.co Real meaning of .co

[dompro]

I know the .co TLD is assigned to Columbia.

But in your mind the is the .co domain associated with Co. as "company" or "corporation" and does .co TLD has a future in regard with this association?

Another words, would you think of shop.co as an international shopping site or a Columbian shopping site?

Also, being .co, how will it any affect US traffic from search engines vs generic TLD?

 

[Kate]

If you are in the US, .co could stand for Colorado too :blink:

 

[DU]

If you believe dot co it could also mean .COllaborate

I don't believe the extension means anything too much. It just means that it's not .com, .net, .tv, .us, .me.

It's kind of a nothingness. Not sure if that helps or hurts. I don't think you can use it as COmpany in general. It's just like .COM - doesn't mean a thing to anyone that uses it other than it goes on the end to make the internet thingy work.

 

[dompro]

It's just like .COM - doesn't mean a thing to anyone that uses it other than it goes on the end to make the internet thingy work.

.COM means (relative) reputability as website owner have spent enough time/money to find and register .com name(which most international sites use) versus:
a) registering a copycat name in some crappy .name/.pro/.etc extension
b) registering a $1.99 info that they going to drop in a year so not to have to pay the regular price renewal fee

So my question is .co just another crappy extension or do you see it gravitating toward the prime generic .com/.net/.org in the future?

 

[999names]

.co doesnt mean anything. As you said its a copycat extension that was made for the tld to make money. I really don't believe in .co it's a hype and whoever tells you otherwise its because:

1) they work for .co
2) they have tons of .co's registered and don't want to believe .co will never have a future.

.co was supposed to mean corp or company .co doesn't resemble either bc it has become a confusing extension which end users don't know if you forgot to place an m at the end of .co
.co isnt even releasing the true statistics of their drops and registrations. That's just me it has no meaning to me.

 

[rmg]

Another words, would you think of shop.co as an international shopping site or a Columbian shopping site?
TLD?

Colombian shopping site. But it would be better to use a spanish (colombian) word dot co.

 

[HappyDay]

Maybe this is also interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co

My opinion about this tld is the same like 999names and I think German keywords with .co are really strange but they continue to register making the registrars rich and richer. Really only english and spanish words makes sense with this extension.