Tag Archives: .co

Thu 7th March 2013
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What to do during SXSW if you’re a domainer - Three domain companies and events to hit while in Austin. SXSW Interactive in Austin is an overwhelming event. There are hundreds of sessions to choose from, and just finding their locations can be a challenge. So let me break down for you some essentials for SXSW Interactive 2013 if you’re in the domain business. I know of three domain companies that will be at SXSW in some way this year. (There will likely be many more next year as new TLDs roll out.) 1. .Co .Co ... read more ...
Fri 1st March 2013
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Not All ccTLD’s Are Created Equally In Generic Search Rankings - There is a very interesting video posted on YouTube.com from Matt Cutts of Google who answered the question about how ccTLD’s are viewed by Google especially when they are being used as domain hacks. Here is the question: “”We have a vanity domain (http://ran.ge) that unfortunately isn’t one of the generic TLDs, which means we can’t set our geographic target in Webmaster Tools. Is there any way to still target our proper location?” In the 2:30 minute video, Matt Cutts makes it clear that ... read more ...
Mon 25th February 2013
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The 6th Annual Launch Festival Gets Started In SF On Mar 4th: Launch.co - The 6th Annual Launch festival is being held in San Fransico on March 4th–6th and their official site is Launch.co The 2013 LAUNCH Festival  according to show organizers is “the the best place to launch your startup, raise money and learn about starting a company”. The Festival awards prizes and has an impressive list of judges Here are the just some of the prizes: Grand Prize $25,000 investment or $10,000 cash from Jason Calacanis $25,000 investment or $10,000 cash from Dharmesh Shah The ... read more ...
Mon 4th February 2013
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.Co says best Super Bowl ad yet - .Co happy with Super Bowl ad results. Last night was the third Super Bowl ad .co has run in conjunction with Go Daddy (or should I say GoDaddy.co). I reached out to .Co Internet founder Juan Diego Calle to ask how it went: “Sweet! Much better for “our” brand than all of the previous ads.” This commercial was very different than the previous GoDaddy.co commercials. The commercial itself was actually about registering domains instead of strip teases. It was ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2013
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YourBigIdea.co Super Bowl tie-in - Site shows you what your life might be like if you register your “big idea”. This weekend is a big one for .co as it runs its Super Bowl ad in conjunction with Go Daddy for the third year in a row. Dubbed YourBigIdea.co, it features a number of guys who don’t jump on the opportunity to register their domains and then one guy who does — and he’s flying on a private jet. .Co has a tie-in web site it’s promoting along with the ad at YourBigIdea.co. On YourBigIdea.co, ... read more ...
Sat 26th January 2013
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Twitter Goes With A .CO For New Mobile Video Creation Service: Vine.Co - The Tech World has been reporting on Twitter’s new mobile video creation service, Vine. The service, allows users to create and share looping videos. “Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity,” the company said in an official blog post. “Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create.” Vine.Co has had a bunch of stories written about it in Mashable.com, you can read here and here; as well as TechCrunch.com, ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
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The .Co Super Bowl Ad Is Very Much About Being A Domainer: Here You Go - The .Co Superbowl has been sneaked released and the tag line is not doubt “Sky Waitress” Someone registered the .com and .co of the term and no it wasn’t me. The concept of the ad is very domainer oriented, which is just because you have the great next idea don’t assume that other people all around the world won’t have the same idea, at basically the same time, and reminds everyone that the first to get and register the domain owns it, something that every domainer can appreciate So if ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Back To The Future: Namesco Rebrands Back To Its URL Names.co.uk - Namesco, “one of the UK’s top domain name, web hosting and website builder providers” has going back to its registered .co.uk roots and rebranded the company using its URL, highlighting to customers the importance of choosing the right domain name from day one. Namesco has relaunched as Names.co.uk by going  back to its original roots 16 years ago, according to a press release it sent to TheDomains.com today. In the 16 years the company’s URL did not change but the branding did. Now the ... read more ...
