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[Theo]

I think if you target any companies, it should be those that can't get their company name.com because of either cost or because it's already developed. Give them an affordable alternative.

Exactly. I've seen plenty of longtail-dash-keyword.com owners snatch the .co - and some are coming from keyword.uk.com

 

[WhoDatDog]

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.

The name of the game is to draw in new suckers, so 350K seems about right. If they used 5 Million they wouldn't be able to sucker other businesses in. I didn't suggest that Overstock used Escrow.com, but what I am suggesting right now is that in Chapter 3 of the Scammers Playbook, it talks about how to get a sale published, and one of those methods involves wiring money to your friend and then having them contact someone to tout the sale. Then, it makes the list, and new suckers are drawn into the game. Many of the scammers stick to the 10K to 20K range, some go higher, but one of the keys is that they usually have lots of similar names that they are trying to unload on the idiots who believe their first sale. They used that published sale to get others to believe that similar names have value.

How many times do you have to see it play out in order to believe it? They even tried it with useless three letter hyphen names a few years ago. The more garbage the name, the bigger the scam.

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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.

Yes, very hard to prove, that is why the scam exists. A few years ago AOL executives got caught in a scam involving inflating revenue. A number of people went to jail. If one company buys one million dollars worth of goods off of another company, only if the other company buys a million dollars worth of goods from them, then neither "million" is legit revenue. It is the same principle involved in the O.co joke of a sale. The odds of it being a fairly negotiated deal that somehow came out at 350K, and just so happened to be the lynchpin of the .co marketing launch makes me suspicious. That is my opinion. The odds are essentially zero that this sale is "pure" when it comes to domain sales. No more pure than Sportsbook.mobi at 129K. It is a good scam, though, because enough people believe it.

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3554867?f=related

 

[Theo]

I contacted Lori Anne Wardi, director of Marketing at the .CO Registry asking her whether this was an outright sale for $350,000 in cash and she emphatically said yes. Questioning this any further is obviously your opinion, however I think that tagging accusations and using words such as "scam" along with it might get you in some legal hot waters.

 

[gilescoley]

I grabbed this one, mainly because my DubaiJobs.ae gets nice traffic

DubaiJobs.co
Exact Global Monthly Searches - 95,500

Lets see how it goes?

 

[Wot]

México.co

 

[Seraphim]

By the end of the year tens of thousands of multinational cooperations will begin actively promoting .co as a Colombia ccTLD, including top tier brands such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, PayPal, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Nintendo, BMW, Ford, Heineken, etc, etc, etc. The .co Colombia association factor will be set in stone with the global general public shortly thereafter. When it's all said and done, the .co artistic interpretation crowd will quietly move on to it's next endeavor, and the cycle will repeat itself.

For those that have developed .co domains outside of the Colombia related umbrella, it should be important to consider that only 1 in roughly 500+ potential clients will take the time to ask you "I noticed you're based in Colombia, do you accept US dollars / euros / pounds?" The other 499 will simply click out to search for a more locally based goods or service provider. US online shoppers are particularly shy when it comes to paying anyone they perceive to be based outside the US, regardless of what they're paying for.

With regard to direct advertising prospects, many of whom are extremely SEO savvy, you're going to have a hell of time convincing them that your target market and traffic flow is non Colombia based (assuming you're outside of the .co intended use umbrella).

Many easily avoidable headaches await .co artistic interpretation developers.

I decided against registering any .co domains, even for defensive purposes. I own enough second tier .net and .org domains, I don't need a second tier domain that's four times as expensive, and is geographically inhibiting (which would actually make it third tier/rate for my own use of it). I'll let you all fund the short lived .co circus.

 

[jonpirastis]

i registers this domain, which is your opinion?

FEEDING.CO

 

[Seraphim]

i registers this domain, which is your opinion?

FEEDING.CO

Colombian women interested in breast feeding English speaking internet users should be contacting you shortly with serious offers.

 

[Theo]

Colombian women interested in breast feeding English speaking internet users should be contacting you shortly with serious offers.

The .CO brunette looks much hotter than the .TEL blonde

 

[Seraphim]

I'm annoyed by the availability of this extension to non-Colombian citizens. The .co registry should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. They've pimped out this ccTLD purely on the back of it's typo-traffic value, and at the expense of millions upon millions of people who have worked their asses off building legitimate online businesses. Colombian citizens have been shafted big time as well, as now they're competing with a global audience (typo traffic hunters) for domain availability within their own national geographic market.

To the decision makers involved. Thanks for taking I giant steaming shit on the internet. Cybersquatting, fraud, impersonation, it wasn't bad enough, way to up the ante! Way to cash-in on something that you didn't build or earn yourself. :thumb:

Greed: +1
Human Progress: -100

Thank you, the now extinct Neanderthals would be extremely proud!

