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.

 

[offthehandle]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/bulk-auction-10-numerical-6n-com-with-8-688741-com.1021666/

Right here on namepros, $25. Buys all (10) 6N.dot com's, $2.50 each.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

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[Alessandro Couteau]

The problem is comparing digital currency to domains ...

No one knew $27 of bitcoins in 2009 would be worth $885,000 USD today lol

Anybody who says they did, shouldn't be commenting here, they should be far too busy flying in private jets and purchasing mega yachts, not to mention, the major donations of giving to the poor ...
Far too busy to discuss domains.

Lol

 

[Jim Holleran]

I been in the domain industry 19 years, seen it all, but this takes the cake, this .XYZ is the biggest joke of all time, and that email Frank sent was the most ridiculous email I have ever seen in the domain industry. Do they celebrate April fools on May 31st in the Cayman Islands

 

[Raymond C]

Wake up guys, you are wasting all your valuable time and money here in every minutes you comment here......go back to your dream work!

 

[offthehandle]

I been in the domain industry 19 years, seen it all, but this takes the cake, this .XYZ is the biggest joke of all time, and that email Frank sent was the most ridiculous email I have ever seen in the domain industry. Do they celebrate April fools on May 31st in the Cayman Islands

I have this feeling that perhaps the lack of new sales, sales milestones unmet, and cash flow and grasping around in desperation are combined. This event mixed with the price increases awhile back, then the market reaction from GD, then grandfathering prices- its really seems to me (being new to this particular market segment) all are signs of instability. Market driven companies need to let the market drive. In my past, I have been in the midst of being within companies who have bet on the wrong horse and went under and as well seeing as outsider competitive companies fast uncontrolled spending, growth and enthusiasm to be later taken over with logic and layoffs. The promo emails were probably not planned, the comparison to currency was one that the legal department I am sure never approved. Even though this is int'l the US SEC gets involved with monitoring schemes and promotions that dont have all the disclaimers, as found in the 2nd email. I don't think any of us as logical, rational beings appreciate things that are wishy washy, knee jerk, etc. This PR is not good. I think these events undermine many factors in confidence in both product and the companies promoting them.

 

[offthehandle]

Wake up guys, you are wasting all your valuable time and money here in every minutes you comment here......go back to your dream work!

I am retired, thanks for the reminder!

 

[SellDomains.site]

I have only one . Happy with that .

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

As an UNIREGISTRY customer who subscribed to the U. newsletter, I also got this U. newsletter from U. FOUNDER & CEO Mr. Schilling.
In this case I decided to reply to it.
Because this newsletter was an open (news)letter I have no problem to publish my reply in the following:



REPLY START

Dear Mr. Schilling,

thanks for your email.

I am not interested in the xyz gamble, because there can not be any domain which could have a higher value than the most expensive domain of all time - because this domain is UNTOPPABLE.

Learn more here:

TOPLEVELDOMAIN.TOP
http://www.topleveldomain.top

Or visit this one:

HIGHEST.ART
http://www.highest.art

Can you buy it?
At least you can try it!

Sincerely,
[MY NAME]
[MY COUNTRY]

REPLY END



Please understand that I can not / will not publish if I got or will get a reply or not.
Also, if I got or will get a reply, of course I would NOT publish it itself - because a personal reply from someone other than myself would not be the same like an open (news)letter.

 

[dordomai]

As an UNIREGISTRY customer who subscribed to the U. newsletter, I also got this U. newsletter from U. FOUNDER & CEO Mr. Schilling.
In this case I decided to reply to it.
Because this newsletter was an 'open (news)letter' I have no problem to publish my reply in the following:



REPLY START

Dear Mr. Schilling,

thanks for your email.

I am not interested in the xyz gamble, because there can not be any domain which could have a higher value than the most expensive domain of all time - because this domain is UNTOPPABLE.

Learn more here:

TOPLEVELDOMAIN.TOP
http://www.topleveldomain.top

Or visit this one:

HIGHEST.ART
http://www.highest.art

Can you buy it?
At least you can try it!

Sincerely,
[MY NAME]
[MY COUNTRY]

REPLY END



Please understand that I can not / will not publish if I got or will get a reply or not.
Also, if I got or will get a reply, of course I would NOT publish it itself - because a personal reply from someone other than myself would not be the same like an open (news)letter.

hahaha. that is the best possble reply ever to this email..

Can you buy it?
At least you can try it!

lol.

