What are premium 3 Letter .CO domains worth

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Hi everyone, I just would like to hear some opinions from domain buyers/sellers as to their opinions on 3 letter domains, and in particular 3 letter .CO domains. According to a number of people .CO is already in third place in terms of domain extensions, although it's not clear to me whether this is the case.

I recently purchased what I regard as a premium 3 letter .CO domain - Beg.CO, and was wondering where exactly we are in terms of re-sale value, and also in terms of whether you would feel I should look to hold on for as long as possible to such a domain, or whether it may be worth considering selling it on. If the latter option where would you consider doing so for such a domain, i.e. flippa, sedo etc.?

Thanks
Joel
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  • Profile picture of the author warhammer
    The problem with .CO, as you have with other alternative TLDs, is liquidity. It's not easy to sell a .CO domain, but when sales occur (especially enduser sales), the trust you put in the extension is well rewarded. There have been LLL.CO sales in the 3, 4 and 5 figures (see DNSalePrice.com for a comprehensive list).

    Today, Sugar.CO was sold for $30,000 and MNG.CO for $1,190, both at Sedo.com
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    I couldn't estimate a value, but I would expect these would be lucrative.

    Mainstream companies like Overstock is using .co with o.co.

    But I think they would also be of great use for short redirection URLs as people use them for cloaking and to shorten URLs for places like Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest.

    Mahlon
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    When you buy a domain, you need to determine the commercial value of the domain. Beg, as a keyword doesn't lend itself to having commercial value. Just because it's three letters will not automatically make it valuable. When you're appraising domains, you might want to look up the keyword in Google and if there are a lot of Adwords advertisers competing for that keyword, it's a fair shot that is has commercial value. I don't think that .co has reached #3 in sales. You want to get an idea of what's hot in domain names, go here
    DomainNameSales Scores First 6-Figure Sale Reported This Month, High 5-Figure Sales Also Return
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    • Profile picture of the author warhammer
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      I don't think that .co has reached #3 in sales. You want to get an idea of what's hot in domain names, go here
      DomainNameSales Scores First 6-Figure Sale Reported This Month, High 5-Figure Sales Also Return
      TBH, I read that its selling price is only second to .com.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by warhammer View Post

        TBH, I read that its selling price is only second to .com.
        .co can sell, but it's no different than any other domain. Junk domains don't sell. Commercially viable domains do, whether they are .co, .net, .info, .org or any other extension.

        Ask yourself what you would sell on a site called beg.co as opposed to finance.co or kitchens.co.
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        • Profile picture of the author warhammer
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          .co can sell, but it's no different than any other domain. Junk domains don't sell. Commercially viable domains do, whether they are .co, .net, .info, .org or any other extension.

          Ask yourself what you would sell on a site called beg.co as opposed to finance.co or kitchens.co.
          I perfectly agree with you on that. Commercial keywords are the most valuable without a doubt. But if he finds a company that uses BEG as their acronym, to them the name will be valuable as well.
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          • Profile picture of the author wapi
            I agree.. There should be a keyword match with domain name. Or a match with existing company name. I have zpg.co domain. And have two matching domain doing business online like zpg.com and zpg.jp.... So I can sell them my domain if any one of them is interested..
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            • Profile picture of the author Steve B
              What was your purpose in buying the domain in the first place?

              Surely you had a plan to either use it for some web site idea or try to flip it to make some money. If you didn't have a plan for the name, why did you buy it? If you did have a plan, just follow through with it.

              Dot com domains, everything else being equal, are certainly preferable to dot co and all other extensions, especially for commercial purposes.

              Your best bet in flipping the name for a profit is to find a business where "B" "E" "G" might be the initials of the business name. Another possibility would be to visit all the "beg.____" extensions and see if they would have an interest in beg dot co.

              And by the way, no one here on this forum is going to be able to tell you what your domain will sell for. That's up to you and your marketing.

              Good luck,

              Steve
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