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Here is a nice article posted on NameBio.com by Michael Sumner the CEO of NameBio.com. He asked for Swetha's aka @DNGear username and password to log into her Afternic account to confirm the sales once and for all, read it all below or go to https://namebio.com/blog/swethas-sales-the-truth-may-shock-you/

Swetha’s Sales – The Truth May Shock You!​


Yesterday there was quite the stir on Twitter after Swetha reported another batch of jaw-dropping .xyz sales. User @jackdomainer did some research and found that an overwhelming majority of her sales were still not developed, which he thought was suspicious given the price tags. Theories started flying around, and even the Castello Brothers and Rick Schwartz chimed in with vague statements alluding to some grand conspiracy.

Grab some popcorn and read it for yourself here:


The low rate of development was the only “proof” provided so far. But why report fake sales? Well isn’t it obvious? To boost the value of her own assets so she can dump them on unsuspecting wholesalers, hoping to reproduce her incredible success, for inflated prices.


But ask yourself this… how many times have you seen Swetha wholesaling premium .xyz domains? I may have missed it, but I don’t recall seeing that.


For years I’ve been in the awkward position of publishing these sales reports. All I can go on is a screenshot, which she graciously provided for every single sale report since the day she started sharing. But screenshots can be faked relatively easily.


I could ask her to share her screen with me while she logs in to a marketplace, but even that could be faked with browser extensions that modify the page live. It’s more difficult than faking a screenshot, but not impossible. Not good enough.


To get a definitive answer, I reached out to Swetha and asked for the unthinkable. I asked if she would give me her username and password to her Afternic account, so I could log in myself and verify all the sales she has ever reported at this marketplace.





I felt bad even asking. Here she is sharing her valuable sales data with the community, all while being given endless grief about it. And now some stranger is asking to log in to her Afternic account. A lesser person would have just said “fuck it”, stopped reporting sales, and told me to go away. But you know what… she agreed! It was at this moment I knew it was all true and factual, but still, I’m going to “due diligence” the heck out of this.


So I quickly logged in to her Afternic account and visited this URL to get a dump of all the raw sales data. Then I started taking screenshots of her sales summary page. I logged out and let her know I was done so she could change her password. Then I started diving in.


One by one I checked the sales against what we have in our database. Every single one of them was perfect. Except I discovered something shocking. Quite a few of the sales were never reported. However good you think she’s doing based on what she has reported, she’s actually doing even better. That’s insane!


Now remember, Swetha has been reporting sales for quite a while now. All this time, she had no idea I would ever ask her to log in to any of her accounts, or which one(s) I would ask for. So if she was going to fabricate sales, she would have no way of knowing to always keep Afternic clean, as opposed to DAN or Escrow.com or whatever. Thus I now feel 100% confident in all her reports, not just the Afternic ones.


I also now feel confident in saying that Swetha is probably in the Top 100 of all domain investors who have ever lived, and she is probably in the Top 5 of all investors who aren’t part of the “old guard”. Maybe even #1 of the new generation.


But more than that, she is a kindhearted individual who is generously sharing what is working for her even though it makes new acquisitions more expensive for her. And even when the haters show up in droves, she stays the course. Thank you Swetha.


Is it possible that she’s a shill for the registry, and they’re creating hundreds of accounts across multiple marketplaces to buy the domains from her? I mean anything is possible. But it seems highly improbable that they would lock up funds and trust that she would always give them back, just to create the appearance of demand. They don’t benefit from the wholesale aftermarket, so it would just be for the sake of hand regs.


And then how do you explain the ones that are developed? And how do you explain other people getting large XYZ sales? Believe what you want, and skepticism is generally a healthy thing, but this theory seems so out there and lacking in any evidence that I have to think anyone who believes it is jealous (or loves conspiracy theories more than Rob Monster).


Here is the full screenshot I took of her sales summary page, with unreported sales blacked out for her privacy. Again, I took this screenshot myself while personally logged in to her Afternic account, it was not shared with me. I saw it with my own eyes.

