Tag Archives: .co

Thu 17th October 2013
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Up.Co Hits Times Square In A BIG Way -                     The .Co registry just published a pretty impressive picture of a billboard in Time Square right above the NASDAQ sign for Up.co “There’s nothing we love more than to see one of our .CO-ers succeed in a massive way. Well, except for one thing.  It’s even more exciting when their massive success will help hundreds of thousands of people around the world to succeed in a massive way too!” “Today we are so proud to see that our good friends at UP Global (UP.CO) ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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Inc. Asks Do You Really Need A .Com -                   In a post tonight Inc.com asks Do you Really Need A  .Com? “If you’ve started a business any time in the last 15 to 20 years, you’ve probably struggled with the same issue. There’s the-name-you-wish-you-could-have.com but you can’t have it because someone else already does. There’s the-stupidly-long-name-no-one-will-remember.com but no one will remember it. Or, there’s the-weird-made-up-word-no-one-grabbed-yet.com. ” “That last category is what gave ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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Media Options Gets MO.co Domain From .Co Regsitry - Domain brokr MediaOptions.com announced tonight on its Facebook page that is acquired the domain name MO.co from the .Co registry. A press release is expected to be released sometime today, but as of now we don’t know what MediaOptions.com paid for Mo.Co and how MediaOptions is planimg on using the premium two letter .Co domain. According to Andrew Rosener post on Facebook: “Press Release to come out soon but I wanted to announce that Media Options has acquired the MO.CO domain name from the ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It - TechCrunch.com has just covered  the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: “Since Silk first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on its cloud-based, web data-crunching platform designed for non-technical “knowledge workers.” Taking less easy-to-read data sets and making them more ... read more ...
Sat 5th October 2013
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Founders Institute Fi.co Incubator Portfolio of Companies Has A Valuation of $5 Billion - TechCrunch.com just covered The Founders Institute which uses the domain name Fi.co, is an incubator, and just hit a big milestone, more than 1,000 companies have graduated from the program. “Instead of targeting twenty something programmers who have already started working on new companies, the companies founder Adeo Ress said his team created “a structured process” that would allow people who were working at big companies and “daydreaming” about their own startups to learn about the ... read more ...
Wed 2nd October 2013
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500.co Makes Over $44 Million In Additional Seed Funding - According to VentureBeat, Accelerator program and investment group 500 Startups which proudly uses the domain name 500.co, just announced $44.1 million in new seed fund today, the second the group has raised since launching. The second fund is also substantially higher than its initial $29.6 million fund from 2011. “As for 500 Startups, the group typically invests $25,000 to $250,000 in early-stage companies that are typically already making a profit or on their way to doing so. Some of its past ... read more ...
Wed 25th September 2013
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Superyacht association rebrands as Y.CO - YCO Yacht rebrands its business to Y.CO. A superyacht brokerage and management company has changed its brand to Y.CO, and announced the change in conjunction with the Monaco Yacht Show going on now. The company’s previous brand was YCO Yacht, so the Y.CO domain name fit perfectly for it. This is a case where the full domain name, including the extension, matched the existing brand. The company previously used the domain YCOYacht.com. YCO probably paid dearly for ... read more ...
Wed 4th September 2013
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CommonBond.Co Raises Over $100 Million - According to the Term Sheet, CommonBond, a New York-based student lending platform, has raised over $100 million in new equity and debt financing. Tribeca Venture Partners and The Social + Capital Partnership led the equity tranche, and were joined by Vikram Pandit (ex-Citi CEO), Tom Glocer (ex-Thomson Reuters CEO) and Tom Kalaris (ex-Barclays exec). The company’s website is commonbond.co CommonBond.com appears to be owned by a different company, CommonBond Communications. I know there are a bunch ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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Test pushing .co’s new Pop.co - New TLD hopefuls should take a look at Pop.co. .Co continues to innovate around how people register domain names and get online. Yesterday it launched a new company, Pop.co, to make the process of getting your domain and a basic web presence insanely easy. The idea is summed up quite nicely at Pop.co: It’s as easy as they suggest. First, you select a .co domain name to use. For my test, I chose TestingPop.co. Then you enter your name and mobile phone number. After ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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WordPress.com Adds .CO As Only The 5th TLD For Custom Domain Name Option For Fully Hosted WP Sites - Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced today on the company blog, that it has added .CO domain names as a custom domain name option for fully hosted WordPress.com sites. .CO becomes only the 5th TLD  joining .com, .org, .net and .me as one of only five custom domain options available through WordPress.com. There are currently over 33 million websites and blogs in over 120 languages around the world powered by WordPress.com, including the sites of many of the most well-recognized ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market” - Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just  published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. In the past we had taken more of a shot-gun approach to generating awareness ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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Sedo: .Co Sales Stand At $2.6M With YTD Average Sales Price Ahead Of .Com -   Sedo, today unveiled a report, detailing the growth and success of the .CO domain extension three years after its launch. There are currently over 1.5 million .CO domain names registered by people in over 200 countries. Data revealed in the .CO Market Report includes the following highlights:     The total value of .CO sales at Sedo since July 2010 is $2.6 million USD.     The mean average sales price for .CO domain names on Sedo’s marketplace is high, reaching $2,486 USD in 2013, up ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
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LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co -   LauchRock.co which bills itself as “A Platform For New Startups” has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: “”” From: LaunchRock hello@launchrock.com Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello LaunchRocker, On Monday, July 15th, 2013 at 12:00 PM PST, LaunchRock will be retiring our Legacy platform. If you do not migrate your account ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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Brit.Co Bought For $4,750, Gets $6.3 Million In Funding Including Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer - Another .Co domain name is in the news today as Brit + Co., a San Francisco-based media company focused on DIY ideas for “creative living in the digital age,” has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding according to The Term Sheet. Oak Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by Index Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Cowboy Ventures and returning angel investors like Marissa Mayer who is the CEO and President of Yahoo The companies website is www.brit.co. The domain name Brit.co was sold on ... read more ...
Thu 13th June 2013
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STRAAT/.Co Registry Buys 16,000 Sq Ft Building In Miami For HQ - According to Florida Trend a popular business publication in the State of Florida, CO Internet’s parent company, STRAAT Investments, purchased a 16,000-sq.-ft. building in Miami’s Brickell area to house its growing headquarters which is named Building.Co It expects to move in by the end of this year and will devote part of the building to space for entrepreneurs. STRAAT also applied for 13 new gTLD applications, recently dropping one application for .Book to work with another one of the applicants. Congrats ... read more ...
Thu 6th June 2013
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So How Much Is A 2 Letter or Number .Co Domain Worth? - With yesterday’s announcement that the .CO registry had put up for sale some 1,100 2 character domain names, including 2 letter .co and 2 number .co domains, I got a few email’s from domain investors asking me what I thought they were worth. I think we can all agree with it comes to a two letter .com they are worth at least $100K and as we know can sell for as much as FB.com which sold for a reported $8.5 Million, so what is a two letter .co worth? There are some really interesting two letter ... read more ...
 
