information Explosive claim about .xyz and “Swetha”

[Keith]

From Mike Mann on LinkedIn -

“Swetha is just an alias of Dan Negari. The vast majority of those high end .xyz sales are fake. The reason they appear to sell for BIN is because it is too complex and risky to use Afternic as a proxy to negotiate prices with himself.”

If this is true that would be unreal!

 

[alienbaba]

Mike Mann is wrong about Swethas sales and here's my evidence. I've already replied to his claims on twitter and he refuses to respond, but rather post schizophrenic claims that can be easily debunked by anyone with a working brain and Google..

Let me start with a taster before I give you the main course and dessert below with 53 other verified end users. Remember in December when Mike Mann and other numpties were calling Swetha fake then she reported the sale of conduit.xyz for $69,888 which they were all laughing about and saying "who would buy this random word in xyz for $69,888? Fake".

The site didn't get developed for over 3 months. But again undeveloped doesn't mean fake sale. Well here is the buyer.

Name: Andrew Huang
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KAndrewHuang
Company: Conduit.xyz
Funding amount: $7 million
Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/conduit-169e
News Article: https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/356854

Checkmate Mike Mann.

Hopefully after reading below and getting checkmate 53 more times, you will be able to think for yourself and make a more sensible conclusions based on evidence, not the voice in your head. I'm reposting the below info from my reply on another thread. Let's debate..

If you think you can debunk me, feel free to try. I operate based on good research, verifiable facts not schizo theories that people pull out of their asses and "I can't believe it so it's not true" or "I think xyz is ugly or stupid or spam so it can't sell for much" false logic arguments..

The people saying blahblah.xyz only sold for $xxx at namescon so all xyz sales are fake, need to go back logic school..her main audience isn't at namescon and they don't buy the same types of names that sell in .com..

PART 1 -

Out of Swethas reported sales which are less than 150, I have shown evidence of 54 verifiable end users. There are more but I got bored so stopped at 54 which is enough to make my point..

Many aren't developed, some still point to Dan Landers. Does that mean it was fake? I have about 8 .coms I sold on Dan, which still have the Dan Landers since as far back as 2019. All I'm going to say is I really enjoyed spending the fake money Dan sent to my bank for my fake sales..


Anyway regarding the end users who bought Swethas xyz domains, you can check for yourself. Not all are on Crunchbase, but if you are involved in crypto/web3/nft space you'd have heard of them..

Not all are funded startups. Some were bought by individuals who made money during the bullrun or already rich & they use it as personal project sites..

The ones on crunchbase as you can see have either raised millions of dollars or are venture funds themselves that provide capital for startups..

If a site isn't developed. Doesn't mean it's a fake sale. That's just bad logic. Even Mike Mann who uses the not developed angle to attack Swetha has a history of his 5 figure reported .coms not resolving.

Besides I've been tracking some of these names and they were undeveloped for over 1 year before finally getting built..



Let's begin

1- Spiral.xyz sold for $24888. Sold to twitter..while Jack Dorsey was twitter CEO. He also owns block.xyz and uses .xyz for his other projects such as the twitter rival BLUESKYWEB.XYZ | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spiral-c63e

2- Paramount.xyz sold for $45000. Paramount Pictures is a global media company, owned by viacom with a net worth of $14 billion. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paramount-pictures

3- Stratos.xyz sold for $9888. An investment firm that singlehandedly funded a company called REZI $100 million in November. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stratos-3388

4- Mesh.xyz sold for $9888. Created by founders of of Ethereum blockchain (Consensys). Funded $729 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/consensus-systems

5- Dragonfly.xyz sold for $19888. Run by some big players like Haseeb Qureshi (renown poker player, ex dev at airbnb), Tom Schmidt (ex facebook), Rob Hadick (ex golden tree, goldman sachs). | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4

6- Alliance.xyz sold for $50000. Raised $250,000 but they're a venture capital firm that frequently funds companies millions along with other VCs.| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defi-alliance

7- Fractional.xyz sold for $14888. Parent company/rebrand raised $43.9 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fractional-9225

8- Skiff.xyz sold for $2995. Raised $10.5 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/skiff-402f

9- Decent.xyz sold for $7888. Raised undisclosed amount from OrangeDAO.xyz. OrangeDAO was funded $80 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orange-fund | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/decent-xyz

