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

[ZOX]

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.

 

[ramkumaritrvs]

i think the increasing number of gtlds has badly affected the .CO after market. coz users have lots of fancy choices now

I sold hand regd .co domain for $14k to enduser.

.co is alternate to .com.

 

[Silentptnr]

Nice .co sales in May!
lock.co 2,450 USD 2016-05-26 GoDaddy
engine.co 2,040 USD 2016-05-26 GoDaddy
zet.co 215 USD 2016-05-26 GoDaddy
horseraces.co 184 USD 2016-05-25 Flippa
rhodes.co 183 USD 2016-05-25 Flippa
operas.co 183 USD 2016-05-25 Flippa
5123.co 163 USD 2016-05-25 GoDaddy
proschoolonline.co 276 USD 2016-05-24 GoDaddy
xjc.co 205 USD 2016-05-24 GoDaddy
drip.co 2,000 USD 2016-05-23 Sedo
jhh.co 260 USD 2016-05-23 NameJet
musically.co 350 USD 2016-05-21 Flippa
urlaub.co 11,204 USD 2016-05-20 Sedo
robots.co 7,000 USD 2016-05-20 Sedo
just.co 820 USD 2016-05-18 Flippa
wicked.co 330 USD 2016-05-18 Flippa
slice.co 4,999 USD 2016-05-17 Sedo
vow.co 505 USD 2016-05-17 Flippa
yby.co 401 USD 2016-05-16 GoDaddy
jtz.co 367 USD 2016-05-16 GoDaddy
[URL='https://namebio.com/xcy.co']xcy.co 300 USD 2016-05-16 GoDaddy
ttz.co 500 USD 2016-05-13 NameJet
tas.co 3,000 USD 2016-05-11 Sedo
464.co 950 USD 2016-05-11 NameJet
knh.co 350 USD 2016-05-11 GoDaddy
zfj.co 311 USD 2016-05-09 NameJet
0022.co 109 USD 2016-05-09 NameJet
exhale.co 106 USD 2016-05-07 GoDaddy
5999.co 750 USD 2016-05-06 GoDaddy
ptz.co 320 USD 2016-05-06 GoDaddy
[URL='https://namebio.com/7879.co']7879.co 290 USD 2016-05-06 GoDaddy
tudou.co 853 USD 2016-05-05 Flippa
buygreen.co 350 USD 2016-05-05 Flippa
jackets.co 265 USD 2016-05-05 Flippa
3263.co 242 USD 2016-05-05 NameJet
keyword.co 125 USD 2016-05-05 Flippa
uncle.co 10,000 USD 2016-05-03 Sedo
already.co 4,363 USD 2016-05-03 Sedo
yvi.co 255 USD 2016-05-02 GoDaddy[/URL][/URL]

 

[Chetan]

Acquired
NCD.co
BSE.co

 

[dragtastic]

Just sold a 4L .co that I picked up on GD closeouts. Once it actually transfers to the new owner I will post info.

Here's a summary. Paid LOW $xx sold MID $xxx - sold in 2 months, on sedo

Why can't all my sales be this good and quick. For those who still doubt .co - let them doubt. More sales for us in the future.

 

[NLP]

I just came back from a tech conference in Vancouver, Canada, and was pleasantly surprised to meet several people with businesses on .CO (Snapcopy.co, Brandcafe.co, and Crayon.co).

We're almost nearing the 5-year anniversary mark - amazing! It was around this time in 2010 that I first signed up for Namepros, and started making my first friends (and sales) in the business. Hopefully the world economy won't implode in the next year or so. Fingers crossed.

