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[bmugford]

I have noticed your posts on a few different boards and noticed you are really negative. No one has the foresight to see if this extension will take off or not but dont flame people that are risk takers. Some people are conservative and some are aggressive. Nothing wrong with that imo. I think with the sales that were already reported like o.co and e.co and a.co for big $$ it is something that seems worth investing in. I like the odds and if it dont work out than so be it. Nice to be on it when it started if it does take off. As far as being a domainer, the reported first day sales are good for everyone in domaining. I guess my point is dont be so negative towards people.

I am not "negative". I am being realistic.

Much of the promotion I have seen is blatant BS like - http://www.europeandomaincentre.com/pages/news/newsletters/will_co_domains_be_big

There´s a story behind. Back in 1995 .co was a serious candidate to be the prime top level domain. As we all know .com was launched instead.

What part of that statement is true? Just an outright lie for promotion reasons.

I also can not even count the number of posts I have seen today regarding people knowingly registering famous TMs, gloating about how they are going to sell them to the TM holder. There lies the major interest for .CO IMO.

Brad

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I can't wait for the scams to begin. Most of the scams in the new extentions start with someone wiring their friend some money after doing a deal through Escrow.com. Usually the buyer uses Privacy so you can never tell who it is.

Then, all of a sudden it hits DN Journal and the pumpers go crazy. I know how it works and I have seen it numerous times. If you are a newbie, make sure yo have your eyes wide open with some of the lowlifes start pumping sales. The name of the game is to take your money, so if you are not an insider be very careful about sending someone else into early retirement with some idiotic purchase of a pipe dream.

Don't believe the hype.

If I was a major TM holder I would be worried the most about phishing. This extension is a dream to those scammers.

1.) Buy TM typo term in .CO
2.) Capture traffic that goes to .CO on accident
3.) Setup a spoof site that looks real with a login page.
4.) Capture login info.

It is going to be a major problem.

 

[pjam1110]

Sometimes even experienced domainers will not be lucky to flip a name for a $600. There is work involved and some research. I guess the point is some have talent at it and some just dont get it no matter how long they are doing it. But with that said there is still nothing wrong with investing in something new if the names make sense with good solid exacts and an existing market. Example, I bought videoplayer.co . It has 4mil global exacts in google. I like my chances on making a profit on this name for only a $30 investment. If I can not find someone to buy that name for a profit with that search volume than I need to look into a another business. Thank goodness for me I have a sales background and feel good about this investment.

What makes my head hurt is this... I hear newbies and some with years experience alike ask how to make money, I see them spend hundreds if not thousands on hopes and dreams. I say start small, find a LLL net for $300 flip for $900 and so on, its how I started! I think half the issue is patience, people have non, get rich quick, wheres the short cut.. well its not .co , .mobi or .whatever, its hard work but it pays off. This regging a lottery ticket is sad, I can see doing one for fun or an experience succeeding domainer take a shot or two of the most premium .co but really 99.9% of this thread is full of wasted funds.

Common sense or time spent learning what names are valuable would stop this but apparently hard work is not the easy way.

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Well the exception still isn't the rule. With anything there will be people who look to be shady or not have good faith but that doesn't mean that the whole thing is not good. There are some positive aspects of this extension and it does have potential for good solid non TM names. Just seems like your looking at some bad apples and calling it the bunch. Just to say that anyone who bought .co are the losers is saying that see nothing positive in this extension and it is all negative.

I am not "negative". I am being realistic.

Much of the promotion I have seen is blatant BS like - http://www.europeandomaincentre.com/pages/news/newsletters/will_co_domains_be_big

There´s a story behind. Back in 1995 .co was a serious candidate to be the prime top level domain. As we all know .com was launched instead.

What part of that statement is true? Just an outright lie for promotion reasons.

I also can not even count the number of posts I have seen today regarding people knowingly registering famous TMs, gloating about how they are going to sell them to the TM holder. There lies the major interest for .CO IMO.

Brad

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If I was a major TM holder I would be worried the most about phishing. This extension is a dream to those scammers.

1.) Buy TM typo term in .CO
2.) Capture traffic that goes to .CO on accident
3.) Setup a spoof site that looks real with a login page.
4.) Capture login info.

It is going to be a major problem.

 

[bmugford]

[/COLOR]Well the exception still isn't the rule. With anything there will be people who look to be shady or not have good faith but that doesn't mean that the whole thing is not good. There are some positive aspects of this extension and it does have potential for good solid non TM names. Just seems like your looking at some bad apples and calling it the bunch. Just to say that anyone who bought .co are the losers is saying that see nothing positive in this extension and it is all negative.

If you think .CO is the greatest thing since sliced bread please don't let my opinions turn you off.

The best terms were all taken months ago, and outside a few names everyone is fighting for the scraps right now.

Brad

 

[pjam1110]

Its not that I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I like it enough to invest a few hundred bucks. There are some nice names still available with great search volume but I am done spending on it right now. Obviously the serious big money gems have been taken before it even started there are some money makers out there if the extension takes off. Some of us are realistic and do realize this isn't a lottery ticket but has good potential to make a few bucks. No retirement but a possible good roi.

If you think .CO is the greatest thing since sliced bread please don't let my opinions turn you off.

The best terms were all taken months ago, and outside a few names everyone is fighting for the scraps right now.

Brad

 

[Theo]

There are plenty of "scraps" to fight for. If the namespace consisted of only 250,000 terms (that's the number of .co domains registered so far) we would not have 60 million .com domains.

The question is, now that the namespace is wide open, what terms to go after? That is a matter of preference. If you are a developer, go after .co domains that you'll build content on. If you are after traffic due to the .com having traffic, go after these. By all means don't register any term under the sun, just because it's available.

