On November 14, 2010, GoDaddy, the world's largest domain name registrar, made .CO the default top-level domain name to test user reaction. However, the response from users on this day was not ideal, which attracted a lot of criticism on major forums. GoDaddy stopped this test on November 15.
1. Time forward
Since 1991, Colombia's La Universidad de Los Andes has managed Colombia's .co domain names. This year, the university is conducting an external tender, hoping that an Internet company can internationalize the domain name.
On July 21, 2010, the .co domain name began to accept registration requests.
From this day on, the .co domain name has been popular among speculators...
2. Why does the .co domain name attract people’s attention?
The registration fee for a .co country suffix domain name is about US$30 per year. The country suffix domain name of this politically unstable South American country is not cheap. Why does it attract so much attention? QQPCC believes that there are mainly the following reasons:
1. First of all, let’s talk about what a TYPO domain name is. The literal translation of the English word typo means “typing error”, and the word type means “typing, typeface”. Typo is the name of type after a typing or typesetting error occurs. Variation, from then on, refers to all letter errors that occur in typing and typesetting. Typo domain names refer to domain names that are easily misspelled.
Usually, Typo domain names are mainly used for domain name parking, and the traffic mainly comes from people's mistakes when typing on the keyboard. For example, as far as QQPCC knows, some sites with Baidu typo domain names have an average daily traffic of more than 6,000 IP. You must know that few friends who are serious about website development have an average daily traffic of more than 6,000 IP.
The main reason why .co domain names are favored by investors is that .CO domain names are the largest and most natural TYPO of .COM domain names.
2. As the world of .com domain names is already saturated, .co domain names are easy to remember and understand. The .co domain name may be understood as the abbreviation of the English word company. There are 244 country codes in the world. They are all created after some common domain names such as .com, .net, and .gov. All these domain names were developed by American researchers and academic institutions twenty years ago. . According to statistics from the Internet Geography Project of the University of California, USA, there are now 22.5 million names gathered in the crowded world of .com. In the past few years, some countries have opened their country domain names to the world, so that netizens in other countries can have more choices when there are more and more .com URLs, and at the same time, it also provides a country or region with more choices. Increase revenue. For example, Cocos Islands, an administrative region in Australia with a permanent population of 700, handed over the license to use its regional domain name .cc to Seattle-based eNIC. This company has registered this domain name since 1997. approximately 500,000 URLs. In addition, Los Angeles-based dotTV said that since last year, after paying a fee of US$50 million, it has obtained the license to use the country code .tv of the South Pacific island country of Tuvalu, and has registered 450 people based on this code. , 000 URLs.
3. Look at .co domain names with cold eyes
Although we have to admit that .CO domain names are a good TYPO of .COM domain names. However, it is still necessary for everyone to treat it calmly. The reasons are believed to be:
1. The price of .CO domain name is relatively high. The current registration price for one year is about US$30, which is three times that of .COM domain name. Although there are fewer and fewer "good domain names" in .COM domain names, there are still many excellent products in the middle, such as four-letter and five-digit domain names, pinyin and English phrase domain names, and there is still room for exploration. In such an environment , if you choose a domain name for the purpose of building a website, there are still many choices, and there is no need to pursue the use of .CO domain names.
2. Although .COM domain name resources are getting tighter, the international top-level domain name .net is still relatively abundant, and there is more room for choice.
3. The TYPO domain name has both successful examples and failed examples. Such as .COM domain name and another TYPO domain name .CM. On March 15, 2010, many media reported that the once popular .CM domain name (Cameroon national top-level domain) could not be resolved, and the person in charge of the CM top-level administration was suspected of running away. For Chinese registrants, who account for the vast majority of registered users of the .CM domain name in the world, they have suffered heavy losses, with initial estimates of losses reaching around 10 million.
4. The .co domain name is the country suffix of Colombia, and the political situation in Colombia is not stable...
Based on the following reasons, QQPCC believes that:
1. If your purpose is to establish, .com is still the best choice. If your purpose is to park, you can consider the .co domain name, but firstly, the risks must be properly controlled, and secondly, the prefix must be a well-known prefix or a TYPO of a well-known prefix. In other words, when you want to register xx.co, you must first obtain xx.com It is a domain name with large traffic and high PR value, otherwise it has no meaning.
2. Don’t listen too much to speculators’ propaganda about TYPO
When promoting .co online, a common saying is: because .co is one m less than .com, a large number of netizens will definitely click on my domain name by mistake. Of course, register baidu.co or taobao.co, and then do It is also good to park a domain name and earn some Google AD advertising fees. However, QQPCC believes that if it is a manual error, there are not many cases where one letter is missing. From this perspective, the possibility of entering .com into .con will be greater. In this case, it is better to register .con, haha , unfortunately there is no such domain name for the time being. In addition, many browsers now support the URL prompt function, such as Chrome. Just open Baidu and press Enter to enter Baidu directly. There is no chance that you will accidentally reach .co. I remember that 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?
3. Don’t even think about selling to related companies. There is a popular practice now called domain name protection. For example, Google will register or purchase the country-specific domain names prefixed with Google in each country. If you don't sell it, they will even sue you. The final penalty is usually returned to Google. In other words, 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 a malicious registration.
Of course, I personally am not very fond of .co domain names. In addition to the above, there are many other reasons. Due to space limitations, I will not introduce them one by one.
In short, don’t believe the soft articles on the Internet, and be sure to stay awake when registering this type of domain name.
Author: QQPCC
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