns-abuse-14mar11-en.txt
stumble.co did not met the reserve price, but deff will sell in the months to come
Beirut.CO currently at $1,950 on Sedo (1 day and 12 hours left)
Near.CO currently at $550 on Sedo (3 days and 11 hours left)
If domains in the February .CO auction had sold for a proportional price, I don’t know how much Music.CO could have fetched.
Beirut.co sold for $1,950
http://sedo.de/auction/auction_history.php?language=us&auction_id=113203&tracked=&partnerid=35428&language=us
So looks like these are fresh sales and not just closings from the previous .co auction.
…had a few inquiries/offers in the last 7 days,
one from a dermatologist in la
one from a butcher
one from a web designer for a client
three from sedo…unknown
“…had a few inquiries/offers in the last 7 days,
one from a dermatologist in la
one from a butcher
one from a web designer for a client
three from sedo…unknown”
Are you stating that you had some offers or are you quoting some past post?
If you had offers or interest in some domains, I am sure some people would be find some value in what domains names had interest and the amount ($$$) that the interest/offer was for.
Just my opinion.
Cheers
Still negotiating 3 of them
other three offers were only 100, 200
dermatologist
culinary
where
damn
unsecuredloans
mega
I like the dermatologist, culinary, and where names.
The dermatologist, should bring you a nice return in my opinion.
With the foodies out there, culinary could be very popular as well.
Where, I think would be a nice name to see developed into a vacation destination database or a sight seeing database. Could even make it into a social media themed site where people post the most obscure place “Where” they have been.
That would be cool.
Just my thoughts.
Cheers
cm, are you referring to .co domains?
yes
Snowboards.co sold for $7,500 on Sedo [ http://i55.tinypic.com/o0341s.png ]
yesterday, received two inquiries:
1. Primo
2. MyCloud
Primo: inquiry from a two word .com site with the word primo in it
MyCloud: from an artist in New Zeland
neither may offer much…but is interesting to see where they come from
I am toying with the idea of bringing some of my .CO names to auction.
Currently I have:
mp3converter.co
ork.co
usbdrive.co
clam.co
and more just sitting at SEDO. I have not done anything with them yet except place them on the general market place with a “Make Offer” option.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do with all these names.
I am keeping a few to build out later. These ones, I thought about building out but now I just dont have the time to do it.
Just looking for your thoughts.
Cheers
fish.co just sold for $4,500 on sedo
AWO.co $1850 Sedo
Canna.co $1000 Sedo
HotelesBaratos.co $6000 Sedo
It looks like Fish.co for $4,500 was a bargain if we take a look at these sales…
Interesting. Seems there´s some steady demand now. (Hoteles.biz went for just a bit more than $1K, if I remember right).
@Good Domain Names
Yes, Hoteles.biz fetched 1,200 Eur (~ $1,700).
Adk.co $1563
JuegosGratis.co $2150
Burt.co $100
Recently sold on Sedo
Vodka.CO sold for $10,000
Source: domainnamewire.com/2011/04/27/first-tequila-co-now-vodka-co-sells-for-five-figures
Glow.CO on auction at Sedo, currently at $2,500 and 6+ days to go.
I think we are seeing more and more daily sales in the high $xxx – low $x,xxx involving normal quality domains that were registered on July 20th, not just superpremium keywords released earlier such as grandfathering and landrush acquisitions.
Fax.CO sold on Sedo for $2,550.
Huge news! Mike Mann Sells Business.CO for $80k
Source:
elliotsblog.com/mike-mann-sells-business-co-for-80k-0937
Latest Sedo sales include:
– Melissa.co @1100 USD
– Mueller.co @1000 EUR (~1440 USD)
– Waterskis.co @1500 USD
My one question about Sedo is, How do you get your names to appear on the every day Sedo Auction?
I have never really worked with Sedo, so I am not too familiar with its setup.
Cheers
RollerSkates.CO on auction at Sedo, currently at $2,500 and 3+ hours left.
