With almost 400,000 registered domains since the official launch, the .CO is rolling forward as a ccTLD on steroids.
Although I do not recommend that anyone should heavily invest in any new TLD – unless you have money to burn – the .CO introduced a registration frenzy unlike any other in recent memory. The interest is real and the momentum in registrations has not slowed down yet.
As I already explained, my primary investment in .CO has been that of geoDomains. It is important to keep in mind that development is my primary goal with .CO and not monetization by utilizing traffic that trickles over from the respective .com
I want to keep this nice and short, so here’s an important tip if you are a small to medium size investor in the .CO namespace.
If you have received any decent or promising offer in the near past about a .com (or even a .net and .org) then check the .co for availability and GRAB it. Chances are, that the person or company that made that offer in the past – perhaps utilizing the anonymity of Sedo – will register the .co as a cheap and very competitive alternative to the one that you simply keep parked.
Don’t lose out – by investing $25 you will be able to perhaps negotiate a package deal in the future for the domain that you weren’t able to sell originally!
I’m praying real hard that all mothers, brothers and businesses all over the world register .co…. I love the spill over traffic into .com.
“.co, oops a typo. Its .com, no?”
🙂
Of course, it works both ways. One should take care not to attempt a direct competition with .com although a developed .co will beat a parked .com any day of the week.
True, also a developed anything will beat a parked .com any hour of the day!
Don’t mind me… I’m just making convo with ya.
John – the way I view it is thus: .co has received plenty of publicity, it’s a new TLD and its proximity to .com makes it appealing to many companies that can’t acquire the .com due to its high price or other lack of availability.
Therefore, I believe that by securing the .co of .com domains (or other TLDs, for that matter) that one received offers on, would increase the bargain leverage.
Acro, I feel .co’s proximity to .com is actually a strong negative, not a positive, because of the confusion it causes in people’s ability to recall it, and not type it as .com.
Rather than reg the .cos of any .coms that anyone has previously shown interest in (with the hope of cornering the market and then hoping to sell as a com-co combo), I would rather hope they all buy the .co versions and develop fantastic websites, because IMHO they will be adding value to the .com equivalent.
Ughhhh, you just convinced me to reg my first .co. An LLL to match my LLL.com. Got the set now. We’ll see if it helps, or if it’s just another LLL reg of ‘some extension’!
Where do you recommend me to offer “onlinescores.co” and “semanticweb.co” ?
Thanks!
I agree with Fizz and I certainly am not a .commie. I just think it confuses people, go to cruise.co, OH they left off the m, I will add the m and go to cruise.com.
I regged one .co Nueve Spanish for Nine. I looked at 20 others which I could have regged and now all are regged.
Fizz – as I said it works both ways: developing the .co when the .com is parked, or acquiring the .co as added leverage to selling the .com – especially when prior offers were made for the .com
Kevin – smart move 😉
Alejandro – No idea, sorry.
RH – With smart branding you can send visitors to .qz if that TLD existed 😀
Right so with smart branding never involves confusion. .Co is confusion it can be spun anyway anyone likes but its confusion.
RH – Look at it this way: .co.uk is confusing to the non-British but they can still learn to type it in.