We have confirmed with the .CO Registry and we can report that as of yesterday all possible combinations of three letter .Co domain names are registered.
There are some 17,600 possible combinations of three letter domain name, otherwise referred to in the industry as LLL domains.
These do NOT include letters and numbers just letters.
All possible combinations of .Com domains were registered many years ago, other than a handful that drop every year.
LLL.com have become quite valuable as they can stand for hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of different topics, companies, stock symbols and other items. Such domain names on the aftermarket generally sell in the mid four figures all the way into the seven figures.
Now that all .Co three letter domain names are taken it should be interesting to see what effect that has on the aftermarket.
It should be noted that the following domain names have been reserved by the registry and were never available to be registered:
ORG.CO
INT.CO
NET.CO
WEB.CO
NOM.CO
GOV.CO
COM.CO
REC.CO
EDU.CO
MIL.CO
If you interested, the last seven three letter .Co domains that were available and registered the other day were:
IYV.co
JXV.co
KHV.co
QDY.co
VBJ.co
WVH.co
YBV.co
ZDU.co
ZKF.co
We congratulate the .CO registry for reaching this milestone in less than two years after relaunch.
We at Worldwide Media, Inc. own a couple of hundred LLL.co domain names ourselves.
We also thank David Eccles of TNTNames.com for alerting us to the story.
If any of those EVER get developed, then the .com equivalent will reap a lot of the spoils. 🙂
Hey folks…..what’s the only good type of leakage in the world?
Domain leakage!!! Bring it on .co !!! 🙂
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Congratulations to COInternet on this accomplishment. Even though .CO and .com are on different planets, they have been marketing the extension in an exemplary way and they’re now starting to reap the fruits of their hard labour.
Has Robert Cline bought the rest now (in an attempt to prove himself right)? 🙂
@JamesD – I can say that Robert Cline had nothing to do with buying the last of the LLL.co’s.
Congrats .co!
I invested in a handful of quality letter LLL .co’s early on, and sold a few to end users. The potential is there. Still, not the same wild west as with the 3-letter .com’s
As I recall, when .mobi was introduced all LLL sold out in days. I’d assumed the only LLL.co names available were one which were dropping.
@JamesD
There’s a big difference between .MOBI and .CO. There problem with the former was a huge bubble forming since day one with amazingly inflated sales like Music.mobi ($600,000) and Flowers.mobi ($200,000). Another big issue was the fact .mobi was basically a limited TLD, with all the restrictions imposed by its registry (design of .mobi websites had to comply with certain standard rules since they were meant to be displayed on mobile devices).
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
dot whatever is still a “BullS” site.
get over it!!
I’ve had 5 offers on 5 different LLL.Co since the Superbowl commercial.
anything below $1,500 I am rejecting.
got an offer for 600 pounds countered.
got an offer for $1,400 countered.
Robert— stop the BSing….
Long time ago was reported that all LLL.co`s were registered.
I guess some of them were dropped and that`s why this news is reported again.
True is the .co prices are going down and interest is lower and lower. I got emails from guys who want to sell me .co for pennies.
Just visit sedo.co to see interest in premium ones. On cointernet.co website you will read rubbish news which only shows that .Co registry has nothing to boast about.
better to sell
1
LLL.Co for $1,500 plus
than to have to sell
3
LLL.Co for $500
This is my logic.
Robert,
Take the $500/ea and get yourself a decent dotcom.
🙂
It took this long? That’s not a good sign. Also, you can go to forums like NP and you can find them for sale right now at about $17. They’ve been sitting there for sale. So if you truly believe in the LLL.co’s, I expect them to be all gone today. Get at it Cline.
As far as I know all LLL.biz and LLL.us are taken.
It doesn’t mean much for value.
Domains are worth what someone is willing to pay, and there are not many buyers for garbage LLL outside COM/NET/ORG.
Those extensions all have liquid value. While garbage LLL in most secondary extensions do not.
Brad
I have a question for you guys
If you found a .cc that was worth 500000 in a .com would bother reging the .cc
Do you place .cc at the absolute lowest of the low, I pressing most would reg the .co in the same scenario
I love .Co
it is sexy
it is prettier
it is better looking
it is more beautiful.
