Tag Archives: .co

Tue 26th April 2011
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.CO Looking To Expand The Number Of Registrars From 10 to 30 - According to a press release this morning the .CO registry is seeking 20 additional registrars to sell .Co domain names. Currently there are only 10 registrars that sell .Co domains. “”Today the CO Internet SAS (http://www.COinternet.co), the Registry operator of the .CO top level domain, announced the launch of a competitive Request for Proposal (“RFP”) process to help identify and select a limited number of additional Accredited Registrar partners to sell .CO domain names. “Due to governing ... read more ...
Mon 28th March 2011
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The .Co Aftermarket Heats Up On Sedo - Over the last few days there has been quite a few sales of .Co domain names. Here are the one’s I spotted: Mp3.co 3,600 Euro’s ($5,500) Minijuegos.co  2,450 Euro’s (4K USD) Prestamos.co 2,300 Euro ($3,900 USD) Watersports.co  $3K Judo.co $1,600 Axe.co $1,600 Fiction.Co sold for $750 on Sedo as well No huge money sales but if you registered any of these domains for $30 its not a horrible return for an investment of less than one year Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 5th March 2011
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National Arbitration Forum Now Taking .Co Disputes - Two largest UDRP administrators now handling .co domain name disputes. [Update: Apparently NAF started offering .co disputes last fall. This is the first time I’ve seen a .co dispute there.] National Arbitration Forum has joined World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in offering dispute resolution services for .co domain name. When .co relaunched last year the only authorized UDRP provider was WIPO. Some companies were behind the ball and didn’t get ... read more ...
Thu 17th February 2011
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.Co Sedo Auction Nets Around $150K - The .Co Sedo auction just ended up with a with around $150,000 in sales. Music.co lead the way selling for $30K Shop.co sold for $22K Love.co sold for $2oK.    (Love.com is owned by AOL and pretty much sits unused) Creditcard.co sold for $17K (creditcards.co only got as high as a $7K bid) Pizza.co sold for $15K Vodka.co for $10K Download.co sold for $10K There were several domains that sold in the $5k and lower range. The best buy of the auction in my opinion was Soccer.co which sold for a reasonable ... read more ...
Wed 16th February 2011
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2 Big Domain Name Auctions To Close Tomorrow: DomainFest & Sedo .Co & Neither Have Much Bidding (that has met reserve) - 2 big auctions are set to close tomorrow and neither have many winning bids as of time of publication. SnapNames.com is holding the extended auction from Domainfest which ends tomorrow Feburary 17th at 3:15pm EST There are around 500 domains including all of the domain names that were in the Live Domainfest auction. As of time of publication these are the only bids and all have meet reserve: uzy.com $7,310 ipharmacy.org $3,050 miss.me $2,050 internetmarkets.com $1,050 whoyou.com $1,050 gnome.net ... read more ...
Mon 14th February 2011
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.Co Three Letter Domains 95% Sold Out, 3 Character .Co Domains 46% Sold Out - Over this week  there were repeated comments on this blog to the effect that all 3 letter (LLL.co) .Co domain names were registered or reserved, leaving none available. We reached out to the .Co registry to confirm this and got the following information which is current as of February 9th “The total number of 3-letter domains (LLL.co) registered is 16,551 out of a possible combination of 17,576 so close to 95% have been registered already.” “Regarding the total possible number of registrable ... read more ...
Thu 10th February 2011
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KeyNote From .Nxt Meeting: Juan Calle “.Com Is Really A Typo Of .Co” - As the 1st .Nxt show in came to a close in  San Francisco today, Juan Calle the CEO of the .Co registry took the stage and spoke on the future of domain names and the opportunity that new gTLD’s will bring. Mr. Calle stated that the size of the opportunity is huge.” “Relative to the growth of the Internet the registration of domain names is quite low” “Presently the ratio of domain name registrations to Internet Users is 11%” Actually I never though of it in that manner until Mr. Calle ... read more ...
