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.

 

[JB Lions]

I think of end users want them, let them have them. But for domain investing purposes, over 1 billion possibilities, don't see how it makes sense.

 

[Acroplex]

I asked Negari if XYZ is allowed back to perform registry operations in China, but received no response yet.

Referencing this: http://domainnamewire.com/2017/05/03/xyz-domains-unavailable-china-negari-says-temporary/

So if China is off for now, then the entire .XYZ numeric domain game is aimed at the non-Chinese.

 

[tomcarl]

None.

I'd rather buy a roll $1 scratch-off tickets instead of regging hundreds of one-dollar domains and hoping 1 or 2 of them pop before the year is up and I have thousands of dollars worth of renewals to pay.

Easier, quicker, funner.

 

[offthehandle]

https://onlinedomain.com/2017/05/31...mains-doesnt-anyone-care-credibility-anymore/

Wow, the heat is on. Look at the comments. Hmmm, and being touted as the next dot com, with this huge black cloud hanging over it of being taken off the market in china?

 

[Acroplex]

XYZ started its life with controversy (the free XYZ domains matching the .com in one's NetSol account) and has been carrying the torch since. Non-news.

But one more thing: domainers are only a tiny part of its target market. They pitch XYZ domains all over the world, to non-domainers. It's as if we're locked inside the bathroom of a mansion, screaming out.

 

[offthehandle]

Thanks for the insight, I didn't study or read all the history, but it appears really to be quite a mess. Like a huge oil spill, you can never restore it back to pristine quality, no matter what you do.

 

[Acroplex]

Daniel Negari is really a fun guy in person, and so is Frank Schilling. And everyone is in this industry for the money, that's the bottom line. Some of these campaigns appear to be outrageous. Waiting to see the eventual drops from last year's penny promo for .XYZ domains. It will be brutal.

 

[offthehandle]

http://domaingang.com/domain-news/d...billions-of-new-xyz-domains-to-be-registered/

@Acroplex This is sure entertaining today, saw your post on dnw linked in comments, Yep, I will have make sure my new blender .xyz compliant!

 

[offthehandle]

That drop isn't it in a few more days? June 5th 2016 was the spike according to ntldstats.

 

[Magicpig2]

Been watching him shaft domainers for at least a couple of years now, and each times he pulls a new stunt like this it's a further breach of trust against the domaining community from one of the once most respected figures within the industry. It's great that people are calling him out. Hopefully he'll take heed.

 

[DaveX]

Okay, if I could get a one letter .xyz for .88....I would take it.

Does that make me bad?

 

[offthehandle]

I would too. C for coolaid. S for scam or s--t .xyz? Even a two letter like JJ for above reference. Lol.

 

[JayT]

Glad you are all buying none because I'm buying them all. Once the buyout happens I will be selling them them like bitcoins.

 

[DaveX]

I would too. C for coolaid. S for scam or s--t .xyz? Even a two letter like JJ for above reference. Lol.

LOL

 

[offthehandle]

Been watching him shaft domainers for at least a couple of years now, and each times he pulls a new stunt like this it's a further breach of trust against the domaining community from one of the once most respected figures within the industry. It's great that people are calling him out. Hopefully he'll take heed.

I don't know all the history as I have only been into this since last year. But this seems like another "greater fool theory" investment. I have bought a few not com's, used for redirects into my business 8-9 years ago. I dropped two single word .biz and .us, and after all this time still are not probably worth much. So all the snake oil sales pitching on thousands of new .horse type extensions this guy has been selling made me take notice immediately. Somebody told me that they spy on all the parked domains stats that people bring them too.

 

[offthehandle]

I have an idea. Someone should register all the possible screen colors from the hex RGB values and have each page resolve to a different color. Then write a script to rotate through ALL the webpages with their own unique color and the entire mess from FFFFFF to OOOOOO, Oops, no letters allowed. Have to convert to binary and increase the digits.

 

[Acroplex]

I have an idea. Someone should register all the possible screen colors from the hex RGB values and have each page resolve to a different color. Then write a script to rotate through ALL the webpages with their own unique color and the entire mess from FFFFFF to OOOOOO, Oops, no letters allowed. Have to convert to binary and increase the digits.

Don't give Negari any more ideas, he'll be rocking the charts into 2032.

 

[offthehandle]

I already patented it. Lol.

 

[21x20]

It's 88 cent renewals too, (just fyi to those saying renewal - yeah, I know the renewals can change thing.)

I picked up a couple handfuls of 6N with 888 and prepaid 5 years for $4.40.

Won't really notice it from the bitcoin I bought a few years ago, cause ya just never know.

 

[SpareDomains]

Would have to pay me .88 to take one