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Here is a chance to win $500

July 5, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

We are always looking for ways that we can give our readers a chance to make money. From the sales posts, to guess where an auction will close, to the .XYZ $500 giveaway on the meaning of AYDACFU.

Here is another opportunity to win $500, this one is going to be a little bit of work.

This is the IDN count challenge, .XYZ would like research data on IDN’s.

Let’s get the disclaimers out of the way upfront.

  • TheDomains was not compensated in any way to make this post.
  • TheDomains staff has no say or involvement in determining the winner.
  • The $500 prize will be paid out by the .XYZ registry.

By leaving a comment you acknowledge the above disclaimer.

Here is what you need to do:

1) Post a comment in this post containing 1) a list of the
top 10 overall TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) with the
most IDN domains.

2) the number of IDN registrations per TLD.

3) a short description of your sources.

* An IDN is defined as a domain with a punycode (xn—) and ASCII
value.

* Contestants agree to allow XYZ to reference their findings in our
marketing materials.

* Email hello@gen.xyz all data/sources supporting their findings
for verification, along with a link/confirmation of their comment on
TheDomains.

* Submissions will be checked/verified in the order they were
posted on TheDomains. Supporting data must be emailed within 1 hour of the comment, or we will move on to the next submission.

* The first comment with verified data will need to submit a W9 or
similar form, along with their PayPal email address to receive the
$500 prize

So remember after you post here your work is not done, you need to email .XYZ at the email mentioned above.

The comments here on TheDomains serve as a public timestamp, so each reader who participates will know exactly when other participants posted their data.

Comments are to be about the challenge, not looking for off topic comments or remarks about .XYZ.

Filed Under: Domain Names, IDN's, New gTLD's

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. Surya says

    July 5, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    It is not for win, but just for info. I don’t even know how much .xyz registered in idn

    Idn registration on July 2017 :
    Com : 1,015,052
    Net : 241,701
    Se : 83,631
    Biz : 56,091
    Tel : 28,747
    Org : 25,735
    Info : 23,733
    Nu : 17,209
    Asia : 5,671
    Name : 1,934
    Cat : 1,540
    Mobi : 377
    Museum : 6
    XXX : 4
    Post : 2

    Source StatDNS.com, July 2017 report

    • Surya says

      July 5, 2017 at 10:11 pm

      xyz — 292,706
      Idn registration on July 2017 :
      1. Com : 1,015,052
      2. xyz : 292,706 (data from Kevin Murphy)
      3. Net : 241,701
      4. Se : 83,631
      5. Biz : 56,091
      6.Tel : 28,747
      7. Org : 25,735
      8. Info : 23,733
      9. Nu : 17,209
      10. Asia : 5,671
      11.Name : 1,934
      12. Cat : 1,540
      13. Mobi : 377
      14. Museum : 6
      15. XXX : 4
      16 Post : 2

      Source StatDNS.com, July 2017 report
      I confirm that xn--p1ai — 9,01,244 is for total registration, not only idn (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84)

