According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. "With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and … [Read more...]
Google’s Matt Cutts: Not All ccTLD’s Are Created Equally In Generic Search Rankings
There is a very interesting video posted on YouTube.com from Matt Cutts of Google who answered the question about how ccTLD's are viewed by Google especially when they are being used as domain hacks. Here is the question: ""We have a vanity domain (http://ran.ge) that unfortunately isn't one of the generic TLDs, which means we can't set our geographic target in Webmaster Tools. Is there any … [Read more...]
The 6th Annual Launch Festival Gets Started In SF On March 4th: Launch.co
The 6th Annual Launch festival is being held in San Fransico on March 4th--6th and their official site is Launch.co The 2013 LAUNCH Festival according to show organizers is "the the best place to launch your startup, raise money and learn about starting a company". The Festival awards prizes and has an impressive list of judges Here are the just some of the prizes: Grand … [Read more...]
Twitter Goes With A .CO For New Mobile Video Creation Service: Vine.Co
The Tech World has been reporting on Twitter's new mobile video creation service, Vine. The service, allows users to create and share looping videos. "Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity," the company said in an official blog post. "Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create." Vine.Co has had a … [Read more...]
The .Co Super Bowl Ad Is Very Much About Being A Domainer: Here You Go
The .Co Superbowl has been sneaked released and the tag line is not doubt "Sky Waitress" Someone registered the .com and .co of the term and no it wasn't me. The concept of the ad is very domainer oriented, which is just because you have the great next idea don't assume that other people all around the world won't have the same idea, at basically the same time, and reminds everyone that the … [Read more...]
Back To The Future: Namesco Rebrands Back To Its URL Names.co.uk
Namesco, "one of the UK’s top domain name, web hosting and website builder providers" has going back to its registered .co.uk roots and rebranded the company using its URL, highlighting to customers the importance of choosing the right domain name from day one. Namesco has relaunched as Names.co.uk by going back to its original roots 16 years ago, according to a press release it sent to … [Read more...]
Miamiherald.com Covers.Co Registry: “CO Sets Sights On Changing The Fabric of The Internet”
Miamiherald.com, just covered the .Co registry in a story entitled: ".CO sets sights on changing ‘the Fabric of the Internet" The 4 page story starts out "For the millions of people who equate the Web with .com, . CO Internet is out to change that mindset." "The Miami company that manages and markets .co domain names is already making impressive gains — more than 1.4 million in 200 … [Read more...]