Dosh.CO is on auction at Sedo, currently at 1,200 GBP (~$1940) and 16+ hours left.
Cognac.CO sold for $4970 on Sedo.
LaGuide.CO on auction at Sedo, currently at $500 and 18+ hours left.
Gin.co sold for $5K
Brandy.CO sold for 6,000 Euro
Holland.CO sold for 9,000 Euro
Source: Sedo
For lazy people:
Brandy.CO sold for $8,560
Holland.CO sold for $12,840
Source: Sedo
PS: LaGuide.CO which, as I wrote above, is on auction at $500 was handregistered 3 months ago (since it was taken at GoDaddy during SuperBowl, I suppose it was bought at the promotional price of $7.49, nice ROI indeed).
PR-buyers? 🙂
I’ve found four strange italian domains still available that end with .CO and can be useful for strange sites or use but that I don’t want to register
there’s a domainer that wants to buy my advice about them? 🙂
Kreuzfahrt.CO (German for ‘cruise’) on auction at Sedo, currently at 3,350 EUR (~$4,780) and 6 days left.
Joe
Keep the auction results for .CO domains coming.
From what you are stating here, seems that .CO domains are starting to go to auction more and more with decent results.
Seems that little by little .CO domains are making it through the jungle. Now just need that one big company to put some large marketing $ behind a .CO domain name and then we will be off to the races.
Just my opinion.
Cheers
@Slate
It looks like .CO is getting stronger and stronger everyday. I remember that, initially, only premium domains were able to fetch $x,xxx, now we’re starting to see normal* quality domains fetch these amounts and even a few domains registered just weeks ago sell for $xxx (LaGuide.CO is an example).
*With “normal quality”, I mean domains that were available to the general public on July 20th. I call premiums those that went to auction because of multiple landrush applications and those that were “grandfathered”, such as Mike Mann’s.
“…even a few domains registered just weeks ago sell for $xxx (LaGuide.CO is an example).”
Wait, you mean to tell me that this name was registered a week ago and sold?
How do they pull that one off considering you have to wait the 60 days before you transfer registrars?
Was there a caveat in the sale to to allow for same registrar transfer?
Sorry, I am just a little confused with that one.
Other than my confusion, everything else is looking wonderful.
I would like to think that some of the names that I picked up during normal registration where decent names bordering on premium. My collection of .CO domains are limited but here are a few that I like (that I didnt give to my wife):
PEG.CO (My personal favorite of the group. There are a lot of uses for this one)
EGYPTIAN.CO (Kind of been in the news of late)
ORK.CO (If I ever get rid of my current sites, I will work on this one for a gaming site)
MP3CONVERTER.CO (Google searches for this one has doubled over the last 2 years and is not at 5M monthly *broad. Something can be done with this if I had the skill)
NORTHAFRICA.CO (I am on the fence about this name, but it really has been in the news a LOT lately)
OPHTHALMOLOGIST.CO
ANESTHESIOLOGIST.CO (my two medical names that are difficult to spell but still have a large draw to them)
I have several more but will not post them because they are or will be in use by my wife.
I hope the current .CO trend continues so that I may realize a profit on any or all of these names. So far no real nibbles, but this is still a speculative investment for me and I will hold out for a few years to see what happens.
Cheers and keep the good news coming.
@Slate
“Wait, you mean to tell me that this name was registered a week ago and sold?
How do they pull that one off considering you have to wait the 60 days before you transfer registrars?
Was there a caveat in the sale to to allow for same registrar transfer?
Sorry, I am just a little confused with that one. ”
LaGuide.CO was registered just 3 months ago, but there’s no problem with the 60-day transfer lock since the Sedo agent transfer will help seller push the domain to the buyer’s account at the same registrar.
3 months clears it up for me. I guess I miss understood and took it as it was registered last week. My mistake.
Thank for clearing that up.
Cheers
@Slate
Even if a domain were registered 3 days ago, you could still sell it on Sedo: the transfer agent will send you buyer’s account details at the same registrar and you will have to push the domain to them.