Check out the screenshot of Swetha's sales at: https://namebio.com/assets/swetha-sales.jpg

Source: https://namebio.com/blog/swethas-sales-the-truth-may-shock-you/
 
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About Bebop. The word has been repurposed thanks to the late 90s Cult Anime show Cowboy Bebop, rated as one of the best ever.

With the age of the average web3 founder, I'd wager that this is the exposure to the word and why they could see it as a good brand name.
Thanks. Perhaps that's an important reminder to consider that some unusual sales could possibly be related to some niche that might not be obvious upfront.
 
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About Bebop. The word has been repurposed thanks to the late 90s Cult Anime show Cowboy Bebop, rated as one of the best ever.

With the age of the average web3 founder, I'd wager that this is the exposure to the word and why they could see it as a good brand name.
About Bebop. The word has been repurposed thanks to the late 90s Cult Anime show Cowboy Bebop, rated as one of the best ever.

With the age of the average web3 founder, I'd wager that this is the exposure to the word and why they could see it as a good brand name.

What?

None scker (excuse me) knows, what the words bebop or taika mean.

Stop acting.

It's a freaking miracle, that swetha was able to sell these names for these prices. Of $40 thousand!

This is exactly, why this whole "success Story" smells like rotten fish.


And regarding the fact, that 50% of the top 100 .XYZ sales do Not resolve or aren't developed, it is even saltier...

(not incooperating strange developed monolithic sites, twitter handles etc.)


Give me a break.
 
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And just btw:

It's true.

Why is swetha the only person, that regs strange words,
prices them at (!) $40 thousand,
and happens to be the one to sell them?!?

While so many other domainers, try exactly the same, and do not succeed.

How is that possible??


Then you have people showing they sold one or two .XYZ domains, but if you compare,

names are mostly dictionary words / aren't strange or that shitty,

and prices are low (low 4 digit or 3 digit)!


Actually, by all circumstances, other domainers should have the same luck as swetha,
and sell their dictionary (non niche) domains for 5 digits / or high 4 digit.

Which clearly does not happen,
and if, only in rare situations,
(and nothing like taiko or bebop).


First, please explain this anomaly,
before shouting there is nothing fishy going on here....



Show me at least one 5 digit sale of a strange / niche word, that happened and was not done by Swetha.
 
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Andrew at DNW published today a small bit of research on the domain names on the DNJ top sales of 2022 that sold for $100,000 plus.
  • XYZ 3/6 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
  • COM 8/15 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
  • other TLDs 2/7 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
It is a tiny sample, probably not much to conclude, but indicates that from big sales of 2022 roughly half are not yet developed or meaningfully used, independent of TLD.

There are of course good reasons for this, including:
  • simply not enough time has passed to get site up
  • the economy is on roller-coaster, and plans have changed, or even business failure
  • funding expected was not received
  • the name was acquired for a future plan that is still not yet in development
  • the sector has faced particular problems of late (especially true in NFTs, crypto, etc.) and plans are on hold
and other possibilities.

While significant development is another indicator authenticating a sale, lack of development, or under use, is not an indicator that something was not right. It is simply a fact of life that many domain names, even ones that sold for high prices, don't get used.

-Bob
 
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Andrew at DNW published today a small bit of research on the domain names on the DNJ top sales of 2022 that sold for $100,000 plus.
  • XYZ 3/6 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
  • COM 8/15 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
  • other TLDs 2/7 undeveloped/parked/ or do not resolve
It is a tiny sample, probably not much to conclude, but indicates that from big sales of 2022 roughly half are not yet developed or meaningfully used, independent of TLD.

There are of course good reasons for this, including:
  • simply not enough time has passed to get site up
  • the economy is on roller-coaster, and plans have changed, or even business failure
  • funding expected was not received
  • the name was acquired for a future plan that is still not yet in development
  • the sector has faced particular problems of late (especially true in NFTs, crypto, etc.) and plans are on hold
and other possibilities.

While significant development is another indicator authenticating a sale, lack of development, or under use, is not an indicator that something was not right. It is simply a fact of life that many domain names, even ones that sold for high prices, don't get used.

