.CO: “New Way to Go”

a. PRINT IS DEAD
b. the few who see it, most will type in .com

now if they had MONEY

they could dominate google for anyone looking for their terms

here’s what they think of the .co

you look up phoenix new ford

what you see

chapmanfordAZ.COM

so you saw a test ad that will FAIL

if they believed in it, they would be putting their ppc on the .co

but google would say WTF a .co buying ford shit in AZ

NOT ALLOWED

or back of line in rotation

they’re IT is so weak they can’t even break page one for a map or organic

LOL

losers they are

let’s see

our industry keyword

‘lawyers sem’

wonder who is #1

page one google maps

who is #1

when SEO was ‘in’ we showed up

unqualified leads

so we dropped most ‘seo’ terms ON PURPOSE

now it’s industry SEM terms, money terms for us

or PAGE 1 GOOGLE MAPS stuff

those are the people that have a clue

if you’re looking for SEO now, you’re 5 years behind the times

INDUSTRY SEM

Page 1 google maps

LOL

but two years ago, if you looked for page one google or yahoo or bing, our work made us #1

then we saw the morons calling

so we shut down those terms

unqualified morons

now when a lawyer looks for SEM

yep

he’s who we want

lawyer SEO

not interested

lawyer SEM

SEM involves PPC management

anyone looking for SEO is CHEAP

you have to educate them on the concept of partnering with google

they don’t understand, SEO is dead

it’s not first view now

only 2 maps and 5 ppc ads for PROFESSIONALS now show for geo serps for high valued cpc terms

new york lawyer

no organic

so why you want to talk to morons looking for seo

seo is not first view

ppc and maps is

so

SEM and MAPS are OUR INDUSTRY TERMS

and WE OWN THEM

Interesting… I actually thought the route the registrar and other advertisers were going to follow was that of asking the public to DROP THE M in the .COM.

“Drop the M and enter a new dimension.”

Something of that sort. Instead, Godaddy came up with a Super Bowl ad that left did not do much for the .CO, if anything at all.

The public still has no idea what the .CO is.

That may change eventually, and I hope it does.

But that’s the current status of the .CO extension.

That’s just stupid, X over the M, why not just ask for everyone to mistype and show how pathetic you are.

On a side note if it becomes trendy to cross out the M I way try to get a new extension going… .comx or .coxm lol

lol, they sure did a poor job with this one ….FAIL. The M is still very visible. At least the Ohio ChapmanFord dealership will benefit from the extra typo traffic. People aren’t even going to think about it, they’ll still type .COM. It’s almost sad to see.

.

agree with josh on this one LOL

a lot of people will be burned off .co-domainers, end users and the only people laughing to the bank are the founders of .co, registration place and domain bloggers who are collecting ad revenue imo. (not attacking my domain blogger friends)

long live the .COM

.co has value
if it’s a spanish word that people in colombia have money for
what % of the population in colombia use the net?
it’s a poor country from what I hear
but they sure produce a ton of hot chicks
a few of the girls I date the past few years were all colombians
long jet black hair
gorgeous faces
big eyes
hot blooded
they love sex, these colombian babes
absolute maniacs in the sack they are
IMO
maybe ho.co is worth something
putah.co
chinga.co
chupah.co
suciaputah.co
chupahmichorizo.co
some good spanish words in .co that are probably open for reg’s

yep, all these open in .co

putah.co
putahs.co
chupah.co
chinga.co
chupahmichorizo.co
suciaputah.co
suciaputahs.co

the top spanish curse words

I don’t really get the marketing angle there.

If .CO can stand on its own merits why is it constantly compared to .COM?

Brad

Here’s why .co will fail, as an ‘investment’ tld

Let’s fast forward a short time

X company invests Y dollars in keyword.co

Chairman of the company or even the head IT guy holds a meeting with the head SEO/SEM gurus in the company

Okay boys/girls (yeah sure chick gurus NO WAY)

So let’s see the ROI on the keyword.co you had us ‘acquire’

Has the keyword obtained significant organic position on Google?

NO

Has it obtained organic position on Yahoo and Bing?

NO

Has it helped in lower our ppc costs any?

NO

And why has this keyword we spent Y dollars on, returned any income for us?

Well you see boss, it’s not a real TLD, it’s a cc tld, and to the search engines, they think it is only significant in COLOMBIA, so no matter how much we put into SEM or SEO on this DOG, it won’t matter.

