Thread: Over 400,000 .co registrations!

This is quite incredible! .co crossed 400k registrations on Aug, 6 - so with these rates by now they are probably at over half a million registrations. A very quick rate of growth for any new tld. Will it suffer the same fate as .mobi, .asia, .us and others? They all received quite a few registrations at first and some market activity, but after a year or two many started to drop their domains admitting that they made a mistake by registering a bunch of crappy domains in an obscure extention.

Here are some of the highest auctioned names:

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taobao.co     $31,500
vehicles.co     $18,500
shipping.co     $11,000
caribbean.co     $10,610
paydayloans.co     $9,375
chi.co     $7,110
paydayloan.co     $6,425
nos.co     $6,110
signs.co     $5,600
guru.co     $5,310
secure.co     $4,350
doc.co     $4,100
biodiesel.co     $3,810
vacationrentals.co     $3,700
tshirt.co     $3,600
gamers.co     $3,600
fias.co     $3,600
tshirts.co     $3,310
national-lottery.co     $3,300
vips.co     $3,100
rrr.co     $3,100
insulation.co     $3,100
halloweencostume.co     $3,099
proactive.co     $2,995
t-shirts.co     $2,900
ooo.co     $2,900
smith.co     $2,750
naturalgas.co     $2,550
mercardo.co     $2,550
complaints.co     $2,550
nate.co     $2,300
officefurniture.co     $2,250
ira.co     $2,150
360.co     $2,150
pillows.co     $1,800
freecredit.co     $1,650
comparison.co     $1,592
worth.co     $1,550
tire.co     $1,550
pinnacle.co     $1,550
georgiarealestate.co     $1,550
handyman.co     $1,350
casinoonline.co     $1,200
alfres.co     $1,150
estate.co     $1,100
purse.co     $1,060
probate.co     $1,060
tvadvertising.co     $1,025
italia.co     $1,025
aviation.co     $925
smart.co     $905
sos.co     $875
snowboarding.co     $510


Gei.co     $6,200
163.co     $5,778
cityjobs.co     $4,600
dedicated.co     $3,600
airporttransfers.co     $3,200
christchurch.co     $3,100
boaterexam.co     $2,550
economist.co     $2,550
center.co     $2,150
globo.co     $2,050
exchangerates.co     $2,050
bonus.co     $2,000
customer.co     $1,550
abel.co     $1,470
communicate.co     $1,350
addiction.co     $1,300
elevator.co     $1,251
acid.co     $1,250
herbal.co     $1,202
duo.co     $1,161
cycles.co     $1,150
developers.co     $1,001
baker.co     $1,000
ace.co     $1,000
bombay.co     $1,560
Cycles.co     $1,150
Cookware.co     $725
christianity     $725
arsenal     $660
carglass     $645
allergies     $625
fairfax     $625
5173     $611

Did you grab any? What do you think will happen with the .co's?

why taobao.co priced so high?
whats good in it?

Originally Posted by rickyponting66

why taobao.co priced so high?
whats good in it?

taobao.com is a super popular Chinese site - alexa 14.
So taobao.co should get some decent type in traffic - it actually has alexa 400k.

Most other .co versions of popular sites either belong to the original TM holders, or weren't auctioned by the registry due to the existing TM's.

Originally Posted by rickyponting66

why taobao.co priced so high?
whats good in it?

taobao dot com is china/chinese base ebay for china product, it hit 6 billion dollar daily transaction now .....

So 31k is not big amount, but the domain trade mark and copy right be a issue there ....

Originally Posted by DomainMagnate

Did you grab any? What do you think will happen with the .co's?

I think chances are high that .co domains wont be a success either, so I didn't buy any.

me too.. did not bought any.. they are expensive n good ones, i wanted, were already booked/bought

I gave up domain name squatting as it seems all of the really good ones were automatically purchased by "insiders" every time they roll out another TLD.

I bought one .co and one .net.co

wanted to buy one but not sure how google treat it as cctld or tld ...

Originally Posted by SonnyCooL

wanted to buy one but not sure how google treat it as cctld or tld ...

well, it is a cctdl but it has a good value

The .co domain of Colombia has generated significant interest as a potential competitor to generic TLDs for commercial use given its possible use as the abbreviation for the word "company". In June and July 2010 .CO was opened for public registrations.

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