10- Highlight.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $11 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sea-ranch-labs

11- Arcade.xyz sold for $25500. Raised $17.8 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/arcade-1e53

12- Tiptop.xyz sold for $15000. Raised $23 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tiptop

13- Matcha.xyz (I can't find how much it sold for but I think it was reported by @DNGear . Likely 4-5 figures) . Project by 0x.org. 0x raised $109 million| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/0x-project

14- Daylight.xyz sold for $14888 & resolves. Raised $3 million| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/daylight-039f

15- Siren.xyz sold for $22310. Raised $5.2 million| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/siren-acf2

16- Stir.xyz sold for $39888. Redirects to usestir.com. Raised $20 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stir-money

17- Primitive.xyz sold for $39888. Raised $12 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primitive-89c6

18- Flip.xyz sold for $27888. Raised $6.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flip-ef7e

19- Destiny.xyz sold for $8895. They also own d.xyz. Raised $5 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/destiny-4736

20- Runway.xyz sold for $19888. Redirects to runway.com. Raised $4.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/runway-financial

21- Embed.xyz sold for $14888. Raised $4.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/embed-9c37

22- Covalent.xyz sold for $4995. Parent company Agnostiq raised $2.8 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/agnostiq

23- Davos.xyz sold for $19888. Raised $500k from Polygon Ventures & undisclosed amount from 0xbeacon| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/davos-protocol

24- Cheq.xyz sold for $2995. Raised $2 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cheq-6953

25- Soteria.xyz sold for $4000. Parent company is bridgewest group/ventures based in New Zealand who manage around $4 billion in capital | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bridgewest-group

26- Ryan.xyz sold for $5888. Bought by Ryan Junee. Founder of Parsable which got $132 million in funding + Omnisio which Google acquired| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/parsable

27- Tribes.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $3.3 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tribes-protocol

28- UpShot.xyz sold for $3995. Raised $30.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upshot-d781

29- OffBeat.xyz sold for $8988. Raised undisclosed amount, but investors include Mark Cuban & Atlanta Ventures. Check their LinkedIN profile for more info on the founders| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/offbeat-media-group

30- Zapper.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $17 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/defizap

31- Dune.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $79.4 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dune-analytics

32- Talisman.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $2.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/talisman-750e

33- Continuum.xyz sold for $6495. Raised $2 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/continuumxyz

34- Hyperspace.xyz sold for $4995. Raised $4.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/solanalysis

35- Pager.xyz (I can't find how much it sold for but I think it was reported by @DNGear . Likely 4-5 figures). Raised $7.9 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pager-c832

36- Flare.xyz sold for $2000. Raised $11.3 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/flare-networks-417a

37- Frontier.xyz sold for $9888. Raised $1.9 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frontier-wallet

38- Pallet.xyz sold for $4888. Redirects to Pallet.com. Raised $4.9 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cardea-e310

39- Islands.xyz sold for $3495. Raised $3.5 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/islands-1881

40- Props.xyz sold for $7888. Raised $27 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/props-6624

41- Objects.xyz sold for $6000. Bought by Jason Toff founder of things.inc. He used to work at Google & Meta. He owns rooms.xyz too. | https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-toff

42- Manifold.xyz sold for $3000. One of the biggest NFT marketplaces. Raised undisclosed amount from Christies Inc. Likely a high 7 figure to low 8 figure seed funding round| https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/manifold-4ccd

43- Futureproof.xyz sold for $4500. Team behind the Wagmi United NFT which bought a football team in England (Crawley Town FC) for like $3 million & collaborated with Adidas for a merch drop.

44- Clubhouse.xyz sold for $4995. Bought by the clubhouse audio social media platform. Raised $110 million | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clubhouse-voice

45- Chia.xyz sold for $3995. Bought by Kevin Rose founder of DIGG & Moonbirds NFT (moonbirds.xyz + proof.xyz). | https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose

46- Entropy.xyz sold for $6500. Raised $27 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/entropy-5d14

47- Heyday.xyz sold for $3000. Raised $6.5 million. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/heyday-d38f

48- Patron.xyz sold for $9888. Investment firm that frequently funds million dollar seed rounds. | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patron-9285

49- Squid.xyz sold for $34888.| Squid DAO is one of the most popular DAO's in the ETH space.