So the boss says, who recommended this DOG?

They all say YOU DID BOSS, you told us you thought we should get it.

Ok, so I FIRE MYSELF the boss says

LOL

Anyone trying to make a .co do anything will never succeed

PERIOD

CASE CLOSED

The king has NO CLOTHES

It’s a lousy cc tld for COLOMBIA

That’s all it will ever be long term

Sure some morons are dealing in it now, it’s a fad, once people realize it is COLOMBIA for google, and yahoo and bing, you won’t see major sales.

So don’t believe the hype

Sure, short term sales IF the sales are real

But IMO, it’s a junk cc tld

Good for selling junk in Colombia

THAT’s IT

There’s a legal term for this type of SCAM

The ‘gurus’ talking up .co as a legit tld for ‘investing’

It’s called PUMP AND DUMP

So any ‘expert domainers’ saying invest in .co

Well eventually, if any major money is lost on this junk

Yep, they could be found guilty of PUMP AND DUMP

Example

News letter on penny stocks

They PUMP x penny stock

Investors on the news letter buy

Then the news letter DUMP

And if you don’t think scams like PUMP AND DUMP are investigated all the time

THEY ARE

There’s NO WAY, any legit ‘domain name expert’ can say .co is a legitimate tld to invest in

NO WAY

it’s a BS country code for colombia

PERIOD

CASE CLOSED

Look up pump and dump

Then you understand the SCAM going on with .co

LOL

suckers

Here’s an brief analysis of pump and dump

Exactly what a few players are doing with the whole .co tld

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

So anyone saying they’re an ‘expert’ in domains

And they push .co

PUMP AND DUMP artist

or a MORON

Case closed

move on

@ Lords

I disagree with your assessment.

Nevertheless, I’ve been very clear that I am not investing in .CO besides the 10 or so names I have right now, and I don’t think they’re good short term investments. I also have yet to sell any of my .CO domain names either. Every article I post that even mentions .CO (and many that don’t even mention .CO) have lots of comments from people who seem to feel the need to interject their feelings about .CO.

Any buyer should do their due diligence before buying .CO or any domain name.

I happen to think a good keyword .CO name would be a better investment that the .mobi stuff you seem to like or even the well established .biz, but what do I know.

BTW, I just rode a bike 50 miles this morning. If you’ve ever done that, you know how tiring it can be, and I don’t feel like my brain can produce a civil discussion right now, so I am going to bow out of it and get some rest.

Oh… one more follow up… one of the two guys who submitted this is a big .com owner and I don’t even know if he owns any .CO names.

They could reg the .biz, .us (already said above) or .info but got .co in my opinion it was their marketing plan to launch on a .co with .com as the typo. Why? don’t know!

What you know El is stuff like dog walking and grooming

Nice MINOR niche markets you eeked out a few bucks in

Great for you

Me, I hit big cpc numbers for lawyers, doctors, auto, etc

.co is MEANINGLESS in real life, it has a temporary shelf life for ‘domainers’ now

And they FOOLS outside of the domain world buying the names

They’re probably great leads for legit SEM companies to hit up so they can start to spend on something that will have a ROI

Yep, most think .mobi is a dog, we buy all day in it

Let’s see last week

realestatelawyer.mobi
druglawyer.mobi

so we put our money where our mouth is

I’m just telling ‘domainers’

Hey kiddies, you’re being LIED to by your tin gods like SCHwartz and SCHilling

LOL

now, most here see NO VALUE in the names above

I do

And they will be the eventual ‘.mobi’ site that every RE lawyer and Drug lawyer in our network has a subdomain on

So

newyork.druglawyer.mobi will be where everyone on a mobile device lands for a future drug lawyer we will have in NY buying mobi ads at a cheap rate ahead of every other drug lawyer in NY

So, I’m giving my advice here, based on working with LAWYERS and other high cpc buyers

THIS IS REALITY

all the bs domainers are talking about is grounded in delusion

BS

yet, I’m the one they’re saying is delusional

LOL

.co is COLOMBIA cc tld

case closed

it’s not worth investing anything in but reg fees for spanish words

Nextz

Domain Lords – your a punk and you wish you had domains.

Case close little player. Frank, rick will give you a nice whipping with traffic and ppc income

I think more .co helped sale of o.co than Super Bowl.
If they had few more strong .co sales it would really do something good for them.

