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.

 

[bmugford]

0.

 

[Alessandro Couteau]

Don't sell steak to a vegetarian !

Negari has a plan, I will stand by it for now ... But I am not buying any more .xyz domains ... With the idea of creating an internet utility from domains, I absolutely think this is genius ! Just incredible and soon we will see it as such along with keywords and extensions which will become more recognized by endusers ...

 

[mitch007]

-0

 

[offthehandle]

Hmmm. Genius? The new Bitcoin? Perhaps the PT Barnum of Domains? This is great entertainment.

 

[D Haynes]

If they offered these promos on renewals, then people would be tempted to keep names instead of letting them drop.

I'm sure I read they will be 88 cents forever, including renewals and transfers. Only on the 6N to 9N though.... I think (I may have imagined this).

Don't sell steak to a vegetarian !

Negari has a plan, I will stand by it for now ... But I am not buying any more .xyz domains ... With the idea of creating an internet utility from domains, I absolutely think this is genius ! Just incredible and soon we will see it as such along with keywords and extensions which will become more recognized by endusers ...

Hmmm. Genius? The new Bitcoin? Perhaps the PT Barnum of Domains? This is great entertainment.

I can see what they are trying to do here by pricing them so cheaply and hoping they will be used almost as phone numbers or addresses or device ID's etc and there could be potential for it to work... the problem is that phone numbers etc work because there is not alternative if that makes sense. Being cheap doesn't mean it will be a success when there are other choices (.com .net etc), that will be even more reputable in comparison now if spammers hoover up all the remaining .xyz. What they should have done was reserve them all from the off and sold them in bulk to a telecommunications or web hosting company (or whatever they intend them to be used for). Something like that anyway lol.

 

[Kate]

 

[offthehandle]

This really cheapens the tld, and like bargain bin stuff instilling the same sort of customer mentality of disposable email addresses. Disposable .xyz domains. I read the website, I love promotions dont get me wrong, no matter how goofy- look at the Geico commercials, great stuff. Strange promos and marketing if done right is great. But for the ad to state "it's the new dot com", is hilarious.

 

[dordomai]

if unregistry believed in them they would buy them with all the money they have. the fact that a domainer is dumping them on other domainers is quite telling.

the domain industry is becoming a joke.. look how far we have come from 2010.

domainers chasing the next once in a lifetime opportunity after another offered to them by salespeople.

do they really believe these domains are an innovation? they have not innovated anything. .tk with free domains could be called innovative.

about 95% of what is reported or discussed today is just noise about lottery tickets.

 

[bmugford]

.COM = AM Radio
.XYZ = Bitcoin

Frank Schilling is the new king, of shitty domain analogies.

Brad

 

[offthehandle]

They need a rebrand to like Whateveregistry.com to Whateveregistry.xyz

 

[Kate]

.XYZ = Bitcon

 

[offthehandle]

I just g'd it. There is a boardgame called SnakeOil!

"In the Old West, the wily snake oil salesman had a special talent, getting the most skeptical customers to buy the most dubious products. Now it's your turn! Invent your own zany two-word products – Rumor Mirror! Burp Balloon! – and sell them to all types of wacky customers. If the round's customer buys your product, you win!"

 

[Asfas1000]

As of today, total number of registered domains is about 330 M, after so many years.

To think that this 1 B domains will all be registered is outlandish, even at $1 / year a pop.

If there are still outstanding domains of this "class" out there, there is no scarcity, even artificial.

So they will never be worth more than $1 each (they will not appreciate in value)

JMO.

 

[dordomai]

As of today, total number of registered domains is about 330 M, after so many years.

To think that this 1 B domains will all be registered is outlandish, even at $1 / year a pop.

If there are still outstanding domains of this "class" out there, there is no scarcity, even artificial.

So they will never be worth more than $1 each (they will not appreciate in value)

JMO.

right. they can only be worth more than regfee if there aren't any free domains left.

 

[offthehandle]

 

[offthehandle]

http://davidkelly.me/2014/11/recognize-snake-oil-personal-learning-network/

 

[Acroplex]

I have 1 .XYZ domain and plan to keep it this way.

 

[alcy]

ZERO.xyz

 

[Jv1999]

If they offered these promos on renewals, then people would be tempted to keep names instead of letting them drop.

Yeh, I was planning on renewing some of my xyz for a dolla. . . Ik @DNGear will think this deal is a lifesaver

But no I don't agree that reggae 9N.xyz in 2017=buying btc in 2010, as frank proudly states. . .

 

[offthehandle]

I don't want to dump all over this promo, but it concerns me. The agenda is to sell a whole bunch of numbers to speculators. Is this because the underlying premise is that they might have some small value above reg fee, since now 5 months have passed without an expected landrush from china? Or maybe there was on the 4 and 5N's? So now a fire sale to get rid if them? These are not NNNNNN.com, which of course even they have dubious values. Now I see the follow up email disclaimer from the subject promoter, which brings even more concern. As tradition at the beginning of most all professional auctions I've attended, the first words before... the first gavel strike were always "Caveat Emptor". Let the buyer beware. This should come first here as well.