-Bob
I really would like to see the statistics for top 1000 sold domains.

I don't think that top 10 or top 100 are sufficient. -
Althought top 100 shows a clear 50/50 ratio of not/developed domains...


And just btw:

It's true.

Why is swetha the only person, that regs strange words,
prices them at (!) $40 thousand,
and happens to be the one to sell them?!?

While so many other domainers, try exactly the same, and do not succeed.

How is that possible??


Then you have people showing they sold one or two .XYZ domains, but if you compare,

names are mostly dictionary words / aren't strange or that shitty,

and prices are low (low 4 digit or 3 digit)!


Actually, by all circumstances, other domainers should have the same luck as swetha,
and sell their dictionary (non niche) domains for 5 digits / or high 4 digit.

Which clearly does not happen,
and if, only in rare situations,
(and nothing like taiko or bebop).


First, please explain this anomaly,
before shouting there is nothing fishy going on here....



Show me at least one 5 digit sale of a strange / niche word, that happened and was not done by Swetha.

yep, I truly think that if she sells domains like bebop, taiko, chroma, mural, stir, kylin,

for $40k,

that there should be at least someone else, who sells similar niche names,
for (high) 5 digit prices
(or at least 4 digit).


If that is not happening, and as it seems it is not, it is totally out of the ordinary.
 
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I really would like to see the statistics for top 1000 sold domains.

I don't think that top 10 or top 100 are sufficient. -
Althought top 100 shows a clear 50/50 ratio of not/developed domains...
NameBio goes back 5 years with its data, so there probably is an opportunity there to see, if you want to really provide more support for your concerns.

Keep in mind, though, that this seller is likely an expert saleswoman. Regardless of the transactions she has had, maybe the focus could be more on the concern about whether .xyz was being hyped up too much.

Doing the extension comparisons with greater numbers, may help to prove or disprove your point. But is it really helping you and the forum to continue to focus on this topic?
 
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I really would like to see the statistics for top 1000 sold domains.

I don't think that top 10 or top 100 are sufficient. -
Althought top 100 shows a clear 50/50 ratio of not/developed domains...
Doing 1000 names by hand is more work than most people probably realize. Automated does not do a good job of distinguishing few-page full websites from sophisticated landers. When I by-hand visit and characterize 300+ sites, which I have many times for multiple articles on various extensions, it often takes me a full day or more of work just on that.

One can't do top 1000 with DNJournal sales because it just gives top 100 each year (at least in easy list), but the data in NameBio can be studied down to any level.

The following is not exactly what you asked for, but pretty close. I looked at all $25k + .com sales (listed in NameBio) for a year, visiting 369 sites, and obtained the results shown below. This was published in NamePros Blog last year, and you can check full details at https://www.namepros.com/blog/the-2021-high-value-com-sales.1267191/
COM-2021-25kplus.png

A year ago I published a look at 12 months of .xyz sales data, using the same methodology. For this I visited 331 sites. You can read full details on the NamePros Blog: https://www.namepros.com/blog/past-12-months-of-xyz-a-look-at-the-data.1264760/ Keep in mind that on this graph it is the higher value sales, shown on the right, that are most directly comparable with the .com situation studied above (although smaller numbers).
XYZuse.png

In both cases there are many names unused, or listed for sale again. The fraction developed or used in meaningful redirection is not that different.

This was from basically a year ago. but I suspect if I repeat the analysis next month for the most recent 12 months for .xyz it will not be hugely different, but probably the fraction developed will be down somewhat, as the turmoil in NFTs and in segments of the crypto world have put some plans on hold, or abandoned.

Someone asked above why all big sales are Swetha. I can't immediately find the Tweet, but Michael at NameBio maybe about a month ago, in a reply tweet, showed an analysis of the high-value xyz sales on NameBio. As I recall, 58% were Swetha. He was surprised that was not higher, as she has 20,000 of the strongest names and has in past reported most of her sales to NameBio. Yes, she dominates market, especially the really high sales, but by no means all are hers. If I recall correctly there were 11 other sellers/venues with elite .xyz sales.