Sun 13th January 2013
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Miamiherald.com Covers.Co Registry: “CO Sets Sights On Changing The Fabric of The Internet” - Miamiherald.com, just covered the .Co registry in a story entitled:  “.CO sets sights on changing ‘the Fabric of the Internet” The 4 page story starts out “For the millions of people who equate the Web with .com, . CO Internet is out to change that mindset.” “The Miami company that manages and markets .co domain names is already making impressive gains — more than 1.4 million in 200 countries have hung their businesses, blogs, personal projects or dreams on a .co virtual shingle. Still, ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2013
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.Co Registry Lands On ABC/Univision: “The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013″ List - In a story just out by ABCNews/Univision entitled “The Americas: 13 to Watch in 2013” sitting among people and topics like the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto,  Hugo Chavez and President Barack Obama, the .CO domain name registry came on at number 11 on the list: “This year we saw some major changes in the Americas in regards to business, technology and politics. 2013 should be all the more interesting. Here are thirteen people and things to keep an eye on this year.” 11. .CO: This ... read more ...
 
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Amazon Finally Starts Using A.co & Cloud.co - Amazon.com is finally starting to use half of the .co domain names they bought back in 2011. A.co is now being used as a shortener for Amazon.com and cloud.co is being used for Amazon’s Cloud Drive service It was back in May 2011 that Amazon announced it had acquired four .Co domains, A.co, K.co Z.co and Cloud.co for an undisclosed amount. However the domain name did not go immediately into service. In October 2011 Amazon announced it has acquired z.cn as a shortener for its Chinese official website ... read more ...
Thu 20th December 2012
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.Co Domains Under Management Grows 24% In 2012 - According to blog post on the .Co blog this morning the registrar is reporting that domains under management grew 24% from 2011-2012 “The .Co blended renewal rate is 63% and growing”. “First time renewal rates are in the mid 50% range, and second time renewal rates or older are in the low to mid 70% range.” You can read a more in-depth look at the .Co 2012 results on registration and renewals in an interview we conducted with  the COO of the registry back in October. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.Co domain bottom adult 24% this year to 1.4 million - Registered domain base up about 24% in a year. .Co Internet just released stats about its domain registrations. As of the end of November, there were about 1.4 million registered .co domain names. This is up 24% from last year. It has a “blended renewal rate” of 63%, although the graph on its blog post about the stats shows a steep drop off in November. [Update: the November renewal rate number on .co’s blog is not final, and should be in line with the average.] First ... read more ...
Wed 19th December 2012
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.Co Registry Announces It’s 3rd Super Bowl With Godaddy.com - For the third year in a row, Go Daddy is teaming up with the .CO domain to create a 2013 Super Bowl commercial. The 30-second ad is set to feature Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick, but that’s about all either company is revealing about the commercial at this point. In a press release issued today Godaddy said that  “.CO is one of the fastest-growing domain name extensions on the Internet and is a commonly referenced abbreviation for ‘company.’ Juan Diego Calle, CEO and Founder of .CO Internet ... read more ...
Sun 25th November 2012
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G.Co Hits Times Square By Letting You Put Your Pictures & Message In Times Square -                         G.co has hit New York’s Times Square and now so can your pictures. Google is using the domain name G.co as a branded marketing shortcut. The campaign is called  “For Everyone” and is part of their ad campaign for Google’s Chrome Book product. “There’s no bigger stage than Times Square in New York. That’s why we figured it would be the perfect place to show the world what For Everyone looks like.” “Want to see your contribution on the big screens? ... read more ...
Mon 19th November 2012
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Home.Co Sells On Sedo For $24,999 - The domain name Home.Co just sold on on Sedo.com for $24,999 The domain was part of the .Co auction for Start ups There are 11 applications for the new gTLD .home including by Godaddy.com, Google, Frank Schillings Uniregistry and Minds + Machines to name a few. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of the applicants as the winning bidder. As for the rest of the auction it was pretty lackluster with the only other 5 figure sale that I saw was Hot.co which sold for a little over $10K.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Sedo .Co Domain Auction “For Startups” Ends At Noon Today - The Sedo.com, .Co domain name auction “For Startups” ends today at Noon EST. There are 164 domain name at auction and of the time of publication with three hours to go 66 domains out of 167 have bids but only 7 have hit reserve. The domain with the highest bid it Hot.co with a bid of $10,000   hot.co Reserve met 10,000 USD 10,000 – 24,999 USD shoot.co Reserve not met! 2,400 USD 1,000 – 4,999 USD casinos.co Reserve not met! 2,000 USD 10,000 – 24,999 USD astrology.co Reserve met 2,000 USD 1,000 ... read more ...
