discuss .co cheap. But nothing to buy

[abstractdomainer]

There's a massive offer going on in .CO.
But the issue is that any good domain that you shortlist to buy, you would find that it is priced at $118. That is a lot to pay for a domain name.

How are you finding the .CO sale? Does it look like there are opportunities in this extension, especially with almost all good domain so highly-priced?

 

[7363824]

Back on the first I was Epik offering them for 99cents. I started searching for the 2000 most common first names (1000 male, 1000 female) from a list I found online. All were taken or premium. Then I put together a list of recently deleted .co names from expireddomains.net that met some basic criteria. (Such as it had to be taken in .com .org and .net, ect). I ran those names though their bulk checker. I had about 1400 that met my criteria. Only about 260 of those were still available and at the 99cent price. Promos have been going on long enough i think it'll take some imagination on your part to find some decent nonpremium names to reg.

 

[Rob Monster]

You are going to have to be more creative in your research.

People are finding deals but it is like mining for gems.

So far in July we sold about 50,000 .CO at $0.99. I have been impressed with what folks have found from the $0.99 pool of General Availability (GA) pool. For July to date, Epik is the #1 .co registrar in the world.

Although the registration pace is tapering, we still see more .co registrations all day long. All the obvious stuff is now picked over, I would watch the .CO expiry stream to see what comes available each day.

There are still bargains out there.

The .US promo deal is also $0.99 and there are more bargains there. Although the buyers for those will tend to be more limited than .CO, the renewal fee is lower too.

@Sufyan Alani is bringing the deals.

 

[equity78]

You are going to have to be more creative in your research.

People are finding deals but it is like mining for gems.

So far in July we sold about 50,000 .CO at $0.99. I have been impressed with what folks have found from the $0.99 pool of General Availability (GA) pool. For July to date, Epik is the #1 .co registrar in the world.

Although the registration pace is tapering, we still see more .co registrations all day long. All the obvious stuff is now picked over, I would watch the .CO expiry stream to see what comes available each day.

There are still bargains out there.

The .US promo deal is also $0.99 and there are more bargains there. Although the buyers for those will tend to be more limited than .CO, the renewal fee is lower too.

@Sufyan Alani is bringing the deals.

50,000 wow. I can't imagine 50,000 names worth regging in 2020. Now one thing I like about this special, is to for at least a year spend .99 to block someone regging the .co of your .com. I had two lately where a company regged the .co and avoided making an offer or purchase on a .com I own and the names were not priced outlandishly, $1,888 and $3,000.

 

[Rob Monster]

50,000 wow. I can't imagine 50,000 names worth regging in 2020. Now one thing I like about this special, is to for at least a year spend .99 to block someone regging the .co of your .com. I had two lately where a company regged the .co and avoided making an offer or purchase on a .com I own and the names were not priced outlandishly, $1,888 and $3,000.

Thanks Raymond.

You would be amazed at what is being found, including today. It is not getting easier, but of the 50,000, I would say there was very little in the way of spam registrations.

The .CO renewals and transfers at Epik are also very competitive at $20.99 all-inclusive so really the carrying cost for a decent portfolio of .CO is not crazy.

If the .COM is not available, I would much sooner take the .CO before any other secondary registry.

I say this fully knowing that Godaddy now owns the .CO registry following the April 2020 acquisition of Neustar's registry business.

For now they kept a lot of inventory at GA pricing. As those domains drop, I could see that changing which is why I think NameLiquidate and other low cost expiry marketplaces are essential at this stage.

At this stage, folks can buy 100 .CO domains for $99. Sell 1 domain for $100 within 1 year and they are ahead of the game. Those odds are still good for quite a lot of names.

Rob

 

[Rob Monster]

Pro tip for the booststrappers.

It makes sense to outbound some number of obvious names, e.g. someone buys a .COM in the after-market and the .CO was still available -- the .CO would be logical for them to secure for defensive reasons.

A quick flip of one decent .CO even on an outbound basis then covers the entire cost basis for the .CO purchase.

