.co .CO - The Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread

InvisionTech said:

I was looking for registered hyphenated ones, not sold as examples.

So, something like I-P.co or N-Y.co or D-C.co wouldn't have any value?

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I would'nt register a .co with a hyphen. Your begging to lose money if you do!
Stick to very high quality keywords if you intend to do well with this one.

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InvisionTech said:

I was looking for registered hyphenated ones, not sold as examples.

So, something like I-P.co or N-Y.co or D-C.co wouldn't have any value?

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If you plan to register a hyphenated .co, it should be a great one. You are looking at a few hundred for the best of the best C-C.co and you won't be able to find them for registration fee.

emjohn said:

Who said anything about YOU? This has nothing to do with you. If I make a 2000% on investment, what the hell do you want? Better look after your own sh*t first and worry about O.co later. Ya know what I mean?

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2000.00% return! :o You ask "what the hell do you want?" and I can answer that question:

"I want that 2000.00% return. Please teach us the ways of making money off .co"

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Nubiano said:

2000.00% return! :o You ask "what the hell do you want?" and I can answer that question:

"I want that 2000.00% return. Please teach us the ways of making money off .co"
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If you sell a $30 reg for $600 then you have your 2000.00% return.

Now you have to consider the risk/reward ratio.
Everything is relative.
But it's not like that kind of net profit or ROI is unattainable in other extensions like .com.

By the way, if you sell a $30 reg for $600 but you still have tens of domains on sale, then you still have your 2000.00% return anyway

Mr. Calle has published a post about Overstock.

the_poet said:

Mr. Calle has published a post about Overstock.

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The .CO registry did much of their marketing and promotion around O.co.
Now that the news is not positive it is a "blip on the radar"?

How convenient.

Brad

the_poet said:

Mr. Calle has published a post about Overstock].

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A couple of 'points' per Overstock -

"The decision to use a .CO domain in such a big way underscored our willingness to lead the market and to disrupt the status quo."
And the 'disrupting of the status quo' cost them business and boocaloos of wasted marketing expenses. And now they're running (crawling?) back to what is tried and true: Customers knowledge and habits!


"We 'expect' that O.co will continue to emerge as our brand over time. It will be a gradual transition, and may take a few years."
A few years!??!! There'll be 200+ new tlds by then to confuse people. Keep in mind too, that's what they said about .mobi. And there were by far more company's/corps using .mobi than .co!!



(cue Don Meredith song "The party's ov...")

emjohn said:

As far as parties are concerned, maybe your the person who concludes things at 7 pm and the party is just starting...

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No, as you've been reading.. Overstock concluded their 'party'.

emjohn said:

And you have the "corner" about how companies should spend their money? Please....give me a break. Geez, if we all just followed your advice, everything would be dandy...wouldn't it?

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WTF!!??! Who said/posted anything about 'cornering' how companies 'should' spend their monies?? And I never suggested any 'advice' to anyone!! Boy this O.co fiasco sure has your panties up in a roll!! Again. Get a life hommes.

Keith said:

I would'nt register a .co with a hyphen. Your begging to lose money if you do!
Stick to very high quality keywords if you intend to do well with this one.

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I put C-O.co on Sedo auction at zero reserve and got zero bids, zero interest and it is not bad is it?

btw -I am not selling it for zero $'s so don't bother.

C-0.co is rather dumb, doesn't mean anything, its not same as CO.co... can't compare with something like N-Y.co or Las-Vegas.co

Even YOU wouldn't bid on that if some other person offered it at 0 reserve.

InvisionTech said:

C-0.co is rather dumb, doesn't mean anything, its not same as CO.co... can't compare with something like N-Y.co or Las-Vegas.co

Even YOU wouldn't bid on that if some other person offered it at 0 reserve.

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You are right but it was C-O.co not C-0.co :wave:

InvisionTech said:

C-0.co is rather dumb, doesn't mean anything, its not same as CO.co... can't compare with something like N-Y.co or Las-Vegas.co

Even YOU wouldn't bid on that if some other person offered it at 0 reserve.

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Nubiano, I believe, posted the list of available C-C here a few weeks back. I think MsDomainer picked up I-D.co which is what I would consider one of the better C-C combinations.

It was available.
One person took it but it was far from a rush.

I don't like C-C in .com let alone .co as a development choice for a business - I see just a terrible confusion in it.

bmugford said:

The .CO registry did much of their marketing and promotion around O.co.
Now that the news is not positive it is a "blip on the radar"?

How convenient.

Brad

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I think it's more relevant that they felt the need to respond to domainer concerns. The answers were very scripted....

The reality is that they never really rebranded from overstock.com to begin with. As I have said many times - they've always been overstock.com.

This is all a total non-issue. I don't see where anything changed except they made an announcement that they wouldn't fully transition.

Some of us armchair quarterbacks call some things correctly.

