Or Inviduals Driving .Co Registrations? — Are Investors

Data shows that bulk of domain registrations are not from domainers.

Are domain investors or individual site owners and end users driving most of the .co domain registrations?

I just got some data from the .co registry that suggests it’s the latter.

Registrants with 50 or more .co domain names comprise only 1% of the total registrant base. What’s more, these people only account for regarding 10% of all domain names registered.

That means people with fewer than 50 .co domains make up 90% of the total registration base.

If you define people with 10 or more domains as “domain investors”, the number goes up slightly. Regarding 2% of .co registrants have 10 or more domains, and the total of their portfolios is regarding 17.5% of all domains registered. This percentage is dropping every month.

So over 80% of .co registrations are coming from people with fewer than ten .co registrations. Most have just one or two .co domains. I suspect some of the heavily domainer-invested extension are opposite of these numbers for .co.

For the record, I own one .co domain name — DNW.co.

In other interesting .co news, .Co Internet was recently nominated for a World Trademark Review Industry Award.