October is winding down and there are two full months left in 2020. When we look at reported country code domain name sales, they have already surpassed 2019 and 2018 full year sales. 2020 sales are 6,344 sales for $10.5 million vs 2019 full year sales of 6,249 sales for $10.5 million. The country codes fueling the sales are the usual suspects. .Co.uk, .de, .co, .io and .ai. .Co.uk has … [Read more...]
Another company with two word .com moves to one word .co
Patch Homes is a home equity finance startup, that is now changing it's name to Noah. They are going to be doing business on Noah.co as another two word .com moves to .co. (source) A couple weeks ago I wrote about GradeSlam (.org) rebranding to Paper.co. A week after Paper.co, AgencyWithin.com moved to the shorter, one word domain name, Within.co. Noah.com is owned by a David Kroening. … [Read more...]
GradeSlam raises $7.5 million rebrands to Paper.co
So Gradeslam.org put out a press release today and announced funding and a new name. They are moving from a .org to a .co. They are a Canadian company. MONTREAL, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GradeSlam, the education company founded by McGill University graduates Philip Cutler and Roberto Cipriani, announced today that it has raised 7.5 million USD in funding. Along with the funding … [Read more...]
Playbuzz rebrands to Ex.co
Another startup moving from .com to .co Following in the footsteps of Supply.co, Playbuzz a company that helps publishers add tools to their articles like polls is rebranding to EX.co. TechCrunch reported: Co-founder and CEO Tom Pachys told me the name stands for “the experience company,” and he said it reflects the company’s broader content marketing ambitions. Ex.co will continue … [Read more...]
Supply.co gets $300,000 deal on Shark Tank
So back on October 16, Patrick Coddou announced his company was making the move from GetSupply.com to Supply.co. The back and forth on Twitter was interesting, sometimes funny, along with those who just made a plug to pitch their own services. Coddou also called out the "Domain Bros" and called Shane Cultra an idiot. Shane had tweeted, And tomorrow you will learn what http://O.co and … [Read more...]
A look at the top 10 .co sales and where they are today
.Co is next up in our series of taking a look at the Non coms. Checking in on where the top 10 biggest sales in the extension are up to lately. ( Sales data courtesy of Namebio). .Co has only had two of it’s top 10 all time sales take place in the last 3 years. o.co350,000 USD2010-07-21Private8.co115,000 USD2015-03-01Heritage Auctionsonlinecasino.co100,000 … [Read more...]
Is .co starting to hold back mediocre domain names?
Holding back and reserving what one would consider "premium" names is nothing new in domaining. Verisign has taken back drops on premium .tv domains many a time. Certain new gtld registries have done the same. There is usually not a desire to hold back average or what some might even consider below average names. I was reading a post on Namepros and a member (Crysis) uncovered a bunch of .co … [Read more...]
