.CO Domain Names Go Public
Today’s an exciting day for domainers…at least, the ones who don’t participate in landrush. The .CO domain extension, representing the country of Colombia, goes public today at 2:00 PM, EST. Amateur to intermediate domainers are sure to come out of the woodworks shortly afterward.
I’m not sure about you, but this is a day that directly reminds me of the infamous July 2008 public registration of the .ME domain extension. GoDaddy literally died that day from the amount of activity it got. Let’s see how they handle .CO in about an hour from now.
Why .CO Is Getting (Over)Hyped
One of the biggest buzzes around is that .CO is a legitimate mis-typing of .COM; therefore, domains with a .CO will capitalize on the mis-typed traffic of their .COM counterparts.
Do I believe this? Not really. Why? Simply because I have never mis-typed the extension “.COM” in my life, ever…and I highly doubt that it happens to such a high extent* that these .CO’s will be receiving type-ins to the extent of any other domain extension. (* unless we’re talking about super premium .CO’s)
I could be proven wrong, though. Maybe a lot of people out there type quickly and miss the “m” on their keyboard. Regardless, that’s what domainers are praying for. Imagine owning Cars.co and capitalizing on all of those beautiful Cars.com mistypes. The bottom line is that nobody really knows what extent of mis-types will come in to .COs until their owners publicly release those results.
Also, if you haven’t heard about domaining legend Kevin Ham, read this article and be amazed. In short, he struck a deal years ago with the .CO extension after coming up with the hypothesis on how it might capitalize on the type-in traffic therein. He’s also the same guy who jumped on “.CM” extensions, since they’re also a mis-type of .COM.
My Opinion on .CO
Honestly, I see .CO as yet another domain fad. I lost my faith in domain extensions after .ME and .TEL, and the real-deal domainers out there still care about .COM and .NET above anything else…others publicly denounce all other extensions, especially these new, over-hyped ones.
Perhaps some good domain hacks will come out of .CO, I can’t think of many words offhand that end in “-co,” but I’m sure many others have already done so.
In doing a quick search session this morning on GoDaddy, I noticed that all of the good generic one-word .COs were already taken during landrush. So much for the possibility of my owning 3DTV.CO – oh well, it would have been nice. See, those are the only domains that will experience any magic from accidental type-ins. Not “BestStructuredSettlements.co” or “UsedHorseTrailers.co”.
Considering that I most likely wouldn’t be interested in anything but a one-word .CO — I may just throw my towel in on this one, snatch up one or two domains in the spirit of collecting, and call it a day.
Tags: .co domains, domaining
Congratulations! Your registration of the domain(s) below was successful:
USHEALTH.CO
Well, if I can sell this… great.
Good luck Dan, I wound up getting three. These damn domains are like potato chips, can’t have just one.
Dear Pixelrage. I found you on an article “How to Get Ownership of a Cybersquatted Youtube Account”. How long did you had to wait after submitting the mail for Youtube to respond? And did you got any e-mail instantly after responding, or only the one from Youtube?
Greetings.
I would give my entire house away to own cars.co! However I would be able to buy a mansion most likely after auctioning off the domain name, heck domain name investing has made many a rich person.
Agreed, would love to know how many type-ins that one gets!
Hi there – I think it took approximately 3 weeks or so from what I remember. I wound up sending them a few emails asking for a follow up. I was pleasantly surprised at how they’d get back to me, considering how big of a company they are, and that they probably have a handful of people who respond to email. There was no instant email from what I remember – only whatever a customer support person sent me.
Oh Okay, Thanks very much =D. Because i was worried that i’d entered a wrong email there, but hopefully not. If you didn’t got an instant email too, then im feeling more safely
Also, how do you contact Youtube customer support?
There isn’t any – Youtube makes it very difficult for anyone to find their contact information. Technically speaking, it can only be done through one of their online forms. You might get lucky and find a phone number if you Google “how to call Youtube support.”