discuss Going big in .CO domains

[abstractdomainer]

With $0.99 .CO domains available last month, I put aside a budget of $2000 to invest and get close to 2000 .CO domain names and hope to sell 1% = 20 domain names at an average of $400 = $8,000, making a clean, low-risk $6,000 - a 300% return on investment.

However, there were hardly more than 500 domain names I could find worth registering over the period of the entire 1 month. This was a disappointment and made me question whether one can actually go big in .CO domain names when they are planning to go for $1 names, instead of $100 names which may or may not sell.

Has anyone tried going big with .co or do you usually treat .CO as a place to generate small returns in small hundreds/thousands? What has been your experience and is there a way to make significant returns in .CO?

 

[Rob Monster]

The .CO 1-year flip scenario is unmatched in the industry to asymmetric returns. I am not sure how many more cycles of that we'll get but the expiry stream of .CO is still decent so once a year around July/August, a big pile of prime inventory comes available. @Sufyan Alani is working on another round of promo.

 

[blogspotter]

I bought more than 2000 names in the recent promo... and have sold 3 already for a little over 5K

It is possible to buy in the thousands if you put in the work... by digging in the for good names with lesser TLDs taken

I bought around 200 names in Epik promo Last Nov- December. I sold 5 names from that batch and that got me hooked.

Vagon. co -499
Xillion. co -200
httpstatus. co -299
DogRescue. co -200
imsmart. co -1249

 

[myweb1]

I had similar experience. I wanted to buy 1000+ names on Epik during their promo but I could find some 200-300 that I felt had a chance of selling. Any half decent .co name is now registry premium. On a positive side, I already had two offers of $1000 using epik lander but both went silent after I accepted.
I am quite certain that there is money to be made by registering 100+ seemingly ok .co names during promos. Going big with random names doesn't make much sense im my opinion.

 

[Samer]

I hate that .co registry renewal fees.

Premium renewals are a disgrace to the game

Samer

 

[Pierre Barnard]

Very bullish on. Co

 

[dncafe]

The problem with this is that any of the good names you would want to take a chance with are going to be classified as "premium" names and cost $100+

For example, looking at recently dropped one word .co domains, there is:

Pitboss.co

Maybe this could sell to some app or gambling type website...is it worth spending $110 on it and having one year to sell it?

I've made money in the past buying up the 99 cent promos on various extensions, but it's usually related to a trend in domaining, not just random words. Domains like LLL or NNN that can be bought without a premium, or doing bulk checks on GEO domains that don't have a premiums.

If there was a 1 year challenge to turn $2,000 in domains into $8,000, I think you would be better off finding a good aftermarket domain in a lucrative niche for $2,000 and do outbound marketing to sell it for $8,000+

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I have registered more in other .co promotions than in this one, but did register a dozen or so new names. It is true that if even a few sell at even mid $$$ you are in significantly positive territory, but with a significant renewal and, as you note so hard to find worthwhile names to hand register, I agree going really big is tough.

Best wishes for your names.

Bob

 

[Greek23]

I registered about 250-300 names in the Epik promo in July, will keep everyone posted on sales. First time taking part in a promo of .co names, risk reward seems worth it......

 

[DomainRecap]

I hate that .co registry renewal fees.

Premium renewals are a disgrace to the game

Yep, and in the long run, those Columbians have cooked the golden goose.

Extreme greed is the killer of most business plans, as there are always alternatives.

 

[Soofi]

I tried as well, but similar experience and could not find more than 100 worth registering

With $0.99 .CO domains available last month, I put aside a budget of $2000 to invest and get close to 2000 .CO domain names and hope to sell 1% = 20 domain names at an average of $400 = $8,000, making a clean, low-risk $6,000 - a 300% return on investment.

However, there were hardly more than 500 domain names I could find worth registering over the period of the entire 1 month. This was a disappointment and made me question whether one can actually go big in .CO domain names when they are planning to go for $1 names, instead of $100 names which may or may not sell.

Has anyone tried going big with .co or do you usually treat .CO as a place to generate small returns in small hundreds/thousands? What has been your experience and is there a way to make significant returns in .CO?

 

[Soofi]

The .CO 1-year flip scenario is unmatched in the industry to asymmetric returns. I am not sure how many more cycles of that we'll get but the expiry stream of .CO is still decent so once a year around July/August, a big pile of prime inventory comes available. @Sufyan Alani is working on another round of promo.

I'll pick up some 1000-2000 names as well. Waiting for next .CO Promo

 

[Donmarick]

Exactly. .co is a gold mine but even after putting in 1 hour daily on expired domains for the entire month to grab something in the promo, I could find only 400 or so names.
Definitely there is money to be made! Big money, I am not sure!


Absolutely! I don't think .co are for renewals.
When will the next 99 cent promo come! I think I'd try grabbing a thousand names or so.


I don't think it is very unrealistic. Selling 1 out of 100 domain names is not very unrealistic.