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.Co Puts Over 1,000 Two Character Domains Up For Sale At Godaddy - According to the .Co Registry, effective immediately, the .CO Registry has listed approximately 1,100, two-character premium .CO domain names for sale on  GoDaddy. The two-character domain names are available through GoDaddy’s Aftermarket and will be available soon on the GoDaddy domain availability check, making these premium digital assets widely available to GoDaddy’s customer base of SMBs and global businesses. The two-character .CO domain names now listed on the GoDaddy platform include ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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.Co In The News Again As Fastcompany.com Covers Quarterly.Co - .Co domain names are in the news again today as FastCompany.com, has just covered Quarterly.Co  which was founded by former GOOD editor Zach Frechette which already has over 8,000 Subscribers. “The startup is a way for admirably cool people like Pharrell or Joshua Foer to share the things they love.” Says FastCompany. The company already raised $1.25 million in investment from True Ventures and Collaborative fund. Their CEO is Mitch Lowe a cofounder of Netflix and the former president of Redbox. “Quarterly.co ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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H2.Co Launched By Linkedin Co-Founder & Ex-Google, Verisign, Apple Executives - Another .Co is in the news today as H2.co announced its holding its inaugural meeting at LinkedIn’s global headquarters in Silicon Valley in October 2013. Talk about name dropping. Lets start with Reid Hoffman who is a Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn Then we move over to Nayan Patel and Jeff Merkel who between them are ex-Google, Verisign and Apple exec’s. The organization which used to be known as  h2global.org is now using a .Co  H2 (h2.co), ]which has ... read more ...
Thu 9th May 2013
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Mashable Covers Startup Good.Co - Mashable.com published a nice feature story on Good.co last night as part of its Launchpad series. The site Good.co launched in Beta last month classifies job hunters and companies into different personality types based on a proprietary algorithm and provides a score that shows how well the two match up. The goal is to help job hunters better understand their own strengths and improve the odds that businesses, employees and teams will be well matched for one another, and thrive together as a result.” “Good.co ... read more ...
Sat 13th April 2013
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Wantable.com Purchased For $47K is Being Forwarded To Wantable.Co - The domain name Wantable.com sold this week on Sedo.com for $47,000 certainly a nice price for that domain. The Domain was purchased by Wantable.co, LLC of Milwaukee Wisconsin . You might thing that it was an “upgrade” acquisition by a .Co site to the .Com. However Wantable.com is being forwarded to Wantable.co We are all used to seeing .com owners buying .co domain names as defensive purchases and then having the .co forward to the .com version but here the .com was the defensive purchase and ... read more ...
Tue 2nd April 2013
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.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on Apr 15th - According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. “With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and our team. ” “Over the past two and a half years, .CO has become the domain of choice for startups ... read more ...
 
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting Apr 15 - More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There will be no trademark sunrise period, so brand owners that wish to register their IDN.co domain should place an order with their registrar quickly. This isn’t .co’s first foray into internationalized domain names. ... read more ...
Tue 26th March 2013
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.Co domain tops 1.5 million domains - .Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of launch, especially with .co’s premium pricing. Interesting times are ahead as new top level domains roll out. I suspect a lot of new top level domain backers hope to achieve just 100,000 or so registrations at some ... read more ...
Mon 18th March 2013
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Will SXSW 2014 be famous as a year of a domain? - SXSW 2013 attracted a handful of domain companies, and I expect more next year. .Co founder Juan Diego Calle on stage with Steve Case.SXSW 2013 is over, and what an event it was. The Interactive portion drew over 30,000 official attendees. Add in the “shadow” (i.e. unpaid) attendance, and it probably topped 40,000 people. SXSW Interactive attracts developers, tech startups, app companies, graphic designers, and other people who like to wear thick rimmed glasses. It’s ... read more ...