I personally think if they do not hit 1 million before renewal it would not be so easy later on. I have seen many ugly, without any potential registered .co`s. I do not think those people renew them. Not to mention that you can buy plenty of .co`s below 50 usd (That group will not bother renewal too).

I emailed Lori Anne Wardi asking for any new info. She gave me only old stories.
She recommended me to visit their website to see who is using .co`s and how fabulous websites they have. I have done that. I found many websites which redirect to .com , wordpress websites build to make money on ppc, funny amazon stores, closed websites etc. ( http://www.blenders.co/
http://www.babycarseats.co).
Maybe one day they will understand that it shows them in bad light and many people just because of that will not register .co

I do not take Lori seriously. At the beginning of Wardi said that she did not think anyone would invest in .co.
Hope she visited only sedo and saw almost 70, 000 co`s for sale or at least noticed that most .co domain names sold on .co auction are for sale again (including e.co) – I had big problem to find active one.

Also she has been recently so enthusiastic that Naval underlined during the interview “AngelList.CO – that’s dot-CO, without the m.”
I met few people who after watching that decided not to register .co`s but other extenssion as for them it was a strong signal that many people are visiting .com instead of his website.

Anyone knows whats truly going on with i.co ?

@ Elliot

I really like the way you are saying about .co now… very professional.

ps this article is about .co so I guess it attracts again many comments.

While I own 3 .co domains now- it shocked my friends. Was buzzed and said ok let’s try it. Time will tell I guess

Its funny how .net is a big no no for development from the .com players but its ok for .co to be developed. Does this make one bit of sense? Imo not really

If you can make money in .co great. But renewals are very high and if you can’t sell them within first year– many will drop.

Understand and agree.

.co is a new brand … Its like .co is to .com as Hyundai was to oldsmobile.. 15 yrs ago olds sold almost 1,000,000 vehicles and Hyundai was just being introduced … Now where is olds and where is Hyundai? In terms of market share… Yes .co is a columbia country code. Would all the .co haters feel the same if it was a tld from the us like .net ? .co is not a .com never will be but it has brand ability if done correctly! Thank you Elliot for showing a great idea the dealership had by emphasizing they were the .co… I love the outside the box thinking they are trying!

Man-I am loving this BS word domain game.

It gets better each time.

Hey, it is their money, go spend it. Go buy whatever dot whatever you want and go make money!!!

Have fun riding your bike while I go for my smoke

Passing the peace pipe to you all

BullS aka marijuanaGuy

I think ad is good.
I think a lot of people who saw it, thought for a seconds what happened to `m` and this is what advertisers wanted.
We always remember better something when is different from the rest ( place, thing or school teacher from the past.. it really does not matter what who, bad or good)

All ad campaigns want to make something unique to make people remember them and I think they achieved that.

What a bunch of stupid statements here
.net a US tld?
.co a ‘brand’

LOL

.co is nothing but a minor cc tld for colmobia

none of you will ever hit page 1 with a .co

NONE

and if you think ‘investing’ in a domain name that has zero potential of hitting page 1 for traffic is ‘investing’, you need a reality check

@el

dogwalker.com

LOL

yeah, major revenue name

I can put one drug lawyer on a combo of

drugattorney.biz and a mobi redirect on druglawyer.mobi and cover both keywords with a minor .biz and mobi

so newyork.drugattorney.biz and newyork.druglawyer.mobi gets a potential drug dealer lawyer in a major market page 1 maps and top of ppc rotation

end result they would have to pay me 10K+ a month, and google another 20K

and yeah, that’s the dough a drug lawyer would have to part with monthly be the top dog in drug lawyer terms in new york

now, recently we spoke to a few drug lawyers in a minor market

the reason, a hot piece of ass I know caught a BS drug case at the beach

so we start talking to drug lawyers to get her one to beat the case

and we mention, yo, we work with a ton of PIA guys

then we find out how BROKE drug lawyers are

they can’t afford us

LOL

so eventually the company willl do ‘drug lawyers’ but me, my time is way to valuable to do drug lawyers right now