It is more meaningful.
.c om is the typo of .Co
if some like typing extra key why not have .commercial instead of .com
Checkmate.
All things being equal
people would have
to pay 10x for a
.Co than a .com
Why because
this is the price difference of one less character.
An LLL may go for $190,000
But an LLLL may only go for $10,000
@ Robert Cline – I would really appreciate it if you would chill out a little bit with your ramblings about .co. I really do believe in .co and hope it becomes more sucessful than it currently is. I also really enjoy reading the comments on the .co blogs but really dislike reading your comments. I think you are doing more harm than good for .co and .co owners all over the world. Do us all a favor and only add a comment when you have something productive to say. You may not agree but take a minute to think about what you are really doing here. Ask yourself what good does this do?
VR,
David
@David
what ?
I am making good valid points that must be examined
pro or con.
I just got off work and I am off now for the weekend and I will be right here all week long.
Here is another point that must be made.
The reason why this announcement today is key and very important has to do with supply and demand.
Economics would tell you that if you are learned person that if supply is cut off and demand is generally the same, that price skyrockets. Limited supply plus high demand = rising price.
So for those lucky enough to have these few gem LLL.Co watch and learn economics in action as
prices for LLL.Co will appreciably rise certainly faster than inflation.
cat got your tongue
@Robert Cline – “.c om is the typo of .Co”
Yeah, you’re right, as proven by someone who really knows…the CEO of Overstock. People just keep on typing .com instead of .co – no matter how many $s you throw at it.
Doesn’t work in reverse though mate – .co (and .cm) definately isn’t a typo for .com
I used to wonder whether Coco Cline was another plank in coInternet’s imaginative, innovative and generally impressive marketing campaign.
Obviously now I see that is clearly absurd, the registry would probably make money by buying all his domains back and paying him to zip it 🙂
I’m surprised it took this long for it to happen. I don’t like .co but I had figured with LLL .com’s being thousands of dollars minimum for years that LLL .co domains would have been snapped up in a hurry.
numbers speak for themselves.
spent over $37,000 on .com buys and renewals, $0 sales. Offers in the $xx range.
spent over $40,000 on .Co buys and renewals. over $60,000 in sales so far. Offers in the $x,xxx range.
idiots run your stupid .com numbers and see how stupid you might feel…
Overstock.com, the company formerly know as O.co, just launched O.info. Whoopee!
Dot info is the new king, all bow and prostrate yourselves before your new leader dot info.
LindaM@
CoCoCline … LOL
Hey everybody, from now on let’s call Robert Cline, CoCoCline since he’s such a pain
numbers speak for themselves.
spent over $37,000 on .com buys and renewals, $0 sales. Offers in the $xx range.
spent over $40,000 on .Co buys and renewals. over $60,000 in sales so far. Offers in the $x,xxx range.
idiots run your stupid .com numbers and see how stupid you might feel….
@Robert Cline
Your lack of success with .com is a testament to your lack of skills, not .com’s lack of value. Anyone can register crap and fail to sell it.
@ Robert
“spent over $37,000 on .com buys and renewals, $0 sales. Offers in the $xx range.”
You know you really take over every thread making a normal conversation impossible.
If you spent $37,000 on .COM and sold $0, then what is the message there?
Your domains are low quality. Good .COM domains can easily be sold.
Brad
@Robert Cline – Please stop. You are taking away from the momentum of .co. Dont you see the damage you are causing???
I have not seen one person agree with you. You are doing a great job of egging people on. By doing that you have totally taken away from the real story here and that all LLL.co domains are taken. .Co may take a few more years to really take off. You are just holding this process back.
What I am saying yes
outloud to save a few
is that .com is a huge galactic giant bust for 99% of the people.
To legally make good money you must adapt and shift to legally
.Co
god bless
In related news, all the waterfront in Somalia has been spoken for…
short but strange names
The average price for LLL.com is about 15,000 to 30, 000$. I have uuu.bz, bz TLD is registered with GoDaddy. let’s see for how much this goes.
