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I was wondering how the .co name is going? Is it looking like a success or a flop? My apologies for not been up to speed I haven’t been paying too much attention to the domain market of late.
Many thanks,
Zutroy
Many thanks,
Zutroy
It is not. While it is a single statistic, it does illustrate the danger of switching from a highly visible and well established brand on .com to an unknown domain name on a largely unknown ccTLD. No matter how you want to frame it, .co is irrelevant to the majority of internet users outside of Colombia.That's a bunch of behooey. If a new statistic doen't exist, too bad.
Common sense is highly overrated. A few hundred years ago, common sense considered the world to be flat. What most people do not see is how TLDs change over the years. A landrush TLD is very different from a mature TLD because a lot of the junk has been removed from the zone because domainers don't want to pay for bad investments.But common sense tells me it will drop as more .co are registered.
More propaganda from those who wish to promote TLD services! What I've seen in the last year or so points to a concentration on core TLDs (.com and .ccTLD) at the expense of the non-core TLDs (net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia/tel/eu etc). The established small Mom and Pop operations that populate the .com and .ccTLD TLDs will not change to the new gTLDs unless there are very good reasons. (This is one of the main attractions of city ngTLDs.)As more TLDs come out en mass, everyone will begin to realize that the right of the dot means something.
It won't. The growth in .com and .ccTLD domains is far higher than that in .co ccTLD and as such, that creates its own momentum. With .com alone, there are millions of new domains registered each month.As such, it will become more and more apparent what .co is. Therefore leakage will go down slowly.
But could this mean that only one major company took the gamble to rebrand with a .co and found that it was a waste of time and money? Were there others that you know about? Did any other major company rebrand?But remember, this is only a statistic for ONE company.
Again the issue of irrelevance arises. Angel.co isn't really a massively used site like eBay or Google.I'm more interested in knowing what the leakage is for Angel.co. If it is 25%, it throws the whole 61% bruhaha down the toilet.
He's from Mythbusters, a TV show, exactly what Brad said.Who is Adam Savage and who cares?
Common sense [ "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts."] is your attempt to create a "truth" which is skullduggery. There is no common sense here - there is simple optimistic opinion. Your premise is based on "more pervasive" and I haven't seen any evidence of that.Look Bud, life is changing all the time and so is the market. Nobody knows exactly what is going to happen and if you find someone who tells you the "truth" about what will happen, run the other way. That is just plain skullduggery. If you haven't come to that realization then you haven't tasted the breath of life. As .co becomes more pervasive, in small increments, the leakage will decrease, this is just common sense.
It's different. They're still branded as Angel List and the .com forwards to the .CO. Their model is different.Once again, I'd be interested to know Angel.co's leakage. THAT, would be interesting.
But you can lie with numbers!Numbers don't lie, but they change
Success for the registry:Depends how you define success.
This is a remarkable change from some of the more extreme fanboyisms about .co ccTLD when it was launched. It was supposedly an alternative to .com for companies and businesses. Every repurposed ccTLD, once it moves its focus outside its own country , is competing with .com whether the registry, the registrants or the fanboys like it or not.It doesn't need to compete with .com.
This is something that many domainers do not understand. Development can be expensive it takes time to build a successful brand. Generic keyword domains are the most difficult of all to establish as successful brands and this is why people remember Google, Ebay, Overstock, Twitter etc. The development path for successful brands is either ccTLD -> .com -> other ccTLDs or .com -> other ccTLDs. It is far simpler for major brands to redirect any keyword domains to their primary brand website.If you have the very best keywords, why not develop on .co?
Overstock found out that even a large budget is not enough. That lesson has been learned by many large brands.But I would say that you should have a lot of money in the bank for extra marketing.