There a few new ones in here compared to 2010 (minus several like Anna, Ocho, Chutney, and others, that have sold), but here's my current showcase:

NNN + LLL

245.CO
824.CO
AWB.CO
DKM.CO
ECP.CO
ETW.CO
MTC.CO
JHP.CO
JVN.CO
OKM.CO
RCK.CO
TVR.CO
UVI.CO

SPANISH / FRENCH / GERMAN / ITALIAN

BACIO.CO (kiss)
BARI.CO
CINCO.CO
CIRUGIA.CO (surgery)
CREDITOHIPOTECARIO.CO (real estate loans)
CREDITOSHIPOTECARIOS.CO
DIVORCIO.CO
Energía.CO (energy)
GARTEN.CO (garden)
GIROKONTO.CO (checking account)
Inglés.CO
INVESTIMENTO.CO (investment)
INVESTIMENTOS.CO
JABON.CO (soap)
JAVIER.CO
KATRIN.CO
LUISA.CO
LUPE.CO
NILS.CO
PAGA.CO (pay)
PAPIER.CO (paper)
PERFUMERIA.CO (perfume shop)
PERNAMBUCO.CO
PETIT.CO (French - small/little)
PFERDE.CO (German - horse)
SOLAIRE.CO (solar)
SUPERMARKT.CO
TELESYSTEMS.CO
VERFKAUF.CO (German - sell)

ENGLISH

CARLY.CO
CLOUDCOMPUTER.CO
CONCESSIONS.CO
CREME.CO
CUBICLE.CO
CUBICLES.CO
EFFICIENCY.CO
EMISSIONS.CO
ENCRYPTED.CO
ERASE.CO
FAITHBASED.CO
FLAVORING.CO
FONE.CO
FUELING.CO
GOLDCOIN.CO
HEALTHPRODUCTS.CO
INTERNSHIPS.CO
JAVIER.CO
KATRIN.CO
LUISA.CO
MOBILESTRATEGY.CO
NAMING.CO
PHOTOVOLTAIC.CO
PROTECT.CO
RUGGED.CO
SEMANTIC.CO
SENSOR.CO
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[cogroup]

Just sold Bring.co $3400 last week

 

[Chris Hydrick]

Sold

for $300 last month

 

[Federer]

Grabbed 1272 .CO domains so far over past few days....

A few recent $0.98 registrations include

vantec.co
gopoint.co
e-space.co
eurotex.co
selekt.co
hubtech.co
netagency.co
pcsmart.co
i-music.co
eaglesecurity.co
golfoutlet.co
lionsgroup.co
pointview.co
localis.co
rview.co
celtis.co
tprint.co
belcom.co
visionic.co
topfitness.co
allstuff.co
unitrends.co
gastroweb.co
softedge.co
investhome.co
megaevents.co
hoteldiscount.co
recyclo.co
mondia.co
lotex.co
hyperia.co
tmrc.co
coolex.co
ecodata.co
ematch.co
confero.co
logimax.co
cityspa.co
carevision.co
datalinks.co
deltamedical.co
croisiere.co
iremote.co

 

[noonoo1]

I just had notification one of my 3L .co has been sold, just waiting for payment.

Sale price $1,888

 

[dragtastic]

Just sold a 3L for $2,500 - will post name after payment is received. Owned it for a few years, invested around $200

 

[noonoo1]

sequence.co 25,000 USD 2017-10-08 GritBrokerage
urban.co 22,500 USD 2017-10-08 Grit Brokerage
particular.co 5,000 USD 2017-10-08 Grit Brokerage

None of them mine, thanks to namebio.

 

[John Napoletano]

.CO Tiered Pricing update...

Ok so I received a positive followup email from Neustar today. I also read through my old emails to them. I hate to drop peoples emails into public view but I feel the need here so that you all don't think I'm wacky. But stay tuned, things might not be bad after all. First here is the email that drove me nuts:

-- start of email --

Dear User,

Thank you for contacting us,

In preparation for the repricing of the .co tier program, all names in the program have been reserved by the .CO Registry.

This does not affect any names that are currently registered by customers, however, any unregistered names or any names that may be deleted and dropped during this time period will be reserved and become available on September 1, 2018 with updated tier pricing.

Regards,

The .Co Team.

-- end of email --

Did I read that wrong, they said tiered pricing twice, not once right? So I replied back asking for clarification. A second support team member wrote back stating the following. Again, I hate to do this, but since there is not pricing page on their website I think it's necessary:

-- start of email --

Support just sent me your inquiry and I wanted to get back to you.

