.co .CO - The Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread

[TOXX]

Well, it seems like Colombia will be releasing .CO to the internet market:
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http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co...ge=./mods/contenido/noticia_user_view&id=1043
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This could truly be a big competitor to .COM (especially being a "typo").
I would say with proper guidance .CO could REALLY have a bright future!
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Let me know your thoughts please.

 

[xpimp]

I see that some development has started to take place with the co's and i'm not very surprised to see this especially in the adult sector ) but hey, porn was a big propeller in the 90's, maybe it will help this time also

 

[seank]

i quite like the .CO tld , makes sense.

saw a big uk burger restuarant chain getting a BURG.CO as the same of the restaurant together with a domain , looks good

would you consider investing in LLL.co or LLLL.co pronouancable ? what about random LLL.co ?

Thanks

 

[xpimp]

I would invest in even an LLLLLLLLLLLL.co if that keyword has a high commercial value or two, even 3 keywords if they are meaningful and very related.

Think that even random LLL.com after many many years can still be found at relatively low prices ~5000 USD but more longer domains like businessclass.com have gone big in value over time.

Of course in particular cases i might be wrong and those random LLL.co perfectly match with the initials of a company that you had no idea about but i prefer not to risk my money with randomness.

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

snowflake.co - $1,000 - 2013-12-09 - Sedo

not me

 

[kemjika11]

i quite like the .CO tld , makes sense.

saw a big uk burger restuarant chain getting a BURG.CO as the same of the restaurant together with a domain , looks good

would you consider investing in LLL.co or LLLL.co pronouancable ? what about random LLL.co ?

Thanks

Just buy triple premium letter LLL.cos and you should be OK.

Pls remember that some domainers will never understand the value of LLL domains. But when you look at the trends and sales data, they speak for themselves. good luck.

 

[Honey Domains]

Snowflake, that's pretty! I have Jingle

I prefer the brandable generics. But have a few LLL.co, they get about the same traffic on SEDO, maybe slightly less.

I have a question, I read the last 100 pages of this thread a month or two back and was wondering what the consensus or if anyone remembers the rough ratio of .co value versus the same phrase single word .com. Or where it is in the thread. As I know I read it here and can't find it now.

The last two mornings I have got up to DNS enquiries on a couple my one word .cos (yay) and and am struggling a bit for comparables, and thought it may help me with pricing.

Thanks for any insight.

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

I just checked this, think what I found!

snowflake.co - $1,000 - 2013-12-09 - Sedo
snowflake.net - $260 - 2009-07-05 - GoDaddy
snowflakes.net - $885 - 2008-01-01 - N/A

 

[Abdul Aziz R]

see this complete comparing

 

[Michael R.]

Any advice is welcome: do you see any value in TorrentDownload.co, with a monthly global exact search volume of 550 000 (source: ad words)?

 

[noonoo1]

Treehouse.co sold for $1,200

Quiet week for public sales.

 

[xpimp]

easy to figure out why jasmin.co has been sold at 7650 $, recently livejasmin.com rebranded to jasmin.com so a chunk of big traffic will leak now )

 

[BrandChimp]

easy to figure out why jasmin.co has been sold at 7650 $, recently livejasmin.com rebranded to jasmin.com so a chunk of big traffic will leak now )

I own good dot cos and none of them is getting "typo" traffic.

 

[MrOriginal]

hi im new to domain reselling, interested in .co's atm, I had a few questions I was hoping someone might help me with

1. besides real good single names are .co's just luck of who needs it?
I saw a site like say "greendot.co" sell for 4k. Yet "bluedot.co" was 12$ a yr hand reg'd.

2. Are most of these sales coming from developed sites? ie if I buy a good .co name, do I need to build a website for it and stuff or can I just leave it?

3. Should .co's like bluejeans.co, cutechicks.co, bedreviews.co all be snatched up now, in anticipation for in a couple of years those names will be impossible to get?

4. When buying domains to sell do you guys use WHOIS guard or not? Can customers still email you if WHOIS is activated?


Thanks for help

 

[xpimp]

I own good dot cos and none of them is getting "typo" traffic.

If they are not "backed up" by a high traffic .com website, then they will receive very little traffic. To get some serious traffic on a .co domain, 2 things must take place:

1. .co domain must contain a short and very popular keyword

example: cam(s).co, car(s).co, i must add here that this keywords are already reserved by the registrar (registered before 20 july 2010) and now they are being sold in x.x.x.x$ range because they are premium(gosh how mch i hate this word when it is being used by the registrar )

2. the .com equivalent must be a high traffic website, that means millions of visitors per month( in general those sites have a trademark and their .co equivalent is already taken/reserved by registrar or markmonitor and they are doing a redirect to their .com)

So, if you don't have a really good .co and the .com equivalent is not a high traffic website, the only chance is to build something on your .co to get some traffic or just sell it if someone likes your keyword(s)

 

[Archangel]

Worthless--torrents are illegal.

Any advice is welcome: do you see any value in TorrentDownload.co, with a monthly global exact search volume of 550 000 (source: ad words)?

As mentioned, you can only get .co type-in traffic if the .com is a site with high traffic. If a website shaboogly.com received 50 visitors a month, then shaboogly.co would get little to no type-ins.

I own good dot cos and none of them is getting "typo" traffic.

