.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.

 

[mis_chiff]

They are actually $7.99 with cod7ica01 and coFeb3

Well there ya go then. even better. :tu:

 

[MicroGuy]

.CO to me is too much of a challenge but I respect those who see the value in it. Just sayin...

Very good point. I think we should respect each other, even those who have unusual ideas about making money. I respect the guy on the moped picking up cans and the burger flipper at Sonic. But if they tried to give me advice I would probably ignore it.....

 

[freedom30]

...I respect the guy on the moped picking up cans and the burger flipper at Sonic. But if they tried to give me advice I would probably ignore it.....

...interesting, considering you may be unaware of the persons' actual intelligence. Rather than attempting to grasp the concept of what is being said, you would choose to ignore any advice on the basis of their employment.

The abject failures on Wall Street and the various banks that we had to bail out with our money so we could provide them with huge bonuses had advice as well. I guess that they qualify to not be ignored in your playbook.

Oops, I did go off topic here so I will cease and desist, but you may have gotten my point.

I meant what I said about the .co extension and have seen many good things happen with domain names in the .co realm...

 

[NLP]

Big sale

I'm surprised nobody's picked up on this yet, but DNJournal reported the sale of Dolphin.co for $48,000 and Berkens posted about it.

The buyer was an oil company in the UAE. The name was one of the Reserved/Restricted Names held by the Registry:

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/02/09/dolphin-co-sells-for-48k-to-dolphin-energy-a-huge-oil-company-in-the-uae/#comments

I've noticed more BIN pricing on those Reserved names than before during WhoIS searches. Not all of them are, but quite a few have BIN prices at Sedo (some as low as $7,000...as high as $20,000).

Huge sale.

 

[emjohn]

.co names sold over the past 2 weeks as reported by DNJorunal:

meeticaffinity.co $2,580
jelly.co $2,550
arise.co $2,500
steeltech.co $2,000
skivacations.co $1,500
papa.co $1,000

Papa.co is surely a steal with quite a few companies employing that generic.

 

[the_poet]

I'm surprised nobody's picked up on this yet, but DNJournal reported the sale of Dolphin.co for $48,000 and Berkens posted about it.

The buyer was an oil company in the UAE. The name was one of the Reserved/Restricted Names held by the Registry:

http://www.thedomains.com/2012/02/09/dolphin-co-sells-for-48k-to-dolphin-energy-a-huge-oil-company-in-the-uae/#comments

I've noticed more BIN pricing on those Reserved names than before during WhoIS searches. Not all of them are, but quite a few have BIN prices at Sedo (some as low as $7,000...as high as $20,000).

Huge sale.

Really nice sale.

 

[subjot]

Just registered eCruises.CO :bingo:

Regards,
Vitaliy

 

[bilbo333]

I am looking for some feedback or thoughts on these (dot) CO domains I own. Is there any value in them, a rough idea or if you owned them what realistic price would you be happy with in selling them?
One more question if I may, for those selling CO domains, are you, as with other extensions, mostly selling to End Users you have contacted?
Thank you in advance


GRIDDLE (dot) CO
RAINBOWS (dot) CO
SMALLENGINE (dot) CO
LUNCHBOXES (dot) CO
TOX (dot) CO
CAK (dot) CO
VBA (dot) CO
JRR (dot) CO

 

[johname]

Just registered eCruises.CO

any good "e" prefix co sales??

I would probably return it myself

The cruise ship in italy doing a titanic doesnt help too. Goodluck

 

[subjot]

any good "e" prefix co sales??

I would probably return it myself

The cruise ship in italy doing a titanic doesnt help too. Goodluck

Thank you for response,
eGay.CO - 12k
eParking.CO - 7k
remembered that the first.

Regards,
Vitaliy

:wave:

 

[johname]

The COM has a servive mark on ECRUISES.COM

Gay and Parking have so many off shoots of interest.

The italy disater, the com getting mad. Its all risk and little reward in my eyes, but goodluck

:wave:

 

[Keith]

Just registered eCruises.CO :bingo:

Regards,
Vitaliy

I would only register i and e domains in .COM. Seems its worth $0.0 but good luck with it

 

[the_poet]

Interesting that, in UAE, they're so aware of how .CO is doing:

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The move to acquire the 'dolphin.co' domain name comes at a time when there is an increase in the number of companies acquiring .CO domain names.
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http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20120126095545

 

[Blitz]

Does anybody know if I pick up any expiring .co names at Godaddy auctions, do I have to pay the regular renewal fee or will I get the special $9.99 reg. rate going on this month? Thanks

 

[m-i-k-e]

Does anybody know if I pick up any expiring .co names at Godaddy auctions, do I have to pay the regular renewal fee or will I get the special $9.99 reg. rate going on this month? Thanks

Usually they charge you the renewal rate, so if the special is for new registrations only it wouldn't work for their expired names. When I try to renew a .co at Godaddy, it's charging me full price.

I think you can add one to your cart (without checking out) from the closeouts to see what they'll charge you, without making a commitment.

EDIT ** I Just added a closeout name to see what they'd charge and it was $29.99 without a coupon code

 

[NLP]

They are actually $7.99 with cod7ica01 and coFeb3

Thanks for the promo codes, the_poet. I was able to pick up 5 German .COs tonight (Food, Supermarket, Cigarettes, etc.) and they only cost me $39.

:bingo:

 

[subjot]

Just piked up:
Mult.CO
Leto.CO
Clippings.CO
Profinet.CO

Regards,
Vitaliy

 

[MeanMrMustard]

Personally, I'm done with hand reg's. The renewal costs are just too high even though I am often tempted. I will try to get some more July 19 drops when they come up but right now I'm paring down my portfolio so I can sit and wait for the right offers to come along or develop some of my more interesting ones. I regged a bunch last Feb when they had their promotion and looking at them now they aren't so hot. Sure, if they were dot com's I'd be a millionaire but they aren't and I'm not. I'm looking at over 8k a year in renewals and that's not pocket change for me.

 

[Keith]

Personally, I'm done with hand reg's. I'm looking at over 8k a year in renewals and that's not pocket change for me.

Any hand reg at this point is really a donation to the registry. Nothing of value is available.

As far as your renewal fees, good luck recouping that on a yearly basis. I've learned over the years that quality is far superior to quantity

 

[MeanMrMustard]

good luck recouping that on a yearly basis

I know you are being sarcastic but thanks anyways

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quality is far superior to quantity

I absolutely agree...though I think I have a fair quantity of great quality IMHO...who knows though...we'll see how it pans out in the next couple of years. It's a nice extension and it should do okay. You just never know which ones are going to be big ones and which ones you hold year after year with no interested parties...that's the game though.