.cc Largest Sale EVER Reported... New life for a dragging extension?

[IAmAllanShore]

Sedo shocked some people last week with high dollar sales of extensions that have traded for pocket change in the past - .cc and .ws. Prepare to be shocked again. This week Sedo sold Austria.cc for €5,000 ($6,087) and Webcam.ws for $1,300 (last week they sold the plural - Webcams.ws for €2,300) . Austria.cc is the highest .cc sale ever reported to us. The extension is the country code for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands but it is available for worldwide registration. .Ws is the country code for Western Samoa but is also available for worldwide registration and an American company has been marketing it as meaning "website" for several years.

.cc has somewhat taken off recently. Why do I say this?

1) "Taken off" here I take to mean that it's showing more than 3 times the activity it ever has before, not that it's competing with .com or anything
2) Largest sale ever reported to DNJournal.com (Beauty.cc not counting, search the forum for that discussion)
3) The # of Developed .cc's is continuing to grow, and there are more and more threads that speak to seeing .cc advertisements in their locale. Still limited on the national level, but still a good deal for smaller markets!
4) I've had more offers on my .cc's these past 2 months than I had in the 6 months prior.
5) It is still verisign promoted, which while is not a guarantee of success, offers it more avenues to advance than most of their "competing" extensions.

Just my observations and the statistical knowledge of the Domain Name Journal, but I do have some hope for .cc stil...

-Allan

 

[1rrr1]

I have faith in .cc, that is why I am still holding onto contract.cc and check.cc.

GO GO GO!

 

[Mark]

Cool - I have several still I'm planning on keeping and have Hosting on a few of those already ... But can't take time off my .com's long enough to get to them :o

 

[Porte]

.cc is taking off, competing with .com, I personally believe that .CC and .WS are the future alternatives of the crowded .COM. But I don't know which grows faster!

 

[goggleyedcom]

Cc

Also last week DNJournal reported a $3000 + sale of a dot cc... seems like it was bet.cc ?

I have a few and look forward to the good news..

Mark

 

[JoshHendo]

i don't know if i will be ever using .cc, but who knows. Well, this sale took me buy suprise too

 

[CrazyTech]

.cc and .ws will creep up simply because the .com choices are dwindling. I believe these two extensions will do well for development as they are both easy for branding outside of their own countries unlike a .us or .co.uk name would be. I was happy to see the deal, just wish the reg fee on .cc would come down a bit. I'd be more inclined to pick them up then.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Bet.cc was for $3,007 on http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/domainsales06_21_05.htm

-Allan

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

www.SearchEngine.cc

I hope to beat the record high someday with www.SearchEngine.cc ... I will sit on it, just keep regging it over and over... hoping for that great day.... It just got accepted by www.GreatDomains.com, will list for $20,000. Of course, I have to be realistic.... but maybe $6,000 or $7.000???? I can have dreams!!!

Frank

 

[1rrr1]

I hope to beat the record high someday with www.SearchEngine.cc ... I will sit on it, just keep regging it over and over... hoping for that great day.... It just got accepted by www.GreatDomains.com, will list for $20,000. Of course, I have to be realistic.... but maybe $6,000 or $7.000???? I can have dreams!!!

Frank

$20,000. LOL. Get real GD

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I think many have come to accept both .ws and .cc as somewhat generic domains now. I shrugged them both off for a long time until they got so unpopular that really good keywords started becoming available. I haven't gone overboard, but I do have about 20 or so .ws and .cc domains.

If I were to market the .cc domains, I think I'd do some specialty promotion to make memorable niches such as:

cc = Country Club, Credit Card, Callling Card, Child Care, Carbon Copy (website mirrors), Call Center, Closed Circuit, Cable Channel, Closed Captions, Computer Club, Counter Culture, Car Care, Christian Church, Cellular Communication, Community College, Credit/Career Counselling, etc.

If nothing else, they would make good pointer domains for the above categories.

 

[komp]

''cc has somewhat taken off recently.''

I hope my playstation.cc takes off :yell: Great news anyway.

Komp

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I never owned one myself until last week found employee.cc and employees.cc both available. The recent interest and this find have me keeping my eyes open now, but only for real gems.

 

[VURG]

What does CC stand for? (I'm not talking about Cocos Islands.)

 

[IAmAllanShore]

An email from DD24 just received:

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In the following we would like to provide you with some background
information on .TV and .CC, two of the most popular exotic ccTLDs worldwide,
as recent studies have proven that registrants view both .CC and .TV as
appropriate alternatives to other TLDs, where their respective domain has
already been registered by a Third-Party.

Dot .TV has been the ccTLD with one of the most stable growth rates
worldwide. Since the third quarter of 2003 .TV has been growing steadily at
approx. 9% on a quarterly basis. Furthermore to underline the value of .TV,
the renewal rates have increased steadily as well. In 2003 the average
renewal rates of .TV were approx. 48%, whereas in 2004 the average renewal
rate increased by another 6% totally up to 54%. Respondents of various
different surveys associate .TV with television and multimedia businesses
and content. .TV is also viewed as a trustworthy, international and as a TLD
with a good image.

.CC is a ccTLD with lots of potential for growth. However the target group
of .CC registrants is not as clearly defined as .TV.

Research conducted in May 2005 by Windward Directive, Inc. proved
interesting facts about .TV and .CC registrants.

- .TV and .CC registrants tend to be savvy and spend longer hours on the
internet than other TLD registrants.
- These registrants have been on the internet for an average of 9 years and
spend on average 19 hours a week on the internet.
- .TV and .CC registrants tend to be younger and have higher average
incomes. They are in their 40s vs 56 for .COM and/or .NET registrants with
average household income of 82k vs 50k for .COM and/or .NET registrants.

Both TLDs can also be registered as multilingual domains (IDNs -
Internationalized Domain Names).

The price for .CC Domains at domaindiscount24.com is 21,00 EUR ( 24,36 incl
VAT). For .TV domains we charge 33,00 EUR (38,28 EUR incl. VAT).

Source: VeriSign

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[IAmAllanShore]

What does CC stand for? (I'm not talking about Cocos Islands.)

To avoid upping the "cheese" factor, it does just stand for cocos. I'm not going out my way to say that .ws stands for "website" either

Some suggested meanings for .cc:
CreditCard
CountryClub
CommunityCenter
CommunityChurch
CashedChecks
CashingChecks
CardCheck
CheckCard
etc.

And I do think you'll see a plethora of "finance/banking" names in the .cc extension as a % of the whole.

-Allan :gl:

 

[jandy]

how about my "pro.cc"?