According to a press release today, Sedo, entered into a a two-year exclusive partnership with .CO Internet S.A.S. to provide brokerage of a select set of previously unreleased .CO domain names, including:
clothes.co
profit.co
software.co
onlinemusic.co
hardware.co
internetmarketing.co
body.co
onlinedating.co
france.co
jobsonline.co
In all there are 726 domain names currently listed all pre-priced with prices ranging from $10K-$150K
Domain names like france.co and italy.co are priced at $150,000 and names like bodybuilding.co and Desk.Co are priced at $10K.
To see the complete portfolio of .CO domains available via Sedo, go to http://sedo.co.
Here is the other stuff in the press release:
“.CO is increasingly becoming the top level domain (TLD) of choice for start-ups and small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) searching for meaningful, memorable, and affordable domain names to brand their web presence. Since .CO was first introduced in 2010, Sedo has generated well over $1 million in .CO sales revenue, and the .CO domain extension has become one of the top selling domain extensions in Sedo’s marketplace.”
“Sedo has done a fabulous job helping to establish and develop the secondary market for premium .CO domain names,” said Lori Anne Wardi, vice president of .CO Internet S.A.S. “Given their expertise and global reach, we are confident that Sedo is the perfect partner to help us bring these valuable digital assets to end-users worldwide.”
“With more than one million .CO domain names registered by individuals and businesses in more than 200 countries around the world, CO has become a truly global TLD. The .CO domain is treated equally with legacy domain extensions like .com and .net by the search engines, making the domain particularly appealing from a search engine optimization perspective for businesses of every size.”
“Many of the world’s most recognizable brands are already using the .CO domain to build or expand their online presence, including Internet behemoths like Twitter, Google and Amazon (which have acquired the single letter .CO domains t.co, g.co and a.co, respectively); the Aspen Group insurance company (aspen.co); and the well-known Silicon Valley incubator 500 Startups (which has rebranded to 500.co).”
“.CO Internet has been very successful in setting the bar for up and coming TLDs, and we are proud to be partnering with the .CO Registry to help bring these not yet released domains to businesses worldwide,” said Tim Schumacher, CEO of Sedo. “As we begin seeing new gTLDs hit the market in 2012, .CO will serve as an example to those applying for their own domain extension of the solid business model and strong partners that any registry will need to succeed.”
“.CO Internet has received a number of awards for its management of the .CO domain, including a nomination from the World Trademark Review, praising its efforts to make .CO an end user, business-friendly domain extension that protects the rights of brand owners. Recently, .CO was also recognized in the World Finance 100 List of the 100 finest businesses of 2011, alongside companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other innovative companies who have outperformed the competition, and helped to redefine the business landscape.”
Boob Cline is writing PR releases for Sedo now?
not so great names, I don’t see in the list domains like e.co or mexi.co
^ I hadn’t even thought of mexi.co.
That’s an EXCELLENT name!
The ones on this list aren’t doing it for me.
I think they’re holding out on the really good ones for when the market matures.
“I think they’re holding out on the really good ones for when the market matures.”
This is as good as it gets
The .co market has been very quite lately. I hope this will get .co back in the spotlight again.
It’s been proved that superpremium keywords in .CO can sell for 5-6 figures. So, if I were to decide, I would decrease the reserves for the low end of the list, while maintaining them for the very best names.
So Sedo will serve as “eBay” in cleaning out the .co closet and garage – they will need a lot of vacuum bags and shovels and a very large commercial dumpster !!
Anyway it’s also true that if anyone can find buyers better than others, that’s Sedo. We’ll see.
@BrianWick – LOL!!
Sounds about right. If I were on that sinking ship I’d bail and start unloading them, too.
I like .cc better than .co – I’d actually pay more for a strong-keyword .cc than the same name in .co
all you .com lovers are now in the minority
I am sorry to say.
.Co
is blasting off
with you or without you.
just think about it, now that it is ramping up,
the more registrations they have,
the more marketing they will be able to do,
which means, that’s right, more
.Co registrations.
success begets success.
it is not too late.
if you can’t beat them,
why not join them.
just simply submit and
fight for .Co when you are called to do so.
It may be time for some to piggyback off the prices they have listed for some of those domain names. If they are asking $150K for France.co then who ever has French.co (seems that this domain has not been scheduled for release yet but you still get my point) should be able to get away with 1/10th that.
Just my thought.
Cheers
“.CO Internet has received a number of awards for its management of the .CO domain”
This is why they outsourced the management of these names to Sedo – a company that wouldn’t win many awards from its users or customers.
Anyone else seen the article about the “new” .CO girl for the Super Bowl? Apparently Natalia Velez is the .CO girl for the Super Bowl this year.
Just thought it was interesting that they got rid of Joan Rivers (which was a lukewarm idea at best) and decided to go with someone else.
Cheers