This Weeks Top .CO Land Rush Domain Auctions Starting Now - Here is the second installment of the .CO Land Rush application starting the week of August 19th. You can see last weeks here (many of these auctions are still running) The number next to the domain, indicates how that particular domain ranks out of the 250 .CO domains haing the Most Land Rush Applications as reported to me by the .CO registry. So for example, topping this most “Land Rush .CO domains”, is the hack,  Tobac.co which ranks number 4 out of the 250 with the most Land Rush Applications. There ... read more ...

Ready To Make Some Money? How About Selling Your Bidding Spot In The .Co Land Rush Auction? Or Buying Mine? - There are of course a lot of ways of making money in the domain industry,  but here’s a new one that may have never been tried before. Lets say you decided you really want to bid on a .CO domain that’s in the land rush auction that you didn’t place a land rush application on. Let’s use Slots.co as an example, since it’s the domain with the most land rush applications, plus I’m in the auction because I put a land rush application in for that domain. So lets say one of a couple of  things ... read more ...

The Top 50 Most Backordered Domains In The .CO In Landrush Auction For This Week - The following are the .Co domains that had the most land rush application and are in auction and closing between August 16th and August 19th, in order of the number of landrush applications, from most to least. The number besides the domain is how the domain ranked overall in the number of land rush applications.  For this week Chi.co is the domain with the most land rush application which will close this week and was the 7th most land rushed domain: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

.Co Domain Tops 400,000 Registrations - Another milestone. What’s next? It has taken .co just two and a half weeks to hit a big milestone: today the .co domain name surpassed 400,000 domain name registrations according to the ticker on its web site. Although the rate of registrations will obviously slow over time, this is a fantastic launch. Including roughly 39,000 domains that were charged a premium in the sunrise period and landrush (but excluding auction fees), I calculate that consumers have paid ... read more ...

A Hyphenated .CO Sells For $1,200 and Sedo.com Records Another .Co Sale For $2,500 - A couple of .Co domain sold at Sedo in the last 24 hours. One had a hyphen and still sold for $1,200. The domain name Car-insurance.Co  bought for the keyword value was the hypenated domain that sold for $1,200. The other .CO domain sale from Sedo.com was Touchscreens.co which sold for $2,500, certainly a nice flip for the owner. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

.Co LandRush Notices Finally Go Out To Applicants - Finally last night I got an e-mail from the .CO registry concerning the land rush applications I placed. This is the first notice or any information regarding the land rush applications I have received since placing the orders. The first notice tells you to set up your account: “”As a result of your recent application(s) for a .CO domain name, you have been registered as a possible participant in the .CO Domain Auctions.  Your account has been automtically created based on the information provided ... read more ...

Mike Mann Announces The Sale Of Flying.Co, For $3,500: Is This The 1st Reported Aftermarket .Co Sale After General Registration Opened? - Mike Mann announced the sale of a .Co domain he owned, Flying.co for $3,500 on Facebook. This could be the first reported .Co aftermarket sale since general registration opened for .Co domains last week. We posted last week that Mike Mann has many of the top generic .CO domains for sale listed on his Facebook page. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Shouldn’t Registrars At Least Mention That .Co Is The Country Code For Colombia? - I know .CO has done a great job of branding itself as something other than a country code, along the lines of .Me. Nothing wrong with that at all. Brilliant effective marketing. But I couldn’t help but notice that the major registrars promoting .CO domains don’t even mention that .Co is a ccTLD, or more precisely the country code for Colombia. Here is what Godaddy.com, has to say about .CO: “Co Is the first truly global, recognizable domain to come along in years” “Understood around the ... read more ...

Congratulations, .Co. Now a Real Work Begins. - Relaunch was successful, but hard work remains. It comes as little surprise to me, but it’s now apparent that the .co launch has been successful. As of now, 279,000 .co domain names have been registered. I calculate gross sales of about $19 million to date. There are a number of reasons I’m not surprised by the initial success of .co. I outlined many of these in my last newsletter. But regardless of how or why it has charged out of the gate, and regardless ... read more ...

