Time to invest .xyz

gilescoley said:

No I didnt, but it really makes no difference, companies are not interested in what Google do, they have 12,000 domains, do you see any hype with other extensions, no, because there isnt any....if Tesla went out and rebranded their company using an XYZ, that would at least mean more than 1 company liked the extension, but they wont, and Google wont rebrand their business on abc.xyz, Google.com will remain

domainers new to the industry started registering 100's of .CO name names when google got G.co..and that faded away like all new extensions.....all those names are available now as well.....and .CO is shorter and close to .COM, and actually had some meaning (Company, Community, Corporate etc)

What makes you think a strange extension like XYZ will be different

Stick to .COM..its tried and tested and its really all the world knows, besides cctld's of course.....just trying to save you those renewal fees next year

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Thanks for the advice-we already own institutional quality names like eEcomomist.com among others but I understand your point-I just don't agree with it. ( and we can afford the renewal fees)
We've been doing this a very long time but you're correct-I remember when Rick Schwartz lost $200,000 on Flowers.mobi but we have no intention of paying those numbers for .xyz. That said your point is well taken and thank you.

p.s. If you can explain to me how we're going to lose $8 on Vehicles.xyz I'd really like to hear it.

Thanks for the advice-we already own institutional quality names like eEcomomist.com among others but I understand your point-I just don't agree with it. ( and we can afford the renewal fees)
We've been doing this a very long time but you're correct-I remember when Rick Schwartz lost $200,000 on Flowers.mobi but we have no intention of paying those numbers for .xyz. That said your point is well taken and thank you.

p.s. If you can explain to me how we're going to lose $8 on Vehicles.xyz I'd really like to hear it.

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No problem...I hope you prove me wrong

I think you will even struggle to to flip vehicles.xyz

vehicles.xyz is not bad. I can understand the little investment you are trying to embark upon. This business requires risk to some extent. At the same time gilescoley is not wrong for his advisory.
Cheers and good luck.

yes ofcourse said:

I think there are only two things correct about future. 1. Changes will happen 2. Nobody knows what is going to be the next big thing. I think here is not much investment logic, at the end it will all depend of luck.

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Nobody can predict the past but it helps if you know history. It helps understand the present too
On the other hand, choose who choose to discard the lessons of history will generally suck at making predictions (and probably take a stab or two).

Domaining is 1% luck, the remaining 99% lies in the quality of the domains. This is not a lottery. Pick the right names and you'll make sales. Pick the wrong names and you'll struggle to offload your portfolio.

The new extensions are like ebola: they make the headlines for a while but it doesn't last. Remember all the hoopla about .guru for example ? It's because it was among the first new extensions released. These days you don't hear about it anymore, it's just another extension. Domainers have already moved on to the next target..

Kate said:

Nobody can predict the past but it helps if you know history. It helps understand the present too
On the other hand, choose who choose to discard the lessons of history will generally suck at making predictions (and probably take a stab or two).

Domaining is 1% luck, the remaining 99% lies in the quality of the domains. This is not a lottery. Pick the right names and you'll make sales. Pick the wrong names and you'll struggle to offload your portfolio.

The new extensions are like ebola: they make the headlines for a while but it doesn't last. Remember all the hoopla about .guru for example ? It's because it was among the first new extensions released. These days you don't hear about it anymore, it's just another extension. Domainers have already moved on to the next target..

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Yes! Look! Many start-up domainers believe in speculations but like you have just said speculation can give 1% sales and good domains gives money and worth putting money upon them.

Some New extensions are here to cause distraction for those who do not know what could make money for domainers. What I know or belief is that some good keyword can be used with new extension i.e my.car, world.soccer, nice.movie, business.online, watch.movie etc they could make waves but they are nothing to invest or depend upon for money making.

I am waiting for the big G to change google.com for a new extension and I will then realize and believe that it has finished for the king of extension the .com and I will then follow. But without that! no way, I remain strongly believe on .com which is even better than any strange new extension.
How many .club or .guru .ooo etc have make any good sales; .club the biggest sales was among all these new extensions is $000,000
The best way to go now is to be vigilant and cut corners when there is any new invention or to look deeper into some professional niches and find a grail .com .IMO

Cheers.

Google bought Alphabet.hockey, will this start a new craze

Not sure if this was posted. Found on dnjournal.com

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tie Customer.xyz $1,999 Sedo

If there are any good generic .xyz domains available for cheap buy it. But dont hold them as a long term investment. Flip it as fast as you can while there is a demand. Those nice premium domain will drop on 1st year renewal and they will not worth the purchase price.

However, only invest the money that you afford to loss

Lakshan said:

If there are any good generic .xyz domains available for cheap buy it. But dont hold them as a long term investment. Flip it as fast as you can while there is a demand. Those nice premium domain will drop on 1st year renewal and they will not worth the purchase price.

However, only invest the money that you afford to loss

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Very valid point but we bought Vehicles.xyz and plan on holding for a while and see what shakes out-for $100 we can hold this for 10 years-my guess is there's not much downside in this name.

