Has everyone got the .CO domains that they were after? I have 3 guarantees and 2 pending, so fingers crossed!
I wouldn't buy it, I don't think it will have an impact as expected. I feel its its extremely over rated.
That's the same reason people a number of years ago didn't think that Social Media would ever really take off Those people are now scrabbling to get their social media strategy in place... I know because I handle a number of them!
It is all just noise - but noise that cannot be ignored because from a brand perspective, if you aren't seen to be doing it but your competitors are, then you are lagging behind. Can you imagine for one second the 'big names' not being involved in social media? Mind you, depends how big your customers are... When you are working with much more than just a few links and a bit of copy, then it is all noise - when you are looking at a part of a million pound marketing strategy, every angle is covered
all sites who need to protect their identities have .com domain and .com is the popular one so no one is going to enter .co instead of .com .co is usefull for only short domain names 3 upto 3 letters. i already searched for 3 letters each and every possible using bot. but all 3 letters .co domain were already registered. .co is expensive also
.com is the popular one right now - how is your crystal ball at seeing if .co's will have been worth their £20 in a few years time? I would hardly call that expensive but even so, not a risk I am going to take When something has this much hype, people will snap these up even if it is for no other reason than to protect their brand or identity. I have been doing SEO and marketing for 10 years now and one thing you learn, is to look at emerging trends - if it is a worthwhile risk, you take it.
people will not snap up to protect their brand or identity. they will snatch domains from you legally. most of the companies registered their trademarks.
Agree! you can be evil to make money from these companies. personally i am not keen on this ccTLD, let's chat i have posted a article about that topic, http://www.webmastercrunch.com/co-domain-available-now-are-you-going-to-buy/
lol at the haters on the .co domains.. they either 1. Dont know the benefits of the .co 2. They cant afford it, 3. They must of bought a few .me's and a few .info's in the past and have made nothing out of them hence the hate is flowing over the .co's. Forget the bloody search engines for now and where the tld came from and what people have to say about the .co just use your own intellect.. and judge it on the basis of what it is thats what i did. .co is almost the same as .com. '.co.' is a shorter version of the '.com' - this alone makes the .co supersede the .com. Its much shorter, easier to remember and more convenient. Naturally your brain will click more easily with a .co as oppose to .me's .info's etc. As you know im sure the shorter the domain is the better... this will make google want to harvest .co's more than any other domain extension such as .me, .info's. Again its a natural process which the search engines will take action on. As for what people are saying about .co's its already been released as a global extension and google have confirmed it will put it on par with the .com and the .net, .org globally. Search engines like google will want to index .co's even more simply because the .co is shorter than the .com. Those who miss out on the .co era will be knocking their heads in a few years time... and threads like these will be like going down memory lane for them...
I concur about the "going down the memory lane" but not the "those miss out" this tld will be out of hype after a few weeks and then i will go down to memory lane and grin about statements like these