I published a post earlier today about .XYZ registering over 18,000 domain names in its first day of General Availability based on ntldstats.com, which is what we rely on consistently for our registration numbers. At the time we did point out that over 50% of all registrations were made at NetworkSolutions.com which was quite unusual, since that … [Read more...]
.XYZ Gets Almost 18,000 Registrations On Day 1 of General Availability
.XYZ the new gTLD which bills itself as the new .Com, had a very good 1st day of general availability (GA) winding up with almost 18,000 registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has 17,800 domains registered putting it in 11 place after the first day of GA. Interestingly NetworkSolutions.com has over 50% of the registrar market for .XYZ with … [Read more...]
Best Deal for .XYZ Registrations looks to be at Uniregistry
So far no official numbers on the first day GA registrations for .XYZ. I have been chatting with Andy from Namestat.org and he said the same. Andy told me, "Nope, no zone file today, no-one has the figures. Total guess but I suspect they had a very good first 8 hours;) It does look like comedian Kevin Hart regged KevinHart.xyz and KevinHartNation.xyz Ntldstats.com is showing 3,264 … [Read more...]
.XYZ Starts Sunrise Today
The .XYZ Sunrise period opened today and will run to May 20, 2014. The company put out a press release with all the details, Beverly Hills, CA (March 20, 2014) -- Internet users worldwide will soon see web addresses ending with .xyz - the first truly generic domain extension - as Brands are invited to register and secure their marks in the .xyz namespace during the trademark-exclusive … [Read more...]
Deals.XYZ Sells For $8,100 On NameJet.com
In a Namejet.com auction which just closed today the domain name Deals.xyz just sold for $8,100. The price marks the highest amount paid for a .xyz domain name, a new gTLD extension which hasn't even been delegated yet. If should be noted that the application fee for .XYZ was $185,000 so this one domain name repays the registry 4% of the application fee. We have already heard of … [Read more...]
Daniel Negari Lays Out His Vision For .XYZ & Chats About The Controversial NameJet.com Auctions
While at was at ICANN chatting with Applicants and others in the domain space the question I found myself being asked the most was about .XYZ. .XYZ has been very aggressive pushed the envelope when it became the first to auction off new gTLD domains names through Namejet.com So I reached out to Daniel Negari whose company is going to operate the .XYZ extension (and … [Read more...]