I have oas.co 🙂
Make any website with a great idea and powerful quality content. Work hard on that project for minimum 1 year.. and sell it for millions…
People should be visiting ur website again and again.. and dollars should come in…
no matter it’s
.com
.co
.net
.info
or
.org
It’s good news.
we sold $8-12k .co domains each month,I hope we can do more in the next years.
I really never felt that .co was going to be more than a flash in a pan. But having GoDaddy sponsor superbowl ads may be what makes the difference. Advertising goes a long way and .co has certainly has shown excellence on branding.
Nothing special. Last year, all LLL.co were registered too and than lots of them were dropped. This news doesn’t mean the .co value is increased. Most of LLL.co domains are sold for less than reg fee. I believe, if it wasn’t for godaddy dotCO would be “dead” now. 🙂
@TheDomain.name Correct said..
Michael, thanks for the great industry news update. I’d love to tweet this without having to give Tweetmeme access to my account though. Just saying.
Follow me on twitter and retweet it that way
I sold this one for five figures http://fso.co/
Wrote the website too
Been clients of my agency for years- one night I was reading a thread right on this blog where I saw people giving up and realized it was drop time- so I checked these letters which wouldn’t mean such to someone who didn’t know of this prospect- the domain was in the non-pay zone and about to drop- so I used the go daddy link and bought for $899
I LOVE .co
Solves a problem for this company
Looks great on all the sales giveaways too
All lll.in domains have been registered for many months. Reseller value has not picked up at all, it has actually declined amazingly.
Selling out means nothing. The benchmarks will be
A) Finding End Users
B) How long buy out lasts. Whether drops are picked up quickly or not
C) When the buyout last for over a year.
D) The potential market you have .. .Co has a stronger market than .In as .in is still not in full belief of domain’s value. It is still a very solid long term investment IMHO. Whereas .Co right now has one solid thing going for it. The SEO viability instead of geo targetting despite it being a ccTLD. .Co has also had much more advertising money thrown at it making it a viable option in the public (U.S. anyways) as an alternative to .com. I will admit it seems “sexier” than .net or .org – however whether it works out or not will ultimately depend on end user’s choice. DN Sales price, check sales volume, remember some sales are private ..
Kind of here and there post, I just woke up lol .. But I think I probably made my point.
Possibility but no Guarantee – just like any investment.
@Owen
What is your negotiation tactics ?
A to z
been only selling in $x,xxx range.
Would love to sell in the $xx,xxx range.
Thanks in advance.
“Solves a problem for this company
Looks great on all the sales giveaways too”
Owen – what kind of leak to fso.com do you think there will be, after reading today – http://domainincite.com/o-co-loses-61-of-its-traffic-to-o-com/
that o.co lost 61% of it’s traffic to o.com. And this is a company that put some advertising behind it, renaming stadiums, tv commercials etc. still a 61% leak to the .com.
Can I just add a thought as an industry outsider… One reason that no-one is using the .co extension is that all the decent names have already been taken by domainers registering these in the 1000s during the landrush period.
I am planning a start-up and every name I can think off just takes me to a parked site held by a domainer looking to sell it for $1000s.
If all the good names are parked, then joe public isn’t going to take to this extension and ultimately the extension will die and your investment will be worthless. A classic Catch22.
@Ordinary Joe
There are 100 million domains registered in .com vs 1 million in .CO, I can’t really believe you can’t find a nice domain for your project, unless, of course, you’re aiming at (super) premium domains.
@Joe
I do take your point which is why I’ve gone down the .co route rather than .com
It would just be interesting to see how many of these seventeen thousand three letter .Co’s are being used for actual websites and how many are just parked?
Well I just registered an LLL.co. NOW they’re all sold. And I’d post it on Sedo if they weren’t having trouble.
Question, how popular are .co . Recently I registered charges.co
Embee, interesting fact, but who the hell cares?
i, i they were all registered, how come in just 5 minutes i fond 4 of them? wouldnt you thinkthat the ones that dropped would have been snapped up. I will go register the four i just found tomorrow if i feel theres any value for resale, which looks promising if they were supposedly all registered. These are 3 letter no number .co. Thanks John
ps- has anyone any idea how much they would sell for if i immediately offered them for resale?
its suppost to read IF THEY WERE ALL….i think they got it wrong.