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.

Comments

Re:A money grab

[houghi]

So the only reason that you are against it is so you do not need to pay more for another domain name. And yet by registering three daomain names (com, net, org) you and almost everybody else are using up those names.

I always thought these com, net, org and all others are not a good idea. The best would have been to just use the ones for each country. That would have made this site slashdot.us. "But what about international organizations like debian?" I hear you ask. Well, either take the one where the organisation is registerd, the founder is located, the cheapest one or one for each country if you want.. And While I am ranting about stuff that wil never change, it would have been better to have it named in revers e.g. us.slashdot Or even http://us/slashdot

Oh well.

Re:.co for company ?

[Anonymous Coward]

likewise

.co seems better than .ly

[t2t10]

I doubt Colombia has serious qualms about drugs, sex, or hookers. As long as you don't criticize their drug cartels, your domain is probably safe.