Sedo.com is holding a premium auction of .Co domain names including many gems owned by Mike Mann's Codom Holdings, LLC. These represent some of the best possible .Co domains. The auction will start right after the Superbowl on February 10th and end on February 17th. Sedo is still accepting additional domains of like quality for the auction. If you have any domains you would like to … [Read more...]
So Who Is The New Godaddy .Co Girl? Our Pick: ABC’s Modern Family Star Sofia Vergara
Now that Godaddy has announced there will be a .Co Godaddy girl, who will appear in its SuperBowl Commercial, the question becomes who is the girl? The easy guess would be Shakira since not only is she one of the biggest stars in the world but she is Colombia's most famous export. I asked Lori Ann Ward of the .Co registry to give me a hint as to whom the .Co Godaddy girl is and she declined … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Announces The .Co Super Bowl Commercial
In the press release by Godaddy today, the company announced what we told you last week they would be announcing today, that they will be sharing a 30 second SuperBowl Commerical to "spotlight to tell the world about a new domain name extension -- .CO". ""We think this new commercial will do for the dotCO domain what our first Super Bowl commercial did for Go Daddy,' said Go Daddy CEO … [Read more...]
Breaking News: .Co To Star In Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial
The big news for domainers out of the ICANN meeting in Colombia today was delivered by none other than Bob Parsons CEO of Godaddy. Tonight .Co held a party for some of the attendees of the ICANN meeting. As part of the party Juan Calle, who is the CEO of CO Internet S.A.S., gave a presentation using video to show some of the achievements of the registry. Mr. Parsons the CEO of Godaddy … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Much Will i.Co Sell For?
With today's announcement that i.CO is hitting that auction block, I started a poll as to how much you think the domain will fetch at auction. You can see some history on single letter .co domains on my previous post from today. Some of the possible buyers of i.Co off hand would include; Apple, king of all things "i" (iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTouch) ibm and any company in the internet … [Read more...]
i.Co Hits The Auction Block Powered By Moniker/SnapNames.com
According to Mashable, the single letter domain name i.Co has hit the auction block. All the information about the auction is at i.Co The auction was announced today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Every bidder will have to be pre-qualified to bid in the auction and the pre-qualification period ends on January 21, 2011. My understanding is that every bidder will have to be … [Read more...]
BBCNews.co.uk: “Colombian Domain (.Co) Challenges .Com”
A story published by BBCNews.com today, talks about the growing popularity of .Co domain names as .Co now approaches 600,000 registrations. The story quotes Juan Calle the CEO of .CO Internet S.A.S., the company which is operating the registry for the ccTLD. How big are .Co's plans: ""We are going for a global audience and in three to five years we hope to have three to five million … [Read more...]