Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain … [Read more...]
New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After its 1st Day: Trump.lol; Obama.lol
.LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for … [Read more...]
.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement
Since Google Inc. announced Alphabet Inc. on August 10, 2015 around 3 PM ET and stated they will be using the domain name ABC.XYZ, the new gTLD .xyz has had nearly 20,000 new domain names registered! It started with over 6,000 .xyz domains being registered after Google's announcement. New registrations for .xyz cranked that rising total up over double in one day with 13,000+ more domain name … [Read more...]
Has .XYZ Forever Changed the Name Game ?
Lexi Pandell of Wired wrote a very interesting headline for a story on Google using ABC.xyz, "Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance" Lexi mentioned that she interviewed Daniel Negari earlier in the year and he gave his vision on .XYZ. “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turns out someone agrees with him. Yesterday, Google’s new … [Read more...]
Best Headline For New gTLD’s: “Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance”
Wired.com just published a story which maybe the best headline ever for the new gTLD lovers and supporters: "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 … [Read more...]
Did Google Buy Alphabet.Xyz for $3,800
GTLD.link is a forum that focuses solely on new gtlds. Last night at 8:28 a member posted he owned Alphabet.xyz and sold it. Sold too cheap :( Yesterday, 08:28 PM So, I received a $2,500 Sedo offer last week for alphabet.xyz. I didn't think much of the domain, so I countered with $3,800, and the buyer accepted.And then, this today: … [Read more...]
Google’s Alphabet Fires Up .Com/.Net Registrations Too Including Some of Google’s
As we noted earlier today over 6,000 .XYZ new gTLD domain names were registered yesterday, after Google Inc. announced it's holding company Alphabet Inc., using the domain name ABC.XYZ. It is interesting though, as Mike pointed out that of the 6,000 newly registered .xyz domains registered yesterday hundreds of them related to ABC, Alphabet and XYZ. I wanted to compare that to .com / .net … [Read more...]