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Very interesting article at The Domains:
http://www.thedomains.com/2014/06/03/did-networksolutions-com-give-away-free-xyz-domain-names/
According to the article, when someone regs a domain at Net Sol, he/she automatically is "given" the matching .xyz. One has to opt out by going to a separate link.
Indeed, I checked a couple of The Domains samples (both crap domains in any gTLD) in both .com and .xyz, and, yes, they are owned by the same person.
But I noticed something else that's interesting: the registrant email for .xyz is under privacy, but the .com isn't.
Check for yourself:
I bet that the registrant doesn't even know that the .xyz has been awarded to him/her and that renewal notices won't even go to the registrant.
It does look fishy, I'm afraid.
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Very interesting article at The Domains:
http://www.thedomains.com/2014/06/03/did-networksolutions-com-give-away-free-xyz-domain-names/
According to the article, when someone regs a domain at Net Sol, he/she automatically is "given" the matching .xyz. One has to opt out by going to a separate link.
Indeed, I checked a couple of The Domains samples (both crap domains in any gTLD) in both .com and .xyz, and, yes, they are owned by the same person.
But I noticed something else that's interesting: the registrant email for .xyz is under privacy, but the .com isn't.
Check for yourself:
00938625.XYZ (privacy email)
00938625.com (regular email)
03304cjp64ubzd1.xyz (privacy email)
03304cjp64ubzd1.com (regular)
00938625.com (regular email)
03304cjp64ubzd1.xyz (privacy email)
03304cjp64ubzd1.com (regular)
I bet that the registrant doesn't even know that the .xyz has been awarded to him/her and that renewal notices won't even go to the registrant.
It does look fishy, I'm afraid.
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