.co What has been your best .CO sale?

Doron Vermaat said:

Rise.co for $10,000 is my largest sale in this extension. I've sold many more in the lower four-figure range. I believe .co and .io are the best investment opportunities after .com

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nice.. but you still gotta know what your doing with .co .io.. just like in .com

do you buy most your .co .io on aftermarket or handregs?

has your .co strategy changed for .co after their prem pricings in sept2018.. or you still buy/reg .co even if prem priced?

Onus.co

Doron Vermaat said:

Rise.co for $10,000 is my largest sale in this extension. I've sold many more in the lower four-figure range. I believe .co and .io are the best investment opportunities after .com

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VERY nice!!!

Doron Vermaat said:

Rise.co for $10,000 is my largest sale in this extension. I've sold many more in the lower four-figure range. I believe .co and .io are the best investment opportunities after .com

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I felt the same until late last year when .co implemented "premium tiered" pricing. I was trying to grab some names while a .co sale was going and everything I tried to reg was hundreds of dollars initial registration.

That killed the honeypot for me. Nothing that wasn't premium priced was worth registering in .co.

The opportunity to hand-reg great .co's after they drop is indeed gone since the registry has been reserving those. My focus has been more on the more premium names and you can still get those at (expired) auction or even directly from the registry. For example, I purchased Rise.co for around $700 on GoDaddy auctions when the previous owner, an end-user, let it expire after they were acquired.

Although the registry has killed the honeypot so to speak of picking up decent names on the drop I don't necessarily think that what they're doing is bad for the aftermarket and/or the value of .co domain names.

I feel that to turn a profit in .co and .io some knowledge and a finger on the pulse of the tech, popular culture and startup world is a must. My advice is not to try your hand at any of these extensions until you've seen some success in .com or perhaps your local cctld. Perhaps @Nikul Sanghvi might want to chip in - he's the undisputed champion in .co investing.

Doron Vermaat said:

Perhaps @Nikul Sanghvi might want to chip in - he's the undisputed champion in .co investing.

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Haha, thanks Doron... not sure about the champion title but it's definitely an extension that's taken up the majority of my portfolio for a while now.

The bulk of my profits in .CO have come from domains priced between $2k and $4k - which feels like the sweetspot. The better .CO domains don't sell as frequently but can easily break out of that range.
These two below have been my largest .CO sales to date:

Nikul Sanghvi said:

Quantum dot co .... $25k

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Nikul Sanghvi said:

Qubit dot co ... $19k

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Those five-figure .CO sales are possible but require time and patience. Only a handful of domainers make them happen on a regular basis (and/or brokers like @Brian Harbin - https://www.gritbrokerage.com/notable-sales).

I'd agree that .CO isn't the best extension for beginners to invest in, even more so now with the premium tiering. There's also a very specific type of domain that sells in .CO and .IO - and if you can't spot those, it's super easy to waste money.
As Doron mentions, there are investment-worthy premiums that come up for sale in auctions, the aftermarket and through the registry. But finding them requires an eagle-eye, a decent budget and intuition... three things that develop through experience.

For anyone interested, I've previously written more on the pros and cons of the extension here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/dot-co-confusion.1033963/#post-6293060

And my thoughts on the pricing changes are here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/co-pricing-strategy-your-views.1095802/#post-6879028

"ONUS" at $1533 to an end-user inbound via GoDaddy. Details here → https://www.namepros.com/posts/7097515/

PPIclaims.co $5,500 22/02/2012

SBO.co $4,888 Feb 2019

Top 2 .co sales for me

great info.

.co at 10 is not so bad even if u mess up abit...but io at 30... it can ruin u good if u do not have solid domaining experience... trends etc..and then some io specific experience..

in short..if yer newish start with co

Homage dot co - sold for $1000 sold on afternic
This was my only .co sale till date. Bought this on GD closeout.

AbdulBasit.com said:

Textbooks.CO

Hand registered and sold for $12,000 with 24 hours.
Also my quickest sale to date.

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when was this bro. My guess is many years ago, certainly not in our current dispensation, am I right?

jideofor said:

when was this bro. My guess is many years ago, certainly not in our current dispensation, am I right?

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I hand registered for $17.99 in 2011.

AbdulBasit.com said:

I hand registered for $17.99 in 2011.

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ahan... I knew it would never be in recent times lol... repeat that stunt will be a hard task in today's world, though not impossible.

Vaping related .co domain for $3250 last year I think. May have been the end of 2017.

jideofor said:

ahan... I knew it would never be in recent times lol... repeat that stunt will be a hard task in today's world, though not impossible.

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There were at least two benefits during that period. One was that there was no backordering company so anyone can hand register if knowing the exact/approx time of availability. Another benefit was that registry was not holding any domains by making it premium and selling at high price unlike these days.

AbdulBasit.com said:

There were at least two benefits during that period. One was that there was no backordering company so anyone can hand register if knowing the exact/approx time of availability. Another benefit was that registry was not holding any domains by making it premium and selling at high price unlike these days.

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Catching or Registering has become difficult for sure and that's just 10%.

Selling is 90% what you did. Truly Awesome

indiegrind said:

Nothing that wasn't premium priced was worth registering in .co.

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Same here. I dont do much with .CO, but sometimes you see an expire and go check and its premiumed by the registrar.

This thread makes me feel there could be some better search tools to search by extension on dnsal.es etc.

Dot co is a interesting choice , I got a interesting hand reg that was not dropped ......and the dot com has a 100k price tag(by 1 of the 2 most famous/infamous domainers in the game ) , and the dot .io was picked up buy a billion dollar company last month .......I have it redirected to their ultimate/prefered dot com , which I also own and have not shared on the reg thread for reasons , should it sell ...I will share ...as stated before I love .co as to date it is my highest selling /return ext( that is not to say .com is King ) congrats to all...stay ahead of the curve .....and yes the sale I previously reported was a closeout buy !!!!!!! Deals and steal are there for the taking should you absorb the knowledge shared here! It took me 1.5 years to get my first x,xxx sale and it was a dot co. It was a combo of my own due diligence and knowledge shared here and following certain trends !.....I am one of those that Believes unless it’s strictly a Nonprofit organization /health field that .co is 2nd to dot com ........followed by the very profitable cctld .de which leads behinds in sales!!

.co is still rich in opportunity if you for for the drops, expiresys , and close outs , which allow you to to cut off new .co registry priemums should a bidding war not ensue !

DomainBarracksRob said:

.co is still rich in opportunity if you for for the drops, expiresys , and close outs , which allow you to to cut off new .co registry priemums should a bidding war not ensue !

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Didn't really think much about this option to get a good .CO name, got to check this out.

Sold Epiq.co just the other day at SquadHelp for $2399.
Hand registered in September 2018 for $130.

not my sale.. recent..

wow.. I wish I had a name/sale like this lol

Smart.co $52,820 Aishwin.com/Uniregistry