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[BLazeD]

I have seen people register .co domains I would not even register in .com

 

[bmugford]

I have seen people register .co domains I would need even register in .com

Yep, check out eBay for .CO domains if you want a good laugh.

Brad

 

[A D]

99 percent of all sales that I thought were frauds during the past five years turned out to be frauds. The other one percent there wasn't proof. I am talkng mainly about the big money frauds like sportsbook.mobi and now we get to read about Overstock.com buying o.co for 350K....... I guess I have to believe that this is a totally arms length transaction. It is more believable than most, and it is very consistent with most frauds. Part of the scam is to entice other companies to play along and think they are missing out, so they brought in Overstock.com to do some of the dirty work. Who knows how it all played out...don't really want to know.

From my past experience, to boost up awareness of cctld, the registries give away domains so that they can say coke bought coke.co and so on. This happens alot in this industry.

-=DCG=-

 

[vikrantjain22]

".Co is the country code domain for Colombia. It was originally delegated to University of The Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. For many years, the University has run tight controls on the domain name. Registration was mostly limited to Colombian companies who could register their trade name or company name as an exact match at the third level, such as name.com.co. As a result, there are only about 28,000 .co domains registered.

First, there’s the matter of the 28,000 existing third level domain registrations. Any registrant who registered a third level domain prior to July 30, 2008, will get first dibs on the same domain at the second level (i.e. name.co). That’s the date when the new .co policy was set, and about 21,000 domains were registered prior to then. Because of the registration restrictions, few of these domains would be considered “generic” in nature."

This was the best possible way of getting all the top most one word generic names

 

[HomerJ]

They are part of the holdings of DomainMarket.com, which is owned by big domainer Mike Mann. Pick any top keyword, he basically owns it.

Business.co
CreditCards.co
Health.co
Fitness.co
Oil.co
News.co
Health.co
Advertising.co
Gold.co
Bank.co
Boats.co
Cameras.co
Doctors.co
Movies.co
Computers.co
Clothing.co
Men.co
Women.co

And many more...

I am not sure exactly how they were acquired, but they all were acquired months before the launch it looks like from the whois.

39,000 domains, including all the top generics, were long gone when the registration started for normal people. Everyone is fighting for scraps at this point IMO.

Brad

hoping for Lucious "Guns" Fabrice to do some muckraking, Gonzo journalism on this one

 

[Gregcyber]

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[ecomindia]

well said 500000
infact , if we see , cctlds have always been little reserved , spl when it is been financially pushed to market it as a global brand ...

whatever said n done, tlds cannot be replaced and the new cctlds are good speculative tools ..

these comments excludes top premium keywords

 

[robertsz]

So what is the market like on 3 letters? Are people buying up the random ones yet? Do we have a % of those sold out yet?

 

[nam6641]

I find it interesting that "DM" got that big list of all the top names, yeah I am sure that was all done on the up & up. :lol:

Sorry for newb question, who is DM?

 

[mikeyboy]

dangermouse

 

[WhoDatDog]

I already said I'm not a fan of the extension.

"The deal is a marketing deal."

Of course. It's just your basic marketing 101 type stuff. I don't see what's to be surprised about.

Well then it's not a legit 350K sale. That type of stuff draws newbies in and takes their money. It is a joke. The guy from Overstock might be the last guy I would trust in a situation like this anyways. He spends 90 percent of his time his site http://www.deepcapture.com/.

The bottom line is if it was a fairly negotiated price then the .co registry would never announce it. They might announce that Overstock is launching a site, but you would never give the price. Do you think anyone will pay more than that now? Of course not. They found a willing player in the CEO of Overstock, and now lots of people think that a .co name actually changed hands for 350K.

That's the way it is. If you don't have a problem with two businesses getting together to come up with an announcement like this, and if you can't read between the lines, then that is your right. In the spirit of domain sales, this should not be published, because it isn't a legit sale. The .co registry gets tons of marketing to coincide with their launch, and who knows what type of deal Overstock got out of this.

I do not trust either entity. I highly doublt that the only thing of value in this deal is the 350K "allegedly paid" for O.co (and I have doubts on whether it was paid. I hope they were smart enough to at least pay that portion of the deal). They are trying to scam other businesses and domain buyers into buying this crap. Maybe it is not against the law, but it is still wrong....and it happens every time these loser extentions get launched.

