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Quick Poll: How Many .XYZ Domains Are You Going To Register at $.01

May 31, 2016 by Michael Berkens

Now that Uniregistry announced that it’s offering .XYZ domain name registrations at just one penny now through June 2nd we thought we would run a quick poll to ask you how many domains you are planning on registering.

Our answer range from none to over 10,000 so vote now on the right hand side of thedomains.com (on June 3rd the price moves uo to $.18 per domain)

Here are you choices:

Zero

1-100

101-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-9,999

Over 10,000

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: New gTLD's, 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.

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Comments

  1. Rich says

    May 31, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    0

  2. Brad Mugford says

    May 31, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    0. Why pay for anything that is worthless?

    Brad

  3. Andrea Paladini says

    May 31, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Zero.
    I don’t waste money on worthless junk.

  4. Jens says

    May 31, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Have no idea…

    For me it’s not a big issue as you already can get them for a dollar, or less.

    Ps. I just sold my 12th .XYZ today. Doha dot xyz…

  5. George Kirikos says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    I’d like to register a negative amount of them, but that wasn’t an option. 🙂 So, I’ll go with zero.

  6. Ben says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    0

  7. Ram says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    Big fat zero….all the good ones are long gone.

    • Groovy says

      May 31, 2016 at 10:09 pm

      And your example of a good one is?

      • Ram says

        June 1, 2016 at 3:37 am

        For me. 2 or 3 numbers, letters.

  8. Ryan says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    0, this will actually decrease the value of .xyz which had a sputter of an aftermarket among speculators, now they have confirmed it is worth just a penny.

    This is a black mark on all gtld’s today, they are deemed as struggling, and operators need to squeeze as much cash as they can quickly.

    • fx says

      May 31, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      supply drives demand, more .xyz names getting traded increases demand.
      It’s the velocity that matters.
      Daniel gets it better than anyone else.

      • asset.domains says

        June 1, 2016 at 6:30 pm

        agree with FX 🙂

        now when people will register some of them, they ll have to renew some , Daniel is a smart guy .

  9. Juan says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Zero

  10. Snoopy says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    0

  11. steve says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    I wish everyone well with their investing, acquiring, selling.

    They’re — .xyz — not for me. But apparently some folks like them.

  12. Leonard Britt says

    May 31, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    It is my view that too many new TLDs have cannibalized sales of aftermarket domains in previously-existing extensions including .COM. If .Net and .Org and .TV sales were being made on a regular basis I might consider buying a few .Club or .Web or .Condos domains. However, with sales down sharply the last few years, portfolios are being pruned to keep only the best domains and IMO no keyword .XYZ would ever be considered a best domain. There is also an administrative cost to maintaining a portfolio of low-quality domains.

    Short answer… ZERO!

    • Joseph Peterson says

      May 31, 2016 at 10:53 pm

      I haven’t seen any evidence that retail sales are down due to the nTLDs. But certainly the wholesale market has suffered.

      Domainers who otherwise might have purchased domains from each other have instead poured money into registrars and registries in order to experiment with new suffixes. These investments have mostly been unprofitable. So domainers as a class have less money in their pockets, and they circulate their money less among their own class.

      In this way, since 2014, domainers have lowered the wholesale value and liquidity of their own portfolios. End users are the same as ever, still buying good domains at good prices at the usual frequency. But domainers fell for publicity and shot themselves in the foot.

    • John McCormac says

      June 1, 2016 at 12:17 pm

      No, Leonard,
      The trends in .COM/NET/ORG are quite different to those in the new gTLDs and they are typically more complex. Most domainers do not see the bigger picture when it comes to the legacy TLDs. There has been an increasing shift away from the legacy ORG/NET/BIZ/INFO TLDs and also from .COM towards the ccTLDs. This is happening largely at country market levels so it is completely missed by .COM focused domainers. The other interesting thing was that there was some strange claim in one of the recent cases that the new gTLDs affected sales of .NET. This is not so. There has been a repositioning trend ongoing in the legacy TLDs for at least the last five years.

  13. Scott says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    Zero.

  14. Jeff Ding says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    0.

    I’m normally a sucker for free (or nearly free) things, but I refuse to fill my portfolio with junk penny stock extensions.

  15. ED says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    fRANK KNOWS BETTER

  16. ED says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:24 pm

    IS NOT XYZ THE END OF THE LINE I AM DUMPING MINE lol EXCEPT zBOT .xyz

  17. Hugh says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:39 pm

    Time is money so I will not waste it registering something worthless. Zero.