Mon 7th February 2011
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Domains Back On The Front Page Today Of The New York Times & Washington Post - Two of the largest newspapers in the country have Front Page stories about domain names and its all about new gTLD and new ccTLD’s like .Co and .Me Yes I know a LOT of you are getting tired of stories about new gTLD’s and .Co but this is what the mainstream press is covering and covering hard, so on to the stories The New York Times article entitled “For Countries That Own Shorter Web Site Suffixes, Extra Cash From Abroad” talks about some of the new ccTLD’s.that always seem to be in the ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy On Tonight’s Super Bowl Commercials: Registrations Up 466% Over Last Year; Traffic Doubled & Now Over 45 Million Domains - Well I know there’s been a lot of discussion inside and outside the domain industry tonight on the Godaddy Super Bowl ads. Love them or hate them, Godaddy says the two commercial they ran tonight on the Super Bowl are the most successful Super Bowl ads in their history in terms of response, traffic and sales. According to a press release issued tonight a few hours after the game ended Godaddy Said: “Our fourth-quarter commercial spiked our Internet traffic higher than any Super Bowl ad we’ve ... read more ...
Sun 6th February 2011
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.Co and Other Commercialized ccTLDs Hit New York Times - Article highlights commercialization of two letter country code domains. The New York Times published an article today about the commercialization of country code top level domain names. Colombia’s .co will get major attention after a Go Daddy commercial plugs it today, and .co was front and center in the article. .Co Internet CEO Juan Calle noted that Colombia gets 25% of revenue from sales of .co. This is the first time I’ve seen this number published. .Co ... read more ...
Sat 5th February 2011
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.Co Domain Names Go On Sale For $11.99 Starting Tonight - I have received notices from several registrars and it appears that the retail price of .Co domain name registration fees are dropping in conjunction with the big Super Bowl Ad. Dotster.com announced today that as of 7:30pm EST tonight they are beginning a 7 day sale for .Co registrations for just $11.99 The current price on Dotster,com for a .Co registration is $29.99 For all registrars that use a Logic Boxes back end the .CO sale begins around 8Pm I heard through the GrapeVine that Godaddy.com ... read more ...
Fri 4th February 2011
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Fortune: Who’s Bowled Over From The Super Hype About .Co? - Fortune just published an article entitled “Who’s Bowled Over From The Super Hype About .Co” The article quotes Sedo.com, chats about Godaddy.com, the new gTLD’s and ICANN among other aspects of the domain name industry. Again regardless of your feeling about .Co or any new gTLD’s its good to see domain names on the front page again today. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 31st January 2011
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Another Picture Clue For The New Godaddy.Co Girl Is Released - Godaddy has released another teaser picture of the new Godaddy.Co girl. Over the last weeks we got a teaser picture of her legs, then her butt, and now we have the chest. You know who out pick is. So let the guessing continue, but for those who picked Betty White, I think your out of luck. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 21st January 2011
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Overstock.com Rolls Out O.co Commercials For Valentine’s Day - Not only has Overstock.com  named O.co as its shortcut for its website but today also released a couple of TV commercials to go with the news just in time for Valentine’s Day In one commercial promoting gifts for Valentine’s Day, Overstock says: “Looking for a new way to discover the secret of the O? O.co Now you can shop the O with our shortcut O.co. If you shop with us through O.co your whole order ships for free no matter how many items” In the second commercial they urge you to “visit ... read more ...
Thu 20th January 2011
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Overstock.com: “We have turn O.CO” - Overstock.com, Inc. today announced the introduction of the domain name O.CO as a shortcut for its Overstock.com website. “During the initial introduction period, consumers who shop O.CO will receive free shipping on their entire order.” Now I just typed in O.co into the browser and although the domain redirected to Overstock.com the site now reads: “Welcome to O.co, also known as Overstock.com” That’s big “Over the eleven years we’ve been in business we’ve evolved into a savings ... read more ...
Thu 13th January 2011
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Sedo To Hold Premium .Co Auction In Feb Including Many Of Mike Mann’s Gems - Sedo.com is holding a premium auction of .Co domain names including many gems owned by Mike Mann’s Codom Holdings, LLC. These represent some of the best possible .Co domains. The auction will start right after the Superbowl on February 10th and end on February 17th. Sedo is still accepting additional domains of like quality for the auction. If you have any domains you would like to submit you will “have to submit a request via Sedo broker for acceptance or denial”. Here are some of the domain ... read more ...
