whats people thouhts on .co?

unwashed potato! · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:32

never heard of this before but just seen it and found a few domains i want still free :cool:

my issue though is a lot of customers may think you've misspelt your domain and auto add the m or .uk at the end.

what do people think?

Russinating · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:34

Don't see the point personally. Like you say, it'll confuse most people.

Useful if your company name ends with "co", mind

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chrisxuk · 5 Oct 2010 at 22:35

Useful for URL Shorteners, yes?

Spyhop · 5 Oct 2010 at 23:22

I wouldn't use a weird TLD for a commercial site.

Getting a decent domain is a headache!

Shadows1990 · 19 Oct 2010 at 10:16

My supervisor has recently bought up a ton of .co domains in the vain hope that one day they'll be worth something to the actual companies who want them (think 'Microsoft.co' etc.). Silly way of making very little return, and a great way to **** off big companies.

sniffy · 19 Oct 2010 at 10:20

Has there ever been an instance where domain squatting actually paid off? My understanding is that companies can force the squatter to give up the domain name if they really want to.

In regards to the OP I think .co isn't great for the reasons specified. It's the first time I've heard it exists tbh.

Russinating · 19 Oct 2010 at 10:41

sniffy said:
Has there ever been an instance where domain squatting actually paid off? My understanding is that companies can force the squatter to give up the domain name if they really want to.

They can if either the domain uses a trademarked name (ie Microsoft.co) or if it's obvious that the reason the domain was bought was in order to squat and not to use. His boss is an idiot

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unwashed potato! · 19 Oct 2010 at 23:54

his boss is a fool only if he bought names like microsoft.co. if he bought names like house.co, alert.co, vodka.co etc then he could have a legitimate reason to buy those and then sell one day in future if someone wanted to pay for them.

Spyhop · 20 Oct 2010 at 00:01

I thought bigtime companies would be on top of staking out their brand even on obscure TLDs.