I din't say it as sarcasm. I really wish him good luck and would love to hear the final sell score after year.

 

[accuname]

I hate that .co registry renewal fees.

Premium renewals are a disgrace to the game

Samer

What do you mean premium renewals? My understanding is that once you buy a premium name the renewals are the same as non-premium domains. I just bought a premium in auction and the renewal was 22.69. Unless something changed?

 

[Soofi]

I picked up about 100+ .CO names this promo and already have an offer of $200 on one of the names.

Doubled ROI already, so it’s definitely worth picking up names in such promos

 

[jim h]

Couldn't agree more , but good .COs is too hard to get recently.

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

With all due respect but why the shotgun approach.? I've never owned more than 30 names and have about a 10% sales rate. Unless your names are at least premium I feel like that's a dangerous game.

 

[Domainstore]

What do you mean premium renewals? My understanding is that once you buy a premium name the renewals are the same as non-premium domains. I just bought a premium in auction and the renewal was 22.69. Unless something changed?

Hello : Some information :
With .co you should lookto the following :
You have to make a distinction between "registry premium" and "premium".
"Premium" domains priced for instance 1.000 USD, or even much more, are renewable at normal pricing. (That's from 20$-40 $ renewal cost). Premium here means "somebody puts his .co-name for sale, and calls it a "premium domain" (look f.i at Dynadot and Porkbun).
HOWEVER
when you see that a domain is "Registry Premium" then you have to be careful.
Most LLL.co domains are like that and also LLLL.co domains. When they are DROPPED these domains suddenly are higher in price reregisterring them. However, if you renew in time it only costs you the normal renewal cost of 20-40 $.
The highest until now sold probably between a domainer and probably an enduser is I think 300.000 USD ,00 Eth.co, I think. The renewal for the buyer will be every year normal renewal pricing 20-40/year. (this has also to do with what Eth now stands for).
If you don't renew these registry premium domains, the re-registration is suddenly high-priced for registration, certainly the LLL.CO ones.
But there aren't many .co- ones that actually drop. Usually these are sold in Aftermarkets (if i's expired domain auction). If such a domain is actually dropped : many backorders are placed on these ones, but you have to be careful anyhow. Because every LLLL.co that drops and is not "registry premium" yet, becomes usually registry premium and suddenly after drop and thus higher pricing to reregister or to register. This is also the case with some words that drop (and LLL.CO).
This is very clever of the registry, because they give a promotion of 0,99 especialy in july and at clackfriday and monday, end year and sometimes during the year (depending on the registrar).
People register 400 domains. Sell 10 for instance and don't renew the rest. The fact is that these 400 are usually intresting domains, and the best ones are given "registry premium status" for reregistration. However : Every "registry premium" domain you register at a high pricing 1.000 or + 2 or 3.000 registration fee, are renewable by the buyer at the normal renewal price of 20-40 USD again.
to : @xdomainer @Samer
Domainstore

 

[jedaprin]

Meh you could throw a hundred Bajillion numbers and names at the registry

Theres a reason why things go on sale
When i Register Domains i try to Purchase Them For 10 Years see that magical Word "Purchase"

I only got like 20 domains But i got them For 10 Years or as Much Time as Possible
Its like Growing a Pokemon

 

[DomainBoxio]

where is 99 cents .co?

 

[ecomslice]

Those fortunate enough caught the recent 1$ " Transfer in " promo at 1on1.

Some are killing it with many sales im sure.

 

[Donmarick]

Good Luck with Your 1% ;D

 

[vivadh]

I have purchased around 100 in the promo, lets wait and see

 

[abstractdomainer]

Exactly. .co is a gold mine but even after putting in 1 hour daily on expired domains for the entire month to grab something in the promo, I could find only 400 or so names.
Definitely there is money to be made! Big money, I am not sure!

I have registered more in other .co promotions than in this one, but did register a dozen or so new names. It is true that if even a few sell at even mid $$$ you are in significantly positive territory, but with a significant renewal and, as you note so hard to find worthwhile names to hand register, I agree going really big is tough.

Best wishes for your names.

Bob

Absolutely! I don't think .co are for renewals.
When will the next 99 cent promo come! I think I'd try grabbing a thousand names or so.

Good Luck with Your 1% ;D

I don't think it is very unrealistic. Selling 1 out of 100 domain names is not very unrealistic.

 

[abstractdomainer]

I bought more than 2000 names in the recent promo... and have sold 3 already for a little over 5K

It is possible to buy in the thousands if you put in the work... by digging in the for good names with lesser TLDs taken

I bought around 200 names in Epik promo Last Nov- December. I sold 5 names from that batch and that got me hooked.

Vagon. co -499
Xillion. co -200
httpstatus. co -299
DogRescue. co -200
imsmart. co -1249

That's fantastic. Although the imsmart does seem a little off to sell. That too in .CO
Maybe I need to get better at grabbing .co names.