HotBrands.com selling “top traffic .co domains” on the cheap… Hmmm, what’s the catch???! LOL!
About a dozen names total I see being offered for sale such as netlog.co, fotolog.co, metacafe.co, ebaumsworld.co, collegehumor.co, etc. Obviously they are all mostly TM infringements on extremely popular and well established websites / brands…. But whatever, to each his own.
So, these group of dozen domains below generated 71,000 type-ins (unique visitors) over the past 3 or so month’s… Not bad, right? But the parking revenue is just terrible. Only 425 clicks which total up to a whopping $58 in revenue!! Ouch. I guess this traffic isn’t all that valuable. DOH!!
When I was checking my e-mail earlier this morning and I saw the message from info@hotbrands.com come in… I said to myself, hmm… Those 12 domains look kind of familiar.
“Hello,
Please see the attached file. We are selling a group of top traffic .co domains. The screenshot show the past months of traffic. Impressive volume of traffic. However parked pages are not the best way of optimizing those. I’m sure this traffic would be more valuable if used somehow differently.
Our price for ALL domains is 6500EUR
Please let know if you are interested,
Best regards,
Antypas Makis
CEO, HotBrands.com”
Right… Then I remembered that I came across some of those domains about 2 month’s ago. This guy who is apparently from Greece was selling them over at DomainState.com which you can see for yourself, under a thread titled Huge traffic .co for sale. Fast forward two and a half month’s later, I guess there hasn’t been too much interest in these, and now the guy is spamming random domainers… Trying to offload them and move on.
Personally, I bought into only a few hundred .CO’s which I was lucky enough to get rid off already. I have about 8 or 9 domains left which I still need to get rid off and wash my hands clean. I won’t be buying anymore .CO domains… I made some decent money on these flips, and I am sure many other domainers will as well so long as you follow a few basic principles.What they are, you should already know… If you don’t, then you shouldn’t be fucking around with this stuff to begin with… IDIOT!
todaro
October 18, 2010
but if i buy one of these i’ll get rich right?
Mike
October 18, 2010
@ todaro
Maybe, maybe not… Depends what you do with em
nevathan
October 18, 2010
send me a list of your .co domain i might be interested
john
October 18, 2010
I see on many occations google allow tm typo domains if i am correct. if those domain could get in to the google adsense, the revenue would be triple…
OuMun
October 18, 2010
Never seen so many crappy domains offered all together.
Let’s see after 1 year how .co domains behave.
em
October 19, 2010
Man…this is why new extensions have difficulties. You bought 200 domains but had no faith in the extension at all. Making a profit is fine but when you do things just to flip, it brings everything down, including recognition of what is quality and what is not.
Yeah, that list doesn’t have many interesting domains. People who registered .co domains that wouldn’t even sell in the .com version need to recheck their business tactics.