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Stealing .co Domains

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As you might (or might not) be aware, the .co domain just launched this week, and people have been going crazy buying up domain names! You better get whatever .co domains you want because people will get them first…believe me!!!

Someone grabbed calilewis.co almost immediately before I had a chance to. My friend Trey Ratcliff, who’s famous for his HDR Photography, lost out on StuckInCustoms.co, too. Shows you how quickly people move on these things!

Check out onemansblog.com/dotco for more information and make sure you use these discount codes when you register your .co domains so you can save money.

  • IAPt3 = 10% off
  • IAPtfif1 = 15% off $75
  • IAPtft1 = $5 off $30
  • IAPtdom1 = $7.49 .com
  • IAPth1 = 20% off hosting

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34 Comments Posted by Cali Lewis

34 Responses to "Stealing .co Domains"

  • P.W. Fenton says:
    July 24, 2010 at 10:49 am

    It seems like the best I can do (with a discount) is to pay $27 for one year of “.co” registration. What justifies such a price when “.com” is 7.49? I might be tempted to buy up .COs for domains I already own… but not at that price. What’s your take on it?

  • Bryan Lee says:
    July 24, 2010 at 10:59 am

    P.W. Fenton, I agree way too much to pay if you already own a .com of your domain.

  • Nigel says:
    July 24, 2010 at 11:17 am

    I’m not convinced .co is going to be any different to all of the other .[insert two letters here] Ttlds. Did you run out and buy .ly? If Google doesn’t pay attention to .co names, they’ll just be a novelty. I suspect domain investors are the only people buying, so they can flip them quickly at x1000 multiples.

  • Mickey Blue Eyes says:
    July 24, 2010 at 11:57 am

    @Nigel: +1

    I agree that .co may just be a niche, if not a fad. The .co will be rife with malware sites trying to infect people who mistype URLs, e.g., calilewis.co instead of calilewis.com.

    I imagine, unless the person who purchased calilewis.co is actually named Cali Lewis, you may have grounds for a complaint with ICANN against the cybersquatter.

  • Dan Farfan says:
    July 24, 2010 at 12:09 pm

    The so-called top level domain was one of the biggest blunders in computer science history. It’s a travesty that it’s been institutionalized deeper and deeper instead of removed completely like all flawed constructs should be.

    Fortunately, a new (improved) address system will (purposefully) avoid that same mistake and several others. In every design flaw, lies opportunity!

    Dan

  • eyedocmark says:
    July 24, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    Cali, I got drmark.cc years ago because drmark.com was taken. Well, people would say they couldn’t find me, because they were looking at drmark.cc.com. So I had to have everything printed as “drmark.cc (not dot com)” … I wanted something without my last name because who can remember how to spell SUKOENIG? … so one day it hit me to try eyedocmark.com and eyedocmark@gmail.com. They were available, so I grabbed them. No need to shoot for any other URLs now.

    What a drag that someone took your NAME! Have you registered your REAL name, too? Have you contacted the person who took calilewis.co ?
    eyedocmark
    aka Dr. Mark

  • Dave Ambrose says:
    July 24, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    I think that for most businesses you’ll want to have your name in .co too. It covers you if your customer makes a typo, and it also protects your brand.

    I’m betting a lot of people will set up advertising pages on .co and skim some amount of money from adwords and other agencies.

  • Mat says:
    July 24, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    Sensationalist title. There’s no stealing going on. Registrations gave been available for a long time now for sunrise and landrush registrations. If someone bought early then they paid a lot for it. Some solstice there perhaps.

  • Johnfishlock says:
    July 24, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    That really stinks someone nabbed yer name, pigs,,

  • David says:
    July 25, 2010 at 5:53 am

    People, please stop falling for this again, and again. Do not try to register all TLDs for your domain. There are about 200 TLDs right now, and with the changes in the rules there will be more and more as long as people try to collect them all. In the end you will just pay a lot of money each year for something you don’t need.
    Instead of buying all the TLDs invest the time and money in SEO and marketing your domain. Set aside a little bit of money for legal assistance so that you can take legal action if someone infringes on your trademarks by registering the domain and putting competing content on it. Most TLDs have decent trademark protection rules, so use them before going to court. Only try to acquire those TLDs that have a high awareness (.com, .net, ccTLD for your country).
    Please, people stop being hostage of the craze for new TLDs.
    If you want an example how this works out for big companies look at VMware. They did not acquire the ccTLDs for VMware until someone started to use them commercially. It was just a complaint with the French registrar for trademark infringement which got them that domain. They still do not own the .nl ccTLD, but the owner cannot exploit it commercially, because VMware can claim it once the owner starts to do so. VMware this way saves itself thousands of dollars each year on the domain name registrations alone, and thousands of dollars on the maintenance of DNS again.

  • Carole says:
    July 25, 2010 at 6:54 am

    @David – You can say there’s no need to register all TLDs for your domain, and that’s probably true, but this .co is different: if someone leaves off the “m” from “.com” they’ll be taken to somebody else’s website, if they’ve purchased the .co version.

    I think it’s utterly ridiculous that this was released as a TLD. You can’t tell me that there aren’t other letter combinations they could have used that wouldn’t cause this issue. It’s a money grab, pure and simple, and I’m assuming .or is next.

  • twh says:
    July 25, 2010 at 11:29 am

    Something is wrong with the domain name system when people feel compelled to register so many domains. I don’t know how to fix it, but it totally defeats the purpose of top level domains. Maybe we should have just stuck with .com, .net, .edu and .gov and required people to use the appropriate one.

  • NTFS data recovery says:
    July 26, 2010 at 5:38 am

    I quite don’t find any benefit in the .co domain as the url will become even shorter and the recognition with the country will not be there I feel the domain should be left as it is right now

  • David says:
    July 26, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    @Carole As long as the domain is not registered you will not land on a different site. If you do land on a different site than you expect, you should be smart enough to check the address again. If a competitor registers the domain: take legal action based on trademark laws or regulations of the registrar.

    @twh, I agree with you, but I do think the introduction of the country code top levels was a good call, but the use of those domains should have been restricted to residents and companies of that country. This would have solved a lot of the domain grab (including this .co grab).

  • Admin says:
    July 28, 2010 at 8:36 am

    The .co domain is the country code for Columbia – in fact, the .me domain is the country code for Montenegro. You should look at this list:

    http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/

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