-Bob
 
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NameBio goes back 5 years with its data,
Just to clarify while 5 year is the longer in the predefined intervals in the drop-down menu, you can individually look at any year back to 1999, and NameBio data goes back to 1997, but the coverage is sporadic in the early years. With a paid membership, data can be extracted from searches with more results.

-Bob
 
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Doing 1000 names by hand is more work than most people probably realize. Automated does not do a good job of distinguishing few-page full websites from sophisticated landers. When I by-hand visit and characterize 300+ sites, which I have many times for multiple articles on various extensions, it often takes me a full day or more of work just on that.

One can't do top 1000 with DNJournal sales because it just gives top 100 each year (at least in easy list), but the data in NameBio can be studied down to any level.

The following is not exactly what you asked for, but pretty close. I looked at all $25k + .com sales (listed in NameBio) for a year, visiting 369 sites, and obtained the results shown below. This was published in NamePros Blog last year, and you can check full details at https://www.namepros.com/blog/the-2021-high-value-com-sales.1267191/
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A year ago I published a look at 12 months of .xyz sales data, using the same methodology. For this I visited 331 sites. You can read full details on the NamePros Blog: https://www.namepros.com/blog/past-12-months-of-xyz-a-look-at-the-data.1264760/ Keep in mind that on this graph it is the higher value sales, shown on the right, that are most directly comparable with the .com situation studied above (although smaller numbers).
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In both cases there are many names unused, or listed for sale again. The fraction developed or used in meaningful redirection is not that different.

This was from basically a year ago. but I suspect if I repeat the analysis next month for the most recent 12 months for .xyz it will not be hugely different, but probably the fraction developed will be down somewhat, as the turmoil in NFTs and in segments of the crypto world have put some plans on hold, or abandoned.

Someone asked above why all big sales are Swetha. I can't immediately find the Tweet, but Michael at NameBio maybe about a month ago, in a reply tweet, showed an analysis of the high-value xyz sales on NameBio. As I recall, 58% were Swetha. He was surprised that was not higher, as she has 20,000 of the strongest names and has in past reported most of her sales to NameBio. Yes, she dominates market, especially the really high sales, but by no means all are hers. If I recall correctly there were 11 other sellers/venues with elite .xyz sales.

-Bob
thx Bob.

so yes, there is a difference between .com & .xyz undeveloped domains.

26% for com is a quarter, while 38% is a lot higher.


I am just amazed by the 'quality' of the names, like
bebop, taiko, chroma, mural, stir, kylin.

For amazingly high prices, $40k, or almost.

This is the true magic & wizardry.
 
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Not magic and wizardry, its hard work.
Making sales instead of hot air posts.
Any proof whatsoever? C’mon something to show sales are phony? Paid in 3$ bills
I am happy your amazed, something positive out of this.
Your coming across as a whiny jealous baby, picking on Swetha, next we will want a live video proving her gender and need to see your passport next to that smily face
Reading this is going to improve your STR drastically. Hit the thank button. Invisible upvotes tickle me pink too
 
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Not magic and wizardry, its hard work.
Making sales instead of hot air posts.
Any proof whatsoever? C’mon something to show sales are phony? Paid in 3$ bills
I am happy your amazed, something positive out of this.
Your coming across as a whiny jealous baby, picking on Swetha, next we will want a live video proving her gender and need to see your passport next to that smily face
Reading this is going to improve your STR drastically. Hit the thank button. Invisible upvotes tickle me pink too

you are not amazed??

you take it for granted, that words like this sell for $40k??

So, now you need proof first, before you can question something SO unusual??


As centauri said, show at least one domainer, who sells unknown, niche (or just strange) words in .xyz, for 5 digits!!


I need to laugh very hard, sry.
 
