About 1,500 .Co Sunrise Applications Denied; Now Available in Landrush
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Denied sunrise applications and additional releases from .co registry now available.
[Update: the full list has been published by some registrars this morning.] About 1,500 applications for .co domain names through the trademark sunrise process have been denied, and the domain names are now available for registration through Landrush. If any of them are not claimed during the Landrush period, they will be available for pre-registration before July 20 and general registration beginning July 20. Some names that were previously reserved for .co’s Founders Program and for other reasons have also been released.
Although the full list of denied sunrise domain names has not been published, here are some of the domain names Domain Name Wire has learned have become available in Landrush thanks to denied sunrise applications or other reasons:
Ace.co
Alabama.co
Balloon.co
Calorie.co
Counseling.co
Crossword.co
Darts.co
Gumballs.co
Museums.co
Private.co
Tourist.co
Vote.co
If you tried to apply for a domain during Landrush and found it unavailable, it might be worth trying again. The deadline is July 16.
The better domains will most likely be registered through the Landrush process. You can view DNW’s guide to landrush and application pricing here. Pre-registration pricing is available here.
Further Reading:
Dot Co will be blocked by Google. It has to be. End of story.
The only value is in type-in traffic.
Why should google block .CO ? Google didn’t block .CM.
Would be nice to see a complete list of the denied applications.
Fools and their money.
Both google and yahoo have banned .cm names for the record
In fact yahoo has banned them from ppc ads on parked pages
Given that Yahoo bans .US, it will not be a surprise for .CO to follow the same fate.
Henry
give us the list of 1,500 mames
i don’t know why you are giving so much coverage to .co
for the most part will be a washout, just the typo and tm merchants cashing in, along with registry
yes it’s a cctld, but a remote one
you’re just encouraging noobs to waste their cash imo
@Alan: google has blocked some .cm but google also blocks some .COM. The majority of .CM isn’t blocked by google.
Not sure who says the .cm and .co was blocked by google or will be. They are given the same weight as any other non .com / .net / org domains.
All domains are given a value score. Of course .com is highest while net and org is probably leveled equal. I am not sure 100% how a search engines algorithm works. However I can only presume they analyze everything and give you a score. Kind of like gradeschool when you take a test. Whoever scores the most, gets top ranking.
SEO can work in funny ways. Some times its a hit, some times a miss.
DomainersChoice – show me a .cm that is ranked in the first 10 pages of Google. Not a single one – this in itself tells you they are penalized so much they might as well be banned.
Yes, Google has not entirely banned them from PPC pages like Yahoo but penalized them to the extent you will never get one ranked.
Ranking I don’t know but indexing is another issue.
Just type:
site:*.cm
into Google.
List of Indexed .CM Sites in Google.
“about 174,000 results”
Sounds to me like I should stear clear .co until we see or roll the dice in my opnion a crap shoot.
Thanks
@Alan – go to google.cm and search for RINGO. The first result is ringo.cm
btw., the .CO registry has now released the full list of the declinced applications.
Log out of your google account – ringo.cm will disappear faster then you can blink
Still there.
you can also try mtn and mtn.cm shows up a the second result. Any it shows that google did not ban .CM, there are simply not many developed .CM websites out there.
I think you’re computer is smoking something since they do not show on any of computers here. I’m pretty sure if Andrew was to check he would agree that ringo.cm is nowhere in Google’s first page for “ringo” and quite possibly the next 1,000.
.CM is worthless .. with a capital W and if Google penalizes them so close that its the same affect as being banned then the only people who think they are worth anything are … wait for it…
The people who own them.
Sorry – agree to disagree here. It will be along day before .cm ranks anywhere in Google imo.
Yeah I’m not seeing Mtn.cm here…but it shouldn’t rank because it’s not developed. I don’t see ringo.cm anywhere on the home page either.
am using a NYC ip address and can’t find anything ringo.cm ranked when searching ringo on google.com – I went to google.cm and searched ringo, was number 1…
Then again I hardly doubt them Cameroonians would be searching for ringo let alone MTN or MTV :-p