There is no new policy change to our premium program. In August 2015, the .CO Registry began offering premium domains via its retail channel. On September 1, 2018, there will be some pricing updates and we’ve communicated these updates with our registrar partners. These updates do not affect any currently registered .co domains.

Even if you pay a premium price to register a .CO premium domain name, your annual renewal fee will be the standard .CO renewal fee charged for all .CO domain names. Please check with your preferred retailer for details as fees may differ according to each retailer’s individual pricing policies and practices.

-- end of email --

So if the second employee is correct then it's business as usual. The pricing changes have to do with re-releasing those reserved domains at a premium, an up front fee similar to what domainers do now.

I replied back but the person is on vacation per their auto responder. This is important info because there is an auction going on at Sedo. If anyone know people at Neustar please hit them up for a public comment.

And again a message to all registrars and registries from me:

STOP THIS MADDNESS. PUBLISH A MSRP AND STANDARDIZE YOUR PRICING MESSAGING -- SELF REGULATE -- OTHERWISE YOU WILL LEAD US ALL BACK TO .COM.

I'm not saying one tld is better or worse, or that one pricing method is better or worse. I am saying that the market needs a standard pricing page on all tld website NOW.

So don't drop your .CO names. We need to see what support person number 3 says first.

 

[dragtastic]

What are LLL.co's currently selling for?

I just bought this one for USD $110, thought I got a bargain

HCE.co

Host Card Emulation (HCE) is the software architecture that provides exact virtual representation of various electronic identity (access, transit and banking) cards using only software. Prior to the HCE architecture, NFC transactions were mainly carried out using secure elements.

I'd say going rate for expired/reseller pricing is right around low $xxx to mid $xxx depending on quality of the name.

I would have bought that for the same price

Just sold a LLL/CO for mid $x,xxx - Will post once funds hit my account.

 

[elmoney]

Sorry, what was the picture? I only see the [ IMG ] tag...

 

[kemjika11]

Just spotted FashionWeek.co priced at $12000.

Looks like the .CO registry are simultaneously exploring a pricing range that is much higher than the standard tiers ($120 to $1200).

Looks like the registry just decided to stop playing "nice" with domainers and reseller-investors. .CO registry knows the value and sales of .CO...(generally at a min). They already indirectly set the min market price for lll.co. I like that. They are assertive and they have asked domain buyers to put up or shut up. I just watched a show where some guy spent $10K and $16K on 2 different pair of sneakers. If someone can spend that amt of money on shoes, $12K for a domain doesnt sound outrageous. Higher asking prices often signify confidence of the sellers.

 

[Josh R]

I like

Willing to share any of your latest additions? I am also bullish on the future of 1 worded .co domains and have been buying short 1 word co names along with 3L.

Some that I have showcased in this thread (somewhere) are:

Merchant
Comic
Jawbone
Justina
Shellfish


Good luck with your hunt!

Nice names!

Here are a few:

Swirl
Equip
Tangerine
Alliant
Genome
Booker
Unlock
Redesign
Untangle
Gamers
Buds
Cyclops
Amino
Showdown

 

[Dave]

I have Verde / co

Means green in Spanish and used in branding by thousands of companies.

 

[m-i-k-e]

any good sales / acquisitions guys

My last co sale was a couple months ago. The name was 'platoon'

I just checked the whois and I see that the buyer was Apple. I just read now that they acquired a music distribution company last year that operates on the .ai

 

[kammineni.com]

Scotland.co

 

[EmpireNames.com]

Just acquired today

Istanbul.co & Projects.co

 

[gilescoley]

I saw these nice sales on DNJ

HAE.co
$30,000

MEM.co
$5,000

 

[NLP]

I reported it to Namebio and posted in the recent sales thread, but I sold a LLL for $21,000.

“Em tee cee.” Thank you for not typing it out here.

Sales venue: Afternic
Hold time: 11 years
Purchased for: $265 on Namejet in 2011

 

[Keith]

Everything,com is an easy seven figures.. shouldnt you have held .CO for mid 5 figures? Just wondering..

