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Am I the only one that feels the numbers and values are looking suspicious. Given xyz history with using smokes and mirrors to market the name space I am a bit sceptical but can be convinced otherwise.
What is your gut feel? Last 2 weeks sales from same person Swetha DNGear
beacon.xyz $24,888
Genisis.xyz $21,399
Patron.xyz $9,888
Protocol.xyz $8,000
Split.xyz $7,888
 
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I have seen multiple people question Mike Mann's sales in the past as well.

He owns 350,000+ domains and reports the better sales.

Selling a small amount of domains for high prices on that type of scale is not that surprising IMO.

Brad
It's more on when proof has been provided and people still question it that's odd...... hence the edited part after a quick think......
 
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Thread Apr 26, 2018: Why I registered 20,000 .xyz domain names
I thought I was smart, it was like an aha moment, like when that guy bought 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and earned 1.25 Million Air Miles. This was back in June 2016 and .xyz domain name extension was having a sale at Uniregistry and every .xyz domain name that was available to register would cost $0.01, one penny.

read more (NP)
 
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Thread Apr 26, 2018: Why I registered 20,000 .xyz domain names
I thought I was smart, it was like an aha moment, like when that guy bought 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and earned 1.25 Million Air Miles. This was back in June 2016 and .xyz domain name extension was having a sale at Uniregistry and every .xyz domain name that was available to register would cost $0.01, one penny.

read more (NP)
(She spent $500.000 on 18.000 names)
(Darryl spent $200 on 20.000 names)
 
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(She spent $500.000 on 18.000 names)
(Darryl spent $200 on 20.000 names)

I read her interview She started purchasing XYZ domains during the same promo when it was offered for US$0.01 but unlike Darryl who invested mainly in number combo and didn't renew after the first year, she invested mainly in one-word dictionary words and gradually build her portfolio to the current level of 16000 in 5 years. She also mentioned in one interview that she dropped more than 50% of non-performing domaining every year and renewed only quality domains. So I don't think the cost of annual renew would have been a major issue especially considering no competition back than one can drop and again re-register with some new promo offer.

I believe she derived a well-defined strategy that suits her objective and maintains a healthy profit margin during the last five years. There are so many good things to learn if we can see and read between the lines.
 
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Instead of criticizing someone for being successful we should all try to learn from their achievements.

There are a few factors that make this person or any other person who has taken a chance with a new trend, niche, or TLD successful:

1- Being able to get in at the beginning of the game before competition heats up

2- Being able to take advantage of special prices and promos to lower the cost of acquisition

3- And thus being able to get a large number of quality domains

4- And most importantly being lucky enough for the end user market for the domains to heat up to bring in enough capital through sales to keep the game going and or even being able to expand the operation.

The 4th factor is specially important because there have been a lot of people who have managed to get the first three factors right, but the end user market didn't heat up quickly enough for them to help them maintain their large portfolios and they got drowned under the renewal charges.

So if a person has managed to get all these four factors right that is cause for admiration.

PS: These same factors have also played a role in how a lot of the Oldtimers became successful in the past with the difference that their job was easier since they could rely on revenue from parking to get their portfolio going and as such they had longer staying power and their fate wasn't completely dependent on whether they could make enough sales or not.

IMO
 
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Most domains sold in any odd extension were unpredicatible but people use previous names sold as a sales tool adding value to keywords and chase others using similar words.
 
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Another one of those stupid threads. Man, why question someone's sales? Why waste your time and mind thinking about or speculate on someone else's success? What next? Mike Mann? Rick? or someone else?

People are busy grinding hard, making sales, and minding their own business. They don't hang around here and waste their time replying to someone's conspiracy theories. And so should you. You won't usually see me here, but once in a while, I see threads like these that I couldn't unsee and have to drop my 2 cents.

Well, you are free to drop yours too but make sure to gain something out of it. There's nothing to take out of this thread. If you're so bent on killing your time, you could have spent a few minutes of yours to do a little research on her and get your answers by yourself, instead of starting a baseless poll and questioning someone's name and capabilities without any proof. She posting real sales? few fake sales? I don't think so and I don't care. Not our business. Let her do her thing. I'll do mine. Hope you'll do yours.

Life is beautiful. Time is short. Use it for something good. I am gonna do that too.
Have a good time.
Peace.
 