I would then put every single one of them on Epik SSL landers, adding whatever SEO content is useful, and just passively wait for inquiries until around month 10.

Then for the last 60 days, resume outbound.

And then upon expiry, send to NameLiquidate.

Anyone who cannot at least recover their capital using the above strategy, is probably not going to be a domainer for very long as that strategy is about as close to idiot-proof as exists for $0.99 .CO.

The .CO July anniversary sale is without a doubt the best deal of the year for generating asymmetric returns for bootstrap domain investors who are willing to hustle just a bit.

Good luck.

 

[7363824]

FWIW I just picked up more today than I did back on the first. Today brings my total to nearly 700 99cent promo .co's almost all one worders, some more esoteric as I cast a wide net to try a volume play. I seems to me $700 for 700 .co should get me a quicker return than $700 for 1 .com (assuming its not an atypical quick sell .com).

I tried something similar a few months back with .info on 1.25 a promo but on a smaller scale with just over 100 domains I was in the black by over $400 after about 2 and a half months on an initial investment of less than $150 completely passively. I think following these promos could prove to be a good option for increasing my budget to latter invest in quality .com's that today are out or my price range.

To give you an idea here are some that I managed to pickup just today in .co:

Acquittals
Discipled
GeoPolitical
Granddaughter
Retrial
Sanctified
SchoolTeachers
Selflessness
Televised
Uncategorized
Volunteerism
Worshipers

There's no way I could afford any of these in .com today. If I can sell 2/700 at $350 within a year this cost me nothing, and I suspect I can get a 0.5% - 1%STR in the mid xxx to very low xxxx range in the next year. Also, it's looking like there may be a few keepers that may be worth a renewal at full price after a year if I can't get what I want for them before then.

 

[Rob Monster]

FWIW I just picked up more today than I did back on the first. Today brings my total to nearly 700 99cent promo .co's almost all one worders, some more esoteric as I cast a wide net to try a volume play. I seems to me $700 for 700 .co should get me a quicker return than $700 for 1 .com (assuming its not an atypical quick sell .com).

I tried something similar a few months back with .info on 1.25 a promo but on a smaller scale with just over 100 domains I was in the black by over $400 after about 2 and a half months on an initial investment of less than $150 completely passively. I think following these promos could prove to be a good option for increasing my budget to latter invest in quality .com's that today are out or my price range.

To give you an idea here are some that I managed to pickup just today in .co:

Acquittals
Discipled
GeoPolitical
Granddaughter
Retrial
Sanctified
SchoolTeachers
Selflessness
Televised
Uncategorized
Volunteerism
Worshipers

There's no way I could afford any of these in .com today. If I can sell 2/700 at $350 within a year this cost me nothing, and I suspect I can get a 0.5% - 1%STR in the mid xxx to very low xxxx range in the next year. Also, it's looking like there may be a few keepers that may be worth a renewal at full price after a year if I can't get what I want for them before then.

For the record, I asked Ryan to share a few. I did not want to take a liberty in sharing his list from today, but indeed he is crushing it. I rather like Sanctified.co. Too few people know this word today. That will change.

 

[BigTree]

Thanks Raymond.

You would be amazed at what is being found, including today.

Rob

I do not believe any good .Co can be found for hand registering too.
Instead of talking what amazing was found and trying to increase your .Co registration sales at Epik give people real examples.

 

[gotasale]

I didn't find any good .co to register at the first day of opening public registrations

All good ones were reserved

So i don't expect to find anything now that have value right now

 

[3sixty]

There's still a few nuggets.

I was going to buy a .co from a platform for $300 but found a $1 .co that is a better fit.

 

[blogspotter]

FWIW I just picked up more today than I did back on the first. Today brings my total to nearly 700 99cent promo .co's almost all one worders, some more esoteric as I cast a wide net to try a volume play. I seems to me $700 for 700 .co should get me a quicker return than $700 for 1 .com (assuming its not an atypical quick sell .com).