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that there should be at least someone else, who sells similar niche names,
for (high) 5 digit prices
(or at least 4 digit).
I've never sold a name in any TLD for 5-figures, so can't help you there, but maybe you would agree that this low 4-digit sale qualifies as "niche"? I sold hyperbolic in xyz. It is mainly a scientific and technical term, I think many would regard it as more niche than a number listed above. If you Google the term on page one are things like an article on quantum crystal responses. But while a math/science term, the idea of unlimited that it expresses can be powerful. I have no idea what the buyers plan for it, they have a beautiful coming soon page is all. Apparently a network of some type.

Let me convince you it is niche. If you look on NameBio, there is one sale in any TLD using the word anywhere. Really. Just mine. The term never sold before.

I think conventional thinking in domain world does not focus enough on the fact that most startup owners have an idea in mind that they want. It may come from something cool they heard in a university class or TedX talk or documentary, etc. There are about 300 million businesses started globally each year, according to one estimate. Hundreds of millions of people who are excited to move their idea to a startup, and really like some particular word. If you own this in a TLD they will consider, and if you make it clear that it is available for sale, then you are in a powerful position.

I personally registered the name because I remembered the first time I heard the term, 49 years ago. I remember the situation. See it had that impact on me. It is not surprising that among 300 million startup owners someone else remembers a time in math, physics, astronomy or space science class they heard the term. And they want their business called that.

But wouldn't they want the .com you might say? Maybe. Just for fun I tried to see its availability today. It is not in operation, not listed on Afternic. No idea status. Sure they could hire a broker, try to get it, but you see, not easily available. Mine was. Just sitting there, press BIN or make an offer, listed on the main marketplaces. In fact on Afternic the exact word only available in .online and in .io, that at much higher price.

Niche names sell because someone comes in wanting that exact name. They mainly sell if you are the only one, or one of few, making that exact name available as an easy BIN sale. Most niche names will never sell. But some definitely do.

That is what Swetha did. Slowly acquire half of the desirable words in an extension, even the niche ones, price them strongly but not wildly, have them all listed so easy to BIN. Most never sell. Never will sell. But enough do, that the domain world has sat up. We should be learning from her success.

-Bob
 
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I've never sold a name in any TLD for 5-figures, so can't help you there, but maybe you would agree that this low 4-digit sales qualifies as "niche"? I sold hyperbolic in xyz. It is mainly a scientific and technical term, I think may would regard it as more niche than a number listed above. If you Google the term on page one are things like an article on quantum crystal responses. But while a math/science term, the idea of unlimited that it expresses can be powerful. I have no idea what the buyers plan for it, they have a beautiful coming soon page is all. Apparently a network of some type.

Let me convince you it is niche. If you look on NameBio, there is one sale in any TLD using the word anywhere. Really. Just mine. The term never sold before.

I think conventional thinking in domain world does not focus enough on the fact that most startup owners have an idea in mind that they want. It may come from something cool they heard in a university class or TedX talk or documentary, etc. There are about 300 million businesses started globally each year, according to one estimate. There hundreds of millions of people who are excited to move their idea to a startup, and really like some particular word. If you own this in a TLD they will consider, and if you make it clear that it is available for sale, then you are in a powerful position.

I personally registered the name because I remembered the first time I heard the term, 49 years ago. I remember the situation. See it had that impact on me. It is not surprising that among 300 million startup owners someone else remembers a time in math, physics, astronomy or space science class they heard the term. And they want their business called that.

But wouldn't they want the .com you might say? Maybe. Just for fun I tried to see its availability today. It is not in operation, not listed on Afternic. No idea status. Sure they could hire a broker, try to get it, but you see, not easily available. Mine was. Just sitting there, press BIN or make an offer, listed on the main marketplaces. In fact on Afternic the exact word only available in .online and in .io, that at much higher price.

Niche names sell because someone comes into searching for a name wanting that name. They mainly sell if you are the only one, or one of few, making that exact name available as an easy BIN sale. Most niche will never sell. But some definitely do.

That is what Swetha did. Slowly acquire half of the desirable words in an extension, even the niche ones, price them strongly but not wildly, have them all listed so easy to BIN. Most never sell. Never will sell. But enough do that the domain world has sat up and should be learning from her success.

