Comments on: Why People Love To Hate .CO…And Why I Love .CO!

By: Fred McCaughey

Fred McCaughey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:27:15 +0000

I purchased the listed address. I used to own and run http://www.idsupply.com. I sold it six years ago. Now I will compete again. I actually live in Asia now, but work using the web. My partner in the US gave me all this negative feedback from his current host and web developer telling me .co would not work. I like rolling the dice and we need another usable extension. Now that I see that Google and Yahoo are treating .co like a .com if you specify it I know how right I was. You were too. All the naysayers of the world will be proven wrong this time. Always enjoy your writings!

By: Mazhar

Mazhar — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:21:10 +0000

Hi gentlemen. As I kept reading your views, I just ran my .CO domains, namely
Bakeries.co and Chiller.co. Each of them was the very first one to appear in the box.

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By: David

David — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:31:33 +0000

Ooops typo… I agree with Morgan on that a lot of end users who have always wanted to *have* a particular keyword….

By: David

David — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:29:27 +0000

So many haters

I think that .Co is going to do better then any of the other ccTLDs out there. It might take some time for people to get used to it, but eventually I think corporations and businesses are going to start seeing the value of a .co domain.

I agree with Morgan on that a lot of end users who have always wanted to a particular keyword domain are going to be more than happy to purchase a .co domain with their particular keyword. Heck, thats what I did! I always wanted a News domain and my last name for email, I now I was finally able to get the domains

I really do believe that .Co domains are going to be at least equal in value to .net/.org domains, and with 200,000 domains already being bought, people are for sure going to notice the extension.

Instead of arguing if the .Co extension is good or not we should introduce it to the internet users, and eventually it’ll pay off

By: Chris Robbins

Chris Robbins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:01:48 +0000

Just came upon this article this morning that should ease some: Google approves .co for international use: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use

By: Duane

Duane — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:50:30 +0000

” .com is Geo-Targeted to the US ”

Sorry to step Morgan, but this is not exactly right! Dot COM is a completly open TLD and not targeted to any specific country. Google Webmastertools gives you the option to target a specific country if you want. If you dont target a specific country, google will automatic recognize which language is on site and therefor target which country’s fit to the content.

“Remember, in Germany there are ads and billboards with URLs ending in .de”
This is also a “catch 22″ because large international company’s like to use .COM!

I will also state the exapmle why!
As a example the German language. You have 3 country’s and some which speak German. Austria, Switzerland, Germany and so on. If using a .COM with German content written, Google will rank you on Google.de , .at , .ch ! If your using a .de it can be negative when wanting to target Austria (.at) , Switzerland (.ch) because they automatically target the ccTLD’s to the specific country without giving you the option.

My proven expirience.

PS: I like the .CO but only invested in 5 of them which I will develope and see how things turn out.

By: Dotmainer

Dotmainer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:38:26 +0000

have you forgott M there ? Should be coM

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:25:21 +0000

Hey Morgan:

I appreciate your optimism! We need more of it. And in no way to I question your development skills. However, I think you might be caught up in a current hype.

Six billion people know .com. Perhaps sixty thousand know .co.

Just my humble opinion.

Hope you make lotsa $$$$ regardless. We need another Bimmer on the roads in LA .

Mark

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:52:42 +0000

@Chris – .com is Geo-Targeted to the US so it puts .CO directly on par with .COM. There is no TLD that targets every single country – it has to target one specific country and the US is one of the best ones to target!

Remember, in Germany there are ads and billboards with URLs ending in .de and in Australia the same is true for .com.au. .COM has always been a US brand since it is targeting Google US by default.