.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]

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.

 

[BrandChimp]

Tip of the day: Don't used estibot to get an idea of the retail price. Its not accurate. Use Google Adwords and see if there is any search and good cpc.

Link: http://vij.com/google-adwords-keyword-planner-domainsherpa-tutorial

ps: Its not beacause a name is aged that means it have value. onlinestores.com was good when people where typing domains instead of using google. It still have a lot of value but less than before.

onlinestores.co may be a good purchase. I suggest building it, rank it and get tones of affiliates. Then we can speek about a premium price.

My opinion.

X

 

[xpimp]

yeah, it took me at least 10 domains to register based on estibot to cure myself from such a lousy tool.

and don't get me wrong here, those 10 domains had the estimated value between 1000-3000 USD

and what happend after? guess what, nobody had made me an offer even to this day

i still look at them from time to time and ask myself: why? why you had to be so stupid? don't you see how shitty they look, no wonder nobody wants them

it may seem crazy but i wait the day to see them expire and disappear from my account asap

 

[rmaden]

DotBay-Xpimp-Thanks for the comments---Before i buy a name-i check traffic-Valuate.com (for price,search and TRAFFIC!!--i chop their price ESTIMATE %70)is ESTIBOT BUT FREE.

Try the VALUATE as you can list the name for sale right there-takes a minute.I've sold 6 that way over a few years

.Again it is Estibot--so if -as you say-had some appraise for $3k--put it for sale for--299-399-499--They will include their estimate on the listing if you want it-give you a link for your sale site etc

XPIMP rather then let them expire put them on eBay cheap. You might be suprised.

I had a Team(mlb)Jersey.com-they appraised it for $4,200 listed it for $399-and out it went. Bought it with one of those $1.99 codes.


I also/then use DomainIndex.com--really good as it gives trademark,keywords traffic and -much more -even listing similar names that have recently sold.So i crosscheck.

I have already had 4 adsense clicks with decent pennies in just over a day so it gets traffic. .I slapped a Gift type site(have the same content on 2 other sites) to the name and the cheapest of the clicks was .59 cents-so gifts are good.beats parking it.%%-

For the record i have close to 60 live sites-Even those names are for sale.

 

[rmaden]

."""""""""Again it is Estibot--so if -as you say-had some appraise for $3k--put it for sale for--299-399-499--They will include their estimate on the listing if you want it-give you a link for your sale site etc"""""""""""""""

As a follow up WHEN/IF U offer list a name-its free to list-dont have to wait like Bido etc--It also gets advertized on a lot of sites.

Do one for fun.Then-even minutes later-go to DomainIndex.com
and put in the name back in for appraisal and u will see a red
block that will say this name is for sale.Click on it and you will see your domain--this is what you will see--JUST did this one


""""""""twinsjersey.com is for sale.
The owner of the domain you are researching has it listed for sale for 499 USD
Buy twinsjersey.com now
twinsjersey.com information
domain twinsjersey.comBIG
appraised value 2,920 USD
domain birthday"""""""""%%-

I have that domain on GoDad,Sedo etc so,respectively, another place just increases ur chances of selling a name

 

[xpimp]

Yes, that is a good point. Have them listed on Sedo and now wait for GoDaddy to unite its auctions with Afternic on 31 March 2014 so two big platforms will be accesible