new gtlds .88 cent domains : How many are you buying?

[offthehandle]

just like most of you, I got the email from .whatever registry today about the big .xyz sale. It suggests registering phone numbers, number sequences, IOT appliances, anything really anything. Billions of combinations. Lol.

 

[Silentptnr]

Okay, if I could get a one letter .xyz for .88....I would take it.

Does that make me bad?

 

[offthehandle]

I would too. C for coolaid. S for scam or s--t .xyz? Even a two letter like JJ for above reference. Lol.

 

[JayT]

Glad you are all buying none because I'm buying them all. Once the buyout happens I will be selling them them like bitcoins.

 

[Silentptnr]

I would too. C for coolaid. S for scam or s--t .xyz? Even a two letter like JJ for above reference. Lol.

LOL

 

[offthehandle]

Been watching him shaft domainers for at least a couple of years now, and each times he pulls a new stunt like this it's a further breach of trust against the domaining community from one of the once most respected figures within the industry. It's great that people are calling him out. Hopefully he'll take heed.

I don't know all the history as I have only been into this since last year. But this seems like another "greater fool theory" investment. I have bought a few not com's, used for redirects into my business 8-9 years ago. I dropped two single word .biz and .us, and after all this time still are not probably worth much. So all the snake oil sales pitching on thousands of new .horse type extensions this guy has been selling made me take notice immediately. Somebody told me that they spy on all the parked domains stats that people bring them too.

 

[offthehandle]

I have an idea. Someone should register all the possible screen colors from the hex RGB values and have each page resolve to a different color. Then write a script to rotate through ALL the webpages with their own unique color and the entire mess from FFFFFF to OOOOOO, Oops, no letters allowed. Have to convert to binary and increase the digits.

 

[Acroplex]

I have an idea. Someone should register all the possible screen colors from the hex RGB values and have each page resolve to a different color. Then write a script to rotate through ALL the webpages with their own unique color and the entire mess from FFFFFF to OOOOOO, Oops, no letters allowed. Have to convert to binary and increase the digits.

Don't give Negari any more ideas, he'll be rocking the charts into 2032.

 

[offthehandle]

I already patented it. Lol.

 

[21x20]

It's 88 cent renewals too, (just fyi to those saying renewal - yeah, I know the renewals can change thing.)

I picked up a couple handfuls of 6N with 888 and prepaid 5 years for $4.40.

Won't really notice it from the bitcoin I bought a few years ago, cause ya just never know.

 

[SpareDomains]

Would have to pay me .88 to take one

 

[Acroplex]

Would have to pay me .88 to take one

Next year LOL

 

[Raymond C]

BitCasinos.xyz in my safe deposit box!

 

[Recons.Com]

Ok... After long deliberations, I took the plunge and spent 0.88 on abc.xyz

 

[hullswingerscom]

I got a few got a job they can do for me..
some on here moan when price is high and low....

 

[DNGear]

I bought 50 till now.
@Jv1999

 

[Recons.Com]

On a serious note, does anyone know if the registry costs are fixed or there is a variable cost aspect to it?

They state that the price is going to be $0.99 on that trash, but still, doesn't each domain add some amount to variable through hardware and support?

 

[21x20]

On a serious note, does anyone know if the registry costs are fixed or there is a variable cost aspect to it?

They state that the price is going to be $0.99 on that trash, but still, doesn't each domain add some amount to variable through hardware and support?

I don't think it costs anywhere near $1 billion a year to store 10 characters of data and process requests on 1 billion names. [I'm exaggerating on 10 chars.]

If anything, it's based more on queries... where the most active names cost resources and the inactive names cost nothing.

 

[Recons.Com]

I don't think it costs anywhere near $1 billion a year to store 10 characters of data and process requests on 1 billion names. [I'm exaggerating on 10 chars.]

If anything, it's based more on queries... where the most active names cost resources and the inactive names cost nothing.

So are you saying extra 1MM names don't add opex of $1MM a year, at least? Remember that $1MM revenue would have to be split with registrars too.

 

[21x20]

So are you saying extra 1MM names don't add opex of $1MM a year, at least? Remember that $1MM revenue would have to be split with registrars too.

Let's give 1 billion names 1 mb of storage each. (pretty unlikely high, right?)

So you've got to deal with this 1 billion mb of data.
Let's convert to GB cause that's how everyone charges for storage.
1 billion mb => 1 million gb

https://blog.cloudability.com/aws-s3-understanding-cloud-storage-costs-to-save/

Let's round up and say AWS is doing it super cheap... Instead of $0.02 per gig, you hate AWS and build your own and you to pay $0.10 per gig per month of storage.

1 million gb * $0.10 storage per month * 12 months in a year = $1,200,000 a year in storage costs.

That leaves you $998,800,000 to split with the registrars.


Unless I'm missing a zero or few somewhere, it seems ok.

 

[Recons.Com]

Let's give 1 billion names 1 mb of storage each. (pretty unlikely high, right?)

So you've got to deal with this 1 billion mb of data.
Let's convert to GB cause that's how everyone charges for storage.
1 billion mb => 1 million gb

https://blog.cloudability.com/aws-s3-understanding-cloud-storage-costs-to-save/

Let's round up and say AWS is doing it super cheap... Instead of $0.02 per gig, you hate AWS and build your own and you to pay $0.10 per gig per month of storage.

1 million gb * $0.10 storage per month * 12 months in a year = $1,200,000 a year in storage costs.

That leaves you $998,800,000 to split with the registrars.


Unless I'm missing a zero or few somewhere, it seems ok.

Forget about billion... There are not enough fools with money in the industry for that kind.

Million is possible. It is not just bytes. See that the registries have millions a year in overhead. By your logic, their cost would be in tens/hundreds of thousands...

 

[21x20]

Forget about billion... There are not enough fools with money in the industry for that kind.

Million is possible. It is not just bytes. See that the registries have millions a year in overhead. By your logic, their cost would be in tens/hundreds of thousands...

It does not cost them anywhere near $1 a name on a technology front to store a name. There's just next to no cost in storage, I think that's well proven in any math example. The cost on housing 10 million names is not even a fraction of $10 million more than the cost of house 1 million names.

Queries do have a cost ... again, something like Google.com and Apple.com have an exponentially higher technology cost than does 878881.xyz and every xyz 6N combined.

Being a registrar and having staff are all costs... But the more inactive names a registry has, the lower the cost per name.

 

[usernamex]

just like most of you, I got the email from .whatever registry today about the big .xyz sale.

Where? Among my 40+ registrars I got ZERO promo emails today, including that I signed up for notification from AYDACFU : confused :

This is only a promo for 6 7 8 9 numerics? Existing renewals if that exists for a promo price would be of interest to me. Plus there are 99 cent promos for all xyz all year until Dec 31st so this is pretty lame.

 

[DnEbook]

just like most of you, I got the email from .whatever registry today about the big .xyz sale. It suggests registering phone numbers, number sequences, IOT appliances, anything really anything. Billions of combinations. Lol.

Pssst "hey sucker ..... wanna get a name?"

 

[DnEbook]

At least we know the next buyout (get me a doctor ...... my sides are splitting)

 

[MarketingArchi]

I have 1 .XYZ domain and plan to keep it this way.

me too)

thinking to renew or not, eTickets.xyz what do you guys think ?