Mobile.co owners pays dearly for Mobile.co.com -
Company pays $32,000 for mobil.co.com and movil.co.com.
The company that owns Mobile.co has spent $32,000 to acquire the third level domain names Mobile.co.com and Movil.co.com, the .co.com registry reported this morning.
Freelancing site Mobile Inc bought the domain names in a deal brokered by Igloo.com.
Although it might seem like a lot of money, the company may have spent a proportionally staggering amount when it acquired Mobile.co.
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Mon 17th November 2014
Thu 10th July 2014
Registrar’s .Co.com promo misses a point -
Promotion misses the point of getting the .com I’ve always wanted.
The .co.com third level domain name launched in general availability this week.
The company is using the tagline “Get the .com You’ve Always Wanted”, pitching you on getting a .co.com domain because the .com domain you want is already taken.
Conceptually this makes sense. Yet a promotion I received from a registrar yesterday doesn’t seem to exactly capture the spirit of this.
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Tue 8th July 2014
.Co.com exits landrush with thousands of registrations -
Third level domain option enters general availability today.
.Co.com, a new third level domain name registration, enters general availability today with “single-digit thousands” of registrations already.
The registry says that the greatest interest is coming from countries where third level domain names (e.g. something.com.au, something.co.uk and even something.com.co) are already commonplace.
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Tue 10th June 2014
.Co.com drops pricing on “Premium” domain names, releases reserved -
Company will slash prices on premium domains and offer many reserved domains at regular prices.
.Co.com, a new third level domain name option, is dropping prices on premium domain names and has removed tens of thousands of domain names from its reserved names list.
The company released a list of the previously reserved domain names that are now available for registration in a blog post.
The list includes some metrics, but not the actual traffic the domains receive. ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
Ken Hansen leaves Neustar to launch co.com domain name registry -
Hansen will join team offering third level domain registrations under co.com.
Ken Hansen, formerly at Neustar, will lead co.com as CEO.Three well known people in the domain name industry have teamed up to offer domain name registrations under co.com, e.g. name.co.com.
Ken Hansen has resigned his position at Neustar to join the new venture as CEO. Paul Goldstone (who owned the second level domain co.com) will be President and Gregg McNair (Igloo.com) will be Chairman.
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