Reglikedomain industry desk

To the Auction Block — I.co Headed

Another one letter .co domain name to be auctioned.

Moments ago John Battelle, on the main stage of the opening of Web 2.0 Summit, disclosed that .co will be auctioning off the i.co domain name. The auction will be handled by Oversee.net through its Moniker/SnapNames division.

Indeed, it appears details are now up at i.co, although some of the links on the site aren’t yet operating (counting registering for the auction) at the time I’m writing this.

It will be a private auction and bidders need to be qualified by January 21, 2011 in order to participate.

Apparently there will be many more single letter .co domain auctions last year. So far a handful of one letter .co’s have been registered, counting t.co (Twitter), o.co (Overstock), and x.co (GoDaddy). Of course there was also e.co, which sold for $81,000 in an auction handled by Sedo earlier this year.

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