It is evident that Swetha haters have one thing in common. They lack the ability to research using Google and use logical reasoning. Good thing is I'll debunk you below using Google and logic..
Firstly I posted Crunchbase links because posting multiple links for each would make it too long. Also so people can see they're actual real companies and people can get context into what type of funding they got. Every company I posted can be verified by doing a bit of digging to find social profiles of founders, interviews etc.
Part 1
You say Kevin Rose's connection with Chia doesn't exist because it doesn't show on the Crunchbase, but right on the first page of Google after searching (Kevin Rose Chia), you will find a transcript from an interview he did with Tim Ferris where he talks about Chia.
Then you say he never mentioned it in his portfolio. But on the interview I have linked below he's says he's an investor at Chia Network via his company TrueVentures.com. Then if you go on the True Ventures website, you'll find an article where it is in fact mentioned. Checkmate..
Chia had raised like $70 million by the time of the $3995 purchase of chia.xyz. The actual founder is Bram Cohen, the founder of BitTorrent. Chia actually uses chia.net and in a normal scenario they'd redirect the .xyz to their live site not an individual investor which even solidifies the proof of the sale happening to Kevin Rose himself. It's common knowledge that Kevin uses .xyz for his crypto related projects like moonbirds.xyz & proof.xyz
Quote about his investment here on Tim Ferris Podcast in 2021:
https://tim.blog/2021/08/20/random-show-kevin-rose-nft-crypto-transcript/
And here's Kevin Rose talking about Chia on Twitter before the launch in 2021:
True ventures (Kevin Rose company website) talking about Chia in 2018:
https://trueventures.com/blog/chia-network-digital-currency
Checkmate.
Part 2
Also out of 54 I posted, you choose 4 that redirect as your evidence that it's fake? Laughable. Most of the others that I link to have developed sites and are linked on their Crunchbase profile. For the others you'd have to dive deep and do more investigation like I do..
Also there are more than 54 & soon in another post, I'll show more..
I chose to mainly link to Crunchbase when possible so people who can't believe the sales due to whatever reason, most commonly the belief that xyz is ugly, spam whatever can see funding rounds of these companies, which makes them realise that a company who verifiably got funded millions can afford to spend $50k on a domain extension that is popular in their niche.
Now you can think it's stupid to buy xyz, monkey picture NFTs, dog named crypto coins or whatever but the fact is there are people with huge budgets who like these things.
Some of the ones I mentioned which don't list the domain on Crunchbase and may require additional digging because I'm not here to spoon-feed people with every little detail:
Mesh.xyz ($9888)- I linked to the consensys main Crunchbase profile. Here's the mesh profile.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/consensys-mesh
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/consensys-mesh/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ConsenSysMesh
Paramount.xyz ($45,000)- I linked to the main paramount Crunchbase.
The website shows powered by recur.com.
Press release by paramount:
https://ir.paramount.com/news-relea...comcbs-enters-strategic-nft-partnership-recur
Recur Twitter talking about .xyz website:
Dragonfly.xyz ($19,888)- I linked to Crunchbase which shows the website as
https://dcp.capital which actually redirects to dragonfly.xyz
But if you literally visit the website it shows you their social profiles which use .xyz
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/dragonfly_xyz
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragonfly-capital-partners/
Fractional.xyz ($14,888)- I linked to the Crunchbase which shows tessera.co. A little digging shows it was rebranded from Fractional to Tessera. The Crunchbase link slug literally says fractional. They are well known in the NFT space. They were initially using fractional.art before switching to fractional.xyz then rebranding.
Rebrand news:
https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/08/17/nfts-fractional-tessera-paradigm-20-million-funding-round/
Tessera tweet about rebrand:
You can follow the same process of extensive research for any of the names I posted above to find evidence of end users.
Part 3
Regarding your islands, objects, pallet & clubhouse claim of redirects making them fake, here's my response.
Pallet.xyz ($4888)- They actually used to operate on xyz before they bought .com and started redirecting .xyz. So you just checkmate yourself there. Just search on twitter and you will see that every link before 2022 is pallet.xyz even from the official Twitter account.
Pallet tweet:
Islands.xyz ($3495)- Here's Tiffany Zhong, the co-founder talking about islands on twitter. It was once active, but now redirects to todaytoday.app. Also she only follows one account on twitter right now which is the profile of todaytoday.app
Objects.xyz ($6000)- Jason Toff is currently building rooms.xyz publicly via his company things.inc. There's no direct claim of using objects.xyz for a standalone website. It only redirects to things.inc. Obviously if it was bought just to secure the word and redirect, there won't be any mention of it but all evidence points to him owning it.
Why I think he bought it? He talks a lot about 3D objects for example here:
And in this article on meta.com as he's an ex FB & Google dev: He actually helped Google launch a project called
Poly Objects (discontinued project) as he was the AR/VR lead..
Article link:
https://www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/quest/google-launches-blocks-on-rift/
This was the link to the poly project in the meta article: vr.google.com/objects
Guess what, the URL linked in the meta article ends in OBJECTS. And rooms.xyz is a continuation of the vision of this project via his company as Google shut Poly down..
He talks more about Poly and 3D objects here:
Quote from meta article about 3D objects:
Clubhouse.xyz ($4995)- I can't find much and I assumed it was simply a redirect, to .com but I found this tweet from 2021 where a clubhouse user was asked how they got a screenshot for analytics of their room & they linked to monitor.clubhouse.xyz
Clubhouse monitoring tools were a big thing and it only seems logical they had their own tool.
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/LcswNidhi/status/1406703771405664259
Do you want me to spoon-feed you with more research?