Congratulations on super sale though.

After zero offers in years I listed it with a buy it now. Best to set realistic expectations and hope for the best

 

[jmcc]

I would be really interested to know the percentage of people that can distinguish between the .co and the .com... Excepted web developers and domaininers, people can only distinguish between .com and their ccTLD...

Based on the work I do with domain stats and web usage statistics, this is correct. In most countries where there is a strong ccTLD, the domain footprint for that country will be over 80% .com/.ccTLD. The legacy TLDs like .net/.org would then represent around 10 to 15% with the rest being .biz/.info/etc. For most countries (apart from Colombia), .co would represent under 1% of their domain footprint.

Now when you look at a country in terms of the web usage of its domains, things get even worse for non-core TLDs like .co ccTLD. Businesses tend to register the .ccTLD and .com of their domain and the older or larger ones will go for the brand protection package of .ccTLD/com/net/org/biz/info. But not all of these domains will lead to a working site on those TLDs. The most common is a single site in either .ccTLD or .com. The other TLD variants are either pointed to the main site with a 301 redirect or are not even set up in the DNS. So in web terms, the set of active websites for a country is less than the total number of registered domains in that country.

But the web ecology of a country is complex. It can have active websites, PPC parked websites, holding page websites, sets of duplicate content websites, compromised/hacked websites, brand protection registrations. For a search engine developer (the people and businesses that build search engines), the set of active website can be less than 30% of a country's domain footprint.

For a few months, COInternet had been publishing a rather strange web usage "survey" of how its sites were being used. In my opinion, these surveys were complete rubbish as the methodology and classification was rubbish and amateurish. But they did look good. I took a look at the usage characteristics of a set of .co domains that were being tracked here. The results were very different. The classifiers and methodology used here are those used to build country level search engines and they sometimes run on millions of domains at a time. What emerged was a picture of a TLD where PPC parking and holding pages dominated. There was some natural development but it was below that of a normal ccTLD. There was a lot of brand protection registrations from small businesses (rather than trademark owners). While it wasn't as under developed as .mobi, there were quite a few derelict websites and clone sites. This is where people get great ideas about developing a site, stick a Joomla or Wordpress install up and then promptly forget about developing the site after a week or two because it involves real work.

The key to the success of any TLD is usage. In more general terms, it is web usage. If people see there are small businesses using the TLD and developing working websites on that TLD, they begin to use that TLD more and more and it becomes part of the set of TLDs that they instinctively recognise. While URL shorteners such as no_url_shorteners or similar are great for the registry, they don't mean anything to the average user because they are just background noise. People remember Twitter but not the shorteners. It is the Mom and Pop businesses that build confidence in a TLD. Without this critical segment of the web ecology, a TLD becomes a dead zone where domainers sell to other domainers in the hope that one day they'll recover their regfee. While .co ccTLD has not reached that point yet, a few startups using .co will not change the situation much unless one or two become the equivalent of Facebook or Google. But even then, large companies protect their brands in country level markets and will rebrand for that market with the local ccTLD. The .co ccTLD's main claim to fame is that it has one less letter than .com and is, apparently, an abbreviation of 'company'. What many people don't seem to realise yet is that in most developed country level markets, the ccTLD dominates and .com is turning into a legacy or global TLD. The bulk of real commerce will take place on .ccTLD. People will only recognise .ccTLD, .com and perhaps the ccTLDs of a few adjacent countries. In the US, the de facto ccTLD is .com and .us is not as widely used. The future for non-core TLDs like .co ccTLD is going to be dim unless people start developing websites and using it rather than parking the domains on PPC or trying to sell them.

Regards...jmcc

 

[ecalc]

I had a $2,200 offer on Tapas.co but i turned it down as it was their first offer. Its a great name and is certainly worth more.

Ive also had an offer for Trackday(s).co $3,201 but turned this down as well.

You deserve the NP Nerves of Steel award for choosing to hold those 3 names instead of $5401.