-Bob
yes,

hyperbolic is a good sounding word (& really used in science, and therefore a good name for web3).

But what words are
bebop, taiko, chroma, mural, stir, kylin.


That does not sound good, neither it is scientifical, nore any other (really) good reason to take it for a futuristic web3 presence.


The biggest question is:
Why do you pay as much money for it? // Why do you price it at $40k?


Why didn't someone buy hyperbolic for 10 grand, and taiko for ex. for 2k?

Now THAT would make sense to me.

But paying $39,888 for one of the above listed names is just.....


(too good to be true, and in the end we'll see that swetha stays the only person, selling such kind of quality names for 5 digits, while the rest has to deal with 4 digits or must discount prices, before end of reg. period.
Look back at this in 1-2 years...)
 
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Why didn't someone buy hyperbolic for 10 grand, and taiko for ex. for 2k?

But what words are
bebop, taiko, chroma, mural, stir, kylin.

Domain investing is both data analytics science and art. Let's look at the data analytics for your list of names. The number of businesses that currently use, or used as in also known as or past names, is a strong indicator, not necessarily that one of them will want the name, but some might, but as evidence that the name has been desired in the past by those naming businesses and organizations. So let's look at the data for your list plus hyperbolic.

OpenCorporates, with active companies only checkmark on, gives the following number of company/organization listings for the names on your list + my sale:
  • hyperbolic 56
  • mural 725
  • chroma 1119
  • bebop 193
  • stir 684
  • taiko 373
  • kylin 363
Looking at the list, before data, it seemed to me that chroma and mural are the best, particularly for web3 startup. Stir is a name that could mean so many things in decentralized world. But those terms also, among web1/2 businesses are the most popular. That is why they can be priced more than my name was.

Mural is particularly well suited to NFTs, among other uses. Chroma, while initially mainly having meaning within the early days of color television and in art, it is the Greek word for colour, can be obviously used for NFTs but there are also other decentralized possibilities, anything. Wikipedia set links shows some of the ways it has been used in art, drama, music, electronics, social commentary and beyond.

There are names on the list I would have never registered personally. But that is a sign of my ignorance, and not a statement on the word. Data analytics shows all the names on the list are moderately or highly used in company names.

As @blogspotter once commented on Twitter, we should study what names businesses want, rather than want to tell them what they should want (I am paraphrasing, but I hope capture the idea accurately).

-Bob
 
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Domain investing is both data analytics science and art. Let's look at the data analytics for your list of names. The number of businesses that currently use, or used as in also known as or past names, is a strong indicator, not necessarily that one of them will want the name, but some might, but as evidence that the name has been desired in the past by those naming businesses and organizations. So let's look at the data for your list plus hyperbolic.

OpenCorporates, with active companies only checkmark on, gives the following number of company/organization listings for the names on your list + my sale:
  • hyperbolic 56
  • mural 725
  • chroma 1119
  • bebop 193
  • stir 684
  • taiko 373
  • kylin 363
Looking at the list, before data, it seemed to me that chroma and mural are the best, particularly for web3 startup. Stir is a name that could mean so many things in decentralized world. But those terms also, among web1/2 businesses are the most popular. That is why they can be priced more than my name was.

Mural is particularly well suited to NFTs, among other uses. Chroma, while initially mainly having meaning within the early days of color television and in art, it is the Greek word for colour, can be obviously used for NFTs but there are also other decentralized possibilities, anything. Wikipedia set links shows some of the ways it has been used in art, drama, music, electronics, social commentary and beyond.

There are names on the list I would have never registered personally. But that is a sign of my ignorance, and not a statement on the word. Data analytics shows all the names on the list are moderately or highly used in company names.

As @blogspotter once commented on Twitter, we should study what names businesses want, rather than want to tell them what they should want (I am paraphrasing, but I hope capture the idea accurately).

-Bob
yep,
must say kylin is a really good word.

I don't know in thousand years what it means, but must be good.... ;)
especially since it is one of those, that are neither developed nore resolve; for $39,888.


