Tag Archives: .co

Thu 22nd September 2011
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Quick Poll: So How Much Will Sex.co Sell For At The TRAFFIC Auction? - Rick Schwartz just send out an email announcing that Sex.co would be on the auction block at TRAFFIC. This is certainly one of the high profile .Co domains so the question is what do you think it will sell for In some recent .Co sales Luxury.Co sold for $60K and Women.co sold for $30K. Sex.com as you know most recently sold for $13M Of course we don’t know what the reserve price is of the domain so it may not sell at all and we gave you that selection. Please vote on the right and put your pick ... read more ...
Tue 13th September 2011
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Twitter: T.Co Producing A 100 Million Clicks a Day - According to a story in cnet.com  today,  Twitter’s Director of Web Business Development,  April Underwood announced a new product for Twitter, called  Twitter Web Analytics. The  new analytics dashboard “focuses on Web sites, not just individual stories” In announcing the roll out Ms. Underwood said “T.co,” is driving 100 million clicks a day to Web sites, and the traffic from T.co is what the newweb analytics program is based on. 100 million clicks a DAY on an extension that didn’t ... read more ...
Wed 24th August 2011
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Don’t Hate The Extension, Hate The Lousy Domains; Godaddy’s .Expired Co Auction Shows You What Crap People Registered On Day 1 - Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com auction platform. What amazed me was these were registered on the 1st day of .Co availability. With an almost unlimited selection of domains people still registered crap. So many horrible domains. Domains I wouldn’t have registered in .Com much less .Co Typo’s, misspells, trademark infringing domains and domains ... read more ...
Tue 16th August 2011
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.Co Says They Are Getting A 68% Renewal Rate - The .CO Registry today announced on its blog today, “that as of July 31, 2011, it is seeing a cumulative first time renewal rate of 66%; with late renewals still being counted for an estimated overall 68% renewal.” “Crystal Peterson, Director of Channel Marketing at .CO, notes in a blog post that “typically, first year domains (domains that have been in use for a year only) have a renewal rate in the low to mid 60%, then as a domain is in use a few years that renewal goes up to around 70-80%.” “According ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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.Me Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and .Co Celebrates the 1st - Two registries are celebrating their anniversary today. The .Me Registry is 3 years old today and in a blog post, says there are 530,000 domains .Me domain names registered in 200 countries. 52.92% of all .ME registrations are based the United States; 7.68% are from the United Kingdom. 3.82% were registered in Germany 3.81% in Canada, and 3.63% in Japan. “During the Registry’s last fiscal year (July 2010-June 2011), the registration of .ME domains grew by 27%; which, according to VeriSign’s ... read more ...
Mon 18th July 2011
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Breaking: Google Acquires G.CO - Google has become the latest Internet company to acquire a one letter .Co domain. In a Press Release just issued by the .Co Registry, Google has acquired G.CO for an undisclosed amount (The full PR appears below). According to Google’s blog; Gary Briggs, Google’s VP of Consumer Marketing, announced that G.CO would soon be the “official URL shortcut for Google websites.” “Only Google will be able to create G.CO shortcuts, says Briggs; that means “you can visit a G.CO shortcut confident ... read more ...
 
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According To Hosterstats 33% of All .Co Domains Are Hosted On Godaddy Servers: Here Are The Top 50 Servers - According to HosterStats.com, Godaddy.com is hosting 33% of all tracked .Co registrations. According to the service they are tracking just 616K domains even though there are over 1M .Co registrations, so it doesn’t claim account for every .co registration, still none the less its an interesting look at the extension. In second place is Sedoparking which hosts just over 5% of the tracked .Co domain registrations: “”The following are the top 50 Hosters in .co ccTLD for 01 July 2011. The domain ... read more ...
Sat 9th July 2011
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With Renewal Time Approaching .Co Registry Is Set To Roll Out Dropping Domain Backorder Reservation System - I have gotten a lot of questions from readers on how .Co dropping domains are going to be handled. .CO’s first year anniversary is coming up on July 19th (expiration date for 1st day registered .Co domains) and domain names will be coming up for their 1st renewals. So I reached out to the .Co registry who gave me the run down for the process they will be implementing to handle .Co domains that are not renewed by their current owners, otherwise known as dropping .Co domain names. .CO once again ... read more ...
Thu 23rd June 2011
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O.Co a/k/a Overstock.com Wins The American Business Award For “Best Overall Company of a Year” - “O.co, also known as Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK), today announced that it won two 2011 American Business Awards in the following categories – Best Overall Company of the Year (Up to 2,500 Employees) and Executive of the Year (All Other Industries) for its CEO Dr. Patrick Byrne. ” O.co SVP of Customer Experience Stormy Simon was a finalist in the Customer Service Executive of the Year category and O.co was a finalist in the Customer Service Team of the Year.” “In March 2011, O.co ... read more ...
 
