Tag Archives: .co

Wed 15th August 2012
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In The Biggest Reported .Co Sale of 2012, Cruises.co Sold For $82,500 - In what appears to be the biggest .Co sale of 2012, I received an a copy of an escrow transaction from the seller showing they sold the domain name Cruises.co for $82,500. The buyer seems to be the same buyer who bought Cruise.co from one of  Mike Mann’s company’s  Codom Holdings, LLC, in 2010 for $25K, Cruise.Co.Uk Ltd. Cruise.co has the same logo Cruise.co.uk but a clearly different format. The domain name Cruises.co is going to a registrar holding page for DomainMonster.com at the moment, ... read more ...
Fri 20th July 2012
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Sedo Report: Total .Co Domain Name Sales $1.64 Million & Average Price of $1,800 is Only 2nd To .Com - Sedo,  on the 2nd anniversary of .Co, unveiled a report that highlights the success of the .co extension since its introduction two years ago today, on July 20, 2010. Here are some of the highlights: The total value of .Co sales at Sedo since July 2010 is 1.64 million USD; .Co was the 9th most frequently sold TLD at Sedo in 2011; Since its introduction, .Co has held a strong average sales price above 1,800 USD, and is currently second only to .com in mean average sales prices; The top .co sale at ... read more ...
 
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Happy 2nd Birthday to .Co - Happy Birthday .Co which turns two today. After its 1st year .Co experienced a 70%+ renewal rate which is on par with .com. We should know in a little while what the 2nd year renewal rate is and of course will pass that along as soon as the numbers are released. .Co wrote on their blog to celebrate their second birthday: “It was just two years ago that we launched the .CO domain to the world — and set our sights on becoming the web address of choice for the world’s next great businesses, brands ... read more ...
Sun 1st July 2012
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The New York Times Covers Juan Calle The CEO of .CO Internet - The New York Times just covered Juan Diego Calle the CEO of .CO Internet SAS. Here are just a few out takes for the rest you will have to check out the whole story. One thing not in the story is that Straat Investments has applied for 13 new gTLD’s so as impressive as Juan’s rags to riches story is as told by the NYT its just starting and the guy is only 34. “My light-bulb moment came in 2007, when a colleague mentioned that Colombia’s government was exploring how to commercialize ... read more ...
Tue 12th June 2012
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Juan Calle of STRAAT Investments Applies For 13 gTLD’s - STRAAT Investments has just revealed  13 new GTLD’s it’s applied for. The company also owns one of the best travel domain portfolios in the word. One of it’s principals, Juan Calle, is the driving force behind CO Internet, the company who operates the .Co registry. CO Internet and the .Co extension have been a huge success story with over 1.3MM registrations in the 2 years since they launched. Obviously Juan and his team know how to operate a succesfull domain name registry. It will be interesting ... read more ...
 
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Parent association of .Co Internet relates for 13 tip turn domains (here’s a list) - Company releases names of 13 applications. This morning Paul Sloan broke the news that STRAAT investments, parent company of .Co Internet, applied for 13 top level domain names. The company just released the list: .APP .BOOK .CORP .DESIGN .GMBH .GROUP .INC .LAW .LLC .LTD .MOVIE .TECH .WEB Many — if not all — of these will be in contention with other applicants. Interestingly, the company believes that auctions won’t be necessary for these domains because all ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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Colombia Becomes Newest Member Of The International Trademark System - According to ipwatchdog.com, “Colombia just became the 87th member of the international trademark system following the deposit of its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks by Vice President Angelino Garzón with WIPO Director General Francis Gurry on May 29, 2012.” This might be of particular import to those with .Co domain names and other Spanish domains “The treaty will enter into force with respect to Colombia, on August 29, 2012.” “The Madrid ... read more ...
Mon 21st May 2012
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Zumu.Co Running National Ads On ESPN - Since Overstock I haven’t seen a national ad on TV for a .Co site until today. I just saw an ad for a site Zumu.Co running nationally on ESPN. No Zumu.co does not own Zumu.com nor does it own Zumo.co or Zumo.com Zumu.Co is a way to sell your used Games, Dvd’s and Cd’s for cash or they will contribute the funds to a charity. The company is headquartered out of Detroit.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 30th April 2012
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Which domains a tip 10 domain registrars promote - .co is a favorite among non-VeriSign domains. Registrars have many options when it comes to which top level domains to promote to customers. Sometimes this is based purely on demand calculations. In other instances domain registries strike deals with domain registrars to give them premium shelf space or promotion on their home pages. I just checked the top 10 domain registrars. These results are for either the drop down box in their domain search function or the results ... read more ...