1.) ALL extensions, even .com's, have the "luck" factor in varying degrees. I should mention that, as is the case with all domains: a domain is worth what ppl will pay for it. "Green Dot" is well-known, thus someone was willing to pay well for greendot.co (it might have been bought by the .com owner). The blue variant just didn't get enough interest to garner a larger sale.

2.) This is an old question that has many schools of thought. There really is no solid answer: some will say yes; others will say no. Some will say it helps to have a developed website and others will say developing a domain can hinder an owner's ability to brand it differently if he so chose to. It's really up to you

3.) Another age-old question. But the answer here is a little different than it is with .com, as .co has a higher renewal fee. Holding a few solid .co's is a good idea but unless you have a load of GREAT .co's and/or you're rich, then owning a bunch of .co's is risky

4.) Personally, I'd never use whois guard for a domain I'm selling. When I see a whois-protected name for sale, I immediately think, "This owner is hiding... why?" Scammers use whois guard. That is reason enough to never use it.

Hope this helps

hi im new to domain reselling, interested in .co's atm, I had a few questions I was hoping someone might help me with

1. besides real good single names are .co's just luck of who needs it?
I saw a site like say "greendot.co" sell for 4k. Yet "bluedot.co" was 12$ a yr hand reg'd.

2. Are most of these sales coming from developed sites? ie if I buy a good .co name, do I need to build a website for it and stuff or can I just leave it?

3. Should .co's like bluejeans.co, cutechicks.co, bedreviews.co all be snatched up now, in anticipation for in a couple of years those names will be impossible to get?

4. When buying domains to sell do you guys use WHOIS guard or not? Can customers still email you if WHOIS is activated?


Thanks for help

 

[Domainstore]

PREMIUMS on SEDO 6h left SEX.CO $ 25.000 - $ 50.000 + HOT.CO (not me)=BAD SRATEGY

Hello,

On Sedo there are still 6 hours left for 2 PREMIUM-domainnames => (and I have below some remarks on the strategy of Sedo that I don't like).

HOT.CO reserve bertween $ 5.000 - $ 9.999 (currently $ 500 bid).
http://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/aucti...=161455&tracked=1&partnerid=14456&language=us

SEX.CO reserve between $ 25.000 - $ 49.999 ( currently 7 bids, highest reserve price not reached yet.
http://www.sedo.co.uk/auction/aucti...=159960&tracked=1&partnerid=14460&language=us

What I find VERY STRANGE NOW and a BAD STRATEGY of SEDO is the following =>

1/They ask you to REGISTER with fax etc...a procedure during the week (in weekends they're closed), to bid higher then $ 10.000 .The consequence is of course....that now a premium domain, like SEX.CO stucks at $ 10.000 and isn't reaching the reserve.

2/When you go simply to the Sedo site and go to the buying section, auction section, you have to click on the "inventory" of the " Great Domains " -auction.
In the past it was better = you could also simply go the general (all auctions busy) and see the domains of the Great Domain along-auction too. If you now go to
=> This is diminishing the visibility of the Great Domain auction

3/And if you click on the left on Great-domains-auction, you get not the inventory, but a "reminder to do member-certification".
Because you have to send documents to bid along for $ 10.000 and more to bid $ 25.000 !
This is not relevant for hot.co, but for sex.co this is very relevant of course. But that takes several days of time to be approved !!

Anyhow, let's see what happens
:wave:

 

[Archangel]

I think the reserve for sex.co is WAY too low. $100k minimum would be smart IMO

 

[lennco]

What a strange business we are in.
If you add the letter "M" to the end of Sex.co you increase its value by $13 million :p

 

[Kate]

Sex.com was grossly overpaid, and the market for adult was better in 2000 than 2013.
I personally don't think 100K for the .co is a bargain.

 

[xpimp]

damn it, i wished i had the money to take sex.co, my dream domain. i'm following that auction for some time. eh but any way...maybe in one day...

by the way, i tried at least to get sexx.co. it was on sedo a couple of weeks ago. i purchased it at the "BUY NOW" price but the owner sold the domain already through other sources. i was very pissed off

 

[rmaden]

Lots of names in that auction received no bids.567 names in that one.h.

 

[000]

Regged:

2019.co

Because why not

Other years are registered through 2026...

 

[rmaden]

I may have gotten a good one. OnLineStores.co-----------the dot com has been around for 17 years live and sells one main product flags--states,countries,schools etc with lots of traffic and searches.The dot co actually shows -on estibot-more traffic.So if anyone wanted to develop a retail site.........

In addition i own GiftStores.info.They seem to go together.

 

[xpimp]

I may have gotten a good one. OnLineStores.co-----------the dot com has been around for 17 years live and sells one main product flags--states,countries,schools etc with lots of traffic and searches.The dot co actually shows -on estibot-more traffic.So if anyone wanted to develop a retail site.........

In addition i own GiftStores.info.They seem to go together.

If you got onlinestore.co or onlineshop.co that would had been really great, otherwise the plural, in this situation, i think it lowers the domain value.

For example, between sexshop and sexshops, they seem very appropriate but in terms of value, it's a huge difference

 

[rmaden]

XPIMP-thanks for the comment-U are probably correct but i took what was available.I checked Estibot and sure enough the plural shows much less.

i dont know if estibot is wrong but the/my co shows more traffic than the com. We shall see.So its live but on sale at sedo at the same time.


I slapped together a site for the co and the info last night and put adsense and Amazon on them.I have a lot of live sites and am seriously thinking of taking more of my parked .co ones live.