.co What has been your best .CO sale?

[Arpit131]

What has been your best .CO domain sale until now?

For me, I bought a portfolio of over 100 .CO domains and haven't sold any of it in the last 8 months.
Looks like I am a bad .CO investor.

Share your best .CO sale and discuss the X-factor that made the domain get that price!!

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

Textbooks.CO

Hand registered and sold for $12,000 with 24 hours.
Also my quickest sale to date.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

thats amazing.
when did the reg/sale happen roughly? or do you mean this was after the premium pricings in sept2018... and you paid this prem? if so how much? ty.

@Arpit131

I hand registered for $17.99 in 2011.

I contacted several buyers and there were many low-high 4 figure offers from different end-users. I was actually looking for offers and the highest I received was $12,000 which I happily accepted.

 

[Doron Vermaat]

Rise.co for $10,000 is my largest sale in this extension. I've sold many more in the lower four-figure range. I believe .co and .io are the best investment opportunities after .com

 

[indiegrind]

I only buy .co when there is a really cheap sale at $1-$6 regfee and hold for 1 year. I sold several between high 3 and low 4 figures.

Here's some sales

inkwell $1,500
Russo $1,500
Techies $1,000
aromatica $1,500
halm $1,200
earthy $750
planned $1,000
portside $1,000
Skai $2,000
Volly $988
Pierced $1000
Cunningham $1000
latenight $850

 

[gilescoley]

Only ever sold one I think

Las-Vegas.co
$1000 usd

 

[Dave]

Only ever sold 4 .co but rarely bought that many.

Dino / co (like $800 I think)
Radish.co ($400)
Cider.co
Journalism.co

Oddly enough if I remember rightly radish dropped the year after I sold it.

 

[NYJimbo]

I bought about 125-150 .CO domains ($1 each) of current and former customers and convinced them they should buy them to protect their brand.

To date I think I sold 50 or so, most were low price $49.00 each and high price was $250. But I doubt many will renew for a second year.

It was a one-shot over the course of 6-8 months, but it worked well.

I have about 20-30 other .CO's for sale but they only get pricing inquiries and very low offers. If I can renew cheap, I will keep all of those for 2-3 more years. The other customer related batch I will let drop off.

 

[kandyan]

My one and only sale - RollerSkates.Co $2500

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

Bitso - $3100

dot co

95% sure the Crypto Dot com company bought it , and are still doing nothing with it

 

[dragtastic]

PDF/co $3500
AVQ/co $3500

 

[noonoo1]

PPIclaims.co $5,500 22/02/2012

SBO.co $4,888 Feb 2019

Top 2 .co sales for me

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

Only one sale.

TheSuper.co - 999$ .. Hand reg name 1.9$

 

[pinkdragon]

coinmaker.co for $888, Afternic BIN.

I own another 6 .co, from a portofolio of only 89 domains.

 

[Nikul Sanghvi]

Perhaps @Nikul Sanghvi might want to chip in - he's the undisputed champion in .co investing.

Haha, thanks Doron... not sure about the champion title but it's definitely an extension that's taken up the majority of my portfolio for a while now.

The bulk of my profits in .CO have come from domains priced between $2k and $4k - which feels like the sweetspot. The better .CO domains don't sell as frequently but can easily break out of that range.
These two below have been my largest .CO sales to date:

Quantum dot co .... $25k

Qubit dot co ... $19k

Those five-figure .CO sales are possible but require time and patience. Only a handful of domainers make them happen on a regular basis (and/or brokers like @Brian Harbin - https://www.gritbrokerage.com/notable-sales).

I'd agree that .CO isn't the best extension for beginners to invest in, even more so now with the premium tiering. There's also a very specific type of domain that sells in .CO and .IO - and if you can't spot those, it's super easy to waste money.
As Doron mentions, there are investment-worthy premiums that come up for sale in auctions, the aftermarket and through the registry. But finding them requires an eagle-eye, a decent budget and intuition... three things that develop through experience.