 

[Bill Roy]

Conspiracy theorists and complainers, another good thread hits the dust!

:blah: + :gossip: + :argue: = :bored:

 

[Gerry]

They've pimped out this ccTLD purely on the back of it's typo-traffic value...

And domianers will be the first to b*tch and complain when legislation is introduced to stem this practice, whine when they are called cybersquatters or typosquatters, or the new one - brandsquatting.

Its as if many believe they can do what ever they want and are always right in the eyes of the law.

Then again, ask in inmate how many people in the US incarcerated are innocent? the response...all of them

 

[Nathan King]

And domianers will be the first to b*tch and complain when legislation is introduced to stem this practice, whine when they are called cybersquatters or typosquatters, or the new one - brandsquatting.

Its as if many believe they can do what ever they want and are always right in the eyes of the law.

Then again, ask in inmate how many people in the US incarcerated are innocent? the response...all of them

Cybersquatting is already against the law in the United States, it's called the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and it was enacted in 1999. If it's not a trademark, nobody's rights are being infringed though.

Edit: I should add that cybersquatting is a civil issue and not a criminal one. So I don't know where your prison reference is coming from.

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Greed: +1
Human Progress: -100

Thank you, the now extinct Neanderthals would be extremely proud!

This is a gross exaggeration. How was human progress affected at all? So Columbia is without an exclusive TLD, so what.

 

[Gerry]

Yea, its against the law. But that has not stopped domainers from regging more and more and from lawmakers to propose more and more laws.

 

[Seraphim]

Conspiracy theorists and complainers, another good thread hits the dust!

:blah: + :gossip: + :argue: = :bored:

So saith the guy with a domain signature list that looks like it was inspired by Stephen Hawking and a game of Scrabble.

 

[Nathan King]

Yea, its against the law. But that has not stopped domainers from regging more and more and from lawmakers to propose more and more laws.

Yes but there are no rights being infringed if it's not a trademark (except personal names which is covered by the aforementioned act as well). So there is no basis for making it against the law. The reason people get away with real cybersquatting is because its up to trademark owners to protect their trademarks. Laws provide a means to do so.

 

[Dotted]

Enough with the nonsense and whining.

.co is no longer a ccTLD it has become a gTLD (and nobody gives a crap whether or not it has been approved by corporate ICANN) the day .CO Internet S.A.S bought the got damn extension, branded it as ".company" and marketed it as such.
Ask any non-domainer/web professional what does .me mean to them, noone will say Montenegro. Sames goes with .tv and same goes with .co and nothing will change that fact, why? Because in people's minds (and this is not marketing) .me is "me", .tv is "TV" and .co is "company" and most people don't over-analyze.
It's even true for montenegrins and colombians who are more willing to use second-level domains than the TLD itself cf. .co.me .com.co

For all the comservators out there, we got the message, you don't like it because it's bursting your bubble (which got busted long ago anyway) but you can't get behind the fact that the .com is over saturated AND overpriced and that most people aren't made of money especially not in times of crisis. So what do they do? They go toward their mainland TLDs, .net, .info, .me, .tv, .co and even domain hacks (oh yes).

I am not saying all this because I have invested several hundreds dollars in .co, I am saying this because I have made thousands of dollars by selling ccTLDs.

My advice to you: stop thinking like domainers and start thinking like your regular web user.

 

[Gerry]

get away with real cybersquatting is because its up to trademark owners to protect their trademarks.

I am not sure I understand why it is up to trademark owners to protect their trademarks.

There are currently over 260 tld's.

Is it a duty of the trademark holder to reg all tld's?

 

[Nathan King]

I am not sure I understand why it is up to trademark owners to protect their trademarks.

There are currently over 260 tld's.

Is it a duty of the trademark holder to reg all tld's?

Protecting your trademark does not mean registering all TLDs. If somebody registers your trademark, simply take the domain from them. There are channels set up to do both this and to sue the infringing individual.

 

[Seraphim]

This is a gross exaggeration. How was human progress affected at all? So Columbia is without an exclusive TLD, so what.

You mean "Colombia"?

As to my point, spend more than two seconds considering the long term consequences of deliberately blurring the lines between .co and .com, as opposed to me sitting here and writing a thesis on it for you [it's all right out there, if you would just look]. So long as human beings have fingers, traffic bleed will be unceasing. A responsible registry, people with ethics, would have restricted .co's use to Colombia [as their government at one time recommended], where it would have remained a minimal threat of being a source of constant confusion.

What's next, .comm for "communications websites". I suppose that would make the internet a better place too? The domain business is fast becoming a free for all for the lowest order of shenanigans. It's frustrating to see this .com traffic grab perpetuated by the very people that stand to gain the most by keeping the waters as clean as possible. But what else should I expect from a bunch of newbies and cybersquatting assholes?