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I am really amazed when someone posts such a question especially when @DNGear always post screenshots of her sales whether she is selling at afternic, dan or squadhelp. She is Queen of XYZ and accumulating these domains in the past many years when no one was interested in them and the result is currently she is having more than 16000 of XYZ domain names some are as good as Gold.

Sometimes I seriously think our community really need a Thought Leader who can think independently and provide honest guidance to our small community. Why because this type of question was never raised for .CO and .IO

Do you really know the country code .IO geographical location or any leader from this ccTLD?
Do you know that a piece of land in the Indian Ocean has only 3000 people?
Do you know that as per UN Tribunal this land belongs to Mauritius and not to the United Kingdom?
Do you know that in the next few years this land will transfer to Mauritius just like Hong Kong?

Given these backgrounds, you can imagine the SEO, Google search reputation and future prospects of IO extension. Still, the IO extension is selling at record price every passing day, why? Because of the sentimental value or perceived value because investor or entrepreneur think it as "I Own"

In branding, perception plays an important role sometimes more than the real value. BitCoin and recent rise of DogeCoin are some of few examples.

Now coming back to XYZ extension, first about Swetha of course she has the best collection of XYZ domain names and volume thus definitely, she has a better probability of sales. Now why XYZ is selling like a hot cake, if you observe carefully XYZ represents many options, providing you alternative x, y or z. An important and trending features of today where technology, people and society is moving from a centralised system to a decentralised system. No wonder most of these domains are acquired by cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi and Blockchain related companies and the best part is all are owned by end-users and currently live. So unlike other extensions, it is used by the end-users.

Unlike many others being suspicious about her achievements, I get inspiration. I observed, carefully reviewed these sales feature and thereafter based on my own conviction started building my small XYZ portfolio. I invest in .com and normally avoid investing in IO or CO but I truly believe in this extension, I may be wrong but I am ready to take that risk.

Thank you Swetha @DNGear for inspiring us and following your own gut feeling. It really needs the courage to go ahead against the trend and conventional wisdom and we are proud that you are doing this single handle with .XYZ from last 5 years.

Thank you!

why dont u take one chill pill and stop to mislead people into thinking io and co are even in same galaxy as xyz.

they aren't and xyz is an awful extension. u have to be clueless to buy it.
 
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I read her interview She started purchasing XYZ domains during the same promo when it was offered for US$0.01 but unlike Darryl who invested mainly in number combo and didn't renew after the first year, she invested mainly in one-word dictionary words and gradually build her portfolio to the current level of 16000 in 5 years. She also mentioned in one interview that she dropped more than 50% of non-performing domaining every year and renewed only quality domains. So I don't think the cost of annual renew would have been a major issue especially considering no competition back than one can drop and again re-register with some new promo offer.

I believe she derived a well-defined strategy that suits her objective and maintains a healthy profit margin during the last five years. There are so many good things to learn if we can see and read between the lines.

she drained dry the dictionary with xyz. so on top of your post I will just add if u wanna adopt same strategy.. it's too late. that's why this can be and is only one man show. on whole planet...well one woman show...in this case

I'm happy for her sales as long as roi good end of year.. but nobody else should even consider doing what she does.
 
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These domains were sold by someone else. They didn't report these sales. Ofcourse, its their choice.
Deca*xyz 5001 usd.
Proof*xyz 3699 usd.
 
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gen.xyz/premiums (xyz stats; words .xyz 63% available)

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i believe all that sales is real , but i dont understand how that xyz domains available 🤔🤔🤔
(Prices from gd )
All usd

Analyze 279
European 395
Civil 400
Extreme 479
Observe 499
Russian 800
Protein 800
Method 800
Theme 950
Fat 988
Police 995
Celebration 500
Back 999
Shell 1000
Concept 1000
 
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why dont u take one chill pill and stop to mislead people into thinking io and co are even in same galaxy as xyz.

they aren't and xyz is an awful extension. u have to be clueless to buy it.

This is preciously a reason why I mentioned in my first post that we need Thought Leaders who think independently and rationally. Request you to kindly read few articles of 2015-18 timeframe here in Namepros only and you will find the same kind of apprehension about .IO and .CO when very few believe in it and today it became the new norm. May I know the reason or logical ground why you are so convinced about these two extensions other than their sales record in the last few years?