Sol.CO (Spanish for “Sun”) on auction at Sedo, currently at $660 and 4 Hours left.
sedo.com/auction/auction_detail.php?tracked=&auction_id=114525
Just looked at the auction for Sol.CO and its up in a little over an hour *BUT* its up to $800 now.
Not bad.
Makes me feel more confident about my 2 LLL domains.
Ork and Peg (both .CO)
Maybe… just maybe… I might be able to realize a good profit on these domains in the coming months/years
Cheers
We turned down $1200 on Sedo last week for Nuru.co – won’t sell for less than $2500.
Sol.Co just sold for $3400!
Congrats to the seller!
Thanks to Joe for bringing us information about sales of .CO domains.
I can NOT say that I am getting excited, but I am seeing hope for the .CO domains as a whole.
The sales are starting to happen more and more often and the results are a great ROI considering that most of these names where probably purchased for initial opening prices of $30 or at most the $300.
I dont care who you are, I would gladly spend $30/$300 to have it grow to $3,400 in less then a year anytime. Again, great ROI…
Just my opinion.
Cheers
brandy.co 6000 euros about $9K
rollerskates.co sold for $2,500 sedo.com
.CO sales look like they are really starting to gain momentum.
Just my opinion.
Cheers
All of the following are on auction at Sedo:
kgbdeals.CO currently at 500 EUR (~$710) and 5 days left.
groupbuy.CO currently at $300 and 6 days left.
bower.co currently at $200 and 4 days left.
Turned down a $5,000 offer for BreakingNews.co from Microsoft. Guess they are short on money.
Will be interesting to see what happens at renewal time.
microsoft owns Nube.Co
cloud in spanish
most know Amazon now owns Cloud.Co
TennisRackets.CO just sold on Sedo for $1,000.
Kreuzfahrt.CO (German for ‘cruise’) has just sold on Sedo for 3,450 EUR (~$4,900).
wow! .co is selling like hot cakes.
@Joe
Has sedo sold any .CO lately?
Almost all of the sales reported in this post/thread took place on Sedo.
ArGuide.CO sold on Sedo for $500.
Movie.CO sold on Sedo for $12,000.
.CO Bursts Through 1 Million Domain Milestone
cointernet.co/media/press-releases/co-bursts-through-1-million-domain-milestone
Cigar.co sold on Sedo for $15K
Rechtsanwaelte.CO (German for ‘lawyers’) is on auction at Sedo, currently at 750 EUR (~$1,100).
Women.CO sold for $25,000.
automotive.co sold on sedo.com for $10K
JuegosDeMotos.CO sold on Sedo for $2,100.
Professionals.CO sold for $5,000.
ConsumerSearch.CO sold on Sedo for $1,000.
Are sales reported at:
Weekly Sedo ccTLD Sales: .CO Continues to Dominate
cctldinvestors.com/weekly-sedo-cctld-sales-co-continues-to-dominate/
Apo.CO sold on Sedo for 2,500 GBP (~$4,060).
Finance.CO sold on Sedo for $45,000.
Anu.CO sold on Sedo for $260.
Drawings.CO sold for $550 at Cax.com
Donuts.CO sold at Sedo for $5,000.
Rob.CO sold at Sedo for $2,500.
Sedo are selling .CO domains like a pancake!
JuegosDeMarioBros.CO, handreregistered last July, sold at Sedo for $3,500 (.com sold for $9,500 in October 2009).
@Joe
Do you have a working 31% off .Co renewal code ?
I’ve recently used coupon gdz666a at GoDaddy.
@Joe
where did you get this code ?
did vip give you this code ?
a chinese has registered the domain GooglePlus.Co SEVEN months ago!
Strobe.CO sold at Sedo for $3,175.
“a chinese has registered the domain GooglePlus.Co SEVEN months ago!”
I am pretty sure they are still subject to international trademark laws. Now whether or not the Chinese government will make them conform is a different story.