When referring to our beloved sdsinc, let's try not to be too aggressive, she's a woman, even though she's as tough as a man in the business.

Would be best to kick the nonsense to the curb and have a level headed debate. Some here are clearly anti .co. Others are certainly pro .co. A few like myself simply invest in whatever, if money can be made.

It's cool to share opinions but it's best to do it in a friendly manner!

Keith said:

Would be best to kick the nonsense to the curb and have a level headed debate. Some here are clearly anti .co. Others are certainly pro .co. A few like myself simply invest in whatever, if money can be made.

It's cool to share opinions but it's best to do it in a friendly manner!

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And we all probably think about ourselves in that way. That we do it in a friendly manner.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for an update:
today I counted approx. 1120188 registered .co. Margin of error unknown. I would say the number has remained steady lately, based on data available. Quite a few drops, offset by new registrations.

sdsinc said:

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for an update:
today I counted approx. 1120188 registered .co. Margin of error unknown. I would say the number has remained steady lately, based on data available. Quite a few drops, offset by new registrations.

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As predicted, no mass-drops. At $25, it seems pretty reasonable that the majority of the names were acquired with some kind of plan (especially by non-domainers).

defaultuser said:

Nubiano, I believe, posted the list of available C-C here a few weeks back. I think MsDomainer picked up I-D.co which is what I would consider one of the better C-C combinations.

It was available.
One person took it but it was far from a rush.

I don't like C-C in .com let alone .co as a development choice for a business - I see just a terrible confusion in it.

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This is true; I did pick up I-D.co for reg fee.

It had been posted on a list of decent hyphenated .co availables, either on this thread or another one (can't rmember).

I just thought this one might eventually gain some value, given that I.D. is an acronym and is already taken in every major gTLD, including .biz.

Maybe, maybe not.

Obviously ID.co would be a 1,000 times better, but it's (apparently) an "invalid" domain.

And I-D.com and ID.com would be especially sweet.

Overall, I'm kind of neutral on .co.

But someone has been dropping .co C-C domains (among other kinds of .co), and that can mean one of two things: .co is crashing and burning OR there is a temporary slump and there might be a modest resurgence.

In the end, .co IS a ccTLD, and, perhaps, buying terms in English might not be such a great investment.

But never say never.




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Ms Domainer said:

But someone has been dropping .co C-C domains (among other kinds of .co), and that can mean one of two things: .co is crashing and burning OR there is a temporary slump and there might be a modest resurgence.

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I don't believe so. L-L is typically worth regfee except in .com. L-N/N-L ditto.
There are better names to be had in .co.

Its a positive that .co has so many registrants still, which means something for sure as that is a huge amount of registrants in the base., but I feel the hype in .co is diminishing and I feel like a bag holder. Wonder what extension they are going to hype next. .Me just got a big 450K sale with meet.me which is getting a lot of news buzz and pro is trying a relaunch with pro 2.0 starting this week but not much press on it.

I think the top L-L.co are worth $300, at this point. I-D.co is one of those. Regular L-L.co are worth nothing. J-no_url_shorteners, for example, doesn't have any legs yet. If someone were to register it, it's only risk.

sdsinc said:

I don't believe so. L-L is typically worth regfee except in .com. L-N/N-L ditto.
There are better names to be had in .co.

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defaultuser said:

Nubiano, I believe, posted the list of available C-C here a few weeks back. I think MsDomainer picked up I-D.co which is what I would consider one of the better C-C combinations.

It was available.
One person took it but it was far from a rush.

I don't like C-C in .com let alone .co as a development choice for a business - I see just a terrible confusion in it.

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Yes this is true... and I have an update:

The list from a few weeks back had only 19 available L-L.CO... Of that, 7 were since regd...

However, the total of available L-L.CO is now exactly 25 (This 25 includes 12 from the old list):

p-a.co
z-a.co
e-c.co
k-c.co
b-d.co
j-d.co
i-e.co
v-e.co
l-g.co
i-h.co
g-i.co
l-k.co
n-k.co
r-k.co
g-m.co
p-n.co
s-n.co
l-o.co
n-o.co
h-p.co
k-r.co
a-s.co
d-v.co
e-no_url_shorteners
w-z.co

Maybe your initials or whatever! :red:

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l-o.co - that one kind of seems fitting for registering these types of domains.

sdsinc said:

I don't believe so. L-L is typically worth regfee except in .com. L-N/N-L ditto.
There are better names to be had in .co.

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There are only 676 L-L in any extension, so they are a rarity.

However, outside .COM ($2K+) and .NET ($100+) L-L have very little reseller value.

I own a few L-L.com, and they rarely get inquiries, so I really doubt there is much of a market for L-L.co at this point.

Top quality L-L.co are worth what an end user is willing to pay, which is probably not much in general.

Brad