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?

 

[PhongSGC]

another also doing like you @xbank

 

[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