 

[ecigs.net]

It's ironic how people throw insults at dot XYZ, yet struggle just to renew their little domain portfolios. How many people in this thread have managed to start their own domain extension? I wish I could. I'd love to be the owner of XYZ. I'd let people register XYZ for $1 and $1.99 for renewals. Do domains really need $20 renewal prices? $10 is too high in my opinion.

 

[JB Lions]

Is it too early too see numbers on this? Wonder how many regs this produced.

 

[offthehandle]

The xyz seller publishes his letter of the promo today, first I have seen. Sounds like this might be the memo that was originally sent to all his registry wholesalers first and from which was used to create the whateveregistry promo emails on comparing .xyz with bitcoin.

If anybody can read this and clarify these ideas as being practical and useful, I would love to hear it. In spite of what you might think, I would like to see this succeed, rather than be snakeoil.

Like he has said, the thing needs to "bake". I think that keeping these in the oven means 1 billion renewals over 10 years equal $10 billion revenue, for .XYZ. While speculators support his extensions overhead and spend the next 10 years renewing and assigning xyz names to their dogs, stray dogs, cats, snakes, goldfish, etc.

Maybe instead of Bitcoin, installing individual RFID with realtime GPS with a .XYZ domain on all bluefin tuna to make sure that the overfishing discontinues and we can track their migratory patterns. Lol.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170..._billion_dot_xyz_domais_for_alternative_uses/

 

[jmcc]

Is it too early too see numbers on this? Wonder how many regs this produced.

Spikes from those who got in before the lemming should have been present over the last few weeks. There should be a few takers today but there's a slow-down for the weekend.

Regards...jmcc

 

[dgmweb]

I registered 2 or 3 xyz domains last year of .com's I already had, mostly to have a sort of "playground domain" to test platforms and stuff. They were 88 cents then too.

At least the renewals, even at $12 or $14 are more reasonable than say, .guitar (I'd love to have several .guitar names but no way am I paying that high of a renewal fee).

 

[JudgeMind]

i bought 2 just because I made coffee at home yesterday instead of picking one up on the way to work.

 

[Silentptnr]

I have only 4 .xyz domains. I decided to add one more, I regged it at GD, and now its been a while and the domain is not in my account.

Something is screwy with the system. Not sure what's up. Maybe the domain I regged today was not really available or something.

 

[offthehandle]

I have only 4 .xyz domains. I decided to add one more, I regged it at GD, and now its been a while and the domain is not in my account.

Something is screwy with the system. Not sure what's up. Maybe the domain I regged today was not really available or something.

How could it disappear? Assume your GD history would show the purchase price and name right?

 

[Ram G.]

 

[offthehandle]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/alert-xyz-registry-stealing-back-newly-registered-numerics.1022280/

Now this mess. Seems as though real amateur hour on the XYZ snakeoil gang.

 

[Silentptnr]

How could it disappear? Assume your GD history would show the purchase price and name right?

I just regged it today. I have the receipt. I called GD and they said it was fine and would be in my account shortly within max 90 min.

That was 4 hrs ago.

 

[offthehandle]

I was reading the other thread. What a PR nightmare. Hope you dont get the same response that dynadot gave the nnn.xyz customer

 

[DOMAIN-BUYER]

000

 

[Mr Dobalina]

The problem is comparing digital currency to domains ...

No one knew $27 of bitcoins in 2009 would be worth $885,000 USD today lol

Anybody who says they did, shouldn't be commenting here, they should be far too busy flying in private jets and purchasing mega yachts, not to mention, the major donations of giving to the poor ...
Far too busy to discuss domains.

Lol

Agree. A winning bet isn't always a smart bet and I don't think using that bitcoin analogy was smart. In fact it shows pure ignorance on their part. You could literally say my old worn-out t-shirt should be purchased for $0.99 because imagine buying $100 in bitcoin in 2010. The difference is my t-shirt has a use.

 

[offthehandle]

Agree. A winning bet isn't always a smart bet and I don't think using that bitcoin analogy was smart. In fact it shows pure ignorance on their part. You could literally say my old worn-out t-shirt should be purchased for $0.99 because imagine buying $100 in bitcoin in 2010. The difference is my t-shirt has a use.

Actually, the .99 cents stores have quite a few actual products with value, worth more. Even if you used that T shirt to wipe off your dirty windshield!

The "greater fool theory" also applies on this SnakeOil pitch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory