.CO Domain Registrations at Epik

[private123]

The $0.99 all-inclusive .CO promo will kick off on this Sunday night at 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET, which is 00:00 GMT on Monday morning. It will last 7 days.

All domains registered at Epik include:

- Free WHOIS privacy
- Free SSL parking landers
- Free forwarding
- Free basic Wordpress site
- Free listing in Epik marketplace for selling/leasing

Brandable names are doing particularly well in the after-market for .CO, e.g. 7 letters or shorter, pronounceable .co can be registered for $0.99 and sold for retail prices as brands.

I have no idea why people buy .AI and .IO when they get the more reputable and cheaper .CO and get the first year basically for free.
........ By Rob Monster (epik.com)
@Rob Monster

 

[werty]

.Co should have eliminated the premium prices for a few days along the special price promo...

 

[GoWeb]

27 available ordered - 26 registered, 01 registered (hotmeal) but not in my account.
Took about 20 mins to get registered after order.

allcannabis
automatiq
biogram
bitcoin-wallet
bitmate
bizgrow
capitex
cloudis
deltacorp
drivz
duralite
finnovate
gonetworks
gotires
gracy
heatsink
networq
nexuslabs
pathlabs
pricex
quantx
spacetek
unicommerce
vi3
videosystems
wwwcasino

 

[UmerK]

Regd 5 so far

CasinoBank
SmartCasino
LeafBank
HempBank
ClearCredit


Looking forward to adding at least a 100 of them in coming days if not more, I think with .co its about numbers game.

 

[Martins B.]

10 registered, all in my account:

bitcoinhodl
bitcoinlease
bitcoinroi
cashinvest
coinipo
cryptobolt
cryptolong
cryptoshort
shucks
twinkler

 

[Rob Monster]

Many folks are continue to crush it on this promo picking up some excellent domains.

I congratulate Neustar for doing this promo. This is not some obscure ICANN gTLD. This is a TLD that is in the same league as .AI and .IO in terms of perceived respectability. With .ORG removing the price caps, I see .CO as being in the top 3 long term, superior to .ORG for most organization types.

Two important points:

1. Many registrars got an anniversary .CO promo deal from Neustar this month. For reasons that are a mystery to me, most registrars elected to time their flash sale for later in the month. We started ours at exactly 00:00 GMT on July 1, the earliest time slot possible.

2. The registrar's hard cost on these .CO is $1 during the 7 day flash sale. We decided to subsidize it slightly by absorbing the payment processing fees. I expect most registrars will add a margin. Therefore it is unlikely that we'll see many others doing this attractive a .CO promo.

As I look at the domains folks are picking up for $0.99 each, I won't be surprised if this .CO promo ends up being the single highest source of ROI in 2019 for some domainers. Buy Low Sell High.

 

[Kamaldeen]

Many folks are continue to crush it on this promo picking up some excellent domains.

I congratulate Neustar for doing this promo. This is not some obscure ICANN gTLD. This is a TLD that is in the same league as .AI and .IO in terms of perceived respectability. With .ORG removing the price caps, I see .CO as being in the top 3 long term, superior to .ORG for most organization types.

Two important points:

1. Many registrars got an anniversary .CO promo deal from Neustar this month. For reasons that are a mystery to me, most registrars elected to time their flash sale for later in the month. We started ours at exactly 00:00 GMT on July 1, the earliest time slot possible.

2. The registrar's hard cost on these .CO is $1 during the 7 day flash sale. We decided to subsidize it slightly by absorbing the payment processing fees. I expect most registrars will add a margin. Therefore it is unlikely that we'll see many others doing this attractive a .CO promo.

As I look at the domains folks are picking up for $0.99 each, I won't be surprised if this .CO promo ends up being the single highest source of ROI in 2019 for some domainers. Buy Low Sell High.

I still can't pay.

 

[Rob Monster]

.Co should have eliminated the premium prices for a few days along the special price promo...

There are a lot of domains that probably should be premium that are not. I think Neustar did it right in the sense that they did not hold back a vast amount of worthy inventory via registry reserve and premiums. Of the newer TLDs, I think it is the most like .COM in terms of pricing strategy. It makes sense as it also one of the more obviously generic TLDs which logically rivals .COM as it is actually shorter. Pretty much nobody outside of the domain industry knows that .CO started as the Columbian ccTLD just as almost nobody gets that .AI is Anguilla or .IO is Indian Ocean!

