Morning Folks!!
An industry of pumper and dumpers on almost every front now and thousands more to come. A few weeks ago we heard the 'Propaganda' of the renewal rates at .CO registry. Of course it was bullshit because that did not include the massive DUMP that is happening right now.
So guess how many .CO domains DROP in the month of August and get a free ticket to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Ya know the show for DOMAIN INVESTORS!! Full Timers!! Folks that get it!
I am sure the .CO Registry will be trotting out a headline about it so we will all know together.
The post and my comments on Mikes Blog today and the post about retention last month at 70% BEFORE the massive drop today and this week motivated this post. Lipstick on a pig.
And for those that missed, ignored or disagreed with the 61% leakage to .com and the TRUE CAUSE OF DEATH......
Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz
Brad Mugford
Are we talking –
Drops that don’t get grabbed or Drops including ones that get grabbed on the drop?
I think one thing is virtually assured – In a year from now .CO will have less registrations than now. Their drops are far outpacing their registrations.
Brad
AbdulBasit Makrani
25,220
First Name
175K
Gene
18,525
The Eagle Laughs at You
I’ll guess 223K, just because I think it will be massive dump by speculators who realize the $$$ math of holding them is not working out so well.
I’ve already noticed them starting to drop, however I was surprised at how many were getting bids on them, just a guess, but about 12-15% have bids.
BullS
250K dropped
Chris
111,111… I like the number 11.
Are we relying on the .co registry to give this figure or is there an independent source?
Rick Schwartz
For every 40,000 domains that drop….that represents at least $1M or more likely $2M in domain investors losses. LOSSES!
So say 200,000 names drop, that represents $5M-$10M loss industry wide.
Just numbers.
Charley
35,000
Michal G
When .co arrived most of the domain bloggers I visited regularly were hosting paid advertisments for the .co extension. It was a strategic move by the .co registry to garner positive editorial content & domainers were left holding the proverbial bag. I am too far away to accept the prize but after exhaustive googling I would like to guesstimate 147,862 names will drop :)
Dennis
67,045
RaTHeaD
227,132…
Steven
128,000
Anunt
333,333
Mike
88,000 + my 1 .co = 88,001
Paul Kapschock
Haha…great post and game.
I would love to be fly on wall at their office and hear the commentary :)
AHEAD OF TIME
281,000
Dan
132,000
professional domains
650K let’s go with over half the registry. Never been a big fan of this extension.
Sam
168,789
Sideliner
I would like to bet on how many of”your” .co drops the .CO REGISTRY will be registering themselves before they drop to blunt the trauma!
John
177,777
Will
416,000
Suresh
Nearly 350k will drop
Michael Roberts
2,000 two thousand.
Alan
24,359 will drop
Anunt
You would be correct…but you have to factor in dumb people…the dumb people who registered these .co domains don’t have the common sense to drop them…therefore, I estimated 333,333.
Andy Booth
132,500
Arbel Arif
700k
Will
248,000
Samit
Not sure how you would get firm figures on the drops though, the registry doesn’t even tell you total number of domains registered imho.
But in any case…
If you’re just talking about August I’ll have to go with around 50,000.
John McCormac
Best case would be around 39,810. It could be as high as 222,065. However these figures are guesswork. Expired .co domains move to a set of expired nameservers before dropping.
jeff
65,555
Jay
217,049
LindaM
144,978
KRH
18,801
Seashelldesigne
77,980
David
guessing 90,283 drop
Uzoma
191,099
Joao
guessing around 500.000
Joao
Oh wait, it’s August only…100.000
Jeff Schneider
Hello Rick,
Our guess is that there will be massive dumping of .co that will look a lot like FaceBook.com. Same problem .Co has skimpy repeat traffic patterns. you have to have Traffic with repeat clicks to have Sales, this is proven fact not Buzz.
An important point to be considered is why would a .Com Virtual Business Foundation consider a .Co address?
Desperation mostly !
It is always a sign that things are not going well back at the Ranch.
Rick you are absoulutely right about Sales driving Companies, and most Online companies spend a dissproportionate amount on Alpha Dog Engineers , S.E.O. and Ads instead of sales Reps. that can get the job done. This is not rocket Science it is proven Economic Doctrine.
To argue this point is absurd, for anyone steeped in Economic Principles, even with a lot of BUZZ , it just doesn’t Wash. It is the BIZ that counts not the Buzz.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff Schneider
@ Sideliner said…
“I would like to bet on how many of”your” .co drops the .CO REGISTRY will be registering themselves before they drop to blunt the trauma!”
This is not a conspiracy theory it is how Free Markets operate.
Juan has got his wallet out big time on this one, you can bet on it.
Great observation Sideliner
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Grant
I am thinking 151,012.
Rick, just send over the pass when you get a chance. =)
Scott Neuman
127299 because it sounds like a number needed for Traffic free tickets: Check out boldtruth.com if you want to see some fun numbers.
Steve
118888
David Eccles
I would say 72,577 .co’s have dropped in the month of August. Whatever the number may end up being, it bad news for .co. Bad news for me too. lol
Mark Talbot
200,000
Sunny Gandem
75K
Mark Talbot
Jeff you got a head on your shoulders.
jayjay
The canary in the domain mine has spoken!
my guess:
61% of all .co’s currently regged will drop ;)~
Sem
152,500
Paul
I have no real idea except that I want to suggest the most: 700k!
Tom
143,313
Jack
the more the better for .co
Ravi
123,456
Jeff
88,888
John Colascione
About 400,000
David J Castello
LOL Is dotCO sponsoring this giveaway?
Jeph smythe
1,0000
Jeph smythe
How will you know how many domain’s dropped? Is there a way to get the lists.
The Other Adam
178,100 ps if you are counting on the registry to give you accuracy in the numbers, I’d think again.
Rob
I will guess 350,000
seychellen.com
88200
Dick03070
169,000 that’s my guess
Dale Ehrgott
300,000
Scott Smith
288,888. Take it to the bank!
Michael
100,255
Christian
I guess 93,000
Tia Wood
Not as many as .tel
jin
230,409 Names will be dropped.
Although, really, I hope all of the .co extension to be dropped. I saw each and every blogger making a paid .co posts , so many well known bloggers. Well they do to get money to pay for expense. But really, they themselves did NOT Buy huge sum of .co domains.
ONLY ONE GUY I know did NOT BLOG about .co. That was DOMAIN KING AKA RICK!!
I Respect and Salute you Rick for not encouraging people in to something you knew yourself was waste of money like other blogger.
THANK YOU RICK!
Mark
207,207
Denis Roussel
164 733 .co drops
Mike Curving
52,612
However I don’t think that you’ll actually see this until September. Initial public landrush registrations just went into pre-release auction at GoDaddy and Namejet beginning on August 23rd. So you won’t see this first wave actually DROPPING until September, I believe. August dropping numbers will be from registrations mostly in June/early-July of 2011. In 2010 public landrush availability started on July 20th. It’d be great if anyone can confirm this though.
Mike Awada
Based on no research and zero expertise I’d have to say 575K.
Mike Curving
So to clarify, if my assumption above is correct, 52,612 would be for September. For August, you’ll see something like 18,750
BillW
my guess…..235,000
Chris
Was there an official tally of the August figures?
Mark Talbot
And the winner is?….
(drumroll…)
Steven
Who is the winner here? The hotel seems to be selling out fast so it would be good to know soon.
Rick Schwartz
I don’t know.
.Co is always promoting their numbers.
Strangely silent.
Jack
So, any comment on the recent advice that they’ve hit 1.5m registrations?