Comments on: Dot .CO madness: What domains did I spend my money on?

By: Soud

Soud — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:58:56 +0000

Developing the corresponding to a parked .com is a smart idea acro

By: Sri

Sri — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:59:53 +0000

A developed domain in any TLD will outrank a parked .COM. I don’t know if any of you noticed (or don’t want to talk about it), parked domains listed earlier in first 10 results of Google are now not even in 200 since 03/2010. Also, type-ins are a thing of the past due to browser behavior. A parked name won’t get traffic unless a user types in the exact URL, or if they type an exact keyword without spaces and press Ctrl-Enter, when the browser will try to search for http://www.keyword.com, net, org in that order (sorry, no other TLDs). I am talking here about FireFox plus Google on Ubuntu linux, but I am sure it won’t be much different with other browser, search engine and OS combinations.

And, finally if the user does get through to the parked domain, only the naivest of them would click on some ad instead of hitting the back button. So, development IS the done thing now to make any ROI, period. You could start with a mini-site, better still a blog, which would at least get your name indexed reasonably and then continue with full-blown development.

In this scenario, a nice brandable or a decent one/two word generic .CO can work wonders, especially if the top TLD versions are parked.

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:21:34 +0000

Emma – I’m amazed at the amount of generalization and blanket statements you manage to throw out there. You must have some real reason to be so upset; lack of premium domains perhaps? End users are constantly acquiring domains, do they have to ring you up so that you approve the transaction? Also, if there is so much gloom and doom in domaining, what are you doing here? I’m sure you have better things to do with your own business. Jeez.

By: emma

emma — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:59:39 +0000

If I am wrong, why then generic or premium .com and .net domain names are not making it to end-users? Why are they just changing hands between speculators? Remember house market was like this and you know what happened, it collapsed, cause you a market of a product with just speculators, with no end-users is a fake market. Domain name business is coming to end. Don’t go by what Sedo and Afternic report. Their reports on domain sale are fictitious. Most of those sales never took place. They just want you to think that domain names are selling well. They aren’t.

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:49:31 +0000

Emma – You come forth as an angry domainer. Not to mention, your reference to “60 years” is just laughable. The commercial Internet itself is 15 years old, where do you pull these overblown figures from? The .co registry has been open to the public for LESS THAN 2 WEEKS – what exactly are you expecting it to achieve in such a short period of time?

And yet, 370,000 .co domains are now registered.

Your accusation of Rick Latona stems from some personal issues or are you once again pulling stuff out of your ass? In the domain industry people should form their own opinions but be prepared to back them up with facts versus throwing out venomous generalizations.

By: emma

emma — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:31:13 +0000

It will take .co domain names 60 years to get to where .net domain names are today. As long as millions of generic or premium .com and .net domain names are still out there in hands of speculators, not in hands of end-users, I do not see why people(end-users) would decide to buy .co domains at almost the same price. This is the same reason why all other domain extensions failed in the market. The problem is that generic or premium domain names are not making it to end-users. They are just changing hands between speculators. And this got to a point where even speculators no longer want to buy domain names because they having hard time to sell the ones they already have. The reason why generic or premium domain are not making it to end-users is because people already have realized that you don’t have to have or buy a generic or premium domain name to start a business online. You just need a reasonably easy-to-remember domain name. It could be babalo.com , gogota.com, biololo.com, hahaye.com, kebang.com, totalo.com,vabaka.com , jujure.com, peroral.com, piratar.com and etc etc etc etc. This kind of names will never finish. You can register them anytime. Does the domain name godaddy.com suggest domain name registrar? The answer is no, yet Godaddy is the world leading domain registrar. Don’t listen to Rick Swartz or Rick Latona. They themselves don’t a shit. They were just lucky. Rick Latona is domain crook. He creates domain conferences just to eat get people’s money. Nobody needs domain names at exorbitant price. Did you know Sedo reports fictitious domain sales. They register any domain name and then sell them one buy one everyday to themselves and then report the sale. That would make you think that domain names are really selling, then you would list your domain at Sedo and pay advertising cost. They live on this. Be smart. Get yourself a life. Stop domaing for nothing.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:10:32 +0000

@Acro

Your right it is PetRock.co is up for the taking!

Thanks for the great reads Acro, keep up the good work!

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:06:19 +0000

hey Mike – There’s a spammer going around who’s copying and pasting legit comments left by others elsewhere, this way he gets past the WP spam mechanism. But I agree, one has to do their own research before adopting any new TLD or service.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:03:17 +0000

for me, the worst part about .co is having to read through the same arguments over, and over, and over again in the comments of every .co related blog post. one of these comments looks like it was literally cut and pasted from a comment i just read yesterday on MHBs blog. if you’re going to disagree, which is fine, at least add something useful to the discussion at hand. Sorry Acro, just wanted to voice that.

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:52:58 +0000

Shawn – PetRock.co is still available

I don’t consider 50 .co domains to be a heavy investment; I have less .info and .biz though

The .tv issue seems to be a whole different chapter that is marred by selective “premium” pricing.