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

It's difficult to draw conclusions with new TLDs. Because of the business model and the money backing it up, there really is nothing to compare it to. I'm sure the registry has it's goals (1 mill more regged each year) and the aftermarket will follow accordingly. As the poet said, it's slow growth. There will be no "extraordinary" paydays here. Good paydays, yes. Extraordinary, no. The person who sold OnlineCasino.co is probably one of the biggest winners, at this point, but that is more the exception than the rule.

If someone is selling fairly nice .co in the $2000-3000 range at the moment, that's doing quite well, IMO.

Keith said:

I'm thinking this extention could fade away after the registry auction at Sedo. My prediction is that very few domains will sell. The registry could avoid catastrophe if they choose to move their inventory along the lines of .tv. Dot TV even had the balls to auction off loads of 2 character domains at no reserve. Now they will collect yearly renewals for the long haul.

The .co registry fails to see the upside of generating renewal income. Instead, they're hoping to get big paydays on individual names which spells trouble IMO.

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Keith said:

Sorry I guess it's not auction format but the domains are listed at http://sedo.co/

The prices are way too high. Doom and gloom for .co with this approach. A superbowl commercial from godaddy isn't going to help either. This is classic .mobi IMO.

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Yes, it looks like they're not letting them go for cheap.

emjohn said:

I'm sure the registry has it's goals (1 mill more regged each year)

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Yes the goal is obvious...make money!

No chance in the world that a million new registrations will happen each year. I doubt that the registry will gain a million new registrations at all. The numbers will level off sort of like .mobi and that will be it.

Anyone have the total number of registered .co currently?

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the_poet said:

Yes, it looks like they're not letting them go for cheap.

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You mean they're not letting them go at all. Nobody will pay those prices. May as well ask a million dollars each.

They have f***i*gmachines.co listed for 10,000 USD lol With country names like france.co at the top for 150k

I disagree that a registry needs to let out all their hold names to the highest bidder. What so domainers can buy them and park/crappy wordpress them? Holding on to assists until someone pays a premium or until the economy gets better is a good strategy imo

Keith said:

Anyone have the total number of registered .co currently?

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It would be interesting to take a look at the statistics. Who's the NP member who monitors these numbers? Kate?

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johname said:

I disagree that a registry needs to let out all their hold names to the highest bidder. What so domainers can buy them and park/crappy wordpress them? Holding on to assists until someone pays a premium or until the economy gets better is a good strategy imo

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That's what I think. They're waiting for either the namespace getting more solid or the economy becoming stronger.

johname said:

I disagree that a registry needs to let out all their hold names to the highest bidder. What so domainers can buy them and park/crappy wordpress them? Holding on to assists until someone pays a premium or until the economy gets better is a good strategy imo

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This appears to be the .mobi strategy too. Let's hold our breath until the economy changes and our premiums are worth big bucks :lol: Unfortunately the economy isn't going to change for several years. In the meantime you offer most the domains at a reasonable premium registration fee and collect annual renewals forever.

Their goal was to be at 3 mill. regs. after 5
years. I think that's attainable.

Keith said:

Yes the goal is obvious...make money!

No chance in the world that a million new registrations will happen each year. I doubt that the registry will gain a million new registrations at all. The numbers will level off sort of like .mobi and that will be it.

Anyone have the total number of registered .co currently?

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You mean they're not letting them go at all. Nobody will pay those prices. May as well ask a million dollars each.

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The .mobi strategy failed. There was a bubble and then poof!!! This did not happen with .co. There have been no sales that were really out of whack.

Keith said:

This appears to be the .mobi strategy too. Let's hold our breath until the economy changes and our premiums are worth big bucks :lol: Unfortunately the economy isn't going to change for several years. In the meantime you offer most the domains at a reasonable premium registration fee and collect annual renewals forever.

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mobi didnt fail because they held on to names. mobi really cant be compared to other extensions because it was built on a soon outdated idea that hand helds need their own extension.

defaultuser said:

.mobi failed because you can't keep monkeys under control once you let them leave the zoo.

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The Piltdown Mobi Man Theory, Very interesting!

emjohn said:

The .mobi strategy failed. There was a bubble and then poof!!! This did not happen with .co. There have been no sales that were really out of whack.

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Sales don't have to be out of whack for something to lose value.

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johname said:

mobi didnt fail because they held on to names. mobi really cant be compared to other extensions because it was built on a soon outdated idea that hand helds need their own extension.

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I'm not suggesting it failed because the registry held onto premiums. I'm saying, move them at a fair price while you can. Mtld could have made much more money by just letting those domains get registered. In fact, they would still be collecting renewal fees.

Now take the .co registry who's hoping for miracle sales. They would collect more revenue over a longer period of time if they had realistic price points.

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Latest .co count: 1,182,057

Previous count was: 1,120,188

Net gain: 61,869 units.

sdsinc said:

Latest .co count: 1,182,057

Previous count was: 1,120,188

Net gain: 61,869 units.

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That confirms what I stated, the number of total regs is (very) slowly increasing. That's of course regardless of what the Registry will be doing with the "premiums" they're holding.

BTW, thanks for your precious data, Kate.

sdsinc said:

Latest .co count: 1,182,057

Previous count was: 1,120,188

Net gain: 61,869 units.

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Can you link me to the .co count page?

There is no link, I compiled the data in-house.

What is "in house" exactly?

sdsinc said:

There is no link, I compiled the data in-house.

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emjohn said:

What is "in house" exactly?

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In my house :gl:

Where can I see statistics sales in .CO an area of 2011?

If you can link. Can not find it.

Thanks in advance.

You shouldn't be hacking the registry...:p

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In my house :gl:

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What I'm saying is that you can't give out figures without some proof behind it. I believe that's called blind trust. Not recommended.

defaultuser said:

Not relying on other people as in diy.

Basically she is a tease - she will give you what you want and what you need but on her terms

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emjohn said:

What I'm saying is that you can't give out figures without some proof behind it. I believe that's called blind trust. Not recommended.

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I know one can trust very few people (fewer and fewer as time goes on), but personally I trust Kate.

emjohn said:

What I'm saying is that you can't give out figures without some proof behind it. I believe that's called blind trust. Not recommended.

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This is the same thing you said when I reported the sale of 800.co. At some point you just have to have a little faith. Nobody is trying to pull the wool over your eyes

Sorry but I don't know "Kate". If I did, perhaps it would change things. No offense to her at all. Unless I see proof with my own eyes, it's hard to believe. No need to come to the defense of her. I wasn't accusing her of anything. It's normal to question things when you don't have the hard data in front of you.

Keith said:

This is the same thing you said when I reported the sale of 800.co. At some point you just have to have a little faith. Nobody is trying to pull the wool over your eyes

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Anyway Juan Calle just left a comment on this article where .CO is said to have "over 1.1 million" domains and Mr. Calle didn't deny it, so I suppose that's another proof Kate's numbers are correct.

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