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SDX · 06-16-2009, 09:53 AM

Don't forget about .OM also!

CoolCode · 06-16-2009, 10:01 AM

seems like a good typo of .com

RTM · 06-16-2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by JoshuaPz

Edit: Scratch that. Second-level .om registrations aren't allowed.

Not sure I understand - second level domains would be handled by the registrant through his DNS system interface (as in NamePros - Buy, Sell, Discover Domain Names ftp.whatever.om and so forth) ...

or am I missing something here?

Rob

4u-domains · 06-16-2009, 05:40 PM

Big names in the sector are likely associated with this and all they can see is the money. Old fashioned greed and some reputations might fall on this.

.con next I guess...

I'll try and think positive.

snicksnack · 06-16-2009, 05:58 PM

.om 2nd level registration are supposed to start in 2010.

.co will for sure be interesting for domainers and companies. Not only the TM have traffic, but also generics like cars.co , jobs.co will have a decent amount of type in traffic. The traffic will be best used for affiliate porgrams, rather than parking.

DNProperty.com · 06-16-2009, 06:54 PM

Colombia should use it for its original purpose...a country code.

Thats it...

snicksnack · 06-16-2009, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by DNProperty.com

Colombia should use it for its original purpose...a country code.

Thats it...

and .TV should also only be used be local residents and what about .ME ?

**gemstar** · 06-16-2009, 08:09 PM

Wonder if .lol is coming out anytime soon?

labrocca · 06-16-2009, 09:04 PM

I read his article. Can you point out anything he says that's not correct?

Quote:

The .co extension will be a major hit. Not only will the names get snatched up by domainers due to their similarity to .com names and other names that use .co like .co.uk (United Kingdom) but if marketed properly, end-users will also want the names.

Sounds right to me.

Quote:

After all, .com means (commercial) where .co traditionally means (company). In many ways, .co makes more sense than .com for a companyâ€™s domain.

What's the matter there?

Quote:

Iâ€™m not saying that .co is an immediate threat to .com. Please donâ€™t blow out of proportion my comments. Iâ€™m just saying it is the biggest threat. I canâ€™t think of any other extension which would have the same potential.

Seems tempered and again...where is the outrageousness?
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/industry-news/590229-co-rick-latona-off-his-rocker.html

Latona ain't a dumb ass. He is one of the best marketers and smartest investors in the industry and imho he is top dog. The guy regular flips reg fee type domains for $xx,xxx. He knows value and understands the market. To me he is a guy to listen to.

Steve · 06-17-2009, 09:31 AM

Like every new extension, it's going to be a hit among domainers. It will be selling all over the place - to other domainers.

Like every new extension, speculators and domainers will exhaust the extension and not leave many good names left for actual businesses and websites that would otherwise benefit from the extension.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

.CO looks like a typo of .com. If I see "www.mybusiness.co" written on a business card, I'm going to think they probably meant .com.

Will it be profitable? Sure, for domainers at first to flip to other domainers, exactly like every new TLD we've seen in the past five years. Will it be profitable for the long term, or will it become a viable extension for the everyday user? I don't think so.

Will I buy .co domains? Yes, if I intend on using them.

Also see: .eu, .mobi, .tel, .asia

larryharlow · 06-17-2009, 10:21 AM

All I can say is STOP sending me request for registering .co names I WILL NOT!!!!

Thank you.

-REECE- · 06-17-2009, 10:51 AM

Steve -- I was thinking the exact same thing. Ironic that people will be buying these for the typos yet if they develop these into websites, there's going to be a whole lot of typo traffic flowing back to the .coms

Originally Posted by Steve

Like every new extension, it's going to be a hit among domainers. It will be selling all over the place - to other domainers.

Like every new extension, speculators and domainers will exhaust the extension and not leave many good names left for actual businesses and websites that would otherwise benefit from the extension.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

.CO looks like a typo of .com. If I see "www.mybusiness.co" written on a business card, I'm going to think they probably meant .com.

