Hello guys, thought I would join in... we own a few high comp/cpc keyword .co's just hoping to sell them now....what I found is every site/forum generally hate the .co whereas the big domain players love them. this is not the first place I've read that the price of .com domains will increase hugely, does this mean stop advertising low prices for mine and time to pump them up?
Unless you have some killer keywords, like CRUISE.CO, FLY.CO, or VEGAS.CO, Etc., I would recommend letting them all drop.
The important thing to understand is this:
Most of the money to be made in regards to domains is by House. Just like in Vegas, the house always wins. The small minority of domainers that make money total a single slice of the revenue pie. The registrars, registries get the rest of pie. And the house loves it because they have discovered that once someone registers a domain, they almost always renew it because they become attached or think it will sell one day, etc.
So now let's get to us, the guys that get to divide up that one slice of domain pie. How can we get ours? I'm hearing shouts of "End users!!". That would be correct. You get a cookie. So what's the problem? Why aren't the end users knocking down your door? The answer is simple.
End users (for the most part) will only pay for .COM. This is true about 95% of the time. Unless it's a church and they you might sell a .ORG. Why is this you ask? Simple. An end user goes to Godaddy or Enom, or wherever and types in their desired name. If the .COM is not available, they do one of 3 things:
A. Think of another name.
B. Look at the alternative extensions that are available.
C. See if the .COM is a working site or for sale.
Nobody ever says, "darn, the .CO it taken, I'm $crewed now". They just check out .WS or .ME or .PRO or .INFO or .TV or whatever. So the only one making money in this extension is "the house". And they're making it from me, and from you, and the guy above this post, and the guy above your post, and so on, all the way back until the beginning of this thread.
The End.
IMHO