I'm going to say everyone in this thread previously knew about .co domains before the godaddy ad.
GoDaddy is saying .Co is the new .Com...
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I'm going to say everyone in this thread previously knew about .co domains before the godaddy ad.
THIS JUST IN: google doesn't care what the fuck your TLD is, other than for local rankings (ie .co.uk might rank better in the UK than it does for people in the US).
And don't refer me to some test that compares identical brand new domains, identical in all ways except the TLD. Because that still doesn't prove shit.
As far as SEO, TLD is not even a consideration. For branding, then yes the TLD is very important.
Do you then believe anything advertised during the Superbowl will automatically be successful because tens of millions of people saw it?
If you accept that some things advertised during the Superbowl are failures and some are successes, can you please give the criterion which made some succeed and some fail? Please finish by applying that criterion to .co.
Come on. This is all cause and effect. It's not even about every person that directly watched the commercial. It's about the buzz the commercial creates. GoDaddy has been advertising provocative advertisements for years, and they have only grown. They could be marketing geniuses. All I know, is what they have done, Works. I'm aware every commercial is not successful. How does a new bmw (no controversy), compare to .co being better then .com (controversy). GoDaddy knows it wont be better, but to spike the controversy (which is genius), will create the buzz needed spread this further. Controversy is what brings arguments, like this one here.
Can I see your high school diploma. I would also like to prove a point right here. I never said I went to Full Sail, yet everyone is already under the impression that I am enrolled. One person posts "Full Sail!", and everyone else follows. Point proven? I think so
That's why I kept asking if you have followed the release of any other top level domains. There have been plenty of releases. They all had marketing behind them, including marketing from GoDaddy. All of those releases are largely considered failures.
I keep probing you to find out why you think .co is different. You claim that the marketing of GoDaddy makes it different, but that's not a point of uniqueness. GoDaddy has marketed other top level domains before. It just sounds like you aren't very knowledgeable on this topic, and you're excited about the potential of the "next big thing."
It was probably cool for you to see something related to your studies on TV, but if you're going to be a good advertiser you need to realize when you're being advertised to. You should research history and then come back to this thread.
We're not arguing with you. We're trying to understand you.
Full Sail is the only school that I (and most people) know of that offers an "Internet Marketing" degree.
Doesn't matter what school you go to. You are wasting your fucking time getting an internet marketing degree. The funny thing is you probably get the warm and fuzzies every time you go to class thinking your gonna be tearin it up once you graduate.
Good luck with your degree in how to get facebook likes and cause twitter hysteria. Don't trip though at least you'll have a really cool piece of paper to wipe your ass with.
I'm actually struggling to understand you, Dullspace. You didn't see him coming on and posting threads saying that .mobi was the "next big thing". It's clear that GoDaddy has higher expectations for this TLD than other previous failures.
Did you see GoDaddy buying a SuperBowl commercial for the release of .mobi? Did anyone claim that .mobi was here to replace .com? I honestly didn't hear that kind of response to the release of any other TLD's. Maybe the problem is that you're asking for evidence of success in a TLD that's brand new?
I see your point and yes I do get excited when I see advertisements on TV related to what I'm studying, but I am very aware they are trying to profit from this. I'm not here saying it's better then the other. The uniqueness I find in this, is how they are claiming that it will be better then .com. I have never seen any of their ads claiming to be better then .com. Many blogs will write about how .co is now better than .com, in their blind faith for GoDaddy. Many readers will follow, and many new consumers may jump the bandwagon, but we cannot say, for a fact, that this will not spread.
I completely agree. During my brief stint at medical school I would practically wet my pants every time a pharmaceutical ad came on.
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how many domains do you own again?
how many years have you been in IM ?
how many LLCs and businesses do you own?
if you look at your answer to those questions you may then understand why no one here is taking your idea seriously or LOLs @ the fact that .co will gain a massive uprising in popularity because of an ad ran during the superbowl.
We can't say for a fact that anything will or will not spread. What we are trying to do is make reasoned arguments for one side or another.
I have provided examples of TLDs that failed as a historic framework for the conversation. Your response was that this one will grow virally because it was advertised by GoDaddy. I told you that the other failed TLDs were are also originally advertised by GoDaddy. Your response was "well we just don't know."
If your claim is that something could happen, then you're betting on everything, because anything could happen. Instead you should be betting on things that have some logical argument behind them. So far, you don't have any logical argument.