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A First: Complainant Loses Case for .Co Domain Name - Champagne.co becomes first .co domain name case won by respondent. A complainant has finally lost a UDRP case for a .co domain name. Comite Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne has lost the case it brought for the domain name Champagne.co. The decision text hasn’t been posted yet, but this is the first time a complainant has lost a .co complaint at World Intellectual Property Forum since .co was liberalized last year. I’m not sure about National Arbitration ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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NameJet To Hold A No Reserve .Co Auction - “Be smart, buy the up and coming .CO” @Robert These .co’s are all for sale, if you are quick and smart you may get them for $30 Thailand.co England.co UnitedKingdom.co Russia.co Spain.co Italy.co Cyprus.co Ireland.co Austria.co Latvia.co NewYork.co Hungary.co Greece.co NY.co NewYork.co Egypt.co Norway.co Sydney.co Switzerland.co Germany.co Berlin.co Poland.co France.co Portugal.co Belgium.co Jamaica.co LosAngeles.co Washington.co Taiwan.co Denmark.co Sweden.co Milano.co Rio.co Croatia.co Liechtenstein.co Bolivia.co Cancun.co Hawaii.co Elsalvador.co Salvador.co Bangalore.co Austria.co Ukraine.co Delhi.co Israel.co Qatar.co Estonia.co Capetown.co Virginislands.co Jamaica.co Alexandria.co Madagascar.co Fiji.co ... read more ...
Mon 6th June 2011
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Breaking: It’s Offical Overstock.com Is Changing Its Name To O.Co -     Last week when the .CO registry announced it has surpassed 1 Million domain name registrations it teased that there would be a major announcement coming today from Overstock, and as we guessed on our post at the time,  Overstock.com officially announced today that it is going to start transitioning the changing of  its name from Overstock.com to O.Co starting with the stadium naming deal of the home of The Oakland Raiders and The Oakland A’s. According to AdAge.com, the change will be ... read more ...
Thu 2nd June 2011
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Juan Calle CEO Of The .Co Registry: “The Price of One Character .Co Domains is Already North of $1.5 million” - Reuters.com in a story today is quoting Juan Calle CEO of the .Co Regsitry as saying: “After Amazon and after a few of the other deals that we’ve done over the past few months, the price of one character .Co domain is already north of $1.5 million”. Reuters.com was quick to point out that there were only 28,000 .Co registrations before the relaunch which passed 1 million registered domains. “Colombia, which had only 28,000 registered Internet addresses before it opened up the .co ... read more ...
 
