Premium keywords have value, premium LLL's and then there are defensive regs... Beyond this, it doesn't feel like .CO is hitting on too many other levels.
and you know this because? are you a .co investor? what "other levels" is it not hitting on?
if you don't hold them, you don't know how much interest is there....Sedo reports are a (tiny) fraction of sales. Most of mine have been through trust with good people via Paypal and have ranged from $400-$1800. I don't want to lose a quarter of a $400 sale just to use Sedo. They don't report many low end sales anyway. People want .co...maybe major companies don't want them yet...blockbuster sales are (very) few but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of interest. I'm averaging a couple of inquiries a week now. Last week I had 4 in 3 days!
I'm done defending the extension (after this post
) It doesn't need defending. IMO it stands on it's own and the detractors can say what they want. I still don't understand why the contras are so vocal and angry (See Rick's Blog). It shouldn't matter this much. Was there so much anger when .biz or .me or .mobi were released? It's an alternative extension FFS. I keep reading ".co sucks, .com is king!"
Why? Was anyone saying ".mobi sucks (or .biz sucks), .com is king!"? Probably not. Probably because they were never real alternatives to .com.
Since Rick's recent post about O.co's bleed to O.com that's been the argument of the day. "Everyone will type in .com because everyone is an idiot and incapable of learning."
I'm not buying that. A year ago .co was a blip on the radar that many people couldn't even see and weren't aware of. People are seeing it now. People aren't always going to think "derp...yer missing the m or the .uk" They will know the email address on your business card is .co and it looks damn sharp unlike the bestpigeon$%&tforsaleonline.com you used to have.
I will also add that I agree with Brad as well. If your company is named ZQY then ZQY.co may be valuable but without that reference it probably isn't. Premium lll are premium because there are lots of companies that have those initials so there are quite a few options for selling. If ZQY has the .com you are probably not going to sell them the .co (but you can try!
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I think to summarize the climate of .co for domainers is this. The aftermarket sucks. It sucks because it's controversial. There are many vocal detractors in the community, some of them very high profile (Rick!). He has a lot of influence in the community...a lot of sycophantic fanboys. This is what is keeping the decent sales limited to end users ONLY. This means that if you are savvy you can pick up some great deals if you are confident in the extension like I am. I think a lot of people (including myself) thought that we were going to making mad coin instantly with our domains and didn't think we'd be sitting on 3-5 years of renewals before a decent sale comes. If you don't think the domain you have is worth at least $500 it's probably best to drop it because the renewals add up fast. You just can't get a quick flip to other domainers like you can with more established extensions. I haven't sold a single domain to a domainer because it's not worth it to sell a great domain for a few hundred bucks in this extension. It may be a decent ROI but the majority of your domains aren't going to sell so you need to squeeze the most out of the great ones.
Now, I'm done. I'm not going to defend .co here or on blogs anymore. I don't think it's needed. Maybe eventually the detractors will shut up about it too.
