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

[ZOX]

Well, it seems like Colombia will be releasing .CO to the internet market:
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http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co...ge=./mods/contenido/noticia_user_view&id=1043
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This could truly be a big competitor to .COM (especially being a "typo").
I would say with proper guidance .CO could REALLY have a bright future!
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Let me know your thoughts please.

 

[the_poet]

BTW yes, I received several $xx offers on some great July 20 acquisitions (of course all denied).

 

[Keith]

Plenty of hyphenated names sold.

Can you share the list of hyphenated .co that have sold? Thanks in advance!

 

[Jack.]

Are you sure your names are high quality?

That is a good question. I thought they where but I could very well be mistaken.

Peg
Ork
Egyptian
Clam
USBDrive
MP3Converter
NorthAfrica

And then some specialist names that are difficult to spell correctly.
Ophthalmologist
Anesthesiologist

I started pulling them off of SEDO this last week because of lack of interest and now I am searching for a place that will get them some exposure but then again, my names could be just crap and I don't even realize it.
I am open for suggestions.

Cheers

 

[the_poet]

That is a good question. I thought they where but I could very well be mistaken.

Peg
Ork
Egyptian
Clam
USBDrive
MP3Converter
NorthAfrica

And then some specialist names that are difficult to spell correctly.
Ophthalmologist
Anesthesiologist

I started pulling them off of SEDO this last week because of lack of interest and now I am searching for a place that will get them some exposure but then again, my names could be just crap and I don't even realize it.
I am open for suggestions.

Cheers

Peg is a really nice LLL.CO. I like Ork as well. The problem with your names is they aren't very liquid ones. Liquidity is a key factor in a domain name. You should focus on high quality product domains.

 

[Edward Smeu]

Can you share the list of hyphenated .co that have sold? Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I do not have a list, I looked on namebio and dnsaleprice and didn't find any .co hyphenated registered sale.

I didn't say plenty of .co hyphens sold i said plenty of hyphenated domains sold. It's true that only .co counts in this case but I am sure we will see a hyphenated .co sale very soon.

If someone paid 200k on Hotel-Reservation.com IMO there is a chance someone will pay MORE than regfee for his name.

Anyway, case closed, useless anyway

 

[Jack.]

I think maybe parking pages put people off and ad revenue is so negligible that it doesn't even count. I made less than $10 in parking revenue last year for my .co domains so I would rather have an end user contact me directly and know who I am dealing with and pay less in bull$hit fees when I make a sale.

I have had my names up on SEDO for about a year now. I have made less then 50 cents, so I have started taking them off this week to find a place better. I have made some sites and I am now even using a name as a default calendar page for the University I work for. This is where I have gotten to with these names.

I would have thought that some of the names had some value but never a bite.

Cheers

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Peg is a really nice LLL.CO. I like Ork as well. The problem with your names is they aren't very liquid ones. Liquidity is a key factor in a domain name. You should focus on high quality product domains.

What do you mean "liquidity". I understand that in the investment sense but I have no idea what you mean in the domain sense.

Cheers

 

[the_poet]

Generally speaking, it's a good strategy to avoid hyphenated .COs, unless you have really great keywords like Real-Estate and Las-Vegas (on a sidenote, Las-Vegas.CO was sold for $1K by a fellow member last year).

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What do you mean "liquidity". I understand that in the investment sense but I have no idea what you mean in the domain sense.

Cheers

I mean keywords that can be sold more easily than others.

 

[Jack.]

I figured if ron (dot) CO sold for $5,210 (recently) then I would not be out of my realm to offer Peg for xxx to low x,xxx.

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I mean keywords that can be sold more easily than others.

How do you determine those names?

 

[the_poet]

How do you determine those names?

For example triple premium LLLs are generally liquid names in valuable TLDs. Also, keywords related to currently hot topics among the general public. Of course the domains have to make sense and have search volume (as per the Adwords Keyword Tool), you can't just pick a hot keyword and attach random words to it. Anyway it's safe to say that, at this point, very good .COs can only be acquired in the aftermarket, not handregistered.

 

[Blitz]

I figured if ron (dot) CO sold for $5,210 (recently) then I would not be out of my realm to offer Peg for xxx to low x,xxx.

I think you are right on the money :tu:

 

[Jack.]