I regd a few names

Invest in .COM ...the king of all
Just my opinion from what I learnt

Leela said:

Invest in .COM ...the king of all
Just my opinion from what I learnt

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Solid logic.
.COM is king and is widely recognized the world over. It also has a sales trend that outshines all of the other TLDs combined.

With that said, I think I would change up your statement a bit.

Speculate in .COM if you desire more constant sales however, if you speculating on the notion of ROI then nTLDs are where you need to be.

What I mean by that is that it is very, very, very, difficult to hand reg a .COM and flip it for a substantial price.
Most of the time, you will need to belly up and put a some change down to purchase a "decent" .COM domain name and then (with some luck and a little know how) flip it for a profit. (i.e. buy a $100 domain and sell it for $200).

With nTLDs... one could argue that it is a bit easier to hand reg a good domain name for cheap (sometimes as low as free/$1 to the average of about $20 and then (if your not looking for the BIG pay day) flip those for $40-$100). One could argue that the ability to make a better ROI is present in the nTLDs *BUT* the sales numbers are erratic and often non existent. When you do make the sale, quite often it has a better ROI.

So it is kind of a trade off. One is more conservative (as domains can go) and the other is highly speculative with no real track record.

Just my point of view.

Cheers

Leela said:

Invest in .COM ...the king of all

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RU said:

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If you think like a stock investor, .com is the Blue Chip Stocks and .xyz is the Penny stock. Penny stocks are very risky, but can have a great upside reward. I have some bucks to risk and started out in .xyz by winning an Ebay auction for a lot of 23 .xyz names for $5.50. I sold one on EBay one week later for $14.50 (demographics.xyz). Not a whole lot of money, but a 263% ROI, with 22 more names to liquidate.

I then looked around and saw there were some nice keywords and first names available still in .xyz, so I dropped a few hunderd and now own about 300 .xyz. Mainly for the flip...like penny stocks..get in and get out. I have no expectations of having a Candy.com type name, but it will provide a nice ROI overall for me.

Oh and whoever posted the snarky remark about those with 2015 NamePros memberships being the only ones to like .xyz, I have been investing in domains since 2004.

phase1 said:

vehicles.xyz is not bad. I can understand the little investment you are trying to embark upon. This business requires risk to some extent. At the same time gilescoley is not wrong for his advisory.
Cheers and good luck.

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Actually-one of our names won the first .xyz challenge so we can hold Vehicles.xyz for about 98 years with the winnings. So I'm not sure there's too much risk.

NamesMax said:

If you think like a stock investor, .com is the Blue Chip Stocks and .xyz is the Penny stock. Penny stocks are very risky, but can have a great upside reward. I have some bucks to risk and started out in .xyz by winning an Ebay auction for a lot of 23 .xyz names for $5.50. I sold one on EBay one week later for $14.50 (demographics.xyz). Not a whole lot of money, but a 263% ROI, with 22 more names to liquidate.

I then looked around and saw there were some nice keywords and first names available still in .xyz, so I dropped a few hunderd and now own about 300 .xyz. Mainly for the flip...like penny stocks..get in and get out. I have no expectations of having a Candy.com type name, but it will provide a nice ROI overall for me.

Oh and whoever posted the snarky remark about those with 2015 NamePros memberships being the only ones to like .xyz, I have been investing in domains since 2004.

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I saw that guys remark also re 2015. We were doing this when he was jumping out of school buses would be my guess in 2001. And thanks for the eEconomist.com tag-glad you noticed the name!

.XYZ is just another "wind".

MegaPlex said:

.XYZ is just another "wind".

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Yes you're probably correct-that's why Google,the largest mover on the internet planet, is using .xyz. because it's "wind" .

London555 said:

Yes you're probably correct-that's why Google,the largest mover on the internet planet, is using .xyz. because it's "wind" .

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They used it as a one off for their holding company because "ABC" works perfectly with XYZ.

So there's no reason for people to invest their money on .XYZ (unless it's a kick ass Name), Alphabet used .XYZ just because it's works perfectly with ABC. So.. yeah! What a perfect Win(d) for Negari. Lol.

I've received several low ball xxx offers lately for nice one word .xyz but can't let them go that cheap. Offers seem to be coming from domainers that didn't get in over a year ago and now they want to grab good one word domains at a bargain.

It's hard to say without knowing the domain of course but I think one should know when to strike the iron while it's hot. If you can do a nice flip now, consider the opportunity to do so now before it's too late.
In domaining I have learned that the first offer received is often the last you'll ever get.
This is the greater fool theory in action, so if you find another bigger sucker take the money and run or you'll be left holding the bag. IMHO.

mad409 said:

I've received several low ball xxx offers lately for nice one word .xyz but can't let them go that cheap. Offers seem to be coming from domainers that didn't get in over a year ago and now they want to grab good one word domains at a bargain.

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I've got a few one word XYZs. Hoping to get one of those $xxx offers myself.

Enjoy it while hot, and i am currently doing it ATM. Hoping my .XYZ worth something, at least.