Dragtastic is spot on. Estibot is meaningless. Although it is a nice "calculation" tool, it has no real world applicability. None of these will have "estibot" value unless you sell to an end-user.
Unless you can sell to a big company in Colombia, the Spanish names have no value.
The names may be more work than they are worth. If you want to put in the work, you can profit. I did. But it's a lot of work...and I mean lot. If you want liquidity, stick to .com , pool your money and buy something that is desirable by the population.
Of course you can play the Sedo crap-shoot but realize that .0000001% of all the .co on Sedo are sold. By those odds, you could be waiting for 20 years before your .co is sold. Of course the probability can get better as time goes on but it is doubtful. There are so many new TLDs that will be competing you can forget about it.
IMO, keep a couple really great .co and try to sell to end-users.
Ok guys, I would be very greatful of some advice/approx valuation on the following .CO s I have:
DOMAIN (ESTIBOT) Summary
MPV.co $1200 Multi-Purpose Vehicle
Kebab.co $870
Polska.co $170 POLAND (in Polish)
Striker.co $130
JPP.co $710
AMW.co $730
TRK.co $1700
Cairns.co $840 Large city in Australia
Pablo.co $560 Pop. name (esp in Colombi
Departures.co $230
Cheers, Sam
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Spot on. The registry is exactly like a casino. All the odds are in their favour. It appears to me that domaining is much like a form of gambling. Few are getting rich except for the "registry" (casino). It's all a probability game. Occasionally there is a big winner in a casino. With registries it's even better - they never have to pay out and they can keep the best for themselves and sell them (sugar.co).
Registries are really the wild west....all you have to do is get a license and you can print money. This is the bottom line. Many will try and sugar-coat this fact with "fancy" marketing gibberish. But facts are facts.
The majority of domain registrations will never be used. 250,000,000 registrations show how crazy people are. If they really understood how the system works, perhaps there would be a lot less registrations. For every $300 in registrations that someone throws away, the registry is getting that much richer. It's pure profit. They are winning the math game and the poor registerer is being sucked dry. The worst of it is that they have a simple software platform and actually have the registerer doing all the work. It's actually quite hilarious when you think about it.
If one wanted to do a study of how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, one needs not go further than the domain industry to find the prime example. It's really not about being "smart" but whether you can get a license and have the quid to buy a registry. There is no magic here. The bigger domainers in the industry want you to believe that what they are doing is so "special". All they do is lick each other's b*lls and practice pretension.
We don't know the circumstances of the sale, personally I have no evidence that it was orchestrated in any way. It could be that the buyer just materialized. But in my view the sale should be viewed as another fluke, nothing more. One that did not benefit a domainer anyway.
BTW I recently inquired about a premium .co and the registry referred me to Sedo. I see it's priced at 50K so I will pass.
What I said has been repeatedly proven: the registry always wins, like the casino. The registry is also the biggest domainer. In a way .co is reminiscent of .tv and other speculative TLDs where the registry wants to dominate the aftermarket and leaves little room for domainers to make a profit.
By the way the offical blahblah.tld threads at NP tend to lose steam after 300 pages and even before
