Are .co domains the next big thing

13 years ago

The extension is not a problem when the content is unique and worthy.The only extension that do little is .info other than that,Lot others doing very well.

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iAmNameLess 13 years ago

Originally Posted by masterjani

The extension is not a problem when the content is unique and worthy.The only extension that do little is .info other than that,Lot others doing very well.

What? .info is no different than a .com in the eyes of the search engines.

.co might make a pretty good rise.. We will see.
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- greatseoservice 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by iAmNameLess
  
  What? .info is no different than a .com in the eyes of the search engines.
  
  .co might make a pretty good rise.. We will see.
  
  .infos are not very well seen in the eyes of google for the simple fact they where very cheap when they appeard and IM`ers of the day bought them and build crappy sites on them and also used black hat seo. So google kept banning them
  
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imfusa

13 years ago

Originally Posted by masterjani

The extension is not a problem when the content is unique and worthy.The only extension that do little is .info other than that,Lot others doing very well.

I disagree with you because: I will give an example of mine: I have a .info domain that is 1 year old and a.com domain that is 1 and a half months old, on the .com domain i have a tool for checking page rank and on the .info domain i have a blog about web development with rss feeds from ezine. I want to say that in only 1 week i ranked on the 5th place on google for the check pagerank keywords, and for the .info domain, i am still bothering to get it pass the 20th page. That's why there is no comparison between those 2. The bigger the price of the domain the higher you rank.

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iAmNameLess

13 years ago

Originally Posted by imfusa

I disagree with you because: I will give an example of mine: I have a .info domain that is 1 year old and a.com domain that is 1 and a half months old, on the .com domain i have a tool for checking page rank and on the .info domain i have a blog about web development with rss feeds from ezine. I want to say that in only 1 week i ranked on the 5th place on google for the check pagerank keywords, and for the .info domain, i am still bothering to get it pass the 20th page. That's why there is no comparison between those 2. The bigger the price of the domain the higher you rank.

And I disagree with you 100%. You're comparing extensions in different niches, different keywords, different competition. SEARCH ENGINES DON'T DISCRIMINATE AGAINST EXTENSIONS, ONLY PEOPLE DO!

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- foxlobo123 13 years ago
  
  don't think so... hehe
  
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  vaibhavkanwal 13 years ago
  
  Thanks for the reply guys.
  Although, I agree that Search Engines do not differentiate between different TLDs, its just that others have been around for some time now and getting a good Keyword Rich Niche in the domain is difficult with the likes of .com, .net, .org
  
  .co being relatively new, I think its easier to get a purely SEO oriented domain. Good for Website Flipping and making it Rank.
  
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  Alexa Smith Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by vaibhavkanwal
  
  Good for Website Flipping and making it Rank.
  
  As good as anything for ranking, yes - because domain extensions don't affect SEO. But I strongly suspect very much less good for flipping, because so many people mistakenly imagine that they do that that's going to affect the resale market and price.
  
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  Steadyon 13 years ago
  
  There's a reason why .com's are hard to find. It's because people think they are the best and most valuable. Because of this "think", they actually are more valuable.
  
  So use .com if you can and if you are building a brand etc...
  
  Use any other extension if you have to, and it would be worthwhile doing so.
  
  In my experience, all things being equal, a good keyword rich domain with any extension, sure beats a crappy dot com. It also sure beats having no site up at all :-)
  
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indiatext

13 years ago

well your decision for purchasing a domain extension must consider the aspects that i'm mensioning below:

1) If you want people to visit your site by writing the address to your website then 4 sure the .com domain has an edge over the rest of extensions.

2) If you want the people to visit your sites from the search engines then it really don't matter which extension u choose...

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sady92

13 years ago

Hmmm .CO made an agressig Adertising for its domain but i dont think it will replace .Com

and i think its better a loong .com rather than a short .co

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Mike Nikolz

13 years ago

.co is very good, I got some and everything works with them pretty well so far.

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vaibhavkanwal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Nikolz

.co is very good, I got some and everything works with them pretty well so far.

Yes, that's exactly what I have been doing. I have spent some $$$ on new domains.

Originally Posted by Steadyon

In my experience, all things being equal, a good keyword rich domain with any extension, sure beats a crappy dot com. It also sure beats having no site up at all :-)

Perfect! Having done SEO for some time, I know that what you say works in real life too. Obviously, for a Domain with thousands of backlinks its difficult to beat but for a NEW website, nothing beams a SEO domain.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

As good as anything for ranking, yes - because domain extensions don't affect SEO. But I strongly suspect very much less good for flipping, because so many people mistakenly imagine that they do that that's going to affect the resale market and price.