I personally think you are walking a thin line with your recent pickup. Google has been known to go after people.
That is just my thoughts.
Cheers
@Jack
GooglePlus.Co was registered before the Google+ release, so, is the .co owner that should ask back the Google+ domain
“walking a thin line with your recent pickup”
no, since “goo” isn’t “google” but “go” + “o” and “plus” is a very common word
however, I already know the Google “methods” due to a (bad) direct experience: x.co/GqFF
According to trademark laws, if you have a name that could be “easily” confused with another name, then it is subject to infringement or at the very least it could be taken to court.
Its just a suggestion, nothing more. Basically, I would not try to promote your newly acquired domain with anything even close to Google+. Its just too close in my opinion.
Again… that is just my opinion.
As far as the GooglePlus.co name…. Google still owns the trademark to Google and that is not a common word. I dont even think it is a real word outside of the company.
Again…just my opinion.
Cheers
A summary of the highest sales that occurred at Sedo lately:
– Finance.CO for $45,000
– Internet.CO for $40,000
– Shop.CO for $22,000
– Love.CO for $20,000
– Auctions.CO for $15,000
– Download.CO for $10,099
– Automotive.CO for $10,000
TimeOut.CO is on auction at Sedo, currently at $1,200 and 6 days left.
HighFrequencyTrading.CO sold at Sedo for $4,425.
Dont see the sale for HighFrequencyTrading.co. Its still on the Sedo.com for $10,000. I have SpeedTrading.co and HighSpeedTrading.co. I would think those two are better names than that one….
@David
See under “Recent Sales”
http://i53.tinypic.com/156ecsy.jpg
Dosh.CO sold at Sedo for £1,200 (~$1,900).
Litle.CO sold for $1,100.
WhiplashCompensation.CO sold for $1,900.
Both at Sedo.
Divorcios.CO sold at Sedo for 1,000 EUR (~$1,400).
Pubs.CO sold for $5,000.
JuegosDeBobEsponja.CO sold for 1,500.
Both at Sedo.
Hotell.CO is on auction at Sedo, currently at $650 and 4 days left.
Chutney.CO sold at Sedo for $1,500.
Frager Factor reported today:
He sold FSO.co and a few hand regs for $32,895
iCloud.CO is on auction at Sedo, currently at $3,500 and 2 days left.
Las-Vegas.CO sold at Sedo for $1,000.
Men.CO sold for $32,000 at Sedo.
FlatRate.CO sold for 2,800 EUR (~$4,030) at Sedo.
FlatRate.CO sold for more than FlatRate.net ($2,500 in 2009).
Salad.CO sold on Sedo for $1,023.
SuperBox.CO (handregistered in January) sold at Sedo for $1,000.
It looks like the buyer owns SuperBox-inc.com.
A list of .CO domains that sold yesterday at GoDaddy Auctions:
zoop.co/domains/co-domain-domains/co-domain-godaddy-sales/
Automotive.CO sold at Sedo for $10,000.
“Automotive.CO sold at Sedo for $10,000.”
Yeah, back in June.
Brad
Appartements.CO is on auction at Sedo, currently at 999 EUR (~$1,450) and 5 days left.
“Appartements” is French for apartments.
@Brad
Yes, it’s correct.
Luxury.CO sold for $60,000.
elliotsblog.com/mike-mann-sells-luxury-co-for-60k-8492
The following domains sold at Sedo:
Alps.CO – $2000
Askher.CO – $1250
Sothys.CO – 800 EUR (~ $1,130)
The following domains sold at Sedo:
Vepo.co – $2500
Elation.co – $1400
Elation.CO sold at Sedo for $1,400.
Joe
I don’t want the blog to become a tool to promote active auctions, there is too much room for people who own owns domains at auction to tell us about them
I don’t have the time to try to figure out who is reporting what and what interest they may or may not have in the domains
So I will continue to delete these
You are of course free to report the results of auctions that have ended
@MHB
OK, no problem. Anyway, I’m not the owner of any of the domains I’ve been reporting. I’ve been doing this only because it’s easier to track domains when they’re still on auction, since Sedo reports only a part of all the sales.