If the past sale is the only criteria then I am sorry you may never be able to discover a new path. Did you know who purchased clubhouse .xyz from @DNGear. The new owner is a non-otherthan clubhouse, a billion-dollar new social media. Of course as a defence strategy but they pick a few extensions including xyz and not all 1400 extension available in the market. This has happened a few months ago and only validated the future prospect of this extension.

Regarding early or late, last time I checked the English dictionary and trust me I found more than 18000 names there and thus own few :)

Disclaimer: I am not recommending anyone to invest in any extension including xyz. Also not saying that one should not invest in a particular extension. What I am saying is there are very few who dare to go against the normal trend, define their strategy with calculated risk and pickups the trend before it becomes popular. Based on my own research I am taking a calculated risk and thus building my own small portfolio. Request others to do proper research before any investment and also try to appreciate the achievements of others and acknowledge their contribution more if it not coming from the conventional way.

Thank you!
 
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i believe all that sales is real , but i dont understand how that xyz domains available 🤔🤔🤔
(Prices from gd )
All usd

Analyze 279
European 395
Civil 400
Extreme 479
Observe 499
Russian 800
Protein 800
Method 800
Theme 950
Fat 988
Police 995
Celebration 500
Back 999
Shell 1000
Concept 1000

well the seller here from what she said does not buy prem names from xyz..and basically regged long while back most all 1word names worth owning.. and at promo prices at that...so what u list are all prem names.. the reason they are available to further prove what I said b4 is that to most buyers and almost all domainers xyz is just an unappealing investment.

but yes u make decent point..why are those at few 100s and unsold.. and this seller here she sells lesser quality often for 1000s..

there is no answer to that.. she has many names.. and a buyer just pops out at the price he wants to pay. no rules for this.. other than having many names to obtain regular sales.
 
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Is it possible? Of course. Put the right product in front of the right people and the skies the limit! While I would love to know if DNGear swetha strategy on finding potential buyers (if there is one) I respect it if she wants to keep it hush hush. Anyways, will continue to buy strong one word xyz tld here and there and see what happens.
 
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Legit sales, no doubt about it. It's just a numbers game. Register 10K mediocre .com domains at a $1 promo and sales will follow just the same.

Just about any extension will give you sales owning 10K+ good dictionary words. As much as I dislike this particular one, it was marketed well, decision making people and the branding industry are aware of it's existence. Solid bet that payed off.

She even has the 'balls' to hold these 'long' term so more power to her!
 
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I think the sales are legit. As .xyz can be associated with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology (one of the hottest technologies nowadays), and has been actively promoted to young generations and startups, I am not surprised that the sales volume and average sales price of .xyz domains are both increasing.

No one now can use the investment strategy adopted by DNGear because almost all good 1-word .xyz domains with affordable renewal prices are already registered. However, you can buy underpriced 1-word .xyz domains from others, hand reg popular 2-word .xyz domains, or even hand reg a few 1-word .xyz domains with high renewal prices.

Big success is for those who look into the future, not for those who look into now and the past.
 
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This is preciously a reason why I mentioned in my first post that we need Thought Leaders who think independently and rationally. Request you to kindly read few articles of 2015-18 timeframe here in Namepros only and you will find the same kind of apprehension about .IO and .CO when very few believe in it and today it became the new norm. May I know the reason or logical ground why you are so convinced about these two extensions other than their sales record in the last few years?

If the past sale is the only criteria then I am sorry you may never be able to discover a new path. Did you know who purchased clubhouse .xyz from @DNGear. The new owner is a non-otherthan clubhouse, a billion-dollar new social media. Of course as a defence strategy but they pick a few extensions including xyz and not all 1400 extension available in the market. This has happened a few months ago and only validated the future prospect of this extension.

Regarding early or late, last time I checked the English dictionary and trust me I found more than 18000 names there and thus own few :)

Disclaimer: I am not recommending anyone to invest in any extension including xyz. Also not saying that one should not invest in a particular extension. What I am saying is there are very few who dare to go against the normal trend, define their strategy with calculated risk and pickups the trend before it becomes popular. Based on my own research I am taking a calculated risk and thus building my own small portfolio. Request others to do proper research before any investment and also try to appreciate the achievements of others and acknowledge their contribution more if it not coming from the conventional way.