Will it be profitable? Sure, for domainers at first to flip to other domainers, exactly like every new TLD we've seen in the past five years. Will it be profitable for the long term, or will it become a viable extension for the everyday user? I don't think so.

Will I buy .co domains? Yes, if I intend on using them.

Also see: .eu, .mobi, .tel, .asia

daj · 06-17-2009, 11:14 AM

.co is great for those who own the .com's ...as most people will only see it as a typo, and enter the m after the o.

I think it's also a great abbreviation of company (.co).

Steve · 06-17-2009, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by -REECE-

Steve -- I was thinking the exact same thing. Ironic that people will be buying these for the typos yet if they develop these into websites, there's going to be a whole lot of typo traffic flowing back to the .coms

I intend to buy the .CO for my largest developed sites so I don't lose any traffic or risk giving any stray hits to someone else.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

I'll also buy a few keywords I want because I can; that's how the flawed domain registration system works. Anybody can register essentially whatever they want when it comes to generic keywords.

labrocca · 06-17-2009, 01:59 PM

If anyone doesn't believe that Latona can effectively market and sell .co domains to end users then you haven't been paying attention to what he does. .co registry should simply give Latona a commission and have him start selling off premiums.

testingyou · 06-17-2009, 02:00 PM

I just cant see, what makes .co so special that it should be a thread to .com? the extension is a typo of .com, so why would any serious enduser use this extension? Yes I am sure squatters and domainers that was too late for the .com would reg. these and try to hype this up, but seriously, what does .co offer us that .com is not?

The more extensions that pops up, it will only benefit the .com, people tend to turn to what they know, when they are confused and have a lot of choices.

Just give me one reason why I should use .co to develop then .com? In my mind a website with .co would be looked upon as a scam/squat site of .com, even if it was developed.

Steve · 06-17-2009, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by testingyou

I just cant see, what makes .co so special that it should be a thread to .com? the extension is a typo of .com, so why would any serious enduser use this extension? Yes I am sure squatters and domainers that was too late for the .com would reg. these and try to hype this up, but seriously, what does .co offer us that .com is not?
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

The more extensions that pops up, it will only benefit the .com, people tend to turn to what they know, when they are confused and have a lot of choices.

Just give me one reason why I should use .co to develop then .com? In my mind a website with .co would be looked upon as a scam/squat site of .com, even if it was developed.

I think the argument they're trying to make is that it will be profitable to domainers. There's no denying that, but it doesn't have long-term viability and no serious end users outside Colombia will use it.

exsedo · 06-17-2009, 02:54 PM

How would the compulsary geo targeting by search engines affect .co ? I know google uses compulsary targeting for cctlds and I read somewhere that the other SE's are going to follow suit.

RogueWriter · 06-17-2009, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by louddrums

.co will certainly bring out the best of ugly cybersquatting. Not good at all...

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229
Yeah, exactly my thought, well put.

**matt_bodis** · 06-17-2009, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by labrocca

If anyone doesn't believe that Latona can effectively market and sell .co domains to end users then you haven't been paying attention to what he does. .co registry should simply give Latona a commission and have him start selling off premiums.

And who is considered to be an end-user in your opinion?

IMO, this extension is going nowhere in the end user market. It will have hundreds of thousands or millions of registrations setup mainly for typo squatting. We've been through this for so many TLDs already, I don't understand how there is still confusion about this. I actually think .CO has an even lower chance of end user success than .MOBI or any of the other completely unsucessful TLDs. It is too confusingly similar to .COM.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

The majority of this world is not made up of tech savy people like us. There is NO WAY they will remember .co. .CO will naturally lose traffic to .COM. It is worser to buy and develop a .CO than it is to develop something like .BIZ or .WHATEVER for instance. Who would want to develop a website to lose traffic to .COM? Makes no sense.