Joe
We publish all of Sedo.com reportable sales each week on Tuesday
Saudi.CO sold at GoDaddy Auctions for $838.
eParking.CO sold at Sedo for $7,000.
Many.CO reports 007.CO sold for $120,000 at Sedo.
Source:
many.co/recent.php
UAB.CO sold for $510 at Sedo.
A NamePros member reports he has just sold Textbook.CO for $12,000. Textbook.org sold last year for $6,100.
Sorry, both are actually plurals: Textbooks.CO and Textbooks.org
Bek.CO sold for $1,500 at Sedo.
The following domains sold at Sedo:
– Fanatic.CO ($3000)
– Yoogo.CO ($1200)
iCruise.CO sold for $2,950 at Afternic.
SteelTech.CO sold for $2,000 at Sedo.
Nice to see the steady .co sales. I never thought this extension would every amount to anything.,but apparently others do and keep buying.
@professional
.CO domains are being bought by investors and endusers. For example, SteelTech.CO is a typical enduser sale.
Gamers.CO sold for $1,205 at GoDaddy Auctions.
ManualLinkBuilding.CO sold for $1,000 in a private sale (not mine).
Racquets.CO sold for $500 at Sedo.
Gutschein.CO (German for “coupon”) sold for 1,500 EUR (~$1,910) at Sedo.
Poquer.CO (Spanish for poker) sold for $2,750 at Sedo.
Authentic.CO sold at Sedo for $3,250.
GoDaddyAuctions sales:
MesotheliomaAttorney.CO – $10,300
MesotheliomaLawyer.CO – $10,300
Sedo sales:
Mev.CO – $2,905
Neuro.CO – $1,000
Travels.CO (this is a big one) on Sedo auction starting at $3,000.
@Michael
This isn’t my domain, it’s owned by someone in Korea.
Home24.CO sold at Sedo for 1,000 EUR (~$1,310)
PPIClaims.CO sold for $5,500 (also reported on DNJournal).
A few recent sales
onlinepoker.co – $22,000
bfa.co – $1,700
LOVEIT.CO – $1,000
home24.co – $1,000
gnarly.co – $800
Pocket.CO sold for $4,000.
3 .CO domains on Sedo auction at 4-5 figures:
– Jewelry.CO – $24,000
– OptionsTrading.CO – $4,200
– Socially.CO – $1,100
PS: none of them is mine.
Sedo sales from last week
cigarettes.co – $7,000
e-ticket.co – $2,500
dutyfree.co – $1,100
lactalis.co – 800 EUR (~ $1,040)
plas.co – $875
Easy.CO sold for $10,500 at Sedo.
Sold at Sedo:
Silo.CO – $2,000
i4m.CO – $1,999
Concept.CO – $999
Tasteful.CO – 700 EUR (~ $870)
Sugar.CO sold for $30,000, MNG.CO for 990 EUR (~$1,190), Angeles.CO for $850. All at Sedo.
Latest Sedo sales:
Bison.co £1,800 ($2,826)
wcg.co $1,888
sok.co $1,500
turn.co $1,250
Rocket.CO – $16,000
Roads.CO – $6,666
Badger.CO – $1,000
Wage.CO – $700
ishot.co sold for $4,000 at Afternic.
Cinema.co sold for 10,000 EUR (~ $13,000) at Sedo.
Here we go again…I have watched over ten .co names drop in the last week bigger than anything sepoo has sold lately and like a rock they went slamming to the ground!!!! Don’t buy the hype newbies the joke is on you!!!!!
Seed.co sold for $15,000 at MostWantedDomains (congrats, Mike).
Latest Sedo sales:
need.co 5,000 USD
esl.co 3,000 EUR
dmz.co 1,250 USD
Latest Sedo sales:
wood.co $7,000
employee.co $2,000
qps.co $1,870
exchanger.co $1,350