Comments on: .CO is coming - Expect huge prices and an intense aftermarket - finally real competition to .com http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/06/14/co-is-coming-expect-huge-prices-and-an-intense-aftermarket-finally-real-competition-to-com/ Rick Latona's personal blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: LM http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/06/14/co-is-coming-expect-huge-prices-and-an-intense-aftermarket-finally-real-competition-to-com/#comment-1916 LM Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:13:46 +0000 http://www.ricklatona.com/?p=1530#comment-1916 Are you serious? You seriously think that .co is a "threat" in any way to .com? After the initial landrush is over, the typos are acquired and the keywords are snapped up, you seriously think that a business is going to risk building a product on a platform that is a knock-off of the standard? "Yeah, MyBusiness.co... That's d-o-t -c-o, like the abbreviation for "company", not d-o-t c-o-m..." I think Id rather have a .biz. This reminds me of my childhood, collecting baseball cards. The baseball card mania got so heated that the industry was creating and promoting endless streams of new product, collectors were paying prices totally disconnected from reality and there were more trade shows than people really wanted... I'm starting to see the same things again, in domaining. I guess all manias behave similarly. Just because domains have a bright future and may be undervalued relative to a huge arc of time doesn't mean that here, now, people aren't getting stupid about them. .co will simply be a defensive domain for existing .com web properties. It will do nothing to compete with the standard. Are you serious?
You seriously think that .co is a "threat" in any way to .com?
After the initial landrush is over, the typos are acquired and the keywords are snapped up, you seriously think that a business is going to risk building a product on a platform that is a knock-off of the standard?

"Yeah, MyBusiness.co... That's d-o-t -c-o, like the abbreviation for "company", not d-o-t c-o-m..."

I think Id rather have a .biz.

This reminds me of my childhood, collecting baseball cards. The baseball card mania got so heated that the industry was creating and promoting endless streams of new product, collectors were paying prices totally disconnected from reality and there were more trade shows than people really wanted... I'm starting to see the same things again, in domaining. I guess all manias behave similarly. Just because domains have a bright future and may be undervalued relative to a huge arc of time doesn't mean that here, now, people aren't getting stupid about them.

.co will simply be a defensive domain for existing .com web properties.
It will do nothing to compete with the standard.

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