50- Ante.xyz sold for $19888.| Popular & active ETH protocol

51- Fragment.xyz sold for $5300. Bought by team behind applied primate NFT. Very active within the NFT space & own multiple bored apes. | https://twitter.com/fragmentxyz

52- Shiv.xyz. (I can't find the sales price but probably low/mid 4 figures). Bought by Shiv Madan, founder of NFT.org & Moonwalk.com | https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shiv-madan

53- Plasticity.xyz sold for $2995. Bought by Nick Kallen an experienced software engineer who worked at Twitter. | https://twitter.com/nk


PART 2..

The thing is for the assertion that it's a wash to even remotely not sound stupid, you'd have to claim that multi billion dollar companies like Twitter, Paramount Pictures, Yugalabs, Paradigm and others are involved in what you describe above.. because as evidenced by my research above, they have all bought some of Swethas names..


Most of the other end users that have developed their sites are crypto/web3/NFT companies, that recently got millions in funding which is verified by crunchbase..

If a company raises millions is it far fetched that they can afford a 5 figure .xyz domain? Simply Google each of her sales + Crunchbase & you'll find the end users..


If negari is remotely involved in "faking" the above sales, the only possible way that doesn't involve witchcraft would be that the parent company of Crunchbase which is Techcrunch/Yahoo which are global corporations worth billions have all come together to report fake news so a few thousand irrelevant domainers will buy a few million dollars of Daniel Negari's xyz domains for $1 each. What a good business plan. STONKS..

I am just showing data to help you identify a market trend of companies within a certain niche that got funded millions by venture capital firms, spending less than 0.5% of their budget on a domain..

Unless you want to claim that Crunchbase/Yahoo are actually working with the xyz registry to fake these funding rounds & these million dollar companies are actually either non existent or too poor to spend $10k on a domain that they are currently using on live sites which their social profiles link to..

Because that is the only possible angle remaining since these claims of fake sales have been debunked on all other fronts.

 

[davidc1]

High prices of Mike Mann sales are also unbelievable !

Many things could be unbelievable but true...

 

[alienbaba]

Now I am more than ever convinced that xyz is an artificially created bubble with no future. Let's be real - these 53 ''sales'' got chosen not because someone was ''tired'' of checking, but because this number is close to the full number of ''bought'' xyz domains that actually lead anywhere. The rest of Swetha sales will be just broken links and unresponsive pages.

I just checked a few from the list and it's funny - they are just xyz redirects to com or other extensions (ClubHouse, Pallet, Objects, Islands etc) with no evidence that these names were bought by the people mentioned in the links to crunchbase. Like in the crunchbase profile of Kevin Rose there is zero evidence that he bought Chia (he never mentioned it in his portfolio or activities). In fact, Google doesn not recognize this (Kevin Rose Chia) combination as his project or anything related, and AI scratches the head too. This list is full of cases like this. It's like me registering MyHugePenis.xyz, redirecting to Tesla.com and saying this domain name is Elon Musk's latest acquisition.

Those who's got time - feel free to check all names, later post the result ))

Some sites that live on xyz look very much alike (not saying they are all fakes, but it's weird).

And also I am not saying all purchases 100% are fakes - some could be real though, because of hype and aggressive marketing from Daniel Negari. Few Silicon Valley geeks filled with cash fitted right in for ''new hot tech crypto'' tld. And for sure he's got lots of connections in the industry. But it will be a couple of dozen sites - c'mon - for the whole tld with more than 8 years of history?

Bottom line - big bubble with no future.

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/

Tim Ferriss: What are your hopes for Chia, if any? And could you describe what Chia is?

Kevin Rose: Yeah. So Chia is a cryptocurrency that was created by Bram Cohen, who’s the inventor of BitTorrent. We all remember BitTorrent from when we were pirating movies or whatever it may be. It was the first peer-to-peer, elegant way to swap large files.

Bram went on to create Chia. Chia is definitely, it’s one of our investments at True, so full disclosure there.

Tim Ferriss: Me too. I’m an investor.

And here's Kevin Rose talking about Chia on Twitter before the launch in 2021:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1372310031366909954

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:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511822412614029318

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:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1582114380627742727

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:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1414988434482077709

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

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488590011758833671

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:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583285859797078018

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:

https://twitter.com/x/status/925756648215531520

Quote from meta article about 3D objects:

Jason Toff: 3D objects are the building blocks of AR and VR experiences, but making them is hard! We built Blocks to make it easy for anyone—even people without any modeling experience—to make beautiful 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?