 

[Rob Monster]

I still can't pay.

From our direct message just now, it sounds like you got your issue resolved.

We do have some fraud mitigation technologies in place. Occasionally it detects someone as being trouble when they are not, e.g. if they use a free VPN which is also being used by known scammers, for example.

If you run into that issue, try turning off the VPN long enough to get through checkout. Better yet, get a better VPN. The VPN from Anonymize.com VPN is really good and has a free option.

 

[Kamaldeen]

From our direct message just now, it sounds like you got your issue resolved.

We do have some fraud mitigation technologies in place. Occasionally it detects someone as being trouble when they are not, e.g. if they use a free VPN which is also being used by known scammers, for example.

If you run into that issue, try turning off the VPN long enough to get through checkout. Better yet, get a better VPN. The VPN from Anonymize.com VPN is really good and has a free option.

Thanks

 

[capybara]

Therefore it is unlikely that we'll see many others doing this attractive a .CO promo.

Last year Porkbun did it for 1.45. Looked good at the time, but current Epik deal is way better!

 

[domains_for_sale]

Maybe I missed a discussion about .co Premium priced available domains, but how come they decided to copy New gTLDs? Just mediocre domains are now selling for $60 - $120 dollars or more at most registrars, the $0.99 cents and other promos are more or less a gimmick in my opinion. Seems like registries and registrars are really trying to create a market for the future and I think they want to leave domainers out of it?

 

[EGENIUS1]

From our direct message just now, it sounds like you got your issue resolved.

We do have some fraud mitigation technologies in place. Occasionally it detects someone as being trouble when they are not, e.g. if they use a free VPN which is also being used by known scammers, for example.

If you run into that issue, try turning off the VPN long enough to get through checkout. Better yet, get a better VPN. The VPN from Anonymize.com VPN is really good and has a free option.

Hello, do i have to use a special link to get $0.99 deal for .co?
or just enter through epik.com main page?
sorry i'm a little late to this deal....

 

[wizard]

Maybe I missed a discussion about .co Premium priced available domains, but how come they decided to copy New gTLDs? Just mediocre domains are now selling for $60 - $120 dollars or more at most registrars, the $0.99 cents and other promos are more or less a gimmick in my opinion. Seems like registries and registrars are really trying to create a market for the future and I think they want to leave domainers out of it?

Yes all a joke really only a few decent .co that you can pick up for $99 most are premium that why they do all these deals stick with .com

 

[Martins B.]

Hello, do i have to use a special link to get $0.99 deal for .co?
or just enter through epik.com main page?
sorry i'm a little late to this deal....

If you just try to buy a normal .co domain, the discount should automatically apply.

 

[EGENIUS1]

If you just try to buy a normal .co domain, the discount should automatically apply.

Okay, Thank you!

 

[RogueWriter]

Yes all a joke really only a few decent .co that you can pick up for $99 most are premium that why they do all these deals stick with .com

If I can’t make $1 via affiliate marketing in a year, then I need to get out of business. There is almost 0 risk.

 

[Rob Monster]

Yes all a joke really only a few decent .co that you can pick up for $0.99 most are premium that why they do all these deals stick with .com

I am looking at what folks are registering and would definitely disagree. The registrants are free to comment. I did ask my good friend Luc Lezon a Estibot to produce a list of the .CO domains that were previously registered but were since dropped. We'll see if we can share that list with everyone when we get it.

 

[wizard]

I am looking at what folks are registering and would definitely disagree. The registrants are free to comment. I did ask my good friend Luc Lezon a Estibot to produce a list of the .CO domains that were previously registered but were since dropped. We'll see if we can share that list with everyone when we get it.

I know what your saying but .co is not the same as .com will never be but yes for $0.99 its worth a punt just to many premium names now in .co which are not premium !

 

[loredan]

We decided to subsidize it slightly by absorbing the payment processing fees. I expect most registrars will add a margin. Therefore it is unlikely that we'll see many others doing this attractive a .CO promo.

You'll get your money back from sales commission, Rob!

Love the deal, hand regged some decent names so far.

Some issues with BitMitigate on parked pages, some of the names show a "Domain Not Detected In Our Systems" message. Will email support and let them know.

 

[wizard]

Well worth a punt at $0.99 i have picked a few up