For example triple premium LLLs are generally liquid names in valuable TLDs. Also, keywords related to currently hot topics among the general public. Of course the domains have to make sense and have search volume (as per the Adwords Keyword Tool), you can't just pick a hot keyword and attach random words to it. Anyway it's safe to say that, at this point, very good .COs can only be acquired in the aftermarket, not handregistered.

So would the names I have listed would be considered what?

I thought they where pretty good names but it starting to seem like I have been mistaken.

MP3Coverter has over 1.2 mil exact monthly searches. If you think about it, the term "car" only has 1.2 mil exact searches as well.

Ork has over 200k exact monthly searches. I thought it would be a good gaming site name but now I am second guessing myself.

I understand that there is something to be had with names that have high search volume. The term "gold" has 1 mil exact searches, "job" has over 500k exact.

Their broad term searches are huge numbers for those names I listed above. I am assuming that names like "gold", "job", and "car" would be considered prize names in most any extension but their searches are not to far off from what some of the names I have.

Egyptian has a large broad term search of over 30 mil but the exact searches of only 60k.
With Egypt (dot) co being carried on SEDO for special brokering by the .Co company for $100K, I would have figured that Egyptian would have been well priced in the high xxx to low x,xxx (especially since their search numbers are not too far off from each other).

Anyways, my point is that I have not had so much as a peep on any of the names. Ork was the only one that had people at least click on it (which is where I made my 50 cents...LOL)

Still I would like to believe that some of these names are at least as good as some of the other names I have seen lately with sales numbers attached to them.

Just the way I see it.
Cheers

 

[the_poet]

MP3Coverter has over 1.2 mil exact monthly searches.

This is the kind of name that may gain value only with development. What people are looking for when searching for "mp3 converter" is just a free tool to compress YouTube clips to mp3, which isn't a very profitable business, you can only earn money through banner clicks if you develop it. That's the reason why there's a very low chance someone will submit an unsolicited offer on it.

Look at the last Sedo .CO auction results to have an idea of what the kind of names that sell is.

 

[Mize]

Had an inquiry on:
credit-card (with hyphen)
last night....typical...how much you want for it, typical...make an offer. Then they replied by saying they have 4 domains they are considering and if I wanted to be included to put a price on it.

picked up a few comains lately:
RandB
RenaissanceFestival

 

[Jack.]

This is the kind of name that may gain value only with development. What people are looking for when searching for "mp3 converter" is just a free tool to compress YouTube clips to mp3, which isn't a very profitable business, you can only earn money through banner clicks if you develop it. That's the reason why there's a very low chance someone will submit an unsolicited offer on it.

Look at the last Sedo .CO auction results to have an idea of what the kind of names that sell is.

I understand what you are saying. I posted the MP3 Converter numbers because you mentioned something about search results. MP3 Converter has a large number of search results.
If I made a site and was able to capture the #1 Google spot for the keywords "mp3 converter", according to SEM rush, the traffic flow would be well into the 1,000's per day but I know what you are saying and to claim that spot for that traffic would cost a lot of SEO time and effort with a site to match.
Still we all know that Google favors exact match key words so that is a plus in that department.

But what about the rest of the names. I did not see anything off that list that was horribly better then what I have had up on SEDO.
I will grant you that "equipment" and "export" are a great names with the .co extension but the rest of them hold no better then many of my names.
juan
oxy
bad
father
michelle
papa
fax
gear
jelly
vinos
dear

and those are just the names that I remember off the top of my head from the list.

My whole point to my first post is where are you listing your names to get a response?
I have had my names (which judging by the list you presented are no worse or better then the names listed) on SEDO for many months no nothing. I am now actively searching for a better place to plant these names and that is what brings me here.

Cheers
Thank you The_Poet. I appreciate the time and thought you have put into these posts.

 

[Keith]

Had an inquiry on:
credit-card (with hyphen)
last night....typical...how much you want for it, typical...make an offer. Then they replied by saying they have 4 domains they are considering and if I wanted to be included to put a price on it.

picked up a few comains lately:
RandB
RenaissanceFestival

Suppose it never hurts to throw out a price and see what happens! I'd tell them low $xxxx takes it home and settle on high $xxx if they counter.

 

[Kate]

I figured if ron (dot) CO sold for $5,210 (recently) then I would not be out of my realm to offer Peg for xxx to low x,xxx.

Keep in mind that while comparable sales are a guide to pricing, every domain sale is one of a kind. Especially in an alternate TLD where demand and liquidity is limited.

