Verisign cites ‘unfair advantage’ by the .CO Registry, files complaint
Verisign, managers of .com and .net domains, filed an ICANN complaint today, citing the ‘unfair advantage‘ of the .CO Registry and .CO domain names. “There is no doubt that the increased popularity of .CO domains is solely due to an artificial, unfair advantage the Registry has established,” said Verisign spokesman, Larry Laffer. “Without its bright [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Hinge: Another start-up using .CO for its app product
Hinge is a new app, currently available exclusively on iPhone; those among us that are single, will be happy to learn that the app will attempt to find them dates. Not just random dates, mind you, but compatible people from friends of Facebook friends. In other words, Hinge and its assorted web site, Hinge.co, will [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .CO gets thumbs up by Google baron Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts, the illustrious SEO/spam baron of Google, explains in a new video how ccTLDs, when used creatively may or may not receive equal treatment from Google. Cutts mentions that dot .CO – originally a ccTLD for Colombia – is now deemed generic and an alternative to .com. As an opposite example, Cutts quotes that [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Miami Herald covers .CO growth
The Miami Herald covered the story of .CO Internet – registry for .co domains – extensively, in its Sunday edition. Juan Diego Calle, founder and CEO of the company, talked about how he set his goal to “change the fabric of the Internet.” The growth of .CO surpassed 24% year to year in 2012, reaching [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.World Finance: .CO Internet take on industry titans .com
World Finance – the online publication focusing on worldwide financial matters of interest – just published a new article titled “ .CO Internet take on industry titans .com” Lori Ann Wardi, .CO Internet Vice President, explains why .CO is able to challenge .com in the game of successful branding and particularly its ability to achieve a [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .CO registers its 600,000th domain name
The .CO Registry announced that they have just counted the beans and there are 600,000 registered .CO domains in their database. This is yet another milestone for the popular TLD that promotes itself not only as a Colombian ccTLD but also as a valid and viable alternative to .COM Meanwhile, it was announced earlier today [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .Free freely copies Dot .Co
Whose era is it anyway? Newcomer to the gTLD name game, .Free is promising free domains to everybody – once the gTLD gets approved by ICANN. The process of going live might take months but the Czech Republic company already offers pre-registrations for domains. That sounds a lot like selling lots on the surface of [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Colombia wins war against Montenegro
It’s a little known fact that in 1594, a Spanish nobleman – Don Juan Ramon Esposito de la Cruz – was used as a mercenary by the Ottoman Empire to suppress an uprising of knights in Montenegro. The bloodbath that ensued left Montenegro with its main castle and walls destroyed; the city was consumed by [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cybersquatters want to take your .CO shirt
It was to be expected: Cybersquatters are taking aim at companies and registering the .co equivalent of high traffic .com domains, aiming to receive a trickle of the .com traffic. A fine example, as we mentioned earlier, is Papajohns.co which is registered by some guy in Hong Kong. The pizza giant has yet to wake [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Castro and Chavez prepare friendly attack on Colombia’s TLD
As we wrote a few days ago, Fidel Castro – the Cuban ex dictator – is preparing the launch of Cuba’s national TLD as a marketing tool against Capitalism. Touted as “See You!” the English equivalent to “Hasta la vista!” the Cuban TLD .cu will most likely be used by social media freaks and marketing [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Mike Mann sells yet another generic – Cruise.co
Mike Mann is on a roll; the sale of Cruise.co for $25,000 represents a step up from his recent sale of Flying.co for $3,500 Having secured Oil.co, Gas.co and Gold.co as a grandfathered investor from the .com.co days, Mike Mann pushes forward with the new ccTLD that has clocked almost 400,000 registrations in two weeks. [...]
Copyright © 2013 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Elliot Silver to sell several islands of his Bahamas.co property
Having secured the virtual paradise of Bahamas.co, domain entrepreneur and investor, Elliot Silver announced today that very soon he will be offering several islands for sale. The 29 island constellation off the Florida coast is a major tourist attraction. Elliot plans to create the virtual equivalent of a luxury web-surfing destination and informational web site [...]
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