I tried something similar a few months back with .info on 1.25 a promo but on a smaller scale with just over 100 domains I was in the black by over $400 after about 2 and a half months on an initial investment of less than $150 completely passively. I think following these promos could prove to be a good option for increasing my budget to latter invest in quality .com's that today are out or my price range.

To give you an idea here are some that I managed to pickup just today in .co:

Acquittals
Discipled
GeoPolitical
Granddaughter
Retrial
Sanctified
SchoolTeachers
Selflessness
Televised
Uncategorized
Volunteerism
Worshipers

There's no way I could afford any of these in .com today. If I can sell 2/700 at $350 within a year this cost me nothing, and I suspect I can get a 0.5% - 1%STR in the mid xxx to very low xxxx range in the next year. Also, it's looking like there may be a few keepers that may be worth a renewal at full price after a year if I can't get what I want for them before then.

Did you pick this up from expired stream?

I got 70 in 2 days and nothing like ones above lol

How are these:
hungs, duplexity, crosslifter, ective, elote, fligtz, keynoted, raretalents, prettyquick, remotedb, shapewears, snapsends, vitalresources

I just need to sell one for 69.99 to recover the costs

I left a few out as I didn't like the sound and they all got scooped up later lol...

 

[james2002]

Did you pick this up from expired stream?

I got 70 in 2 days and nothing like ones above lol

How are these:
hungs, duplexity, crosslifter, ective, elote, fligtz, keynoted, raretalents, prettyquick, remotedb, shapewears, snapsends, vitalresources

I just need to sell one for 69.99 to recover the costs

I left a few out as I didn't like the sound and they all got scooped up later lol...

Be careful. I will not take the domains you registered for free as they are liability and will cost you quite a bit for renewal. Good luck with flipping any way.

 

[boker]

Did you pick this up from expired stream?

I got 70 in 2 days and nothing like ones above lol

How are these:
hungs, duplexity, crosslifter, ective, elote, fligtz, keynoted, raretalents, prettyquick, remotedb, shapewears, snapsends, vitalresources

I just need to sell one for 69.99 to recover the costs

I left a few out as I didn't like the sound and they all got scooped up later lol...

These are a few of the one's regged by me: Demicube, Runnel, Decahedron, Prefocus, Pointwork and others

 

[blogspotter]

Be careful. I will not take the domains you registered for free as they are liability and will cost you quite a bit for renewal. Good luck with flipping any way.

liability as in renewal? They are 99 cents each. I will hold a year and won't renew if they don't get sold.
Are these really bad?

 

[CraigD]

Not cheap to renew, so Imagine there will be a very high turnover on these every 12 months.

I also expect dot com owners will be receiving a lot of unsolicited (unwanted) outbound sales offers when renewals are due.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Is there an offer on renewals too? It just cost me a relative fortune to renew 3 of my .CO names at Godaddy.

 

[james2002]

liability as in renewal? They are 99 cents each. I will hold a year and won't renew if they don't get sold.
Are these really bad?

Personally I don’t like them and will not take them free. However you may be successful in flipping them. Good luck

 

[alienbaba]

There’s a lot of decent dictionary & keyword .co domains available which aren’t premium. I recently got about 100 at Epik but I think these have the best chance of selling:

Fusilli.co
Rigatoni.co
Airflare.co
Hazmatsuit.co
Radiowaves.co
Phineas.co
Nymphomaniac.co


You just have to search a lot & the Epik bulk search tool is quite time saving

 

[blogspotter]

There’s a lot of decent dictionary & keyword .co domains available which aren’t premium. I recently got about 100 at Epik but I think these have the best chance of selling:

Fusilli.co
Rigatoni.co
Airflare.co
Hazmatsuit.co
Radiowaves.co
Phineas.co
Nymphomaniac.co


You just have to search a lot & the Epik bulk search tool is quite time saving

I like the last one

And dictionary words are tempting to pass when you are registering.
I have combati v e org for over 10 years lol