.co.com announced today that it has hit its one year anniversary since launching and has registered over 10,000 domain names.
You can read the official post here.
The company wrote in part that its 10,000 registrations are “more than most ICANN new gTLDs – and demand is accelerating”
So while co.com is not a new gTLD, since its anniversary is right around when the first of the new gTLD’s started to launch I thought it would be interesting to see how the numbers stack up to new gTLD registrations.
So with lets call it an even 10,000 registrations, .co.com would be the 83rd most registered new gTLD’s out of the over 500 that ntldstats.com is tracking.
.co.com would come right under .World and right ahead of .Lawyer.
About 175 fully launched new gTLD have less than 1/2 of the registrations of .co.com, less than 5,000 registrations.
Since .co.com is not a new gTLD they didn’t have to pay ICANN $185,000 to apply, nor did they have to beat anyone in an auction to get the domain, as many new gTLD’s registries did. They also don’t have to pay ICANN the minimum $25,000 annual fee that new gTLD’s have to.
You can read about the year for .co.com here
I think it’s worth mentioning that the .co.com extension got to that milestone without the support of Godaddy.
Also worth mentioning the aftermarket movement of 55 .co.com domain name sales totalling 29,824.00 USD or 542.25 USD on average per domain name.
While I am not a fan of that particular name, the concept of third level domains makes much more sense to me than that of gtlds which, i think are totally dumb.
For example, the owner of food.com can rent out dog.food.com, fish.food.com and health.food.com. Just like .co.com does now.
The g’s are not needed and will soon wither up an die on the vine.