Thank you!

dude... not sure which rock u lived under lately...but co and io are great for domainers..
and loved by many serious tech etc endusers. with some 6fig sales etc...

18k words maybe... but how many worth having ...

Is it possible? Of course. Put the right product in front of the right people and the skies the limit! While I would love to know if DNGear swetha strategy on finding potential buyers (if there is one) I respect it if she wants to keep it hush hush. Anyways, will continue to buy strong one word xyz tld here and there and see what happens.

again there Is no outbound
...and most is on/thanksto afternic bin prem network.

but seler is welcome to confirm if wishes
 
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I think the sales are legit. As .xyz can be associated with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology (one of the hottest technologies nowadays), and has been actively promoted to young generations and startups, I am not surprised that the sales volume and average sales price of .xyz domains are both increasing.

No one now can use the investment strategy adopted by DNGear because almost all good 1-word .xyz domains with affordable renewal prices are already registered. However, you can buy underpriced 1-word .xyz domains from others, hand reg popular 2-word .xyz domains, or even hand reg a few 1-word .xyz domains with high renewal prices.

Big success is for those who look into the future, not for those who look into now and the past.

this is horse radish. there is zero proof or connection between xyz and crypto endusers etc.

nonsense

but the good news is u do not mislead people with this info inrentionally
 
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this is horse radish. there is zero proof or connection between xyz and crypto endusers etc.

nonsense

but the good news is u do not mislead people with this info inrentionally

Please do research and look into the .xyz domains sold by DNGear before posting your emotional and nonsense post. You will find some of them are already developed websites related to crypto and blockchain.

Also, XYZ has partnered with Ethereum, and .xyz is supported on ENS.
 
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Please do research and look into the .xyz domains sold by DNGear before posting your emotional and nonsense post. You will find some of them are already developed websites related to crypto and blockchain.

Also, XYZ has partnered with Ethereum, and .xyz is supported on ENS.

the only emotion I have is laughter at yer idiotic unverified statements.

xyz is a terrible extension. always was and will be. smart people know this. which does not mean someone like her cant make some cash off it. but that's one of a kind on earth situation. if u try to imitate that...now... u are basically mental and deserve the failure u will get

but u are welcome to go ahead and spend yer life thinking serious domainers or endusers for that matter who know what they are doing consider xyz to be great and anything other than a joke extension.

as are basically all ngtlds.
 
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the only emotion I have is laughter at yer idiotic unverified statements.

xyz is a terrible extension. always was and will be. smart people know this. which does not mean someone like her cant make some cash off it. but that's one of a kind on earth situation. if u try to imitate that...now... u are basically mental and deserve the failure u will get

but u are welcome to go ahead and spend yer life thinking serious domainers or endusers for that matter who know what they are doing consider xyz to be great and anything other than a joke extension.

as are basically all ngtlds.

What an emotional post without objectivity and facts again.
 
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What an emotional post without objectivity and facts again.

lol
u use the word emotional a lot

u must be a very emotional guy

as for me i just voice my views cause that's what forums are for

as I said no serious domainer or enduser goes for xyz

whether.u believe this or not i dont care. papa.
 
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lol
u use the word emotional a lot

u must be a very emotional guy

as for me i just voice my views cause that's what forums are for

as I said no serious domainer or enduser goes for xyz

whether.u believe this or not i dont care. papa.

Using a "word" a lot means I am a "word" guy!? What is the logic behind it?

Personal views without objectivity and fact support are worthless for discussions.

Paying 5 figures to buy a domain is not serious? Sorry, in my view the buyer is serious because there are not many 5-figure sales in the domain market, even for .com domains. Also, some sold .xyz domains have been developed websites for business, which are serious end users.
 
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Why do that, it’s just an opinion I am voicing. The question marks in the title and doubts I express shows I am not making a statement of fact an opinion. Free debate please

Most people don't grasp that asking a specific doubts-related question unlocks learning and validation… all that goes into teaching. Ppl should take a bigger picture than just stick to the legit question asking for clarification .
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(fyi , OP is a Hard-working, experienced salesperson (& more than just domain investor) with a positive attitude, running a multimillion business…)

Regards
 
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