The Ascendancy of .co

An anonymous reader tipped the fact that, with the .com namespace getting pretty well mined out, GoDaddy.com's front page for domain registrations now defaults to .co instead of .com. The article claims that GoDaddy registers about half of new domain names. Neither the article nor GoDaddy makes it explicit that .co is a ccTLD belonging to Colombia, or that registering one costs about three times as much as a .com, at $29.99 per year. And if you select a .co domain name from GoDaddy's front page, a number of TLD variants are presented alongside .co — but .com is not among them.

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citibank.co

[HongPong]

now with moar than $100 billion in frictionless laundered money. That's what we call .colocation!

Re:.co for company ?

[nyctopterus]

...and .co.ck

(Cook Islands, really, look it up!)

Re:It's not mined out.

[Anonymous Coward]

before we need IPV12

Re:What registrar would you recommend?

[PopeRatzo]

For weird domains, I use OVH. For really weird domains, EuroDNS.

What do you mean by "weird domains"? Are you referring to something like "ifuckfishinmydreams.com" where the name itself is weird or "nationalreview.com" where all the writers are weird, or "lookbook.nu" where the idea is weird or...?

(Note: "ifuckfishinmydreams.com" is not a real website. But it you're interested in owning that domain, drop me an email. We can talk.)

Re:Fuck the ccTLDs anyway...

[Anonymous Coward]

YOu can buyu your own tld to rule the world for about $185.000

$185? Sweet, I'll take 1,000!

Re:.co for company ?

[SteveFoerster]

In return, let Canadians use the ccTLD for Western Sahara.