Even if the TLD is for FREE, it will not over-take .COM in any near future. The reason for this is because we already have either extremely cheap TLDs for $0.99 cents, or we have free TLD registrations such as .TK. If it were a pricing issue, people would flock to cheap TLDs by now.

It is just a standard to stick to .COM. Fortune 500 companies are using .COM, they will not flock to .CO, the majority of people won't. It's like the English language is the accepted language of the world. It will not change over night. It would take hundreds of years. Unless the Internet is revolutionized COMPLETELY, where something like typing in an address is not through an address bar, then the .COM and the internet is hear to stay for at least 50-100 years IMO. It has to be. Just like mailing addresses and like email addresses. If it works, why change it?

Releasing .CO does not make ANYTHING better for the end-user. It is not revolutionary. It is nothing new just 1 letter less. It is impossible for this extension to overtake .COM in the end-user market.

It will not happen, I think the majority knows this.

labrocca · 06-19-2009, 07:19 PM

Quote:

And who is considered to be an end-user in your opinion?

Everyone that Rick Latona will sell them to.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

Saying that .co is a threat to com is like saying .tv is a threat. It's for all intense purposes an empty threat and I am sure Latona used it once again to gain interest and spark discussion. Latona calls it "biggest threat" and heck..he might be right if you compare the threat to say something like mobi.

One a scale of 1-10 were 10 is a complete threat...let's scale extensions vs com.

.co 3
.cm 2
.everything else 1

So yeah... dot.co is the biggest threat. I hope you see my point. It's like being a millionaire in yen. It's only about (10k USD). It's relative.

I don't really believe it's a real threat but the term "biggest threat" might actually be true. dotcom has no legitimate threats imho.

cityforums.com · 06-19-2009, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by labrocca

Everyone that Rick Latona will sell them to.

Saying that .co is a threat to com is like saying .tv is a threat. It's for all intense purposes an empty threat and I am sure Latona used it once again to gain interest and spark discussion. Latona calls it "biggest threat" and heck..he might be right if you compare the threat to say something like mobi.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229

One a scale of 1-10 were 10 is a complete threat...let's scale extensions vs com.

.co 3
.cm 2
.everything else 1

So yeah... dot.co is the biggest threat. I hope you see my point. It's like being a millionaire in yen. It's only about (10k USD). It's relative.

I don't really believe it's a real threat but the term "biggest threat" might actually be true. dotcom has no legitimate threats imho.

I checked out the traffic generated on some of the generics listed ... in my humble opinion ... depending

on the premium paid ... buying a .co will be loosing proposition

labrocca · 06-19-2009, 07:57 PM

Same could be said by every TLD released since CNO.

cityforums.com · 06-19-2009, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by labrocca

Same could be said by every TLD released since CNO.

true ... threat to .COM

HeyNow · 06-19-2009, 08:19 PM

From what I'm able to gather, Latona sponsors or is a co-sponsor (or licensee) of domain conventions and/or auctions. He outsources the actual auctioneering, but still participates in the auctions as a bidder. It leaves with me the impression that he's at least able to jack-up prices by bidding on names I might be interested in buying. Therefore, I stay away from those auctions.

This whole domainer convention/auction marriage seems like the perfect storm for a scam to be perpetrated on clueless domainer bidders. That's only my opinion. Am I wrong here?

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4u-domains NamePros Regular Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Big Apple Posts: 862	Big names in the sector are likely associated with this and all they can see is the money. Old fashioned greed and some reputations might fall on this. .con next I guess... I'll try and think positive. __________________ SEO LatestNews.com - For Sale CarSecurity.org - Low $xxx - PM me.

