“Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .XYZ Will End .Com Dominance”
That as Taylor Swift would say is the best headline “like ever, ever” for a new gTLD
Yeah
Ponder on that one for a while.
Ok I will give you a few.
The rest of the story goes on to chat about Daniel Negari who sold his last name .com address Negari.com for $1,800 on Namejet just today and operates .XYZ.
However the front page of Wired.com has 3 articles about Alphabet and/or abc.xyz
The story doesn’t really give any details or support for its headline and there is not anything new in the story that we haven’t covered for years here at thedomains.com but the headline is still pretty amazing.
its a great sounding headline,
but unless google buys the XYZ registry and deindexes every dot com site
its sort of like calling the Knicks to win the finals next year.
Misleadinng headline with no strong supporting data to reach such wishful conclusion.
O.co
I think one thing they teach most journalists is to create headlines as questions, statements represent facts or agendas.
Now we know Wired.com’s opinion
“Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, Daniel Negari has been identified as the risen Jesus Christ and will now administer all the world’s operations.”
World leaders, step down!
This Google case will be recorded in a textbook as one of some cases where a big company like Google doesn’t mind using a new gTLD, which is good for the new gTLDs. The remaining point that I want to observe is whether this kind of behavior will be settled as a trend in the next 10 years.
abc.xyz goes to the new google parent. alphabet.com apparently owned by an independent company is so swamped by traffic it is unresponsive. Either google buys the .com or the owners make a fortune doing referrals to web retailers.
& in the same week, Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator and who helped incubate companies with an aggregate valuation of over $400 Billion USD, writes in his blog that companies that do NOT have the .com signal “weakness” to the investors, consumers and partners.
http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
“but the headline is still pretty amazing.”
Just your basic link bait, say something completely crazy, get traffic. Then link bait the link bait with this post.
Ask Daniel when he will list his xyz.com for sale? If he sells xyz.com he is all in. If not, he is hedging his bets. Actions speak louder than words
abcxyz.com will get most of the traffic.
Really, type in traffic is ~5% today and falling.
I totally agree with you Micheal on the headline – it is really amazing and will boost the public awareness of .xyz registry (it has even started doing that).