Flipping is only when Adsense doesn't work. Even if the website is able to generate $5/ day, its a good deal

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Fernando Veloso

13 years ago

Over here, Portugal, I've seen some interesting results while analyzing domain name extensions VERSUS rankings.

Example One: onerandomsite.tv
Great site, a lot of unique content pages, very well structured, etc. Didn't do well in Google for months - but since last update he come stronger and dominates lots of keywords.

Example Two: otherrandomsite.eu
Also a great site, unique content, clearly written by guys who know their business, updated every 2 days, etc etc. Google loves these sites... but this one was rankings page 3-4-5 for MONTHS (almost one year) before last update bring him to top 5 in a wide range of competitive keywords.

So if you ask me IF .co can be a good domain extension, I say YES, as long as you work it a bit BETTER and LONGER to prove G you are doing it the right way (assuming the .co's are in the same "bag" than .tv's and .eu's).

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vaibhavkanwal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso

So if you ask me IF .co can be a good domain extension, I say YES, as long as you work it a bit BETTER and LONGER to prove G you are doing it the right way (assuming the .co's are in the same "bag" than .tv's and .eu's).

I agree with you. The problem is finding a good traffic generating Keyword rich domain that's still left in .com, Most of those in .com are taken but they don't have websites. I mean, either they'r parked or there's nothing at all.

Sheer waste.

I have my hopes high

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seasoned

13 years ago

.co is a kind of scam started by columbia. It was created through a FREAK occurance crossing ISO and English. It is like WS, TO, or AS. All else equal, it should HURT you a little.

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paulie888

13 years ago

Originally Posted by vaibhavkanwal

Hi Warriors

I was looking for my choice of "gold" domains last night and I found some really good Domains available using the .co TLD

I booked some but I am not sure if the investment on .co domains is worthwhile, they are expensive than the regular TLDs and I am not too sure how Search Engines will treat them.

Any thoughts from experienced Internet Marketers would be appreciated

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Vaibhav Kanwal

All other things being equal, the TLD of a domain does not really have any influence on ranking in the search engines (Google has pretty much come out and said so), so if you're going to buy a .co domain, it'll have to be for reason(s) other than that.

What is your motivation behind purchasing a .co domain? Why would you want to pick this over a .com? It's very important you ask yourself these questions before purchasing this relatively expensive .co domain - if it's basically just for a website that you intend to rank on Google, then I really don't think it's worth the additional investment over a .com.

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vaibhavkanwal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulie888

What is your motivation behind purchasing a .co domain? Why would you want to pick this over a .com? It's very important you ask yourself these questions before purchasing this relatively expensive .co domain - if it's basically just for a website that you intend to rank on Google, then I really don't think it's worth the additional investment over a .com.

Well, I just wish to gain an extra edge with high traffic keywords. It gets really difficult to beat the "established" websites. So, I have seen examples where people are ranking well using the exact phrase match.

Doing the same with a .com domain or probably .net is not possible. Moreover, most of those are lying unused with Domain Registrars.

I just wanna see how it actually goes. Thoughts?

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Spot the Ball

13 years ago

Let you know in a few months, Ive just bought myself a few that have yet to be uploaded with any content.

I got them hosted and will start work over the next week.

Originally Posted by vaibhavkanwal

Hi Warriors

I was looking for my choice of "gold" domains last night and I found some really good Domains available using the .co TLD

I booked some but I am not sure if the investment on .co domains is worthwhile, they are expensive than the regular TLDs and I am not too sure how Search Engines will treat them.

Any thoughts from experienced Internet Marketers would be appreciated

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Vaibhav Kanwal

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vaibhavkanwal

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Spot the Ball

Let you know in a few months, Ive just bought myself a few that have yet to be uploaded with any content.

I got them hosted and will start work over the next week.

Great! I look forward to see how it goes for you. I'll keep you in the loop

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

I have .co domains that are ranking quite well and doing well. Same as any domain if you do the SEO work. I don't buy a ton of them, but I have my fair share and really like the ones I do have.

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JNFerree

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

I have .co domains that are ranking quite well and doing well. Same as any domain if you do the SEO work. I don't buy a ton of them, but I have my fair share and really like the ones I do have.

The GoDaddy girls are promoting the .co domains and I suspect a lot of sales are being made.

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rain21

13 years ago

i think .co is good, but .co.cc is not ! only disadvantage you get is lot of people are not familiar with .co domain extensions
example -
your site is guitarlessons.co
there is another site guitarlessons.com

more than 90% people who search for this keyword may enter guitarlessons.com > not co,info,biz or etc, so you get less traffic

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warhammer 13 years ago

I like .co domains. Not sure if you know it, but GoDaddy and several other big domain companies are going to give new .co domain for about $10-$11 each during the superbowl week.

