Thoughts on using .co domain for a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209859

by Dramatize • 15 years ago

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Would it be better to use XXX.co or a domain like getXXX.com, XXXapp.com?

Sargis• 15 years ago

There was someone on HN a few days ago who owned a .co website and said that he received a lot of emails from people telling him that his logo was missing an 'm' after '.co'

That's why I think a lot of people would append an 'm' to links to your website, assuming that you made a mistake when typing the link.

staunch• 15 years ago

"Stay away from .co at all cost. We tried registered irealty.co when it came out since .com and many others TLDs didn't have irealty, and we really wanted that name. We've put the .co in the logo to emphasize that it's not .com, but people kept telling us that our logo has a typo - it's missing the m the at the end. We ended up ditching irealty all together after that." -- taa

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174690

petervandijck• 15 years ago

I think it's better to use getXXX.com than XXX.co

maze• 15 years ago

get all three, and redirect them to getXXX.com

profitbaron• 15 years ago

Whilst .co is rising in popularity (and Godaddy are starting to throw their weight behind it), I'd still avoid using it mainly because consumers are so used to the .com extension.

However, if you really want the .co extension then you could purchase all 3 suggestions you mentioned above - XXX.co, getXXX.com and XXXapp.com and then redirect the other 2 domains to one of them (most likely being getXXX.com)

proexploit• 15 years ago

I moved my main domain from theminimgroup.com to minim.co when .co domains came out to get a shorter, better looking domain. I've had maybe 1 or 2 people ask me if I meant to say .com on something but it seems like the overwhelming majority don't have any problem with it. Then again, I wouldn't know how many emails I receive at minim.com.

fbnt• 15 years ago

Don't use it. It looks dodgy, it's easily mistaken and has no recognition at all. No matter how much GoDaddy pushes it, this is yet another attempt from a privately held domain registry + ICANN to monetize on a new top level domain, as they did with .pro (100 usd a pop), .us, .name, .biz and many others. Go for whateverXXX.com and don't even bother for the other extensions.

Thoughts on using .co domain for a startup?

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