      Total domain with idn in right of the dot (source : https://namestat.org/s/top-idns)
      1 .网址 (web address) 191,233
      2 .рус (russian speaking community) 108,198
      3 .信息 (knowledge) 88,968
      4 .公司 (business organisation) 49,661
      5 .网络 (network) 33,208
      6 .手机 (cell) 29,415
      7 .在线 (online) 26,002
      8 .コム (com) 25,606
      9 .москва (moscow) 16,077
      10 .我爱你 (i love you) 14,871
      11 .닷컴 (dot com) 12,944
      12 .中文网 (website) 12,474
      13 .商标 (trademark) 8,603
      14 .移动 (mobile) 8,177
      15 .世界 (world) 5,952
      16 .商城 (mall) 5,129
      17 .网店 (webshop) 3,436
      18 .닷넷 (dot net) 3,195
      19 .онлайн (online) 2,832
      20 .みんな (everyone) 1,331
      21 .орг (org) 1,291
      22 .сайт (site) 1,067
      23 .дети (kids) 1,061
      24 .شبكة (web) 847
      25 .网站 (website) 783
      26 .集团 (corporate group) 698
      27 .بازار (bazaar) 526
      28 .موقع (site) 479
      29 .商店 (shop) 311
      30 .机构 (org) 256
      31 .企业 (enterprise) 179
      32 .游戏 (game) 164
      33 .广东 (guangdong) 129
      34 .娱乐 (entertainment) 123
      35 .佛山 (foshan) 110
      36 .संगठन (organization) 106
      37 .ストア (store) 79
      38 .セール (sale) 50
      39 .八卦 (gossip) 45
      40 .ファッション (fashion) 31
      41 .書籍 (book) 31
      42 .家電 (consumer electronics) 28
      43 .食品 (food) 27
      44 .健康 (healthy) 26
      45 .クラウド (cloud) 24
      46 .vermögensberater (financial adviser) 1
      47 .vermögensberatung (financial advice) 1

      So .xyz is number two most registered in idn base to available data.

      • Kevin Murphy says

        July 7, 2017 at 6:42 pm

        You have no license to source my data. If you win, you have to send 50% to Verisign’s lawyer cocaine fund.

        • Surya says

          July 7, 2017 at 11:08 pm

          Ok if I win. Hope your .xyz IDN registrations data is valid because I only used that one from you.

      • Team XYZ says

        July 24, 2017 at 3:30 pm

        Congratulations on winning the contest, Surya! We will communicate with you directly via email to award your prize.

        Thank you everyone who participated and submitted your entries! Please follow us on Instagram @XYZ or subscribe to our newsletter (bottom of our homepage http://www.gen.xyz) to learn about our other contests and events.

        – Team XYZ

  2. Kevin Murphy says

    July 5, 2017 at 7:34 pm

    What are the criteria for winning? Does one have to present an exhaustive comparison of IDN SLD registrations in all 1,500+ active TLDs, a great many of which do not make any registration data publicly available? Are we being asked to conduct many tens of thousands of dollars of research for a $500 prize? Or are we being asked to guess?

    • Raymond Hackney says

      July 5, 2017 at 7:39 pm

      They asked for 1) a list of the
      top 10 overall TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) with the
      most IDN domains.

      2) the number of IDN registrations per TLD.

      3) a short description of your sources. So they just want to have something to double check your work.

  3. Kevin Murphy says

    July 5, 2017 at 8:07 pm

    Yeah, I read that Ray, thanks.

    Would you agree that there is no way of knowing which TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) have the *most* IDNs unless you have access to registration data from *all* TLDs?

    Would you agree that there are over 1,500 TLDs, many of which make no data available whatsoever?

    Would you agree that your competition sponsor wants the IDN data for *all* TLDs? That is a quest. That is a quest that would cost tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, rather than a pitiful 500 bucks competition prize on offer.

    One has to wonder why XYZ.com is doing this as a prize competition, rather than actually paying a researcher to get the data they want.

    In any event, this is what I have right now:

    com — 1,015,052
    xn--p1ai — 9,01,244
    [placeholder for Chinese domains in Chinese ccTLDs]
    xyz — 292,706
    net — 241,701
    se — 83,631
    xn--vuq861b — 57623
    biz — 56,091 ,
    xn--55qx5d — 40,086
    tel– 28,752
    xn--kput3i — 28,504

    My sources were a quick-and-dirty PHP script I wrote that counted up all the IDNs in today’s gTLD zone files, augmented by data I gathered from ccTLD web sites.

    It’s not comprehensive, because it’s impossible to compehensively answer the impossibly stupid and expensive question XYS is asking here.

    If I win this competition, I only want two things in return:

    a) Daniel Negari stops ignoring my emails.

    b) The $500 prize is directly donated to Verisign’s most overpaid lawyer, with the explicit instructions that it is only to be spent on cocaine and oysters.