 

[NLP]

Where are you getting this exposure from? I have had a few of my names up on SEDO and no bites. Single word LLL.co names with make an offer/low price (at least in my opinion) and still no bites.
I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong.

Cheers

All of my offers on one-word .COs have come through Sedo. Ok, well, most of them. One was by phone. Interestingly, all of the people interested in LLLs or NNNs have emailed me directly.

Not sure why. Maybe it's because dictionary words naturally get more exposure on Sedo because of the searchable categories (and languages).

My parking revenue is chump change. I don't think it's wise to invest in .COs for the typo traffic, and that was never my goal. I also think hyphens are undesirable at this point. I dropped a few.

 

[emjohn]

I think the Poet pretty much covered everything. Peg.co is by far the best. Ork is OK. But I think perhaps you've overvalued the others from the beginning. Like Poet said, these are not products, per se, that people go out and spend money on. What you want are products or social monikers that people will spend money on. Perhaps some time Egyptian.co will be worth something substantial, but not now. It hasn't a lot of liquidity. You would have to go out and find someone for that one.

That is a good question. I thought they where but I could very well be mistaken.

Peg
Ork
Egyptian
Clam
USBDrive
MP3Converter
NorthAfrica

And then some specialist names that are difficult to spell correctly.
Ophthalmologist
Anesthesiologist

I started pulling them off of SEDO this last week because of lack of interest and now I am searching for a place that will get them some exposure but then again, my names could be just crap and I don't even realize it.
I am open for suggestions.

Cheers

 

[fal68]

Any Value of Abalone.co and Sudanese.co ?

Thanks

 

[thepurplecow]

Any Value of Abalone.co and Sudanese.co ?

Thanks

Right now, no. If developed there could be. If the .co market picks up maybe they could be worth a bit in a few years but I doubt they'll ever be worth much I'm afraid.

 

[emjohn]

Sedo .co sale:

domaintools.co $2500

I'm quite curious who bought this. Surely it must have been DomainTools.com.

 

[dragtastic]

All of my offers on one-word .COs have come through Sedo. Ok, well, most of them. One was by phone. Interestingly, all of the people interested in LLLs or NNNs have emailed me directly.

Not sure why. Maybe it's because dictionary words naturally get more exposure on Sedo because of the searchable categories (and languages).

My parking revenue is chump change. I don't think it's wise to invest in .COs for the typo traffic, and that was never my goal. I also think hyphens are undesirable at this point. I dropped a few.

I also get about 10-15 uniques a month for my lll.co

For some odd reason, I have over 60 uniques to socialAds[.]co but no offers.

As far as parking revenue, I'm not sure that ANYONE here makes $5 or more each month off parking. The only domains that get about $1/month or so are jawbone[.]co and beg[.]co

 

[the_poet]

I received a few $0.50-$0.70 clicks plus one of $2.30 on ChicagoHotels.co at WhyPark. But the majority of them are in the $0.05-$0.30 range.

 

[NLP]

Sedo .co sale:

domaintools.co $2500

I'm quite curious who bought this. Surely it must have been DomainTools.com.

I ranted about this last night on Twitter. I'm sure DomainTools probably bought it, but it was a douche move to reg it in the first place. And people wonder why we get called "squatters."

I think this is particularly distasteful to me because DomainTools is one of my favorite resources, and it's a site I visit at least 20x/day. I have yet to run across a domainer who doesn't appreciate and use the site. So to have a domain investor squatting on a domain company's site is...bad karma.

The guy who owned it was [name removed], from China. I realize we all own keywords that are in use elsewhere, and some people don't shy away from TMs, etc., etc...but this is just as bad as regging Namepros.co or GoDaddy.co (which I'm sure people did, sadly).

This sort of stuff doesn't help the reputation of the domain community as a whole.

 

[DU]

I have yet to run across a domainer who doesn't appreciate and use the site. So to have a domain investor squatting on a domain company's site is...bad karma.

Now you have :p

I think that what they do is unethical and violates the spirit of whois and the sooner that the rules are changed the beter, imho. (Or at least have registrars that enforce them).
I believe Godaddy changed their whois server just because of this company.
They violate your privacy rights - but you can PAY to have it fixed. They are also a great resource for phishing scams...
Go Domaintools - TOOLS being the operative word..