For anyone interested, I've previously written more on the pros and cons of the extension here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/dot-co-confusion.1033963/#post-6293060

And my thoughts on the pricing changes are here:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/co-pricing-strategy-your-views.1095802/#post-6879028

 

[alcy]

it doesn't take a genius to note that namebio has a ton of .co sales... with new ones basically daily.
so this is far from being a bad extension to own.. unfortunately things went into chaos afte prem pricings move from greedy co people in sept2018.

im still keeping some of my best .co names on renewal... including a few 3L.co .... but I rarely reg new ones now.

I did have a few .co sales in last 5 years... can't remmeber the name.. but my highest was round 3k.

cheers

 

[Mainlander]

Sold Epiq.co just the other day at SquadHelp for $2399.
Hand registered in September 2018 for $130.

 

[drsheraz]

first and last
virtuallabs dot co

 

[Doron Vermaat]

The opportunity to hand-reg great .co's after they drop is indeed gone since the registry has been reserving those. My focus has been more on the more premium names and you can still get those at (expired) auction or even directly from the registry. For example, I purchased Rise.co for around $700 on GoDaddy auctions when the previous owner, an end-user, let it expire after they were acquired.

Although the registry has killed the honeypot so to speak of picking up decent names on the drop I don't necessarily think that what they're doing is bad for the aftermarket and/or the value of .co domain names.

I feel that to turn a profit in .co and .io some knowledge and a finger on the pulse of the tech, popular culture and startup world is a must. My advice is not to try your hand at any of these extensions until you've seen some success in .com or perhaps your local cctld. Perhaps @Nikul Sanghvi might want to chip in - he's the undisputed champion in .co investing.

 

[alcy]

not my sale.. recent..

wow.. I wish I had a name/sale like this lol

Smart.co $52,820 Aishwin.com/Uniregistry

 

[ResoluteDomains]

"ONUS" at $1533 to an end-user inbound via GoDaddy. Details here → https://www.namepros.com/posts/7097515/

 

[D Haynes]

Vaping related .co domain for $3250 last year I think. May have been the end of 2017.

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

Dot co is a interesting choice , I got a interesting hand reg that was not dropped ......and the dot com has a 100k price tag(by 1 of the 2 most famous/infamous domainers in the game ) , and the dot .io was picked up buy a billion dollar company last month .......I have it redirected to their ultimate/prefered dot com , which I also own and have not shared on the reg thread for reasons , should it sell ...I will share ...as stated before I love .co as to date it is my highest selling /return ext( that is not to say .com is King ) congrats to all...stay ahead of the curve .....and yes the sale I previously reported was a closeout buy !!!!!!! Deals and steal are there for the taking should you absorb the knowledge shared here! It took me 1.5 years to get my first x,xxx sale and it was a dot co. It was a combo of my own due diligence and knowledge shared here and following certain trends !.....I am one of those that Believes unless it’s strictly a Nonprofit organization /health field that .co is 2nd to dot com ........followed by the very profitable cctld .de which leads behinds in sales!!

.co is still rich in opportunity if you for for the drops, expiresys , and close outs , which allow you to to cut off new .co registry priemums should a bidding war not ensue !

 

[NYJimbo]

thats a real good convince outbound rate at 50 out of 130 different people.. and possibiity of more still..

i guess you did your homework before buying.

I wont explain my process, but it was about telling them the risk and immediacy of buying the domain or sitting around and letting "scoundrels" buy it, even if there might not really be a risk or needed to be done quickly.

Yeah, you know what I mean..... Domaining can be an ugly business....

 

[indiegrind]

Rise.co for $10,000 is my largest sale in this extension. I've sold many more in the lower four-figure range. I believe .co and .io are the best investment opportunities after .com

I felt the same until late last year when .co implemented "premium tiered" pricing. I was trying to grab some names while a .co sale was going and everything I tried to reg was hundreds of dollars initial registration.

That killed the honeypot for me. Nothing that wasn't premium priced was worth registering in .co.