PS: do you know if having a great one-word domain in .co helps more (talking about SEO) than a 3-keword .com domain? Do they have the same chance of getting to the first page?

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James Campbell

13 years ago

FYI, Godaddy is pushing a Godaddy.co commercial for the superbowl. They are revealing what they call the Godaddy.co girl.

The video is on their site under commercials.

James

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Andrea Wilson

13 years ago

.co well, I imagine seeing people flocking to them a few months from now because there are pretty good domains still available there unlike when you check with available .coms

Andrea

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Lethologica

13 years ago

The problem I think with .co is that .com is pretty much embedded in everyone mind. It's muscle memory for a lot of people just to say or type google.com instead of google.co. I know I'm guilty of saying or typing .com for addresses that have a different extension.

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warhammer

13 years ago

GoDaddy is pricing new co's at $7.49, with coupon code cjc749sb01

godaddy.com/default.aspx?isc=cjc749sb01

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vaibhavkanwal

13 years ago

Thanks for the Coupon code. Unfortunately, I have already purchased some form Namecheap.com

I am not really a fan of GoDaddy but looks like I had a raw deal. I paid $23.99 for each .co domain that I bought!

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warhammer

13 years ago

Originally Posted by vaibhavkanwal

Thanks for the Coupon code. Unfortunately, I have already purchased some form Namecheap.com

I am not really a fan of GoDaddy but looks like I had a raw deal. I paid $23.99 for each .co domain that I bought!

Well, for $7 you could still give it a try

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Diana Lane

13 years ago

I have a variety of domains including .info and .co, as well as .org, .net and .com, and the only thing that has any major impact on their success is the time put into developing them. Searchbots do not encounter quality content and shriek 'Yikes - an .info!' before heading for the safety of a spammy .com. It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it and what it's doing that counts. I have a couple of .infos that are sitting there bringing in the bread while laughing on hearing regular assertions that 'infos aren't worth anything'.

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Bruce Wedding

13 years ago

I'm sorry but this pisses me off. If you don't live in Colombia or specifically marketing to Colombia, you have no freakin' business buying a .co domain.

It's not all about "there's gold in them there domains."

I own 3 .co domains. All are sites developed for Colombians selling services in Colombia.

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LymeJosh 13 years ago

.co domains definitely have the potential to replace .com, and obviously this is the intention of this new domain name. We've noticed many big name companies already switching to this style due to the sure idea that simplicity sells. The less needed to be done / typed, the easier effectiveness is reached. Hence why pre-pops do well. Guaranteed? Maybe in time, but it'll definitely be a very popular domain extension.
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greatseoservice

13 years ago

About the .co`s no idea what will happen

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mindmarketing

13 years ago

I purchased a .co a while back because it was the only domain with my chosen keywords.

The issue I have is when I'm typing in my site name I always hit the damn "m" key.

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AbsolutJake82

13 years ago

unless you are wanting people to type your web url in directly then it doesnt really matter if you have a .net or .co etc. The direct domain name is the best chance to rank higher quicker with less work because thats what google looks for first

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RickDayle

13 years ago

Given the proliferation of spam email, many companies are blocking countries they don't expect to do business with. Unfortunately, quite a few are doing the same with web access for their employees. Thus, if you have a product that might appeal to people that try to get to your site from their work, they may never see your site if it is a .co because (as has been mentioned) .co is the Columbia country code.

I'm not sure how much this will actually affect traffic, but I'm still in the phase where every visit counts, so am trying not to lose any traffic by using a top level domain that might be blocked. Now, if I was seeing 10,000 site visits a day, I might not be as concerned.

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luvtrees

13 years ago

I just saw a commercial for Overstock.com on TV, and they are now advertising that they are changing their name to O.CO
You also have Twitter buying t.co to use for themselves. Just the fact that Overstock is promoting themselves like that on TV, leads me to think that investing in a few one word .co's was not such a bad idea after all.

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warhammer

13 years ago

Originally Posted by luvtrees

I just saw a commercial for Overstock.com on TV, and they are now advertising that they are changing their name to O.CO
You also have Twitter buying t.co to use for themselves. Just the fact that Overstock is promoting themselves like that on TV, leads me to think that investing in a few one word .co's was not such a bad idea after all.

youtube.com/watch?v=tnrsHjgzs68

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warhammer

13 years ago

Sedo is currently selling superpremium .CO domains via an auction that will end in less than 8 hours. To view the full inventory, visit Sedo.CO

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