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 over $20 million for .co domain names so far.
According to HosterStats.com, the other recent country code rebrand .me had about 400,000 registrations in June of this year.
Where will .co go from here? Let’s do a little poll. How many domain names do you think will be registered at this time next year, which means .co will have gone through its first expiration deletion cycle?
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Cool, I’m a 0.0002% stake holder 😀
What’s the math on that, like one .co domain registered? 😉
It is a difficult one to call. The .co ccTLD is not quite like .me ccTLD in that there will be residual error traffic from .com typos that could make it worth retaining the .co domains. As with the .asia sTLD, speculation alone is not enough to sustain a new TLD. There has to be development or the figures will begin to drop. However .co also has its own national market to rely upon. Each landrush seems to spike in the first two months of the launch and then registrations volume falls dramatically after this period. The real user support will only become apparent two or three years after the Landrush period because that’s when many registrants will have to make the decision about whether they drop the domains or try to develop them. The highly speculative domains (the ones that could not be rapidly flipped or monetised in the first year) will be dropped in the first Junk Dump but the second and third anniversary will indicate how the TLD is developing.
I do NOT see ANY VALE in .co domains except for the typo value as long as .co are un-developed.
.CO will die the same death as all other hyped up TLDs by bloggers in the last few years.
I can’t wait to see the .co owners develop their domains and send .com owners a lot more traffic from their development, because people are always going to type .com instead of .co
I wonder if Domain bloggers are pumping .co on purpose perhaps for some indirect gains?
Domainers do themselves harm by pumping fake meaning. Eventually it becomes apparent that .co isnt .com, and Columbia aint such a cool place to be associated with.
oops Colombia, even worse. Sorry.
Wow.. They release a “.co” domain extension and people are saying its nothing to worry about? It will die out? I am really Laughing out loud about this! Think about how closely this extension resembles the most successful domain extension of them all “.com”. It is not only close to the existing, but its better. It’s one letter shorter as well as “co” stands for (company and corporation), its handled as a global domain, google is now allowing global geotagging for the domain in webmastertools… I mean come on fellas… hmm what else oh yeah thats right EVERY major brand has purchased a .co domain. My idea is that the .com will be the “unsafe” internet of the future. Domain policies for the .com are to wide-open. “.co” domain has very strict conditions regulating these domains. You surely wont be finding any warez websites on the “.co” domain extension, and if you do you don’t count on them being live for long.
Hope this opens some peoples eyes to reality. I wouldn’t have posted this yet but just found out the news on how google is OFFICIALLY handling these domains. Best of luck to everybody. Can you say a global stimulus plan? HAHAHA!
.CO domains are indeed proving themselves to be more than just a fad. I understand that those who may have taken a loss on prior launches, such as .TV, .CM, etc. are frustrated that they did not get involved with .CO and are therefore offering negative opinions, however, the proof is in the numbers. 400k registrations in just over 2 weeks, Twitter, Overstock, and other players on board, Google treating .CO as an International, etc, are all reasons why .CO continues to evolve as a valuable option for domain buyers.
.COM
.CO
.NET
.ORG
followed by .me,.info,.biz
That will be the order within next few years 😀
I agree with Zamann, but it will take some time.
Great for those who got in early. The longer companies wait the more they will pay.
.eu had 700,000 domains registered in the first 4 hours of landrush. It relates to a large, identifiable economic area.
.eu was in the mainstream corporate thinking in terms of defensive registrations – and otherwise bought by speculators. It remains a backwater for real users, at least in part because of this.
.co has managed 400,000 in two weeks – it doesn’t look so good by comparison to .eu’s landrush.
.co’s main value is as a typo for .com – I just don’t buy the other arguments for registering it. That’s why it has targeted domainers. That’s why domainers are pumping it.
I think allowing an obvious typo of .com to launch asks (further) serious questions about ICANN’s ability to apply governance to the domain space.
You can look at .CO a number of ways.
As a typo, or as an abbreviation / acronym.
These people that state that .CO will spill over to .COM are forgetting to mention .COM will spill over to .CO.
This is not a .me or .tv people, lets not compare apples to oranges and get with reality.
It’s the hottest name to come out in over a decade.
Buy and get the rewards or sit back and give it shit. Either way I capitalise!
I ahve over 75 already (some awesome ones, none of which are squatting).
Will it be the next .COM, god no. Will it be in contention with .NEt and .ORG, I think we will see that it will.
It’s as close to .COM as you can get.
Do the math.
😉
where we can get the list of all registered .co domain name list ?
No such thing exists. You have to go to a Registrant such as GoDaddy and type in the names you are thinking about. There is no such thing as a “List”.
I am on board with .co.
This may be a poor analogy, but bear with me. I live in the 3rd largest city in the US. Many years ago we ran out of telephone numbers and the phone company had to create another area code. Initially most wanted to cling to whatever old standard area code they could find. The thinking was that customers would not be able to reach them and/or mistype their phone #. Or… their number would be considered “new” and thus not a seasoned well established company.
This too passed and there was a seismic shift as numbers ran out and all of a sudden no one cared what area code they were in.
The same will happen with .co. As the inventory decreases (if not already) for premium domain names so shall the pressure increase for an alternative.
Critical mass will ensue. Early adopters prevail; nay Sayers crawl back under their rocks.
…..and it goes on….