Thu 15th November 2012
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.Co Launches Exclusive FREE Membership Program Just For .Co Domain Holders - The .Co registry just announced “the public launch of an exclusive membership program, featuring high-value education, networking and promotional support designed to help .CO users to build and grow successful businesses”. “The free program is the first of its kind within the top-level domain industry”. According to the press release. the beta program will be made available to the first 1,000 .CO users who sign up and you can sign up here. (Disclaimer:  I just signed up so there are only ... read more ...
 
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.Co launches membership program - Program gives perks to .co domain registrants. .CO Internet has launched a membership program that offers perks to registrants of .co domain names. The program reminds me bit of American Express’ programs for small businesses, although many of the offers with .co are geared squarely at startups. By joining the program at i.go.co, members can score free tickets to startup events, get free co-working space, and free services to promote your web site. There’s also ... read more ...
Fri 9th November 2012
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.Co auctioning off 150+ domains on Sedo - Reserves start at $500 in .co auction on Sedo. A .co auction kicked off on Sedo Monday with a number of top keyword domain names. 164 domain names are for sale with reserve ranges from $500 to $25,000. You can participate in the auction by going to Sedo.co (that’s clever). Although the auction is billed as a .co auction for startups, the names aren’t necessarily geared to startups. Top domains include: Casinos.co Hot.co Latinos.co Chef.co Maps.co Sedo has a number ... read more ...
Mon 22nd October 2012
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Walmart Picks A .Co For Its New Store, Goodies.Co & No It Doesn’t Own a Matching .Com - Walmart Stores,  a division of Walmart (WMT) has just launched a new shopping site at Goodies.co. And no Walmart doesn’t own the Matching .Com. The store which launched in “Exclusive Beta” this week, has unique product offering.  Sign up for $7 a month and you get samples of new food products, you participate in surveys which earns you points to buy full sized versions of the product you like. Here is how Goodies.co described its offering: 1. Subscribe to Goodies Co. Receive a Goodies Co. ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
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The .Co Numbers Are In: Over 1.35 Million Registered .Co Domains: Our Chat With The COO - Its been just over two years since the .Co TLD launched and we reached out to Nicolai Bezsonoff, the Chief Operating Officer of .CO Internet, SAS the company that operates the .Co ccTLD to see if we could get some solid numbers on renewal rates and registrations. Not only did we get numbers but we got an interview with Nicolai.                                       By way of background Nicolai has been with the company since its inception, and was responsible for the transition ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Our Chat With The Owner Of Urban Times On Why They Moved From a .Com To A .Co - We had a chance to chat with Charlie Hilton-Petrou who changed the domain name of his site from a .com to a .Co domain last week. We wrote about the planned move of the Urban Times which used the domain name theurbn.com and decided to switch over to urbantimes.co There were plenty of comments to the previous post, many quite negative of the move so Mr. Petrou wanted to explain his move: “”Firstly, I want to state that our company is not a large corporation, nor even a medium sized one.” “I ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
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Urban Times Moves To UT.co On Sep 19th - For the second day in the row a online media source announced plans to change its URL from a .com to a shorter .Co address Today Urban Times whose URL is theurbn.com writes that effective September 19th, its moving its site to the domain UT.co “Urban Times, which as of 19th September will be redirecting from the vowel-dropping obscurity of  theurbn.com to the simple clarity of urbantimes.co.” “Along with this, we will be launching a shortener of our very own: UT.CO. We have some special ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co - According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Tech.co According to their site  “Tech Cocktail is a media company and events organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts.” “Since 2006, its goal has been to amplify local tech communities and give entrepreneurs ... read more ...