    Cheers,

    Kev

    • Raymond Hackney says

      July 5, 2017 at 8:11 pm

      I agree that it is an arduous task, and that for most it the juice would not be worth the squeeze. It was a prize which we have no involvement in, they are not paying us, I know that $500 means different things to different people, so if someone is offering I wanted to let people know. Everyone might look at it as too much work for too little money and skip it. That’s fine too.

      I will try to get Shayan to reply and add to your questions here.

      • Raymond Hackney says

        July 5, 2017 at 8:22 pm

        I know that $500 means different things to different people, so if someone is offering I wanted to let people know. Everyone might look at it as too much work for too little money and skip it. That’s fine too.

        That’s the beauty of the Internet you can participate or not.

        Since you posted here you can include your questions to hello@gen.xyz because anything posted here needs to be emailed there as well.

    • Rubens Kuhl says

      July 5, 2017 at 9:20 pm

      My guess is their intent with (2) was the number of IDN registration in those top-10 TLDs… anyway, Kevin’s response is incomplete due to the Chinese ccTLDs, so if someone wants the $500, just quote him and another source. 😉

      • Kevin Murphy says

        July 5, 2017 at 10:41 pm

        I’m waiting for them to do it.

    • Surya says

      July 9, 2017 at 3:51 pm

      So I guest you are the Winner Kevin. Because I got no email. It has to be clear because you asked me to donate 50% if I won because I use your .xyz idn regisration data.

  4. Surya says

    July 5, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    I believe that .xyz is in top ten list of idn, since 10 language supported and prefered by Chinese. So .xyz need to confirm it and show it. And at least with this thread .xyz can confirm the spot, but it is almost impossible to find a link with very actual and legitimate report about all idn registration. I guess .xyz can spot the second or third spot.

  5. Raymond Hackney says

    July 5, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    Thread cleaned up, every comment not related to posting of the data is deleted. If you have further questions submit them to .xyz when you submit your data if you are looking to win the $500.

    $500 is not enough? Move on, that’s what they are offering.

    • Kevin Murphy says

      July 5, 2017 at 10:08 pm

      Thanks Ray! I hope this retarded competition works!

      • Kevin Murphy says

        July 6, 2017 at 12:38 am

        I’ll take my prize whenever they’re ready.

        • Raymond Hackney says

          July 6, 2017 at 2:43 am

          That will be at .XYZ discretion, so email them. @Surya you should have emailed them too.

          • Surya says

            July 6, 2017 at 2:48 am

            I had Raymond, thank you.

  6. Wadodo.com says

    July 6, 2017 at 2:06 pm

    All these stress for $500 ? What an idea to save huge money on research cost. Wish the researchers luck

  7. Kevin Murphy says

    July 7, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    Is .xyz going to reply to all submissions, or will they ignore some?

    • Raymond Hackney says

      July 7, 2017 at 9:14 pm

      I was told they will reply to all and it will be through email not here on TheDomains.com.

  8. Team XYZ says

    July 11, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    Thanks for all the submissions so far! We will be accepting submissions for another week before announcing the results.

    – Team XYZ

    • Kevin Murphy says

      July 11, 2017 at 11:24 pm

      Will you be replying to everyone who entered the competition or will you ignore some?

      • Team XYZ says

        July 12, 2017 at 12:23 pm

        We will respond to all email submissions after entries close.

        – Team XYZ

        • Kevin Murphy says

          July 17, 2017 at 8:37 pm

          When is that, Team XYZ? What date?

          • Team XYZ says

            July 18, 2017 at 6:12 pm

            The winner will be announced tomorrow 7/19.

            – Team XYZ

        • Surya says

          July 20, 2017 at 11:38 am

          Dear Team XYZ, why I don’t get email about the result? If some one else is the winner is ok, even might be some data is coppied from my data or my link I provided. But still interesting to know the result, thank you…

          • Team XYZ says

            July 20, 2017 at 1:44 pm

            Hi Surya,

            We’ll shoot you an email shortly. Thanks for following up!

            – Team XYZ


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