  18. Ilze says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:51 pm

    Zero

  19. Ilze says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    Zero, nada, zip,

  20. John says

    May 31, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    Zilch. Although I admit I fell for the hype. The only domain I can rely on is .com. I spend more getting it but I know it’s quality.

  21. Jane Doe says

    May 31, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    I have exactly one .xyz and I don’t see myself getting any more.

    So as seems to be the trend…

    0

  22. frank.schilling says

    May 31, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    — first, none of them were good
    — now, all the good ones are gone
    — when it hits 10 million somebody will again say “all the good ones are gone”
    — when it hits 20mm somebody will yet again say “all the good ones are gone”
    — there are less than 3mm registered and some of the future good ones (that will be gone) are still out there
    — they are a penny.. you can get 10,000 for $100 bill

    If somebody would have thrown me penny domains back in the day I would have found a way to turn that to my advantage, hustle and make something of it.. (buy, sell, trade)

    If everyone commenting here isn’t a liar and quietly hustling to find the gems, then I miscalculated some folks..

    Get everything now, then sift between good and bad .. monitor traffic for a year and then renew the half decent ones at promotional rates.

    This is such a simple game.

    • Ryan says

      May 31, 2016 at 11:07 pm

      So says the guy who still bids thousands daily at namejet for .com, which were deemed to be the AM dial, why not buy 1000000000 .xyz domains rather than outdated .com? You have every opportunity today, yet you still buy .com?

    • Jane Doe says

      May 31, 2016 at 11:31 pm

      Depends on what your idea of a gem is.

      Spend $100 on 10,000 domains you won’t renew in a year or $100 on a single domain that you will be happy to hold.

      The only value with such cheap registrations is if it buys you a discount on renewals for any other extensions which adds up to a saving well in excess of the $100 you spent to register and the time lost looking

      • cmac says

        June 1, 2016 at 7:38 am

        this is just frank with his salesman hat on…do as a i say, not as a i do.

    • Domain says

      May 31, 2016 at 11:38 pm

      Frank you are hysterical.Maybe stand up comedy is in your future.

    • Joseph Peterson says

      May 31, 2016 at 11:38 pm

      @Frank Schilling,

      I registered roughly 2000 .LINK domains recently as part of a similar promotion. So I’m not opposed to cheap domains.

      The main issue with this .XYZ promotion, as I see it, is that it’s mainly meant to beef up registration numbers. Most likely, this is designed to mask a decline in .XYZ as many of the earlier sub-$1 registrations fail to be renewed. All the publicity surrounding these freebies distract attention from registries that are actually earning their success with real marketing. .VIP, for example, deserves its headlines. .XYZ does not. It’s simply sucking up the oxygen.

      Some of us don’t want to be USED just to keep .XYZ at the top of charts by volume. Collectively, we’d become a prop for .XYZ to point at as makes its misleading, “We’re the most successful new TLD” sales pitch. Personally, I find that idea unwholesome.

      Since day 1, Daniel Negari and the .XYZ registry have been pointing to volume as evidence of value. Given the registrar stuffing scandal with Network Solutions and all the freebies since, in my opinion, this has been quite deceptive; and it has made a mess of the whole nTLD program, undermining the credibility of the numbers and diverting attention from better suffixes.

      Registries that “play by the rules” are out there every day working to raise awareness among the general public. Headlines ought to be written about them and their efforts. Yet they’ve continually had their thunder stolen and their efforts diminished by .XYZ and its stunts. Some of us would say, “Enough already!”

      Frank, if you want to promote some other TLD at Uniregistry, then some of us might register quite a few. Personally, I’ve got long lists of domains that I’d register for a penny … if I liked the suffix. Time is worth a lot, though. Personally, I just don’t see huge market value in .XYZ’s dregs. Maybe there is some value in what’s left. Low odds, but low cost. However, when I consider how the .XYZ registry would probably me and use my registrations – to make misleading claims and divert attention from more deserving TLDs – I just don’t want to be their footstool. Others are welcome to try to make a buck. Some will. Maybe they don’t mind being used to bolster .XYZ’s flimsy numbers. Some of us do.

  23. DN Invest Ltd says

    May 31, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Probably zero. However, from the beginning of May I was at 90% of decision to register one premium .xyz for $3,000 USD and on 26th May my decision made it way to 100%. Then I saw someone else took it on 24th May. It was disappointment 🙁

    • asset.domains says

      June 1, 2016 at 6:33 pm

      what was the name ?

