CPC is so low you can’t feed your dog even if you own 10k plus typo squatted domains..

sedo , namedrive whoever they need to shift their focus real fast.

Sedo seems tobe doing fine on the escrow market selling good domain names .

parking domains is dead …

Sell/buildout all the generic descriptive .com domains, then look at the other extensions. Education first, unless everyone buying a .CO domain believes that all business marketing directors are “hot” on domains as “appreciable marketing assets”.

*sigh*

So in other words, you wait until all of the ‘bozos’ have emptied their wallets on TM domains into your coffers, pouring millions into .co, then you pull the rug out from under them. nice.

you know, this goes back to the Domainer Mardi Gras panel i attended this past February where they were talking about the rollout of possibly hundreds of new gTLDs in the coming years and the issue of the expense of companies having to defend against TM registrations across hundreds of new extensions. There were various arguments but one that seemed to make sense was along the lines of this “why do the registries make available domains like microsoft.whatever, and pepsi.whatever.?” You obviously have the means to hold back names from registration, so why not do it for the global TMs?

i think the answer comes back to the fact that you will cut your bottom line, probably in half, if you did so.

There’s so many cybersquatters and people who haven’t a clue, the TLD industry is going to grow like crazy just to keep up with them all.

I would love to see the .co take off, will it? Oh yes, for cointernet.co it has and it will.

You know, the TLD industry reminds me of the MLM arena (multi-level-marketing)in a big way.

For the individual joining mlm the odds are stacked against them, only like .5% ever make any money. Notice how I didn’t say a lot of money.

Now the one’s that make the real money are the guys selling “How To Make A Million Dollars In Your Basement Systems With MLM” to the ever growing market of 99.5% of I’m gonna make it in MLM’ers.

It’s comical actually… thanks for the laugh! Think I’ll go spend my extra cash on some pet rocks.

For the record, here are some .CO comments:

1. Large-scale Registry costs beyond start-up are estimated to be under 50 cents per domain per year. The .CO wholesale pricing was surprising.

2. Having a small number of hand-selected Registrars with exclusive access vs. the original pre-1998 .COM model of Direct Registry Access by anyone with a clue, seemed out of date, and clique-ish. See .TK as an example of direct Registry Access and they are sort of FREE.

3. You say: “as a ccTLD you can take more decisive action”. Some people may think that means “arbitrary action”, because ccTLD to some means no U.S. DOC over-sight.

4. SCUBA DNS – Self-Contained Unix Broadband Appliance and other new DNS solutions coming may change the game. See also the recent http://CircleID.com discussions. With SCUBA DNS – The Network IS the Registry – the “cost” is likely below 10 cents per domain per year. MS PNRP may be less or zero.

People have done their “homework” and there are still many unknowns in the future. May everyone continue to live in interesting times.

Since day 1 we have made our position regarding cybersquatting extremely clear. It’s been communicated broadly to both the TM community, the domain community, and published in numerous publications & blogs.

Unfortunately a few bozos will still go out there, waste their money, and think they struck gold.

The solution is not simple as you know from the endless debates going on at ICANN about this problem. Fortunately, as a ccTLD we can take more decisive action. You may recall that apart from having implemented the UDRP, a protected-marks list, a public thick WHOIS, and Malicious Monitoring (anti-phishing), we will be implementing a “URS”-like mechanism in the next few months (cheaper & faster than UDRP).

Juan