Mon 12th March 2012
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Cnet.com Just Covers .Co & Juan Calle: There Are 1.3 Million .Co Domains Registered - Cnet.com just published a story on the .Co registry and Its CEO Juan Calle. The Story entitled: “CO Internet is a company cool enough for Brooklyn hipsters” was written by Paul Sloan who has written about the domain name industry before. The article starts out: “Suddenly, the outfit behind the .co domain is everywhere, even if many people barely notice. It’s all part of Juan Diego Calle’s shrewd strategy”. “”If you haven’t heard of Juan Diego Calle’s company quite yet, consider ... read more ...
Fri 2nd March 2012
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All 17K+ Combinations Of Three Letter .Co Domains Now All Registered - We have confirmed with the .CO Registry and we can report that as of yesterday all possible combinations of three letter .Co domain names are registered. There are some 17,600 possible combinations of three letter domain name, otherwise referred to in the industry as LLL domains. These do NOT include letters and numbers just letters. All possible combinations of .Com domains were registered many years ago,  other than a handful that drop every year. LLL.com have become quite valuable as they can ... read more ...
Tue 10th January 2012
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.Co Enters Into 2 Year Exclusive Deal To Broker Select Registry Owned Domains: Priced $10K -$150K - According to a press release today, Sedo, entered into a a two-year exclusive partnership with .CO Internet S.A.S. to provide brokerage of a select set of previously unreleased .CO domain names, including: clothes.co profit.co software.co onlinemusic.co hardware.co internetmarketing.co body.co onlinedating.co france.co jobsonline.co In all there are 726 domain names currently listed all pre-priced with prices ranging from $10K-$150K Domain names like france.co and italy.co are priced at $150,000 ... read more ...
Wed 4th January 2012
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.CO Internet Recognized as “World Finance 100″ Business Leader - According to a Press Release tonight, .CO Internet S.A.S. the company that operates the .Co Registry was “recognized in the World Finance 100 listing, alongside industry heavyweights 3M, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others. ” “The World Finance 100 recognizes “the very finest businesses and business leaders over the past year,” focusing on companies and individuals who have outperformed the competition, made great strides in innovative techniques, and helped to redefine ... read more ...
 
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Overstock Launches O.co Travel & Picks Priceline To Run It - While many domainers have written off O.co, it appears Overstock.com has not. According to a press release issued yesterday, Overstock has just selected the Priceline Partner Network, a unit of priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), to power Overstock’s new travel website, called O.co Travel. “”O.co Travel customers will have access to a robust collection of travel services from the Priceline Partner Network, including: Priceline’s Name Your Own Price® travel services that can deliver savings of ... read more ...
Wed 14th December 2011
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Mike Mann Sells News.Co For $50K - Mike Mann’s Codom Holdings, LLC , just sold News.Co for $50,000 through Sedo.com The Domain is still in Sedo escrow. Its certainly not Mr. Mann’s 1st .Co domain sale Mike has sold Luxury.co for $60K, Business.Co for $80,000,  Women.co for $25,000; Finance.co $25,000.00, Automotive.co $20,000.00, Cigar.co $20,000.00 and Ski.co $20,000.00 That’s $300,000 in .Co domain names this year! Congrats to Mike and the buyer   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 5th December 2011
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.Co to lapse to Super Bowl in GoDaddy commercial - .Co to be featured in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. The .co top level domain name will get heavy exposure at the Super Bowl for a second year in a row. Today domain name registrar GoDaddy announced that one of its two commercials in next year’s Super Bowl will feature .co. Last year’s .co/GoDaddy commercial tempted viewers to visit GoDaddy.com to find out who the new .co girl was. Despite the young Tabitha Taylor’s body in the commercial, the .co girl turned ... read more ...
Mon 14th November 2011
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.Co Registry Responds To Overstock.com Announcement, Overstock.com Gives More Details & Releases The O.Co iPad App -   Some in the domain industry (read: domainers) are up in arms about the recent announcement by Overstock.com that it would slow down its rebranding to O.co.   Given the amount of speculation and commenting going on about this within that community, I felt it was appropriate to reach out to Overstock.com and get a clear picture of what is going.  Here you go: —————– Why did Overstock.com first begin using O.co? When Overstock.com started twelve years ago we only sold surplus inventory. ... read more ...