PIA terms is the money

so yeah, we’re getting whatever is available

if the .com comes up, great, if not, .net or org or .mobi or .biz will work

I can hit page 1 maps in any city with either

and I GUARANTEE IT

then to use our work and manage the ppc we charge huge bucks

and ‘drug lawyers’ are not the top end of the legal field

LOL

they deal with minor cases 5K here and 10K there

when they hear our setup fees and monthly they CHOKE

now PIA lawyers, they got enough dough to hire us

and in NYC a PIA lawyer would have to part with 250K a month to us and at least that much to google

the end result is they would dominate PIA in that city

our clients absolutely end up with the dominate share of first view of google for any GEO legal term

period

and yep, a .biz or .mobi in my hands is as good as a .net or .org and even a .com

so if anyone is sitting on a .com or .net or org/mobi/biz for a major LEGAL TERM

injurylawyer
druglawyer
duilawyer
murderlawyer

we’re buyers all day

and yeah, if you’re sitting on lawyer .com/net/org and want to sell, say the price

but the .com is owned by a publishing company, so it’s not for sale

the .net/org of lawyer(s) are all owned by one attorney out of TX

so no one can get on those terms

lets see

drugattorney.biz
injuryattorney.biz
injurylawyer.biz
personalinjuryattorney.biz

are huge cpc terms

the PIA stuff has clients

the drug stuff we don’t have time for yet

well we have time but drug lawyers don’t make enough money to afford us

LOL

now, .biz is ‘ok’ for development, not first choice, but it’s enough to hook up a sub domain on first view of google

plus you couple them with geo terms

like geoinjurylawyer.com or .net or org

you end up with multiple domains for ONE client to have numerous sub domains on

end result is, they rule top of google in their market

so laugh bro

one PIA lawyer per year is more than all your doggie stuff combined in yearly

you can have 400 dog walkers at 50 bucks a year

I can put a PIA in a minor city on a few subs on injurylawyer.biz and make more than your whole doggie network

LOL

so keep the low cpc term .com

me, I’ll buy a high cpc term in .com or .net or .biz or mobi

and I’ll make way more with one client on a sub domain than most here make in a year doing their ‘jobs’

Laughing all the way to the bank

@ Lords

Why don’t you spend less time here and more time working on your own business?

ps I think you all have looked at this ad for at least 2 seconds (haters longer 🙂 ) and most at least twice. I know, I know we are domain investors 🙂
But if I liked Ford or thought about buying a car I would spend at least 4sec 🙂

I’m doing biz

all day I deal with new clients and old

email bro

email all day long

I spew shit in a column here then I respond when I see an email saying some knucklehead is saying crap

right now we’re testing the whole blog thing for other stuff

the test is domain blogs

so far we see nice serps on google from blog crap

so for now, I got to do this blog crap

and while I’m blogging about domains, the other blogs with domains are fair game

SCHwartz is a pussy, he sometimes puts our comments but no links, he’s a PUSSY

you got the top blog, so yeah we post here, and about 6 others

yours the only one worth while IOP

so congrats, you got the most relevant domain blog for now

and you’re not a net nazi

and you do have ‘some idea’ of the net, as you got 400 minor accounts on a doggie doo domain

LOL

so you make fun of my stuff

I make fun of yours

end result is, google thinks it’s all relevant to domains

feel free to post on ours

we put up a shout on one to you

so for now, while we test out blogs and how google interacts with them as to ‘news’, we’re here

that doesn’t mean tomorrow we don’t pull the plug on the whole blog thing

unlike the rest here, we do legit high value cpc development

a few here may have some .net/orgs with legal terms

we get offers all the time

so between writing about WE BUY in certain keywords and trying to see how google is ranking all this blog crap

that’s our ‘motives’

we know 99.9% of those here have now clue, we laugh at domainers all day

schwartz
schilling
etc

clueless dudes that had a couple of hits

and traffic is not the key to the net

the net is where you get qualified targeted leads

unfortunately, domainers aren’t too qualified for anything

but wasting money on reg fees most of them

our game is LAWYERS SEM

who is #1?

us

our game is

PAGE ONE GOOGLE MAPS

who is #1

US

enough said

you look up domain lords, #1 is a net

you look up domain lord

#1 is a org

so much for .com huh

like I said, I’m here to manipulate google and I’m doing it on around 6 domain blogs

seeing how google responds to links and posts etc

schwartz is a net nazi

you’re not

that’s why your blog runs circles around schwartz

the king doesn’t let anyone laugh at him

you do

good for you

it’s why you have the top domain blog

Your a trip lords. Is your brother Ls Morgan? – not domain blogger

You have some amazing names domain lords lol.

