.XYZ Issues The Challenge: Giving Away $2K For The Best New .Com & .XYZ Domain Name

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The .XYZ registry has issued The Challenge “Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name?”

“Submit yours, along with a short survey, for your chance to win $1,000!

“2 winners will be announced on August 10th and 2 more on September 7th”

Here is how TheChallenge.xyz as explained on the .XYZ site:

“.COM is suing me – Daniel Negari, CEO and Founder of .XYZ – in part over a video where I said it’s impossible to find the .COM domain that you want.

“Reacting to my interview with L.A. Biz, .COM said “there are plenty of great .COM domain names available,” and “seven out of 10 .COM domain availability checks are successful,” so I’ve created TheChallenge.xyz to see what real internet users find.

The contest is simple: Can you find the .COM domain that you want?

What about the .XYZ domain that you want?

Go hand-register the best domains you can find and submit your entries.

Want to enter more than one .XYZ and/or .COM domain? No problem! Just submit each one individually.

On August 10th and September 7th, TheChallenge.xyz will announce one winner for the best .XYZ and one winner for the best .COM domain submitted during the applicable entry periods.

Judging will be done by an expert in the domain name industry and all submissions will be published right here.

For all the details and rules including how you can enter the contest without making an actual domain registration see TheChallenge.xyz

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

  1. Joseph Peterson says

    I already found the XYZ domain I wanted. Hand-registered it 3 weeks ago:

    XYZenius.com

    If I develop it, then it may function as my paean to Daniel Negari.

  2. John says

    Mike-if someone wins this type of contest with a .com do you think it adds any value to the name? Also-do you want to see the entries posted here? Thank you!

  3. Elena says

    Guess at the end of the contest Negari will mention the winners and conclude that:
    1. It was much easier to find an available .xyz domain compared to .com (duh, .com exists already 30 years so it’s obvious the better names are not available at reg fee).

    2. The best hand-regged .xyz domain will have a better/stronger keyword than the best .com hand-regged domain (duh, .com exists already 30 years so it’s obvious the better names are not available at reg fee).

    What Negari will fail to mention is that:

    1. A .com domain has resale value, an .xyz domain has not.

    2. A .com domain (even if only of mediocre quality) will often result in instant credibility and consumer trust (since .com is the most popular global extension) whereas an .xyz domain (even if the keyword is super premium) will still needs tons of marketing money to make it credible and trustworthy. If for example someone looks to buy a new television online and finds 2 ecommerce shops, one called PetesElectronics.com (available for hand-reg btw!) and the other one Electronics.xyz he will most likely buy at PetesElectronics.com since .com is a trusted extension and .xyz is not. So the quality of the keyword is more or less irrelevant if the quality of the extension is crap.

    3. I agree that the statement “seven out of 10 .COM domain availability checks are successful” is questionable (unless the availability checks are for made-up words only) but on the other hand Negari’s statement “it’s impossible to find the .COM domain that you want” is misleading and simply wrong since a great .com domain can always be bought on the aftermarket (and often for a reasonable price).

    • Rubens Kuhl says

      Verisign claim of 7 out 10 availability queries forgot to mention that there 3 other ways to verify non-availability of domains: Zone files, DNS queries and WHOIS. All 3 are much faster than setting up a registry-registrar EPP transaction, zone files being the faster as it uses locally-stored information.

      A lot of resellers (and even some registrars) use WHOIS queries to verify availability, queries that they can’t know for sure if availability or registration data was the reason for that query…

      … they simply can’t know the available/not available rate.

  4. Xavier Lemay says

    I’m confused, do we have a dot review or dot reviews? I don’t even knew that we have a .land? Personally I think I will register a .Cuepon. I mean dot qupon.

    Never dot mind, Never Mind!

    It’s a great thing for .XYZ!

    I did submitted: Punk.xyz

    I love punk music from all Generations!