Mon 7th November 2011
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.Co Land Rush Re-Auction Nets $65K on Pool - The re-auction of .CO former land rush auction domains that did not complete a over a year ago just ended with $65,000 in sales. The auction was led by InjuryLawyers.co which sold for $18K.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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UPDATED With 1 Hour To Go .Co Land Rush Re-Auctions Now Sit during $50K - Here are the current high bids on the .Co auction on Pool.com which closes in less than an hour:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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.CO Land Rush Re-Auctions End Today On Pool - Later today the .CO land rush re-auctions close on Pool.com. All the auctions close around 3PM EST. These are the domain names that were originally in a land rush auction for the launch of .Co but did not close. As of publication there are about $25K in bids with around 9 hours to go. OMG.co is leading the bidding at over $2K OMG.com was sold in 2009 for $80K. Here are the current high bids for each of the domains:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 18th October 2011
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SEX.co Hits The Auction Block Today & OMG.CO, LAWN.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, COMICBOOKS.CO, DOGFOOD.CO, ENGAGE.CO, FORMS.CO, FUNERALS.CO Are Coming Up - According to a Press release by the .Co Registry today the re-auctions of previous Land Rush auction domain names will start on October 31st on Pool.com ending on November 7th at Noon EST. Included in the list of re-auction domains are OMG.CO, ASSETS.CO, ENGAGE.CO, INJURYLAWYERS.CO, COSMETICDENTIST.CO, LAWN.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, ETC.CO, ACCIDENTLAWYERS.CO, COMICBOOKS.CO, DOGFOOD.CO, ENGAGE.CO, FORMS.CO, FUNERALS.CO, HIVE.CO, HUB.CO, INTERACTIVE.CO, and OFFROAD.CO “”While the original Landrush auctions ... read more ...
Sun 9th October 2011
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Gay.Co Sells For $25K As HuntingMoon.com Adult Domain Auction Nets $148K - The Huntingmoon.com organizers just released the results of the adult domain name auction they held last week. In all $148,274 of domain names sold, led by Matures.com for $30K and Gay.Co for $25,000 Gay.co is an interesting sale since Gay.XXX just sold last week for $500,000. That means  the .XXX version sold for 20X as much as the .co in the same week. Like I said interesting. Congrats to all buyers and sellers and the full results are below: Matures.com    $30,000 Gay.co    $25,000 BlackCock.com   ... read more ...
Fri 7th October 2011
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OnlineCasino.Co Sells For $100K In Record Setting Sale - The domain name OnlineCasino.co has just sold for $100,000 certainly setting a record for the highest reported Sale of a two word .Co. At $100,000 this domain  becomes tied for the 4th largest ccTLD sale of the year according to DnJournal.com To date other than single character .Co domain names which have been sold directly through the registry, this appears to be the highest reported sale of a .Co domain again according to DnJournal.com Business.Co sold for $80,000 back in May and Finance.Co Sold ... read more ...
Thu 6th October 2011
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.Co Landrush Re-Auction Schedule Announced - Just got a email from the .Co registry laying out details of its auction of previous land rush domain names which did not complete sale The auction will be handled by Pool.com (the same company which handled the original landrush .Co auctions) Start Date:  Monday, October 31, 2011, 12:00pm ET End Date:  Monday, November 7, 2011, 12:00pm ET Here is a list of the domains to be auctioned: 8888.co aam.co accidentlawyers.co alec.co anthony.co aroma.co assets.co atc.co automation.co babylon.co badges.co bib.co bigideas.co bmcc.co buck.co businessintelligence.co byd.co cashusa.co cbbc.co cdw.co charlie.co chips.co chong.co co2.co collins.co comicbooks.co compliance.co cosmeticdentist.co ddr.co discounttickets.co dogfood.co ehr.co engage.co etc.co fastlane.co fin.co flightcenter.co foodandwine.co forms.co foro.co funerals.co gai.co gbi.co getaway.co gizmo.co glitter.co gms.co goodfood.co goto.co grc.co gts.co hct.co hive.co hub.co injurylawyers.co insight.co interactive.co jonathan.co kbs.co killer.co laminator.co lawn.co legacy.co mosaic.co mymoney.co namaste.co nts.co offroad.co omg.co ordenador.co plywood.co printec.co qac.co rad.co repodepo.co roco.co saigon.co seocompany.co seoul.co sextube.co shutters.co silverjewelry.co snowball.co standard.co stemcell.co stockpicks.co sws.co texaslawyers.co treehouse.co unique.co veterinarian.co veterinarians.co wac.co wallis.co wasser.co weddingvideo.co weightlosssurgery.co whatson.co yourmoney.co ytn.co Google+Michael ... read more ...
Sat 1st October 2011
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.Co Plans On Re-Auctioning 100 Land Rush Auction Domains - According to a blog post by Lori Ann Wardi, the .Co registry is planning on auctioning off around 100 former Land Rush domains that were in auction but never closes due to non-payment or other issues. The date and method for the auction was not announced. Here is the blog post:   As you may know, shortly after the global launch of .CO in August 2010, the .CO Landrush auctions commenced for the approximately 2,500 .CO domain applications that received multiple bids. The auctions took place throughout ... read more ...