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Juan Calle CEO Of The .Co Registry: “The Price of One Character .Co Domains is Already North of $1.5 million”

June 2, 2011 by Michael Berkens

Reuters.com in a story today is quoting Juan Calle CEO of the .Co Regsitry as saying:

“After Amazon and after a few of the other deals that we’ve done over the past few months, the price of one character .Co domain is already north of $1.5 million”.

Reuters.com was quick to point out that there were only 28,000 .Co registrations before the relaunch which passed 1 million registered domains.

“Colombia, which had only 28,000 registered Internet addresses before it opened up the .co domain a year ago, has just signed up its millionth customer.”

Another interesting point from the Reuters story:

“Juan Calle, a Colombian and a serial Internet entrepreneur, raised $5 million to start .CO Internet and beat rivals including VeriSign (VRSN.O), which serves as the global registry for .com and .net, to win the government contract to operate the .co domain.”

 

Filed Under: .CO

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. 100per100.info (100% information) on DomainState says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    what is the prices of the four .co purchased by Amazon?

  2. MHB says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    Not disclosed

  3. Chris says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    WOW – thats pretty impressive.

    I would love to see how much amazon paid for their single letter .CO’s

  4. Jack says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Nice.
    I wonder how he came up with that number? Can we assume that he has added the total amount of all the single letter/character names sold and divided by the number?

    If so, then we can assume that the ones purchased by Amazon where greatly valued and a significant amount was paid for them.

    But that is just a hunch and my own opinion.
    Cheers

  5. Brad says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    “After Amazon and after a few of the other deals that we’ve done over the past few months, the price of one character .Co domain is already north of $1.5 million”.

    They can ask whatever they want, they question is how many takers they have.

    Sooner or later they are going to run out of L.co to sell.

    Brad

  6. Jack says

    June 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    “Sooner or later they are going to run out of L.co to sell.”

    That is very true, considering there is only 26 letters and 10 characters.
    But, I think that is the appeal of single letter/character domains, the rarity of them.

    Just my opinion.
    Cheers

  7. lonnie Borck says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:24 pm

    🙂

  8. BullS says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    The main reason why this “BIG” co announcement is because to drum up the business as the renewal date is coming close.

    Lots of co are dropping like pigeohshit… for $30…you can feed a family of 10!!

  9. Skol says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    @BullS

    Dont worry we’ll pick those .co that are dropping out! More .co domains on my portfolio. Yipppyyy!!! lol

    PS. I wonder how much will 3 and 4 letters .co domain names will be?

  10. Christopher says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:35 pm

    Just subscribing to the comments 🙂

  11. Joe says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    So O.co at $350,000 was a deal 🙂

  12. Philip says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Hype Rubbish

  13. MHB says

    June 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Joe

    Not as good as e.co for $81K and for charity at that.

  14. Unknowndomainer says

    June 2, 2011 at 3:02 pm

    @Jack

    Amazon will have paid SOUTH of $1.5 million.

    The new value will have increased as it’s likely that 1/6 of the total (and less of the total available) are now PERMANENTLY removed from the market place.

    Of course, O.Co might be sold to creditors sooner or later 🙂

    He may as well set the bar high -he needs to continue to show a profit bubble for the next year or so before bailing onto a new project. Juan is a smart mofo.

  15. Joe says

    June 2, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    @MHB

    Yes, you’re right, I had forgotten it. BTW, it’s at F. Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com

  16. YAWN says

    June 2, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    yeah, yeah, yeah

    lets watch the rivers of blood coming with the drops
    the only person making $$$ is the registry and mike mann

    even RS has admitted things are in the toilet for .co and the drops will not be pretty

    oh, and then add all the wipo and lawsuits coming

    you can rank high on the colombian search engines though LOL

  17. M says

    June 2, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    How much is tv.co worth?

  18. ManydotCo says

    June 2, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Now this time is really reach the 1 million registrations

  19. Murray says

    June 2, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    I’ve a funny feeling that if e.co went to auction again, winning price would be a lot nearer $150k than $1.5m.

  20. Robert Cline says

    June 3, 2011 at 4:34 am

    As I have said

    LLL.Co are worth $5,000 – $20,000

    these may be too low given the state of affairs now.

  21. Robert Cline says

    June 3, 2011 at 4:51 am

    I have been gone all day

    on a huge project due tomorrow

    but I will be back later today. But in the meantime

    basically I want everyone that has bad mouthed me to

    grovel at my foot and beg for my forgiveness

    starting with MHB

    Everyone of you have consistently underestimated the

    .Co company corporation commercial …

    I have have said

    .Co is the new KIng

    and now is the time for you to pay up.

  22. Joe says

    June 3, 2011 at 5:07 am

    @Mr. “Cline”

    LOL

  23. Sporty says

    June 3, 2011 at 5:51 am

    What’s the hype with LLL.co? What does it stands for?

  24. Rich says

    June 3, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    LLL.CO letter abc.co, ajd.co etc.
    NNN.CO number 123.co or 930.co etc

  25. laughing at co says

    June 3, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    @Mr. “Cline”

    .co is a typo of .com (unless you live in Columbia).

    JC is a marketing machine & the hype is thick.

    Of course there is money to be made, but .co supplanting .com is laughable.

  26. Jim Holleran says

    June 3, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Are 1 letter more valuabe than 1 number and if so how much. For example, 1.co versus A.co, which is more valuabe and by how much. I know in the Asian world Numbers are more valuable, in the US market “letters” are more valuable.

    Love to hear your guys imput on this?

  27. Robert Cline says

    June 3, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    If you haven’t heard, the new trend and fashion is that everyone is upgrading and trading in their .com for .Co company corporation commercial

  28. Gazzip says

    June 3, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    I haven’t heard Robert, tell us all about it 🙂

  29. Derek Pater says

    June 3, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Currently selling my .CO

    I have plan to buy another 200 .CO’s I have carefully chosen.

    Lots of blinded .COM thinkers out there

  30. ManydotCo says

    June 4, 2011 at 1:00 am

    @Derek Pater
    Which .CO you are selling,and what’s your plan to buy

  31. Derek Pater says

    June 4, 2011 at 1:10 am

    Manydotco,
    Contact me and I can send you a selling list

    Thanks

  32. philip says

    June 4, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    Hope to hear the new trend on Monday, apparently a big announcement coming up on the 6th June.

  33. Robert Cline says

    June 6, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Co vs Com

    Co wins because it stands for

    Company
    Corporation
    Commercial
    Collaboration
    Cool
    Cohabit
    Cooperation

  34. Derek Pater says

    June 6, 2011 at 2:26 am

    Robert,
    you are right and COM is old hat, .CO is the future with T.CO for twitter being a brilliant example, shorter than .COM the future is bright for .CO

  35. Steph says

    June 6, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    .Co is gonna go a long way. Stop hatin!

  36. Divam Sharma says

    July 4, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    The Recent Dot Co deals is really a great news and really shuts up the mouth of the critics who had put all efforts to downgrade Dot Co Domains.
    If you see the WHOis Big Investors Like Rick Schwartz are also invested.
    I have almost 20 LLL.COs,1 NNN.CO,And some really great One word Domains like Stereo.co,Authentic.co,Desperate.co,Hierarchy.co,Vetting.co,Fats.co…..and lot more.
    Already received offers from 5 big investors at almost 1000 % profits.
    Wont sell them this Cheap and this early.


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