Another jealous fool who is jealous of us all with good names

@ Domain Lords

I give advice, if you want people to read your comments. Write shorter! Let me explain it to you in other, nice way.

Its like with most domains the shorter the better 🙂

And remember most people read about one book a year 🙂

Forget Jerry springer- let’s all read domain lords silly ass remarks.

more is better

lawyer 10 to 20 bucks cpc in real life
injury lawyer 20 to 40 bucks cpc in real life
GEO injury lawyer 70 to 150 bucks cpc in real life

see how dumb you all are

you really think you ‘know’ stuff

yet, if you really do domains, you know, the more targeted a domain, the more the cpc value is

there’s probably not one lawfirm that can use national ppc on lawyer

same with injury lawyer

yet, every major city has over 300 injury lawyers trying to buy GEO injury lawyer

clue less the whole lot of you

believe your dumb meaningless cliches

the only guy here making a fortune in INTERNET MARKETING is me

I forgot more than the whole lot of you here as to ‘internetnet marketing’

LOL

Laugh biatchhhhhhhhhh

I am all the way to the bank

While crossing out the M seems cute and might have a limited effect, would you agree it would be a good idea if they crossed out the O or C instead? What if they just crossed out COM and put in Net or INFO or BIZ or WS? Anything else isn’t .COM. Now I really don’t agree that people can’t read or remember what is after the dot. But perhaps I am biased.

by putting an x over the M it made it clear that is not .com but .co.What is the big deal?

@Domain lord
I’m sorry to say, but there’s nothing intelligent in your writing.

@ Rich

Yes, but you referred to him as “domain lord” so he’s #winning!

Elliot,that’s how he calls him self,whether is true…that a different story all toghether.

LaLawyer.biz TampaLawyers.biz FindaDefenseLawyer.org and FindADefenseLawyer.net offer away.. I’m listening…

Pump and dump …hhhmmm

All I know or should say ” feel ” is a ventures sole intent is to be profitable, the .co was brought to us because someone decided it was worth it to them and they would make a buck. This is not the start of the internet, this is not .com nor is it the 80’s.

We saw it with .mobi and we will see it with .co, the rar and the company who brought it to market laugh all the way to the bank because people like you are naive enough to think it had heart behind the offering or was made to combat .com. Its sole purpose was to make money, off the backs of fools, so far its not doing too bad, in about 2 years (normal amount of time most fools wake up from getting screwed) we can all look back and laugh.

“New way to confuse”

@ Josh

With a company like the one profiled above using a .CO since a company of the same name uses the .com, I think it’s clear that it serves a purpose.

Fortunately, there is no bubble like there was with .mobi, which led to losses by some domain investors.

@ Adam

LOL

E, its purpose was to make money, period. No one wanted to save the whales, stop abortion or help out those poor guys who couldnt get the .com but wantd an affordable alternative.

The pitch may have implied that and more but it was a pitch because again they wanted to make money. The more I think of it the .co makes more sense than the .mobi yet .mobi hype/propaganda was by far better done, props to .mobi machine.

The fact is the company mentioned above could have used chapmanford.cc and done just as well in type ins from the print add, the extension in these cases dont matter because the extension is crap.

Honestly, I am not bashing .co this time but faced with the same predicament this company is facing, I would have gone with .US and fly the American Flag like there is no tomorrow on my site. I would have rebranded my whole dealership on the domain name with America flags everywhere. My slogan would have been “Because we are Americans” or something to that effect. Even a longer .com is still better than this .co in my own opinnion

@ Josh

Is there a business where the purpose isn’t to make money?

@ Frankie

I think their choosing .CO over .US was interesting… maybe due to good marketing on the part of GoDaddy and/or the .CO Registry.

@Elliot

“I think this happens to be a smart move by Chapman Ford, and you can make a note on your calendar to check back in a year to see if they’re still using it.”

It looks like they have not a short term plan, but they want to use the domain for at least 3 YEARS (domain has been registered until December 2013).

