I./ There's
something that people forget in comparison with .COM,
and that's that
the PRICE of a .CO-renewal (and also of .TV-renewal, and also, but at a lower pricelevel .MOBI)
is much higher then new registrations of these extensions.
This has as consequence that some people drop their .CO-domains, and buy them back when they come available again (if they can).
If the .CO and .TV-registries would make the renewalprice the same as the new-registrationprice, a lot more people with CO- or TV-domains would renew.
Now several are dropping part of their co-domains, and try to catch them back or reregister much cheaper,a month or so later (however with the risk they loose their domain and the domain is catched by somebody else).
CO would be a much greater success if the RENEWALPRICING wouldn't be as high as it is now. (And at a lot of registrars even the new-registrations are expensive-anyhow more expensive then .COM) and +25 USD or even +30 or 40 USD for .CO and some much MORE for .TV).
I think these registries (CO, TV and in a lower pricecategory .MOBI) make a big mistake with their high renewalprices in comparison with .com.
The reason is probably that they want quick profit. But in the long term they would be better with lower renewalprices, because they wouldn't loose lots of customers because of high renewalprices.
What do you girls and guys think about this ?
Kind regards to all of you !
Steven
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II/AND there's something ELSE IMPORTANT =
We should
also investigate the evolution (over months) of the Google-results with the search " site:.co " .
I see that this gives.
269.000.000 results in Google today
(You can compare with other extentions, by changing the extension in the search).
In the results I found the following website (not mine) =
www.ikikisilikoyunlar.co/ (language changeable in Spansih and English) Now = if you put that in a
stats-searcher, you find that it is not doing badly at all !
And what about =
www.peterboroughpanthers.co ? It's british, but the co.uk extention shows a for sale page, and .co is the main page ! Also interesting stats.