So, the "new" .CO domain is open for this domain. Think that's ok? I haven't seen too many of them yet but maybe they'll get going soon enough. I know of http://duck.co and that's about it so far.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
1) come up with a clever (must be easily memorable) variant which is available as .com. Be careful how you search as I've read about situations where the domain gets parked upon an inquiry. I just use whois & dig from the command line.
2) perhaps .biz or .info would work.
I think that had the .COM for our startup been taken by a pre-existing company with deep pockets and a strong brand, we would have simply chosen a different name. Incidentally, Rugby.co was already registered, and by a COLOMBIAN of all people. :)
We've all heard of sites that started with less-than-ideal domain names and upgraded when they had the money, and we rarely hear any of them complain about how much they spent.
Shameful for us Colombians U_U
I'm sure that will change over time, but it might be something to think about. It's not like the other off-brand TLDs - they tend to look nothing like .com.
...and of course drive up the market value of the .com through type-in traffic as well. Delicious.com's owner made a pretty profit out of the risky del.icio.us domain hack, and at least people familiar with the site noticed the dots were there...
This can be a deal breaker for some people.