I have premium purchased 10 quality .co's in the last couple of months. To clear some things up.... .CO does not stand for company, does no stand for commercial, does not stand whatever else you can think of that starts with "co"..."cocopuffs" perhaps... It stands for COLUMBIA, and you can get this confirmed with all domain registrars. Now to evaluate the price of a .CO, very hard to say, as its not as to how much you think it is worth, but how much a buyer, that wants your .co, is willing to pay for it. In my personal predictions, due to its memorability ease, as bing the extension of ".com, without the m", it can turn into a very popular extension, more so than .net, and any others (other than .com). And if you have a couple hundred bux to invest into something that may either succeed or flop, without hurting yourself too much financially, then I say go for it.
If you can rank .co globally then it does not matter what it stands for. It also depends on how you are branding it. If a site comes up on the first page of a search engine the user will click on a relevant link no matter what the tld/extension is. regards, Ashish H Thakkar
It does not matter that it stands because it can now be geo-targeted anywhere in the world and not just colombia... Look at .TV what kind of average joe would think of the island of Tuvalu when someone says "TV" ? Before I get accused of ‘hyping’ .co I’ll tell you, I have bought only 3.
Thats very true, I completely agree. That is why I believe it will definitely surpass .net in popularity, as memorability is the most important variable to the equation, and the Columbia factor does not affect the consumers "choice" of clicking on it.
But being so similar to .com, another issue arises. You can easily distinct a .net from a .com, but when you market a .co, its extreme similarity with a .com, may easily and subliminally mislead the viewing consumer, thinking it is a .com, and instinctively typing that into the URL.
http://www.jimmythakkar.com/blog/omg-co-ranks-higher-than-com I made a little research of my own and found out .co CAN rank higher than .com in Google but Bing does not seem to like .co just yet.
There is almost no correlation with domain extensions and ranking on SERPs except for the local searches. Any extension may rank better than the others. .co is a new extension and it can be only an another opportunity to register some rare domains like 3 letters. It is very similar to .com. So, it can have an advantage from getting typo traffic but this similarity can be a disadvantage if you plan to create a real site on a .co domain like Castro Medici said above.
You hit the nail on the head. Being very very similar to .com, it has all the chance to confuse people and will require people to double check on it. For this very reason, I would prefer .net as my second choice and not .co! Regards, RightMan
You are wrong. If parent give birth to 2 child one in 2000 and one in 2010 (both look nearly similar) but second child makes more progress and become president/prime minister in 2020 then answer me who will people remember & like daying & aging .com or new smart, short .co Every few years people want something new, nothing last forever in internet world. you have to catch next bus every few years
...Because it comes with a sprinkling of Columbia's most popular cash crop . All joking aside, I don't think .co is as lucrative as one might think...realistically, it has great typo potential, as it is the root of many a domain name TLD (EX: .COm, .CO.uk, etc) but that aside there is a lot to be desired. It won't be worth 3x as much over night simply because of an action taken by Google.
i have a little amount for invest .co domain thanks and I have little confusion about .com and .co domain
One may have a hard time achieving the desired results between the relatively previous generation of Internet. You can't always say that you are only targeting the tech-nerds. Most of the rather no-so-techy peoples ain't aware of this new .co thingy yet and it may take really a while for them to get this in consideration. So eventually, you can have a name website.co on your visiting card and the client may say "Huh...the press where you have got your cards printed has mis-printed it. Never mind, I will handle this and will add the additional "m" after this by myself!"
What an example to explain! Btw... you are pre-emptying the second child to be progressing really well... where as the facts suggest that all tlds released so far after .com have not managed to scale popularity chart as well as .com. Any reason what makes you so optimistic that the end result will be different this time with .co? Regards, RightMan
I've worked for a company that had a hyphen in it's name, and I also now have a family blog on a .CO website... and it's at least 10x easier to explain and get people to remember the DotCo vs the hyphenated name. Typical .CO convo: "Take a look at AcmeWidgets Dot CO" (which I rhyme with "oh") "Dot Co? Is that new?" - I then explain how it's a new intl domain extension and then they usually think it's cool and some even want to know how to get one for themselves. Typical hyphen convo: "Take a look at Acme 'dash' Widgets.com" "Is that like an underscore?" "No, it's a hyphen" "Hyphen? Is that like the backslash?" "Um, no... I'll just send you the link" I believe that in a few years most people will be familiar with DotCo as a common .com alternative.