Newspapers ? Those are for my bird to crap on. The new way to go is the Kenny Powers way to go . Fools like Chapman and Ashley Schaeffer think they can run ads without Kenny ? pffft

Just watch my K-Swiss ads and learn. OH and it’s Kswiss.com bitches, not some sissy Kswiss.co . . . . that’s for some squatter to get his ass handed to him. watch out

All it will take to have them smell the coffee is one single promo from there .com competitor. Seriously who are we kidding. There is a time to and a place for everything competing with an inferior product is just plain bad news. I will use .co or .me any day if the .com owner of the domain is not into the same thing I am into. For example I could still use that name if all I sold was ford tires and not the same product as the .com guy; reason being if you are looking for tires or spare parts and you land on the .com, you will find a way to my .co site. Infact the .com guys will even give your customers courtesy referrals should they email or call.

They could have used a domain they already own : chapmanfordaz.com or chapmanfordarizona.com . Maybe they’re just experimenting ? A/B test ?

@Joe, 30 bucks or thereabout for a dealership is not exactly a long term plan.

@ Frankie

I don’t think that’s an issue since the .com owner is another dealership thousands of miles away. Different target audience.

@phil
finda worthless prefix
geo .biz
worthless

only a few high cpc terms .biz are worth owning in our opinion in .biz

we got the ones we wanted

low 4N most

cheap investments

we own a ton of geo lawyer/attorney and .net

no geo .biz really for lawyers

got strong prefix lawyer stuff

got some lawsuits too over prefix legal stuff stolen from us in that register fly fiasco

so we were on many top prefix legal terms over 10 years ago

now we hold keywords in alot of of tlds

mostly net and org

some of the more expensive keywords .biz

example

injurylawyer.biz

then injury-lawyers.net

both work

but if the .com comes along

we’re probably the only real buyer for it

injurylawyer.com and .net both developed very poorly

but eventually they may be sold

so we live with geo injury lawyer and injurylawyer.biz and injury-lawyers.net

doesn’t really matter, we can hit page one all day for any geo we want with any of them

once a lawyer develops a domain, they’re not selling, not for any real world value

and ‘injury lawyer’ by itself isn’t a big term

the geo’s are the money shots

geo injury lawyer is the big deal

you got a .com with geo injury lawyer in it

you got GOLD

injurylawyer.com

that’s gold IF you know how to develop

it’s way too much for the firm using it

they don’t know what they own

so once we started dealing with PIA’s we went to all the owners of injurylawyer and only the .biz was really in play

so we bought it

then got the hyphen

you put them with our other PIA stuff and the geo’s and the prefix stuff

we can have any PIA with 12 or more sites in a blink of an eye

then they start to get high rotation for exact match stuff

for anyone to even try to get into the top legal terms, you better have a huge wallet

and have a grade A staff to hit page one

it’s the most expensive area of professional development to play in

but we do it very well

Anyway I fail to understand how some complain about the fact the extension is hyped: hype AKA promotion AKA tv commercials, etc. is something everyone uses to make their newly-launched product known to the masses. The fact that the product’s hyped/promoted doesn’t mean it’s good or bad, it means someone wants you to be aware of its existence. Whether it’s good or bed will be decided by users in the future.

Anyway I love how .CO inspires anger and hatred more than any other TLD in some people. LOL

@Frankie Aladi

When they registered the domain (Dec 2010), .COs at GoDaddy were $30 per year, so they spent $90. Aside from the fact that $90 is an amount of money that (almost) anyone can afford for a domain, if someone buys a new domain merely because they wants to experiment with it, it seems pretty unlikely they’re going to register it for three years.

The only thing I see wrong with .co is ‘domainers’ acting like it has long term value to end users

It doesn’t

The only ones who will make dough on .co are

a. the registrar
b. the domainers that sell fast to dummies that think it’s a global tld

you have two types of tlds

global

cc tld

cc tld have minor value compared to global tld’s

the reason

with development, most global tld’s have a shot at organic seo work

with development, most global tld’s have value to reduce ppc costs due to exact keyword strenght of buying

so for an END USER to ‘think’ a .co can give them any value is a joke

it’s a scam

it’s a crappy cc tld for colombia

period end of subject

now if you start to see .co in high expensive rotation on high cost cpc terms or hitting page one for organic

ok, then value

but that will NEVER HAPPEN

the reason is simple, it has NO VALUE with google like a global tld does

I bet most of you can’t even name the real global tld’s

one is closed
one is partiallly closed
3 are seen as ‘global’ by most
another is undervalued by 99.9% of domainers
another is now excluded on most organic serps by google
another is a comer, way under valued by domainers

