John, I don't think there's any data showing a high degree of defensive registration in CO - which now has >900K domains The registry has been extremely vigilant about limiting that, and the $20 price point has made it expensive to squat (if the PPC value of the traffic the squatter gets is less than $20 per year it's a money losing proposition for them - and very few new domains have >$20 in PPC value per year). The data I've seen, and it's not a complete analysis of the zone, shows about the same level of squatting in CO as you see in BIZ and INFO - which is minimal Richard On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:19 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
What about the the 600K registrants in .CO? Are they all either profiteers or deluded by smoke and mirrors?
Wow, it just gets better. We all know that .CO is full of defensive registrations and typosquats. If I could get .cmo or .c0m, I bet I could get 600K registrations, too. After all, it's less than 1% of the registrations in .COM.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why anyone would pretend that all wasn't obvious.
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