 

[Theo]

WDD, don't trust if you must. Overstock.com owns a trademark for "O". It's not news. The .CO is a new registry with a competent PR company running the show. Nothing wrong with that. You seem to question the amount even - "why is it $350k and not $300k" - perhaps $50k is the broker's commission, or maybe $25k is for stripper lapdances and $25k for the caviar and champagne at the reception party

 

[WhoDatDog]

From my past experience, to boost up awareness of cctld, the registries give away domains so that they can say coke bought coke.co and so on. This happens alot in this industry.

-=DCG=-

You make a good point there, and that why I don't think the 350K is legit. I find it hard to believe that when the .co registry went looking to suitors to help with their marketing plan, that they just happened to find the Overstock guy and get him to pay 350K AND put out a press release. I don't have any problem at all with a bunch of announcements about Overstock acquiring O.co, what I don't think is right is for the 350K price to be mentioned, because it isn't legit.....it is just not a true domain sale. Does anyoone think that the .co registry wouldn't take 300K for that name?

Though it is not part of my argument, I would guess 350K was never paid from Overstock to the registry. If by chance it was, then there are kickbacks coming and or their is another form of partnership.

 

[Theo]

WDD - the New York Post is waiting for your scoop.

 

[bmugford]

I have no reason to doubt the o.CO $350K sale was legit.

However, at the same time the deal was clearly more about PR than the actual sale itself. It was basically announced right before the general availability for obvious reasons.

Brad

 

[WhoDatDog]

WDD, don't trust if you must. Overstock.com owns a trademark for "O". It's not news. The .CO is a new registry with a competent PR company running the show. Nothing wrong with that. You seem to question the amount even - "why is it $350k and not $300k" - perhaps $50k is the broker's commission, or maybe $25k is for stripper lapdances and $25k for the caviar and champagne at the reception party

I don't have a problem with anything other that the fact that they are running around touting 350K as a legit domain sale. I don't believe it. The registry gets too much value out of the deal. They would have gone with zero payment to get a legitimate company to announce this, so 350K is laughable.

Do you honestly think Steve Ballmer of Microsoft or Steve Jobs of Apple would spend 350K on an asset such as this and then make an announcement about it in a press release, while forwarding the name to their site?

It is all perfectly timed to make it look like the extention has value, so I do not trust anything about it. Check this post in a few years and we'll talk some more. I have seen too many scams and I have the feeling that this is the start of a big one. I am going to try not to post on this too much more.

We all have our opinions on what constitutes a "legit" sale.

 

[Theo]

....it is just not a true domain sale. Does anyoone think that the .co registry wouldn't take 300K for that name?

Though it is not part of my argument, I would guess 350K was never paid from Overstock to the registry. If by chance it was, then there are kickbacks coming and or their is another form of partnership.

WDD - make up your mind. Was it a legit sale for cash or wasn't. Your argument tries to cover all bases. Kickbacks, incorrect amount, not legit... I mean, come on. Conspiracy theories are easy to pen, hard to prove.

 

[WhoDatDog]

WDD - the New York Post is waiting for your scoop.

Hey, I just like the purity of a legit big money sale. And there is nothing worse than a shady big deal that gets touted around everywhere as being legit. Even the Business.com alleged sale at 7.5 Million years ago really wasn't what everyone thought.

Fairly negotiated deals should be the goal. This is far from that, so I don't think that those who have a following should be running around tooting the registry's horn, since those same people who toot the horn never call out previous scammers like those who announced the sportsbook.mobi sale for 129K. There are many others.

If you are going to pump up everything where someone can show and Escrow transaction, then you are going to have lots of people selling names to themselves and their close friends and getting their crap names publicized (in hopes that some legit buyer comes along, sees the price of similar names, and then buys their other names in that category).

It is garbage. Part of the scammers playbook is to get their sale published so everybody sees it. Not one person has ever been called out about it, either. If the sale looks fishy, it usually is. Prepare for big dollar sale announcements, usually followed by private registration, and other nonsense.

 

[Theo]

Ok so your beef is large sales in general. Then you'd have a blast every week with DNJournal's sales.
Perhaps you don't understand how large corporations manage transactions. Escrow? Try in-house lawyers and direct banking.
But I will ask you this: if the O.co sale were not legitimate as you claim, why stop at $350,000 as the price announced?
They could easily say $1,000,000. No wait, make that $5 million.

 

[Jilo]

Ok so your beef is large sales in general. Then you'd have a blast every week with DNJournal's sales.
Perhaps you don't understand how large corporations manage transactions. Escrow? Try in-house lawyers and direct banking.
But I will ask you this: if the O.co sale were not legitimate as you claim, why stop at $350,000 as the price announced?
They could easily say $1,000,000. No wait, make that $5 million.

Oprah will buy it from them for $5million