      • DN Invest Ltd says

        June 2, 2016 at 9:57 am

        Bitcoin.xyz
        If renewal fee was regular I would take it immediately for $3000, but because of $3000 renewal price I was in doubt. When finally decided to take it on 26th May I saw it was taken two days before. Horrible feeling 🙂

  24. rathead says

    May 31, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    when they started they were putting them in people’s accounts for free. now they want 1 cent for them. who’s to say at some future time they won’t raise the price to 2 cents, which is about 2 cents more than most of them are worth.

  25. Bob says

    May 31, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    .com only. Everything else, zilch.

  26. Dot joke says

    June 1, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Frankschilling.xyz. Available

    • Joseph Peterson says

      June 1, 2016 at 4:53 am

      That’s hilarious! … If anything shows how hollow this promotion really is, that does.

      • Dot joke says

        June 1, 2016 at 10:16 am

        And the best part is frank schilling could actually get frankschilling.xyz for FREE and he won’t even take it at that price
        They must be worthless
        I mean it’s so obvious that xyz is feeling the heat from dot TOP and don’t want to loose their trumped up position as a leading Ntld so they have resorted to this pump up one cent thing (remember .info Frank….the tld choice for scammers and phishermen
        Frank you know that there is only one way to go from the .top
        Enjoy the ride
        Gonna be a lot of peeps greeting you on the way down

  27. Anunt says

    June 1, 2016 at 1:08 am

    Frank, u should register 1 million .xyz only $10k and put them in your North Sound Names account with the other garbage.

    Good Luck!!!

    • Jack says

      June 1, 2016 at 2:49 am

      LOL
      Do it yourself Frank, waste your time registering penny domains that are worth much less than their discounted price.
      We’re not interested in helping XYZ mask the freefall of their numbers.

      What’s ironic is that .XYZ will be passed in numbers by .TOP who is using the same losing strategy of “inventing” a strong demand that is non-existing.
      It’s a mirage guys.

  28. John says

    June 1, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Just not worth the time and effort. The time and energy required still makes it a form of gambling just as much as if they were $10 each. I routinely drop better .com’s that what would be available in .xyz now.

  29. Jean Guillon says

    June 1, 2016 at 2:57 am

    I don’t know but for sure I am going to register “.club” domains for the same price.

  30. Amazing Domains says

    June 1, 2016 at 3:05 am

    0

    I’m surprised of the success of this nonsense TLD

  31. Joy Antony says

    June 1, 2016 at 3:49 am

    I will spend $10 to register 1000 .xyz domain names,.
    I already registered 50+ domains and checking for remaining names.

  32. Ross says

    June 1, 2016 at 8:34 am

    101-500

  33. STRIKER says

    June 1, 2016 at 9:10 am

    You can polish a turd from sun-up to sun-down, but at the end of the day what you hold in your hand is still a turd.

  34. Michael Berkens says

    June 1, 2016 at 10:20 am

    Guys for the record almost every registrar is doing a very low priced .xyz promotion starting today from as low as $.02 so this is a .XYZ promotion through the registrars, its not by any means a Uniregistry only promotion.

    Uniregistry seemed to get a 24 hour head start

  35. swetha says

    June 1, 2016 at 11:54 am

    I registered around 100 now. I am trying to find some goodones.

  36. Steve says

    June 1, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    0 because they’re worth 0.

  37. Ryan says

    June 1, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    Someone said mirage above, they are so right.

    These numbers will be used to mislead general media to the real interest of the extension, and gtld’s.

    It is very misleading, and disturbing to actually thing there is a general interest in such extensions when they are being given away for 1 cent. The penny in many economies has been removed from circulation as it is deemed worthless.

  38. Joseph Peterson says

    June 2, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    Here is why .XYZ needs to inflate their numbers:

    http://www.tntnames.com/blog/xyz-celebrates-2-years-as-the-1-new-domain.html

    Notice the way that press release begins? First the title:

    “.XYZ Celebrates 2 Years as the #1 New Domain”

    Then the first sentence opens with:

    “The World’s Most Popular New Domain …”

    They began with claims like that when they were stuffing hundreds of thousands of unasked-for domains into people’s accounts at Network Solutions. Then came all the sub-$1 registrations. Now, as those are scheduled to mostly expire and drop, it’s time to sweep them under the carpet … underneath hundreds of thousands of unsustainable penny domains.

    This way the .XYZ registry can continue telling inexperienced domainers and the general public that they are

    “The World’s Most Popular New Domain … ”

    How does it feel, domainers, to be used as a prop for the .XYZ registry to make this misleading claim for yet another year?

    P.S. I have zero problem with TNTNames, which publishes press releases for a wide range of companies within the domain industry.


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