Oh, and thanks to .CO the .TEL is officially resting in peace.

 

[Gee]

you have to watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnL-maNcl0c

why buying stupid .com for 300$ while you can buy generic or premium name .CO for only 30$ !!

all those negative domainers are just sad because of being so so so late

see many videos here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-DE2eZWPA&feature=related

nice video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgineAEsBwk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqBDymyGEv4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g24qNm31Gg&feature=related

 

[bmugford]

There are plenty of "scraps" to fight for. If the namespace consisted of only 250,000 terms (that's the number of .co domains registered so far) we would not have 60 million .com domains.

The question is, now that the namespace is wide open, what terms to go after? That is a matter of preference. If you are a developer, go after .co domains that you'll build content on. If you are after traffic due to the .com having traffic, go after these. By all means don't register any term under the sun, just because it's available.

Oh, and thanks to .CO the .TEL is officially resting in peace.

There are some good terms left, but all the obvious gems were never available to start with. I think it makes more sense to cherry pick domains on the secondary market than get caught up in landrush auctions. It is the worst investment in recent memory for all new extensions.

Due to the amount of interest most terms will sell for more at landrush auction than ever again, at least that was true with virtually every recent launch.

I am pretty sure .TEL was put out of its misery a few months ago when the 1 year renewal date passed.

Has .TEL replaced phone numbers yet? LOL

Brad

 

[Theo]

Brad, as a rule I don't heavily invest in any TLD besides the original triad: com/net/org

We saw a minimal effort to brand things ".WS" for "Website" then it was ".CC" - then a few years ago Indian ccTLD ".in" opened up (it was supposed to stand for "Internet"). At any rate, .CO has a solid campaign behind it and the launch numbers can prove that. As much as I support .CO over other ccTLDs you won't find more than 25 domains in my collection thus far. People can still go after a niche and cherry pick terms.

.TEL has less than 250k registrations 16 months later.

 

[Gerry]

Plus, hacks are just plain fun.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

I can't believe people comparing .co and .mobi ... yes I agree only just a matter of time.

In my opinion, I can't own some of the dot com but definitely I can in dot co.

 

[Focus]

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:

 

[Superstar27]

Hi everyone,
I'm pretty new with the domains, but I was fortunate enough to get some good .co names, each name that I got has over 12 million search results on google. I'm obvioulsy interested in making money off of some of these names, what would be my best option? I wouldn't think reselling would be right now since they're so new, would trying to park them maybe be a good option? I've never done that either, and don't know much about it. Thanks for your advice, and I hope everyone was able to get some good names.

 

[Jeroen]

From a domainers point of view the .co may be speculative. When you have development plans, the .co is just like any other extension and a nice opportunity to have a keyword domain. For at least two of my .co's I have development plans, the other few are speculative. Isn't business all about taking more or less calculated risk? Worse thing that can happen I lose a few $$ to $$$.

The game will change if a keyword .co will have any SEO value in the future, but at this point i guess nobody knows if that's ever going to happen.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

This is the common mistake of new comers in the domain business, "no business plan" and ofcourse want to make some $ that's acceptable concept in a positive way.

This is just my opinion on how you can make money on your domain name.
- If you don't develop, your option is to park or sell. My only recommendation through Parked.com or Google for Domains (Adsense) don't look further.

Though I highly recommend that you learn basic web development, Wordpress is easy to learn and all the plug-ins you need. Other options is blogger.com, joomla or drupal.

I hope this help you move.

Let's go back to dot CO discussion.

Cheers,
EM @ KING.NET

 

[ekman77]

I heared that basically unless google decides to index .co as a TLD then all of us may be in trouble. If google,Yahoo and MSN decide to treat .co like a country code then these .co names will be worth just as much as .us and other country code names. I dont want this to happen becasue i have about 20 LLL.co names and am praying they will be worth something. What are your thoughts on this?
David

 

[Theo]

Did you hear this type of misinformation at Namepros? I mean, what kind of n00b statement is this about ccTLDs not being indexed?

Every domain that has content is indexed, regardless of TLD. But not every domain gets top rank.

I heared that basically unless google decides to index .co as a TLD then all of us may be in trouble. If google,Yahoo and MSN decide to treat .co like a country code then these .co names will be worth just as much as .us and other country code names. I dont want this to happen becasue i have about 20 LLL.co names and am praying they will be worth something. What are your thoughts on this?
David

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

LOL I will say the same thought.

 

[JB Lions]

I see that a lot as well on the forums, when the simplest thing is just to go to Google and check for yourself. I actually started keep a little text file of different cctlds ranking well any time I stumble upon them. Couple of examples -

free clinics - a .us in the first spot
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...inics&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

cyber monday - a .fm in the third spot
http://www.google.com/search?q=cybe...&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US388

Search engines goals are providing the most relevant result for any given search, so the extension most of the time has absolutely nothing to do with that.

As far as the .co. Just a couple and that's it, no plans on getting any more. The marketing had a hold of me for a split second but broke loose and came to my senses.

 

[ekman77]

Yes I am a N00b but if you do a search for any major keyword you do not see a ccTLD show up. Its usually just .com, .org, or .net. I am just putting my two cents in about this whole thing. All I am saying in google does not show very many ccTLD's in its first few pages upon doing a search. Unless Google is going to change this to conform to .co then .co is not going ot be as big as everyone is saying. They are already having a problem in the UK where they have co.uk.
Dave

 

[Theo]

Yes I am a N00b but ...

No but's and if's

The search engines are not US-centric. Google displays different results depending on where you are located at. Expect totally different results to be displayed to visitors from other countries, including lots of ccTLDs. If that were not the case, then people would just punch in keyword + com