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.CO Passes 1 Million Registration: “Look For Another Big O.CO Announcement On Jun 6th” - In less than a year after launch,  the .Co registry announced today that it has officially crossed the 1 million domain name registration mark. Moreover the Registry promises another BIG announcement by Overstock regarding O.CO on June 6th. Is Overstock going to officially rebrand to o.CO? Will there by a NFL stadium name after the .Co extension? Stay tuned. Here is the  press release: “CO Internet S.A.S., the official registry operator for the .CO domain, announced today that it has reached ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Sells 4 More .Co Domains Totaling $85K - Mike Mann just posted on his Facebook page a few recent sales from DomainMarket.com and topping the list were 4  .Co domain names totaling $85,000 in sales. In all according to his Facebook, DomainMarket.com posted over $110K in sales in the last two weeks, including the 4 .Co domains “which were a package deal”. Congrats to Mike and his team Here are the domains Mike listed as recent sales:   finance.co $25,000.00 automotive.co $20,000.00 cigar.co $20,000.00 ski.co $20,000.00 greenbusiness.org ... read more ...
Fri 27th May 2011
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Internet.Co Sells For $40,000 On Sedo.com: Whiskey.Co Sells For $14K & Becomes a Latest In A String of Alcohol Related .Co Sales - The domain name Internet.co has become the latest .Co domain to sell on Sedo.com The domain name Internet.Co sold for $40,000,  the second highest recent sale to Mike Mann sale of Business.co for $80,000 a few weeks ago. In my opnion a pretty nice sale for an extension less than a year old, by contrast I got Internet.biz on the original allocation back in March  2002 and since have less than 5 offers on the domain and nothing close to the $40K that the .Co just sold for. Also selling today was ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
Tue 17th May 2011
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Are Investors or Inviduals Driving .Co Registrations? - Data shows that bulk of domain registrations are not from domainers. Are domain investors or individual site owners and end users driving most of the .co domain registrations? I just got some data from the .co registry that suggests it’s the latter. Registrants with 50 or more .co domain names comprise only 1% of the total registrant base. What’s more, these people only account for about 10% of all domain names registered. That means people with fewer than 50 ... read more ...
Wed 11th May 2011
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Sedo.com 1Q Report: “Strong and Steady Growth Domain Sales, While .Co Becomes a Rising Star” - “Strong and Steady Growth in Internet Domain Sales in Q1 2011 with Continued Strength in .com Sales while .co Becomes the Rising Star in the Online Domain Marketplace” During the first quarter of 2011, 10,608 domains changed hands via Sedo’s marketplace, accounting for $21 million in sales. “Average sales prices across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) held strong in comparison to previous quarters and for the first time, the .co extension entered the ... read more ...
Thu 5th May 2011
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.CO and 3D & Holo Technology Make The “List Of The Most Exciting Tech Ideas” - TheDailyReporter.com has just published a post entitled “The Most Exciting Under The Radar Tech Ideas” Number 2 on the list is .Co domains Number 3 on the list is 3D Holo Technology. “From websites to energy sources, here are a few of the best recent tech advances that have slipped under the radar.” “Solar powered everything” 2nd: .co domains “A relative newcomer to the domain name scene, .co domain names slipped onto the market in mid-2010 with little fanfare. For consumers, however, ... read more ...
Wed 4th May 2011
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CreditCard.Co For $17K on Sedo - Add the domain name CreditCard.Co to the list of recent .Co domain sales was it just traded at $17,000 on Sedo.com We just wrote about Pizza.Co selling for $15K and other recent .Co sales an hour ago. Congrats to The Seller and Buyer   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Pizza.Co Becomes Latest Sedo Sale during $15K - The domain name Pizza.Co just sold  for $15,000 adding to the recent string of .Co sales on Sedo.com Before you attack these are smallist sales the domain name attorneys.info just sold on Sedo.com for only $13K So in comparision to an extension which has been around for many years, these .Co sales are pretty impressive having been launched less than a year ago We have been tracking other .Co domain sales on another post, which include: Shop.co $22,000 CreditCard.co $17,000 Tequila.CO $14,500 Vodka.co ... read more ...
Thu 28th April 2011
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.Co Registry: Not At A Million Registrations Yet - I have confirmed with the .Co registry that they have not hit One Million registrations. An article published by Elespectador.com, a couple of days ago, stated that the .Co registry had hit the One million domain registration mark. However that article is in error. The .Co registry just put out a statement: “Holy smokes!  In the last couple of hours I have been swamped with emails asking if .CO really hit 1 million domain names registered today. As much as I love the sound of it, I regret to inform ... read more ...
Wed 27th April 2011
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Overstock.com Acquires Naming Rights To Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum: Will It Soon Change to O.Co Coliseum? - In a Press release, Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK, short cut: O.co) today announced it has acquired the naming rights to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Effective immediately, the Coliseum will be known as Overstock.com Coliseum. The facility will host its first game under the Overstock name Friday, April 29, when the A’s host defending American League champion Texas at 7:05 p.m. The six-year deal covers the stadium facility that is home to both the NFL Oakland Raiders and the MLB ... read more ...
 
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First Tequila.co, Now Vodka.co Sells for Five Figures - Second premium liquor keyword in .co sells in as many weeks. Sedo has brokered the sale of Vodka.com for $10,000 to the same person who bought Tequila.co for $14,500 just a week ago. Of course Vodka.com was one of the most expensive domain names ever sold. Legendary domainer Roy Messer sold it to a Russian vodka company for $3 million. So who’s the mystery buyer snapping up these liquor domains? No, it’s not a liquor company. It’s someone in the Czech ... read more ...