answer to the above

.gov
.edu
.com/net/org
.biz
.info
.mobi

then out of all cc tlds

you have a few dominant cc tlds

.us
.co.uk
.ca

then you have all the marketing crap

.co
.ws
.cc

now you have more crap coming

.xxx
.me
.whatever

LOL

anyone putting money into anything but a global tld isn’t thinking in REALity

yeah sure, a few cc tlds have huge market potential

but for the most part GOOGLE IGNORES most

at least .us is ignored mostly inside USA now

.co.uk does good in UK serps

so does .ca in canadian serps

now for anyone to be beating the drum saying .co has ‘investment’ potential for END USERS

LOL

no it doesn’t

it has scam potential for fast resellers

buy it fast and sell it faster it faster before everyone realizes it is pure junk

Not sure how true that is that .co is the most hatred imo. .tv had this for many years among .com guys.

Now that flood gates opened up, the .com ballers are now in .tv since gold rush and land rush. flow of new investors imo. Took many years to see an interest in .tv.

I sold xx, xxx since December in .tv and investing most of it in .com

The .com crash will eventually arrive. The big portfolio owners having difficulties. Some nice names dropping. More will drop. Will look like 2002-2003 area all over again. Countries going belly up, gas prices, unemployment issues, gold prices, spend, spend spend. While the top names are in demand and sales the mid level area there is a great opportunity for newer investors to grab some nice names imo.

For .co time will tell. Fun times being a domainer.

Let the strong survive. Let the weak disappear off and people like domain lords can go f u c k themselves. Pure joke. Development blah blah and there names are shit. .

Long live the .com market.

@Elliot, true the purpose is usually to make money 🙂

The only reason I mention it though is as I believe it to be the ONLY reason in this case. There is no real need for the product. Kind of like buying that must have veggie machine on late night infomercial, you just have to have it!

Once one new extension created a buzz and turned a profit you knew the copy cats would emerge, some did it better than others.

I think the difference between these new ones and the .org for example is one had a true purpose a “real” use, the .co has no reason apart from putting money in one’s pocket.

@elliot / @domainlords

Elliot, and everyone else for that matter, I wouldn’t listen to a word domainlords says. He has yet to present us with one actual concrete example of a website of his. Not just random keywords and extensions- actual websites. I would take a niche, category killer dogwalker domain, fully developed with hundreds of subscriptions, any day over this guy’s bullshit that doesn’t even exist. DogWalker is an actual project, not some scummy CPA landing page.

Oh, by the way, he sounds very similar to “Robert Cline” – who spoke

like

this

and all of a sudden he disappeared. But you’re like the anti-Robert Cline, like he did a 180 degree turn and changed sides and views.

Something doesn’t add up. Anyway, until you give us some hard proof, you are just a delusional and compulsive liar lurking at the bottom of blogs.

Sorry. Oh yea, and anyone making as much money as you claim (millions a year?), with “multiple 22-24 year old girlfriends” (as you said in another post), wouldn’t have the need to rip on other people. They’d be free of envy and jealousy, (and bullshit), which clearly you still have.

Verdict: DEGENERATE/LIAR that is making it difficult to read other people’s comments. Please stop typing like an idiot, I actually enjoy reading what people have to say and it’s very hard when you

type

like

this

Lords equals Mike Cohen

what a loser .com moron

why don’t you link to your pathetic site loser

my GF’s are 18 to 22, 22 to 24, too old for me

I like the smell of new leather

20K a year from dog walker

wow

get a clue, dog walker is a failure on most peoples views of ‘success’

400 subscribers at 50 each is 20K a year

YAWN

I’ve given enough info about #1 serp’s on google and recent acquisitions to show we’re real

20K a year off a website is NOTHING

you can make more than that with a lousy GEO legal term

so when a ‘keyword’ is so lame it can only produce 20K, you want to compare that to what, legal keywords that make 100+ PER CLICK

LOL

dog walkers and groomers are not lawyers, doctors, or even auto repair shops

you can make 10K to 20K a year off one minor geocarrepair domain

you can make 50k to 1M a year off a legal client

so keep pushing the stuff you think is ‘real development’

it’s not, it’s low end niche development that makes a real developer laugh

like seeing john ferber doing crap with handyman.com

LOW END development

anyone here have one legal or medical client

anyone here have ONE CLIENT paying them for real development on a monthly basis?

we’re the only ones pushing DEVELOPMENT here

trying to educate the cretins

LOL

yeah throw some more stones

we’re laughing the whole time

@Joe, I have an experimental domain registered for 5 yrs and it is just an experiment. I can understand most points made here. The one that made the most sense to me is by Elliot about the relative distance of both dealerships which falls inline with what I have already said. But 100 bucks by a dealership is less than some poor people spend on scratch off lottery tickets. Tax deductible 100 bucks, I am already shaking on the big commitment they made. Now, had they bought that name for even 10grand, then there stupidity might actually have aroused my curiosity.