And So a .CO Aftermarket Begins, Already Over 100 Domains on Sale - Well just a few hours after the registrations for the .CO extension opened up there are already over 100 .co domains for sale on the aftermarket Over at Godaddy.com there are around 100 .co domains for sale. The prices range from Feline.co which has a “buy it now” price of $250 all the way up to Thegambing.co which has a buy it now of $50K. Of course as you would expect there are some three letter .co and three number .co for sale along with some trademark terms. The one that sums it up best ... read more ...

195,000 .Co Registrations - Just got an email from the .CO registry, claiming almost 195,000 registrations have been processed through today (194,576 to be exact). This number is being updated on the registry site from time to time, and includes prior registrations as well as domains applied for during Sunrise and Landrush. Apparently there were 90,000 registrations in the first 15 minutes. This would make the .Co launch the most successful in many years. I will keep you updated with any new info Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

A Record Breaking, Six Figure .CO Domain Sale Will Be Announced This Week - You will be reading about a six figure sale of a .Co domain this week. The current record price paid for a .Co domain,  is E.CO which sold for $81K with the proceeds going to charity. This sale will blow that one away. Although I can’t reveal the domain, or the buyer, I can tell you its going to be a record setting sale for a .CO domain and the Buyer is not only a public company, but a member of the USA Today Internet 50 stock index. Its a major acquisition and a huge boost for the .CO extension ... read more ...

Mike Mann Puts Up Some Top .CO For Sale: Health.Co For $175K, Advertising.co $150K; Gold.Co $100K - On the heals of the close of the Landrush application period for .CO which closed on Friday, Mike Mann has put up for sale some of the top .CO domains on his Facebook page. Some of the domains he is offering for sale include Health.co for $175K, Advertising.co for $150K and Gold.co for $100K. His Facebook posts says “.Co works exact same as .co but the domain is its your forever and you are the master…..” On the Domain, Advertising.co he says on his Facebook page: “”This one is $150,000 ... read more ...

.CO LandRush Period Extended Until 16th: 15K LandRush & 11K Sunrise Already Received - In a press release today by .CO Internet S.A.S., citing “extraordinary demand for the impending .CO domain launch”, the LandRush phase for the .CO roll out has been extended until July 16th noon EST. Some interesting points to note (some of which are from sources not contained in the release): 15,000 land rush application have been received at somewhere between $200-$300 per, totaling $3 Million-$4.5 million in land rush application fees. More than 1,000 domains already have multiple landrush ... read more ...

E.CO Sells For $81K - The auction for the domain name E.CO just closed today on Sedo.com with a high bid of $81,000. I put the first bid in at $10K to get things rolling and then put another bid in at $25K. I think the domain is worth $100K or more to the right buyer especially following the news this week that  Twitter acquired T.CO. In our poll, only 19 of you correctly picked $75K-$100K as the correct price range that the domain would sell in. The majority of the guesses were for over $100K, which was my pick as well, ... read more ...

Twitter Grabs T.Co For Its Official URL Shortener - With the auction for E.Co hitting $25K today with almost 2 days to go, Twitter.com announced today that it acquired and was going to use T.CO as its official  URL shortener. The Whois shows the domain name was registered as part of .CO Internet’s Founders’ Program. T.Co now resolves to a Twitter page which says: “”Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing ... read more ...

.Co Gets Big .Coup with Twitter - Twitter signs on to .co. .Co has pulled out all the stops in marketing its launch, and it got another big win today. Twitter announced that it will begin using t.co as its URL shortener, and eventually will wrap all URLs on the twitter service through t.co. That doesn’t mean that all links will show up with the .co domain, however. The company explained that URLs will show up as t.co in SMS, but on the web interface or through various applications it might actually ... read more ...