 

[kor]

Well, let's try to approach things from a more objective angle.

According to official records, Swetha Yenugula is a real person and is the director of "CANOPUS IT SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED", which was founded in 2016 in Hyderebad, India. Therefore, the claim that she is a fictional character falters at this point.

There is no law that all domain names sold must be used immediately. Personally, I can say that only a few of the dozens of domain names I've sold so far have been developed. The money I earn is my business, I cannot question what the buyer is doing with that domain name.

For example, Meta Inc. spent millions of dollars almost a year ago and made many acquisitions. None of those domain names are directed to any Meta related content. They're all idle.
Or sometimes a team gets together and brainstorms to create a new project on a whim and they want to buy the related domain name right away within their budget before anyone buy it. They usually leave the development work for later.

There have also been many other investors, apart from Swetha, who have sold .xyz domain names for large sums. You can check the archives yourself.

We have no way of proving whether the high-priced .xyz sales are driven by a project supported by the XYZ registry.

The most important point is that proving that .xyz sales aren't real doesn't do anyone any good either. On the contrary, high interest in ngTLD domains is generally a positive approach for all domain name investors.
TOP.DOMAINS has also started to achieve good sales recently. Is the sale of the "multi.app" domain name for $28,000 also fabricated?

There's a difference between being skeptical and being retarded. We have to support each other's success rather than hinder it. Do not ignore these details.

 

[johnn]

Leave her alone. There are too many threads about her already.
If you believe xyz sales are fake then don't invest in them.
I don't care if the sales are fake or not. I do some researches and make my own decision regardless of the extension.

 

[kellie]

And how many have you sold? could you also tell us the names you have sold if it's not an XYZ top secret lol

I'd sold many .xyz domains between 2015 and 2018 up to about $5k before GDPR came into effect and stopped inquiries via email. After I priced everything in my portfolio over a long weekend and put it up on Alter.com I sold Places just two weeks later in October 2021. Things were strong the rest of that year. Quiet in Q1 2022 when I pivoted to Dan.com, picked up again in Q2-Q4, then quiet again until recently.

Since October 2021 these are the .xyz domains I've sold for more than $2000 from my own portfolio:

Heirloom $8000
Hackathon $9999
Bio $10000
Contracts $14888
Uno $16888
Merch $16888
Places $16888
MVP $42888

There are three other transactions that were lease to own that stopped paying between 4-9 months :
Riot- 12 month LTO paid for four months and I netted $4800 (a finance startup that didn't take off)
Gigs - 60 month LTO paid for six months and I netted $3180 (only ever got to a landing page)
Dos - 60 month LTO paid for nine months and I netted $3177 (DreamOS "the operating system for Web3)

I have two LTO active for .xyz domains: insiders and mega.

 

[Alex270]

I can understand some people's frustration.
I too haven't had much sales since the last 5 months.
Let's all pray god.

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Selling your domains with high prices, even if in a different extension than .com, it is good for all the domainers, because you're raising the prices for all of us. I don't understand all the hate towards you...

We're not living good times now when it comes to selling domain names, and instead of uniting our brains to find new ways of promoting our names to sell more, we're fighting each other.

The constant look in others' gardens and the negativity against fellow domainers can't bring anything good.

You're lucky selling something in the last 5 months because you have a large and valuable portfolio. With a small portfolio, I have not sold anything since the autumn of 2022, and it is the first time since I started domaining at the end of 2017 when I need to pay/struggle to renew the domains from my pocket.

Things will be better in the future, I'm sure... so maybe it would be a good idea to stop being mean to each other, as domainers.

A little bit of positivity?

 

[mwzd]

Nothing new, people lose their minds when their thinking (.com or bust) is challenged, specially by data.

It used to be cctlds over a decade ago, when Ray started the .TV forum or when I started the cctld forum on NP, most laughed. cctlds only accounted for 3% of all registered domains. Today cctlds account for 40% of all registered domains. 7 of the top 10 tlds by number of domains registered are cctlds.

Now it's newgtlds, specifically .xyz and DNGear because they're the one making bank and getting recognition for it. Are all ntld sales suspect? So many registries provide actual data on premium sales totaling millions of dollars, think Radix showed over 20m in sales, are they suspect too?

