The .co.uk worth more? For now I think you may be right, but, this is a fast moving world and if you sit still too long, you will become moss-covered.

Time will tell, but, I have a sneaking feeling that .co will overtake .co.xx in terms of popularity.

I’m not referring to the pcpro article , I’m looking at my .co’s in GWMT and the fact that they can now be geo-targetted.

Are your referring to the article in PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359704/google-approves-co-domain-for-international-use if so if you look at my comments up the page you will see that I do state the following in reply to Wardy “I would suspect it could happen at some point and just because you can’t change the location on Webmaster Tools doesn’t mean you can’t get to show in local Google results, just host it on a UK IP and get the majority of your links in to be from UK sites and you should be sorted.”

As was also pointed out on that article, “Although it’s still disappointing how the domain has been advertised without it actually being ‘fit for purpose’ from the go,”

And so you know several people who replied here have bought .co domains, they speculating that they will have value and indeed many do, but let’s not forget the fact that having the .com or .co.uk of the name you really want will be worth loads more than the .co version.

Quote: “You can’t set the country on a .co, Google rightly thinks they are in Colombia”

“You can’t” the whole kingdom of real Internet experts cried out at last.

Looks like the internet ‘experts’ aren’t as clever as they thought they were?

I believe that the only people poo-pooing the .co are people who didn’t buy any

If you pay a standard registration fee and build up a site on that domain then it is as valuable as any other. It won’t be a short cut to wealth but it won’t be a waste of money either.

Besides, if Google is genuinly concerned with ranking the highest quality sites then domain name+TLD should be low down on their list of signals. Let’s be honest, most keyword domains have awful affiliate sites with limited or no content (and I own a few!).

Limiting the net to a handful of TLDs is just going to hold back the development of the web. It is rediculous to think that someone has to make up an obscure name for their site just becuase all the good names were snapped up before they were even born.

The problem is so easily solved and I hope that more and more TLDs will be rolled out in time. This will eventually mean no one (including Google) will care about TLDs! I can’t wait.

Of course owners of prime .com and .co.uk addresses will resist this massively, it will be in their interest to constrain things as much as possible to maintain the value of their existing web property.

Nice post

Depressing that people will be wasting cash based on hype.

I’ll be honest…I attempted to reg a couple but only cause if I pulled it off I could easily flip to some numpty! Ho hum!

See you tomorrow mate

And doh, missed an opportunity to pimp http://www.ukisdomains.com/ ok so here it is, pimping!

So do you not think that webmaster tools will ever be able to allow to change their location away from Columbia?

its all a con then again maybe I should tld the .con
for every jailbird could have there own .con domain then we could con the con artists by selling .con as main choice away from com. .co .cm