poll Will a buyer buy your .CO? Let's discuss

[abstractdomainer]

Unless your .CO domain is too good, do you think a buyer has the probability of buying it from you at $2,000 to $10,000 or so?
I don't think so. Here is why:

The buyer has too many options

Imagine how many domain name investors would buy the $120 .CO domains which are decent to really good. Not many, I would suppose (an assumption here, given that one can buy like 12 .COMs or a decent 4-letter .COM for that price).
So, if you buy a $1 .CO domain now, thinking that a buyer may snap it up for $999 or so, things may be tricky here. The buyer has many options with the $120 names that he can buy instead of buying your .CO domain. That's where my doubt comes in.

Although I did book close to 200 .CO domains recently, there is always the factor of having the choice to book 20 .COMs instead. A difficult choice indeed. But given that .CO is so enticing, I could hardly resist the urge.

I think I picked up a couple of decent names. However, the time will tell.

What do you think of your recent .CO acquisitions of $1 each?

 

[steven55]

Thanks a lot @Nikul Sanghvi, really appreciate it !

 

[blogspotter]

Nice, interesting..

Did you list them at Afternic and one of them got binned ?

I list them everywhere. DAN, Afternic, Uniregistry, Epik, Dynadot some even squadhelp.. This one was on SAV.

 

[blogspotter]

Thanks!
You listed them with BIN at all these places ?

yes

 

[7363824]

Ya. That's what I am worried. And mostly, the names I picked were all 2 words, coz of lack of single words or my research.


That's a very valid point. Is this your first experiment or have you had similar experiments with some other extensions as well?

I did a much smaller one with .info (on a 1.25 promo) with just over 100 names. After 2 1/2 months I had 2 small sales of $50 each, and one larger sale for $599 all though Afternic. So I am already in the black by over $400 on that (even after AN commissions), and IMO info is a much weaker extension than co.

 

[steven55]

My selection criteria means that nearly everything I would want to buy in .CO is now premium.
This is unfortunate as now I don't really buy many domains using the coupons or discounts

Really appreciate all your posts related to .co domains.
They are really full of wisdom, thanks !

Do you buy the premium .co domains at the new reg prices of $100+ and continue to get a decent ROI ?

 

[steven55]

I purchased around 200 .co after reading Nikul's posts in July this year
I would be out of the red even if 2 were sold for 99 right?

So I set a Bin of 99 for the worst of the lot and 1 got binned within weeks of purchase.

I regged them in a hurry and I think about 50% are a waste of bandwidth, but I plan to reduce the BIN on the better lot and see.

Good thing about reg premium, it warms up a buyer to the 99-999 price point I guess.

Nice, interesting..

Did you list them at Afternic and one of them got binned ?

 

[steven55]

I list them everywhere. DAN, Afternic, Uniregistry, Epik, Dynadot some even squadhelp.. This one was on SAV.

Thanks!
You listed them with BIN at all these places ?