July 20, 2010 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – After a highly successful period of pre-orders, .CO now becomes available to the public for general registration - starting tomorrow at
GoDaddy.com.
With the advent of .CO, consumers and businesses now have more choice in branding themselves on the Internet. Selecting a .CO domain name is not only a natural choice toward building their presence online - but as a new domain name offering, the field for selection is also wide open.
Since pre-ordering for .CO began in March, Go Daddy customers have already shown a great deal of interest in .CO. The domain name extension has become one of Go Daddy's best-selling during a pre-order period.
"When a good domain name extension like dotCO comes to market, you see how strong the Internet really is and how powerful its growth is going to be for years to come," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Let's face it, domain names are 21st century real estate."
Go Daddy customer Christopher Wu is confident in the power of this new domain name extension, so much that he pre-ordered six of them for his business. Wu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Paper Culture LLC, a California-based company which specializes in eco-friendly modern stationery.
"It's catchy, and there's this element of dotCO clearly referring to a 'company' which really fits for us," Wu said. "If it gives our company even an incremental boost in Web traffic, that's incredibly valuable to our business."
Wu said his .CO selections give his brand the potential to grow in a new direction.
"I look at the .CO domain name like it's waterfront real-estate," Wu added. "It may not be as well-known as the Santa Monica waterfront but in an age where the prime locations are hard to come by, this newly chartered territory is extremely valuable."
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and Web site design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce Web site hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 42 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second.
GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2009, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.