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snicksnack NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: China Posts: 412	.om 2nd level registration are supposed to start in 2010. .co will for sure be interesting for domainers and companies. Not only the TM have traffic, but also generics like cars.co , jobs.co will have a decent amount of type in traffic. The traffic will be best used for affiliate porgrams, rather than parking. __________________ DomainersChoice.com - The Registrar for Domainers -Annual fees in Euros: .BE 4.00, .DE 3.50, .ES 5.80, .NL 6.70, .CO.UK 3.50

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DNProperty.com NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Grosse Pointe, MI Posts: 239	Colombia should use it for its original purpose...a country code. Thats it... __________________ Domains Available DNProperty.com

06-17-2009, 09:31 AM	#35 (permalink)
Steve Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 4,204	Like every new extension, it's going to be a hit among domainers. It will be selling all over the place - to other domainers. Like every new extension, speculators and domainers will exhaust the extension and not leave many good names left for actual businesses and websites that would otherwise benefit from the extension. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=590229 .CO looks like a typo of .com. If I see "www.mybusiness.co" written on a business card, I'm going to think they probably meant .com. Will it be profitable? Sure, for domainers at first to flip to other domainers, exactly like every new TLD we've seen in the past five years. Will it be profitable for the long term, or will it become a viable extension for the everyday user? I don't think so. Will I buy .co domains? Yes, if I intend on using them. Also see: .eu, .mobi, .tel, .asia Last edited by Steve; 06-17-2009 at 09:36 AM.

06-16-2009, 10:01 AM	#27 (permalink)
CoolCode NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 308	seems like a good typo of .com

06-16-2009, 08:09 PM	#33 (permalink)
gemstar Born again domainer ;P Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,652	Wonder if .lol is coming out anytime soon?

06-17-2009, 10:21 AM	#36 (permalink)
larryharlow NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2007 Location: CALI, Colombia Posts: 559	All I can say is STOP sending me request for registering .co names I WILL NOT!!!! Thank you. __________________ Hip Hop and Reggae Videos \|

06-17-2009, 11:14 AM	#38 (permalink)
daj Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,092	.co is great for those who own the .com's ...as most people will only see it as a typo, and enter the m after the o. I think it's also a great abbreviation of company (.co).

06-17-2009, 01:59 PM	#40 (permalink)
labrocca NamePros Expert Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 6,277 Follow @supportforums	If anyone doesn't believe that Latona can effectively market and sell .co domains to end users then you haven't been paying attention to what he does. .co registry should simply give Latona a commission and have him start selling off premiums. __________________ :$: Support Forum <-- My latest endeavor.:loveyou: Debate Forums Free Online Sudoku My vBum Blog

06-17-2009, 02:00 PM	#41 (permalink)
testingyou Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Copenhagen - Denmark Posts: 1,789	I just cant see, what makes .co so special that it should be a thread to .com? the extension is a typo of .com, so why would any serious enduser use this extension? Yes I am sure squatters and domainers that was too late for the .com would reg. these and try to hype this up, but seriously, what does .co offer us that .com is not? The more extensions that pops up, it will only benefit the .com, people tend to turn to what they know, when they are confused and have a lot of choices. Just give me one reason why I should use .co to develop then .com? In my mind a website with .co would be looked upon as a scam/squat site of .com, even if it was developed. __________________ World Food Programme - No Children Should Go To Bed Hungry. It's simple, it's not rocket science, not political, not cultural, not religion, not complicated... It's this simple!. I have decided that I will donate 10% of what I make from selling domain names in 2012 to the above programme.

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06-19-2009, 08:19 PM	#50 (permalink)
HeyNow NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 682	Beware From what I'm able to gather, Latona sponsors or is a co-sponsor (or licensee) of domain conventions and/or auctions. He outsources the actual auctioneering, but still participates in the auctions as a bidder. It leaves with me the impression that he's at least able to jack-up prices by bidding on names I might be interested in buying. Therefore, I stay away from those auctions. This whole domainer convention/auction marriage seems like the perfect storm for a scam to be perpetrated on clueless domainer bidders. That's only my opinion. Am I wrong here?

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