“…but faced with the same predicament this company is facing, I would have gone with .US and fly the American Flag like there is no tomorrow on my site. ”

@ Frankie
Totally agree, better to use the positive side of owning the .us (Patriotic) instead of having to highlight the negative side of owning the .co (typo of .com)

You wanna see how google thinks about this crap .co

And how lame the company is using it

GOOGLE the name

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&source=hp&q=chapmanford.co

It’s not even indexed

LOL

Yeah .co is an investment grade cc tld

LOL

enough

NextZ

@ Lords

LOL… I am very happy with my business and lifestyle, and I have no need to crap on others like you seem to enjoy.

@Joe “”Anyway I love how .CO inspires anger and hatred more than any other TLD in some people. LOL””

You missed the .mobi ‘discussions’!!

“”Elliot, and everyone else for that matter, I wouldn’t listen to a word domainlords says. ….. Verdict: DEGENERATE/LIAR that is making it difficult to read other people’s comments. Please stop typing like an idiot, I actually enjoy reading what people have to say and it’s very hard when you

type

like

this””

SO, SO true!! (Constant obnoxious long rambling ‘nonsense’ from ‘one clown’, left unchecked, can ruin others interest and desire to care to keep dealing with it, and in my estimation runs away more than it attracts. ‘jmo E’.)

I think .co is already dying and won’t last. I bought a few decent ones as a punt but don’t really see them lasting long term and certainly not as a rival to .com

as with all revolutions

there is much turmoil

Welcome to the new

.Co

world

Learn to live with it.

No matter how much

lords screams and yells

just as day follows night

.Co is already destined

to be the new King

It is only matter of time.

Ahhh so Domain Lords ≠ Robert Cline ≠ schizophrenic ??? I thought I was on to something.

Either way,

you’re both

nuts.

Stupid ad, domain name mistake.
Businesses who might know a lot about selling new cars or carpet steaming or tuckpointing or sports radio may not know shit about domain names and as such, pick awful ones.

We see it in .com all the time, seeing it in .co is no difference. If the extension gains traction, OK, but in the meantime, this is exactly (and I do mean *exactly*) the same thing we saw with .cc in 2000.

The ad is made for the general public, not domainers. Whether the ad will be successful or not, only the folks at Chapman Ford will know by analyzing the direct typeins.

@ Domain Lords,

Just out of curiosity and a serious question; the term “lawyers sem” or “lawyer sem” doesn’t appear to have any (broad or exact) searches. What’s the point then of having this term ranking #1?

I could understand it if the company was located in Colorado…

Domain Lord are you a writer?? Making big length stories above…

@Elliot- Can you please block or ban the pansy that goes by the fictitious name “Domain Lords?” He is spamming your blog. Every comment he leaves is spammy.. it’s not good for business.

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The Bank of America site is still being promoted and running strong at http://bofa.mobi.

@ES I second Mike’s comment. This dude isn’t adding any valuable input.

@.coM LOL, nice conspiracy theory – one that scarily seems like it may hold some merit…

I’ve heard many of these arguments against .CO before “its just a fading fad etc” but I would like to know what you think about .CO’s value when considering the centuries of ‘branding’ it has already had for companies?

I don’t know about in the U.S. but I can’t walk down a street in UK without seeing a shop “The CamdenFood Co” or “Smith and Co” etc etc

I hear lots about it being the new .CC but other than to do with mail, .cc doesn’t have any meaning whereas .co has meaning built in. I’ve never seen a company in the real world abbreviated to com. “Pepsi Co” is the real, “Pepsi Com” just sounds like a dot is missing.

Maybe I always comment too late, but no-one ever seems to have come up with a response to this (…other than DoLo and his aliases)