The most popular thing in the domain name industry this week or even this month is that the .co domain name will be open for registration on the 21st of this month. Maybe it’s because Twitter announced the launch of t.co as a short URL that it became so popular, but if you are investing in a .co domain name personally, I still advise you to think twice!
In recent days, major IT websites and Webmaster Networks have published a series of reports on .co domain names. Netizens have had mixed reactions to this. Here I would like to share my views on .co domain names.
Earn advertising fees by mistake
There is a saying on the Internet: Because .co is one m less than .com, a large number of netizens will definitely click on my domain name by mistake, register a large website like baidu.co or taobao.co, and then create a domain name It is also good to stop and earn some Google AD advertising fees. Personally, I think if it was a mistake, I wouldn't have entered one less letter, right? I often type .com into .con by mistake because n and m are very close to each other and I don’t look at the keyboard. So if I want to make money by mistake, I might as well register .con, but I don’t have this domain name yet. Moreover, many browsers now support the URL prompt function. For example, the Chrome and Sogou browsers I use, you just need to type Baidu and press Enter to enter Baidu directly. How can you miss the .co step? I remember when the .cm domain name came out, a lot of people said that this suffix was good and could easily cause .com users to mistakenly earn traffic. Who still remembers .cm now?
Sold to related companies
A popular practice now is domain name protection. For example, Google will register or purchase the country-specific domain names in each country with the prefix Google, and if you don't sell it, they will even sue you. The final penalty is usually to return it to Google. This involves domain name protection. Of course, you cannot register google.co. Even if you register it, when a lawsuit is filed, it will be awarded to Google, because it is called malicious registration. Then you can register baidu.co or taobao.co and sell them to Baidu or Taobao, and let them protect these country-specific domain names. I personally think that Baidu and Taobao will not spend money to buy your domain name. They are not like Google that can open search engines across the world. They can only follow the "road of socialism with Chinese characteristics." Another idea is to register some physical enterprises. They don't have a good "company.com" domain name. It would be good to persuade them to use "company.co"! I think this is even more ridiculous. The domain name of Sanpin.com, the company I am currently working for, has been registered by others, because it has been registered before, but our company has not contacted anyone else and registered .net.cn. Maybe that investor gave up, and when I calculated that the domain name was going to be deleted, it was snapped up by another domain name investor. As an ordinary person, I contacted investors interested in purchasing this domain name, and the seller quoted 6,000. I reported the situation to the boss, who gave up .com and registered .cn. Moreover, corporate domain names do not blindly pursue short ones like commercial websites. Many corporate domain names are even very long, with "-" added in the middle. A good example is Li-Ning's official website li-ning.com.cn. This is the search result of Baidu. I manually entered li-ning.com and it is the same website, but lining.com cannot be opened. After checking the domain name information, They are all under the name of Li Ning Company.
Register a short URL and start your own website
I admit this. If you register a .co domain name, it will definitely be much better than a .com domain name! After all, .com was born in 1985, and .co was only 4 days old, with only about 200,000 registrations (perhaps due to media hype). There are a large number of 3 numbers, 4 numbers, single and double numbers for you to choose from. But have you ever considered which large domestic website uses a domain name other than .cn? From this, I can't even think of a .cc website except that I have images of several .la websites (51.la, 55.la, 900.la). Moreover, many companies don’t have a good domain name at the beginning, and then buy a good domain name when they grow bigger. For example, the website of 360 was 360safe.com before. Later, it became famous and it was difficult to remember, so I bought 360.cn directly, but I didn’t see him buying 360.la or 360.cc! So if you want to open a website, it’s better to buy a mainstream domain name.
Don’t be fooled by a lot of soft articles
Recently, there have been a lot of articles introducing .co domain names. I looked at the published authors and found that 50% are domain name registrars, and it just so happens that his website is promoting .co domain name registration. This makes people think that he is here for speculation. As long as .co becomes popular, he can make more money, because none of the large domestic domain name registrars provides .co domain name registration services.
Registration price is relatively high
Godaddy’s current .co domain name registration price is US$29.99. If you buy two at one time, enter the discount code: EMMA411 and it will be reduced to US$23.99, which is about 160 yuan when converted into RMB. And if you buy .com, you can buy 3, so I feel that the price is still relatively expensive and not suitable for large investments.
The domain name is not personalized enough
There is a group of friends on the Internet who like suffixes with pinyin, such as .ai (love), .bi (force), .de (of), .la (la), .lu (路), .si (die), .se (color) and so on. Because the mother of these two is the pinyin of Chinese characters, it is easy to think of some interesting domain names: zuo.ai, niu.bi, shuo.de, lai.la, zou.lu, yao.si, hao.se, etc. wait. Just use your imagination, the domain name combinations are endless. Some of the above domain names can be opened, which is true I have seen, and some cannot be opened. I just thought about it. Among them, yao.si (dying) is mine (I am not making a website for the time being, just linking to the blog). And what does co remind you of? For the time being, I can only think of Coco Li Wen...
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Of course, the purpose of this article is not to tell you not to invest in .co domain names, so please don’t take your position. (Author: Simon)