OMG: .XYZ Hits Top 5 Pre-Registered New gTLD’s at 1and1.com

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Tonight 1and1.com top 5 new gTLD pre-reservation list changed and amazingly .XYZ is now sitting at number 5 with over 45,000 pre-reservations.

The top five are now pre-reserved domain names in the new gTLD’s are:

.Web

.Online

.Shop

.App

.XYZ

Total number of pre-reservations are now over 3.2 million.

Wow

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  3. Brad Mugford says

    A pre-registration is non binding, requires no commitment, and no money changes hands. Therefore taking those numbers and trying to project real world demand has very limited value. Obviously a system that is non-binding, where no money changes hands is very easy to manipulate.

    Brad

  4. Michael Mindish says

    Gotta keep pimpin those GTLDs. 1 and 1 has been running that misleading ad for a month now, and they only have 45,000 pre reservations? And that is good enough to be in the top 5? @ $10 price point thats $450,000. That would cover the application costs, a few weeks of marketing and a couple of boxes of t-shirts. We don’t even know if 1 and 1 will be selling .xyz domains. Not exactly a pre-registration panic as far as I can tell.

  5. Vendita Auto says

    Great, the more classifieds the better. I am down for .GURU & hoping that the (G) God.Guru will put me at top !!

    but seriously, in the long term, the more the better.

  9. Domo Sapiens says

    Come to think about it…
    Romeo really knows what he is doing…
    By targeting the “Age bracket” most likely to be interested and register such an aberration of extension..
    “18 and under”
    (using Mom’s credit card)

    Romeo you are a genius!

  11. Grim says

    .XYZ will crush all other TLDs! .COM included. I’ve just been saying otherwise all this time, so less people will invest in the new gTLDs. I am pre-registering all I can, so I’m guaranteed to maybe get some of them! (sarc)

    I’ve been gone for awhile on a biz trip to China and India… anyway, casually speaking to them, by far their first choice would still be .COM. Go figure. (not sarc)