.CO value doesn't reside in his type-in traffic: if you develop a content rich website and do all the required SEO, you will have it on first page of Google and that's what will make it valuable.
True, but any domain name (or extension) will have value when it's on first page in google for competitive keywords, this is not exclusive for .CO. If you do the work, you'll get the value.
Sorry, but only a small percentage of all TLDs are actually considered global by Google. These include gTLDs and a couple of ccTLDs like .TV and .CO (this is called geotargeting and you can set it via Google Webmaster Tools), while all other ccTLDs are optimized for their national version of Google.
I do realize not all extensions are treated equally in google but the ones that are considered global by Google are obviously not limited to .CO. Also, I assume most people in this thread don't have their .CO developed but just parked. When you have 500+ domains in your portfolio you can be considered lucky if you have enough time to develop around 10% of those. So the question would be if those "parked" .CO have value or not. Personally, I believe they do have a value. (but more short term than long term).
To be honest, I will take into account .cc and .me too but I'm not sure if they are really considered global like .tv and .co. Anyway .co is the one I like most from a business perspective. It would be the same for .com, but if .CO starts to become mainstream in the next future, the valuable keyword .CO's that are parked will increase in value accordingly.
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But even still, there are plenty of these TLDs that are considered global. The question right now is, does google treat .co like one of the big 3 TLDs (.com, .net, .org) in terms of rankings (IE even though it's perfectly possible to rank either highly, it's much easier to rank a .net highly than it is a .info). Right now I don't think it does. In the future...I guess that's the question.
Google has stated that it has no preference from one (what they would consider GLOBAL) extension over another. A few things that you need to consider is that extensions such as .COM, .NET, and .ORG have a few HUGE things going for them (in terms of SEO). The age of the domain is HUGE. Most likely .COM, .Net... ect. sites have been up and established for a long time. That goes a long way towards SEO. They probably have been promoted also have have a large sum of back links attached to them. For something like .CO to contend in a super saturated keyword market, they would need a SEO GURU to make that happen. This is actually true no matter what extension you have. A super saturated keyword (like COFFEE) is very very very very difficult to rank well in. That keyword has been well established and the leaders in that category are not going anywhere any time soon. I dont care what extension you have... even if you happen to come across coffee.com, you still wont get in the top 10 Google spots without some MAJOR SEO Since Google states that they treat all the GLOBAL domains the same, .CO has the same chance to rank as .COM. I have seen .CO rank in the number 1 spot for some off the wall keywords. If you had itsallinthebag44.co I am pretty damn sure you will rank in the #1 spot on Google for the keywords "its all in the bag 44". Its NOT a highly contentious keyword grouping. In fact I do not think anyone has done that look up, so it will be easy to rank in that. See the problem is that right now.... pretty much every .CO that has been registered is a highly contentious keyword domain. That is part of the problem of getting premium domain names. You very very rarely can get them to rank well. So taking the long way to answer your question. .CO is just as good as any other extension to rank. Just like any other extension its a lot easier to rank well in broader keywords then it is for premium keywords. Right now, the .CO names are pretty much the premium keyword names and there for you will have a hard time find them ranking anywhere. The .COM names for these keywords have long been established. Just my thoughts. SEO is kind of fun once you get your mind around it. Cheers
.CO .TV .ME are the only global ccTLDs in existence and they work like .COM .NET .ORG The only difference is... .CO = .COM (commercial, corporation, company) .TV = .NET (targeted for television / targeted for networks) .ME = .ORG (For personal use / For organisation use)
Not at all, no more than 3/4 ccTLDs are considered truly global (meaning that you can change the geotargeting).
Interesting thread. I realise there is bit of a gold rush mentallity on for domain names with the extension .co ..... we'll see if they have value in the future. Interesting that the digitalpoint.com domain name was sold for a big amount of money... you just never know what people are going to think of it's value in the future eh. But I have to agree that value as to be added. Who would have thought the word google or facebook would become so valuable. It's not the name so much as the value added to it. So work on it guys.
I don't believe this is true, and this has been backed up by dozens upon dozens of case studies. .Com, .Net, and .Org domains are (significantly) easier to rank than other global domain extensions. It has nothing to do with how well established the domains are because many of these studies were done on brand new domains. Again, this isn't true. Don't put too much faith in what some random guy on the internet says. Try it yourself. Or, just think of it logically. If an exact keyword match domain .co or .info or .me ranked as well as an exact keyword match .com/.net then they would be worth as much on the resale market. We're not talking about brandable stuff here, we're talking cheapvacuumbags.com vs. cheapvacuumbags.co or .info. By your logic, they should be worth the same, since this isn't a brandable thing anyway and all we care about is the ranking. Clearly though, they're not worth the same on the resale market. And if you believe that is incorrect, then you should be a millionaire right now because there are THOUSANDS of high search volume, low competition exact match .co and .info domains out there available at registration fees that people would pay thousands of dollars for the .com/.net version of the domain for ease of ranking. Obviously you can rank any extension for any term with the right amount of work. There are plenty of .co and .info domains ranking #1 for their keywords, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been significantly easier to rank the .com/.net version of those domains. Put it this way. If I take a moderate competition exact match keyword and build a website on the .com, .net, .org, .info, .co, .me, .mobi, and .tv versions of that domain and do the EXACT same SEO work on all of the sites, the .com, .net, and .org sites will rank significantly better than the others. The question here is if .co will pick up enough steam to join the big 3, or if it will forever be stuck in the lands of .info, .tv, etc that are technically global domains, but still rank very poorly without a lot of extra SEO work.
I've got a LLL.co domain just for curiosity Here are the last LLL.co domains available: http://www.grabdn.com/2011/01/18/available-lll-co-domain-names-list-part-1-of-2/ Good luck
@David & Adam Thank - - - - - - - - @dlutua .. but each and every one of those names is no longer with us (haha) rumor has it that someone came around and bought up all the remaining LLL's .. don't hold me to that though thank you for the effort however - always appreciated - - - - - - some recent dot co registrations: • Holographics.co • Haptics.co Love these two additions - especially this late in the game!! • SmartVehicles.co • Smart Appliances.co • ConnectedHome(s).co • ConnectedCar(s).co • IntelligentCar(s).co • CarApps.co • HomeApps.co thoughts? thanks