Comments on: 13 Country Code Domains That Can Follow in .Co’s Footsteps

By: Damon P

Damon P — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:36:40 +0000

Jakbqwik, you’re cyber squatting.
Do you know they can take them off you without your permission. They just go through ICAAN. If I were you I would sell them before they get ripped from your hands.
I puchased 60 + .CO names, I have about 30 of them that will fetch a nice price when the time comes.
What people fail to realise is that .CO the Parent of Domain names such as .co.uk
It is also shorter than .COM
With mobile devices becoming a key utility for communications it is a sure bet.
Human nature is universal, people will abbreviate when they can.
.CO is the answer, and will be on par with .net and .org sooner than you think with the right marketing.
People leaving negative comments are the ones that missed the boat. Me, I am already laughing all the way to the bank.
.CO cannot be compared to .me or .tv. That’s just plain stupid, but on the other hand the more ignorant people there are, the more opportunities I have to capitalise by purchasing more .CO’s. Yes, remain ignorant, make my wallet fatter!!!

By: Senator

Senator — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:58:39 +0000

I think .OM good as well …
C.OM !

By: TW

TW — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:25:39 +0000

Yup,

I’ve already sold a .co for $xx,xxx, but I signed a NDA, so I can’t talk. They’ve already got the site up and running, and it’s NOT pointing to a .com.

By: Jakbqwik

Jakbqwik — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:35:46 +0000

.CO has some value; both as a type of .COM and as a potential future shortener to .COM which is a real possibility with the surge of all things MOBILE. I could see .CO and .COM eventually coming to parity in terms of pricing, with one never really being worth more than the other.

The rest of these CCTLD’s are worthless; completely worthless.

I bought eight .CO’s. Three of them have corrensponding .COM’s that are currently getting over 50,000 unique hits per month. I have received offers from two of these .COM companies already…I can’t believe they didn’t register the .CO of their domain when they had the chance! One of them has offered $8,000 so far (I countered at $40,000 – still waiting to hear back). The other offered $200 and then called me, trying to strong-arm me…this company does over $30 million per year in sales, so I told the guy I’m sitting on it until I get it developed, but I’ll part with it for $70,000 now…he was pissed! The third company (the one I haven’t heard from) gets around 300,000 unique hits per month and I estimate they are doing over $90 million per year in revenue…I’ll either develop the .CO on this one or they’ll pay me $200,000…we’ll see what happens:)

.CO was a the best thing to happen for domainers in fifteen years.

By: Domainer Income

Domainer Income — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:34:26 +0000

I read that list and thought about domaining.bs (its available). The only problem is that the Bahamas want $500 a year for one domain!

By: Kitvy

Kitvy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:35:56 +0000

Thanks for the explanation.
I love .NO and .BS.

By: Anthony Mitchell

Anthony Mitchell — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:27:12 +0000

Two extensions to watch would be .MO and .DJ. As a special administrative region or SAR that allows gambling, Macau could be a lower-risk extension than other country codes.

If there could be dual registration options for pinyin and Chinese characters on both sides of the dot, Macau could offer an alternative to the .cn extension.

We will be hearing more about Djibouti, thanks to the efforts of one of the Bin Laden companies (the good Bin Ladens) to build the Bridge of the Horns between Africa and Asia. Twin cities, both called Al Noor City, will be built as free trade zones on either side of the bridge.

If Djibouti can move quickly into the IDN space by enabling the use of non-English characters, its domain extension could gain traction with regional languages that would complement the free-trade status of the Al Noor Cities.

Some of the other extensions listed in the article above carry some of the risks inherent in the use of India’s country code:

1. Civil liability for intellectual property disputes;
2. Retroactive taxation liabilities for greater than 10 years;
3. Poorly functioning judicial systems that operate with different standards than Americans are accustomed;
4. National and state-level censorship of content; and
5. Criminal penalties for activities that have no corresponding counterpart in the United States—as we saw with the incarceration of the American head of eBay’s operations in India.

Americans need to think carefully before relying on country code extensions.