Tue 11th January 2011
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So Who Is The New Godaddy .Co Girl? Our Pick: ABC’s Modern Family Star Sofia Vergara - Now that Godaddy has announced there will be a .Co Godaddy girl, who will appear in its SuperBowl Commercial, the question becomes who is the girl? The easy guess would be Shakira since not only is she one of the biggest stars in the world but she is Colombia’s most famous export. I asked Lori Ann Ward of the .Co registry to give me a hint as to whom the .Co Godaddy girl is and she declined saying “I cannot tell under threat of torture” So I reviewed the press release for any clues and focused ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy to Unveil First GoDaddy.CO Girl - Go Daddy says it will unveil GoDaddy.co girl in conjunction with Super Bowl commercial. .Co already scored a major coup by partnering with Go Daddy on its 2011 Super Bowl commercial. But the publicity train rolls on. The latest announcement from Go Daddy: it will showcase its first every GoDaddy.co girl in the commercial. Well, maybe. The company hasn’t decided it if will formally unveil the .co girl during the broadcast commerical or make viewers go to the the ... read more ...
Wed 22nd December 2010
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Network Solutions and Register.com Slot .Co Second - Big registrars pushing .co as next best thing to .com. Last month Go Daddy created quite a buzz by briefly changed its default domain name search parameter to .co. Although Go Daddy and its competitors continue to offer .com first, two large retail domain registrars are making a significant push to get customers to register .co. Both Network Solutions and Register.com are promoting .com as a second choice to .co, with Network Solutions even promoting .co above other ... read more ...
Mon 20th December 2010
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Companies Have Filed 51 .Co Disputes and Haven’t Lost Yet - Benefit of the doubt given to complainants in .co cases. Companies have filed 51 UDRPs against .co domain names since the relaunch of .co into an international domain name extension over the summer. They haven’t lost yet. Complainants are 25-0 in cases that have been decided, and further settled seven cases prior to having them heard by World Intellectual Property Organization panelists. In most cases the domain at issue is an exact match to a famous brand such ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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GoDaddy Announces The .Co Super Bowl Commercial - In the press release by Godaddy today, the company  announced what we told you last week they would be announcing today, that they will be sharing a 30 second SuperBowl Commerical to “spotlight to tell the world about a new domain name extension — .CO”. “”We think this new commercial will do for the dotCO domain what our first Super Bowl commercial did for Go Daddy,’ said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons” Wow that’s strong. “Our team was brainstorming ways to ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Breaking News: .Co To Star In Godaddy Super Bowl Commercial - The big news for domainers out of the ICANN meeting in Colombia today was delivered by none other than Bob Parsons CEO of Godaddy. Tonight .Co held a party for some of the attendees of the ICANN meeting. As part of the party Juan Calle, who is the CEO of CO Internet S.A.S., gave a presentation using video to show some of the achievements of the registry. Mr. Parsons the CEO of Godaddy delivered a video message directed to Juan, to the effect that Godaddy would be making a BIG announcement on December ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl Ad Will Promote .Co - by Kevin Murphy Go Daddy’s 2011 Super Bowl ad is going to have one big difference – it will advertise .co domains. The registrar has made a deal with .CO Internet to share the cost of the big-money ad – exact terms have not been disclosed – in what will be the biggest marketing deal for .co to date. The news broke last night at a rooftop party held by the .co registry in Cartagena, Colombia, following the first day of the ICANN public meeting here. Go Daddy ... read more ...
Tue 16th November 2010
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Quick Poll: How Much Will i.Co Sell For? - With today’s announcement that i.CO is hitting that auction block, I started a poll as to how much you think the domain will fetch at auction. You can see some history on single letter .co domains on my previous post from today. Some of the possible buyers of i.Co off hand would include; Apple, king of all things “i” (iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTouch) ibm and any company in the internet business. You can vote on the right and place your comments below. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 15th November 2010
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i.Co Hits The Auction Block Powered By Moniker/SnapNames.com - According to Mashable, the single letter domain name i.Co has hit the auction block. All the information about the auction is at i.Co The auction was announced today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Every bidder will have to be pre-qualified to bid in the auction and the pre-qualification period ends on January 21, 2011. My understanding is that every bidder will have to be pre-qualified to at least $100K. The auction will be held by Moniker/SnapNames.com i.Co, is arguably the best possible ... read more ...