But despite that, we are comparing apples and pears.


Hyper-bolic is a two word term, while all the others are one term.

For that, hb is act. doing a great job!
 
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kylin is a really good word.

I don't know in thousand years what it means, but must be good
I was not familiar with the term, but it is a mythological creature from east Asian cultures - see this Wikipedia article. But when I looked at the list of companies using the term (it is important not to just get the number of companies from OpenCorporates but actually look through results, I find) it appears to be a last name in parts of the world, as a number seem multi-name partnerships. But in Web3 apparently a famous blockchain.
Hyper-bolic is a two word term, while all the others are one term.
Trust me, it is a single word (built, as many words, from multiple parts). Check any standard dictionary. But agree the term hyper is often part of a multi-word combination, but not here.

-Bob
 
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I was not familiar with the term, but it is a mythological creature from east Asian cultures - see this Wikipedia article. But when I looked at the list of companies using the term (it is important not to just get the number of companies from OpenCorporates but actually look through results, I find) it appears to be a last name in parts of the world, as a number seem multi-name partnerships. But in Web3 apparently a famous blockchain.

Trust me, it is a single word (built, as many words, from multiple parts). Check any standard dictionary. But agree the term hyper is often part of a multi-word combination, but not here.

-Bob
yeah, but hyberbolic still sounds thousand times better (and more scientific),

than all the other six combined.

in my opinion.


.xyz must be a really good extension, helping words to come out, which wouldn't see daylight in .com
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What?

None scker (excuse me) knows, what the words bebop or taika mean.

Stop acting.

It's a freaking miracle, that swetha was able to sell these names for these prices. Of $40 thousand!

This is exactly, why this whole "success Story" smells like rotten fish.


And regarding the fact, that 50% of the top 100 .XYZ sales do Not resolve or aren't developed, it is even saltier...

(not incooperating strange developed monolithic sites, twitter handles etc.)


Give me a break.


just because YOU don't know it
that means nothing

just because YOU think it's fishy
doesn't mean anything

why the hack do you even care?
ignore her and move on

I will give you a break
maybe I will even ignore you

depends on how you move on
 
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just because YOU don't know it
that means nothing

just because YOU think it's fishy
doesn't mean anything

why the hack do you even care?
ignore her and move on

I will give you a break
maybe I will even ignore you

depends on how you move on
maybe...

just fyi:

JackDomainer has made a nice thread on twitter, quoting all domainers he knows which let .xyz domains drop

 
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They should drop renewal fee for XYZ to 5 or 6 USD as it does not compare to COM, maybe only after this domainers will keep them holding for longer periods.
 
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Forgot to mention, I know I wrote in some old topic about this.
It is possible that strong non developed keywords in COM are registered by some top corporations to keep competition at bay, so behind such big acquisitions are some corp like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple etc.
The reason is simple buy the best keywords, place them to not resolve, no one can buy them to compete with us.
With XYZ can be same method.
 
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bull, wrap, profile, sportsbet, bolt, conduit, momentum - 7 out of 10, all not developed
(sino forwarding to .com) makes 2 act. developed domains.
interesting that they forgot to mark that, the same way as on the left side column -


It is possible that strong non developed keywords in COM are registered by some top corporations to keep competition at bay, so behind such big acquisitions are some corp like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple etc.
The reason is simple buy the best keywords, place them to not resolve, no one can buy them to compete with us.
With XYZ can be same method.
Would be true, if good keywords would have been bought for this reason...
But as we saw, many (not resolving) domains aren't good keywords, anyone would search for; still sold for $40k. or much more.
 
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Not only does due diligence expand your knowledge, it also keeps your brain out of ... I guess or I think.
+ It helps to develop better understanding of domain names movement/traffic, trend, popuilarity, name & extension drops etc and consumers mindset. Currently, Jack's tweets are full of holes.

Regards
 
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I don't know "Jack Domainer" and sincerely hope that it stays that way.

He's an arrogant troll who poses conspiracy theories as fact with very poor evidence & surprisingly a lot of domainers champion him.
 
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