Screw you! – Says savvy company to Domainer in an offer letter

The recent launch of .CO as a global – albeit national – TLD has created a new breed of domain registrants: those with tight budgets.

Gone are the days that domainers could go around asking for the sky when offering a .com to a small, medium or even large corporation.

Bob Button, a domain investor and self-professed “TLD God” manages a portfolio of about 500 quality domains.

His timing of contacting a British company based out of Nottingham was met with unnecessary disrespect.

“I pretty much offered them a short, generic dot com that could do wonders for their long-tail, dashed dot co uk”, said Bob. “I was told to f*ck off and the CEO literally told me ‘Screw you yank, we have the .CO’ – can you believe that?”

Many companies waited for this exact point in time when they would be able to register a .com equivalent all over again, without having to spend much money. By registering the .CO they are now able to respond to high offers with a resounding no.

“I wasn’t expecting this kind of nasty attitude, call me naive or something but a ‘no, thank you’ would have been just fine with me”, added Bob, shaking his head.

With over 300,000 registrations in the first week of its public availability, the .CO TLD looks quite healthy from here.

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