.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.

 

[Theologian]

Are LLL.co sales picking up? There was a bit of a discussion about this in the available domain names forum, and it seems like they keep getting picked up quickly when dropped.

 

[BrandChimp]

I Like .co

They are not selling quickly.
I see more .co website and I think that they will increase in value by 2015.

 

[xpimp]

I'm very sure that a market for them has started creating. After a couple of years everybody will woke up but, as usual, then will be to late to catch a good one

 

[Kate]

... it seems like they keep getting picked up quickly when dropped.

Like so many other domains. Example: 4L.com

I'm very sure that a market for them has started creating. After a couple of years everybody will woke up but, as usual, then will be to late to catch a good one

Heard this so many times before...

 

[.NJ]

They get dropped and picked up quickly by all the new kids on the block.

They will be recycled again the following year.

It's a vicious and predictable cycle.

 

[Theologian]

They get dropped and picked up quickly by all the new kids on the block.

They will be recycled again the following year.

It's a vicious and predictable cycle.

This is my fear. It does seem that it may be this way.

 

[Archangel]

Some are keepers, some aren't. I still hold a few, but I'm letting my jpx.co drop, as I have better ones in my account. If anyone wants it, shoot me a PM--it's @ GoDaddy, I think. (And I mean: I'd give it away, not sell it, thus this isn't a sales post).

 

[xpimp]

Personally, i register co's in which i spot a commercial value. If i they don't clearly reflect a product or service then i don't take them. The ideal ones are, of course, the shorter ones with commercial value. I think that those are likely to sell more faster at a bigger price.

Unfortunately, like i said before, i have found about co's a bit to late and that's because i'm relatively new to domaining but i'm putting a great effort to learn about it.

What i have noticed from start is that many really great domains like sex.co etc. are reserved from the start by the registrar and, after a couple of years, resold at higher prices. This thing applies not only to co's but also to other new domain extensions.

I don't know if this thing had happen with the .com's at the begining of the 90's bacause many regular individuals succeed to take domain names like sex.com, porn.com with ease.

I personally don't think they have done it with the com's but, from then, they assured that every new extension that appears to keep the very good ones for themselves and sell them only at a big price to individuals or companies.

Hope you understand what i'm saying, english is not my first language.

 

[Kate]

Hey Xpimp, welcome to domaining You get it, the registries are the biggest domainers.

 

[Archangel]

You pretty much just described one of the biggest reasons extensions fail: the best domains of an extension are held for a few years by the registry & the landscape is shaped by low-to-medium tier domains. By the time the great .whatever's are released, neophilia dissipates and the extension is more or less dead.

Personally, i register co's in which i spot a commercial value. If i they don't clearly reflect a product or service then i don't take them. The ideal ones are, of course, the shorter ones with commercial value. I think that those are likely to sell more faster at a bigger price.

Unfortunately, like i said before, i have found about co's a bit to late and that's because i'm relatively new to domaining but i'm putting a great effort to learn about it.

What i have noticed from start is that many really great domains like sex.co etc. are reserved from the start by the registrar and, after a couple of years, resold at higher prices. This thing applies not only to co's but also to other new domain extensions.

I don't know if this thing had happen with the .com's at the begining of the 90's bacause many regular individuals succeed to take domain names like sex.com, porn.com with ease.

I personally don't think they have done it with the com's but, from then, they assured that every new extension that appears to keep the very good ones for themselves and sell them only at a big price to individuals or companies.

Hope you understand what i'm saying, english is not my first language.

 

[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.