DNGear has shown sales on afternic to a third party, Reza confirmed their Dan sales, why do you have such a tough time believing them? They targeted the right market for the tld they invested in, good for them, shows anyone can come in at any time and make a mark on this industry, huge positive if you ask me.

I've sold names in .org, .tv, .pro, .one, .ag, .im and a lot of other tlds which most of NP users ignore, in fact I stopped reporting sales for exactly this reason. Everyone wants you to provide proof, yet the same yardstick isn't held for .com, because all those sales are real of course.

In any case, what someone sells or doesn't / should not affect your journey, that is completely reliant on your own portfolio, dyor, buy names where the domain itself has value, irrespective of what anyone else says. Unless you have a time machine or a large budget you're not going to be able to achieve the same success in .com as the incumbents.

.com is the top tld by a long shot, almost anything works with the .com right of the dot, not true for any other tld, which is why it is most popular, but if you keep buying names that no one else wants in .com, it's not going to help you either.

Stop wasting time looking at what someone else is doing, it doesn't affect your performance, only your own names do, spend time researching names, go read the methods used by the top investors, but concentrate on getting the best names you can, that's what's important. Good Luck!

 

[Armageddon]

Maybe possible maybe not
But from my interaction with Swetha here on Namepros don't look like be Daniel Negari
Why? Because i don't see Daniel Negari offer me a price for a Premium domain .xyz at 250 $ in 2019 so my opinion Swetha is Swetha
About sales made by Swetha - i use words used by 'No futher details'

 

[JB Lions]

Oh my goodness, even more nonsense.

"How come she has so many sales, while nobody else is" - Not sure what part of she a ton of .xyz is going over people's heads. Other people are getting sales but obviously not at the same level, because they simply don't have the same portfolio size/quality.

"Why .xyz and crypto". Sales are happening with crypto in other extensions as well. Have people heard of this thing called marketing? Maybe, they're simply targetting the crypto space.

"Why all of a sudden over the last 2 years". We had this thing called Covid. The money printers went into overdrive, lots of money went out. Lots of people took that money and put it into crypto, stocks etc. Bitscoin hit a high in November 2021, many crypto hit highs that year. That was just a year and half ago. Of course crypto domains would sell even more.

So just from casual reading:
She reports sales, most people don't. She puts it out there and you can can go thru it.

Mann said she was fake, said she was Daniel. She offered to get on cam, Mann folded.

There is certain criteria to meet to get listed at various places, DNJournal, Namebio etc, she meets them.

She literally gave her Afternic login info to Namebio and they checked it out.

Many people have given detailed info on the names sold, many developed.

Seems very forthcoming to me, more than I've seen anybody else do.

 

[Jv1999]

i dunno, i used to respect Mike Mann. But him pulling this makes no sense. Isn't he a multi millionaire? why is he hurt that DN Gear found a way to make it in the domaining world into the millionaires field?

I thought some domainers would be scummy, but i didn't expect to see it in the higher levels, like wow.

DNGear has spoken personally and via voice call with people from 2016+. She's literally a woman from India who has been friendly to those of us who have met her. I never chatted iwth her on that level but @wormfood did on skype.

So for Mike Mann to be true, then Daniel would have had to have been LARPing as an Indian woman using voice changers on NP 7 years before his "scam" takes place... hahaahhahaahah

some people even have experience with watching Swetha's rise, like that one guy who said he noticed her buying up all the xyz auctions througout the years....

I like how Mike mann just throws something out there with 0 evidence for 0 reason besides "oh no, i feel threatened xyz is actually taking a piece of the action"

 

[OnlineDomainShop]

I am unsure of the veracity of either side's claims without substantial evidence. However, if concrete evidence were to emerge supporting one party over the other, I would readily provide my full support to the party proven to be truthful and will forward my Dick.xyz to one lying.

 

[VadimK]

It stinks of misogyny and racism.

Another constantly offended snowflake. At what point in this conversation someone mentioned her race/gender/age? But when you have no arguments you always bring these to switch the focus from healthy discussion. You know, that you are the one being racist here? You are the one playing this card.
And it's even more stupid to bring racial/gender topic since half of the people questioning her sales are not even sure she is real...

 

[JB Lions]

Killing some time as I wait for the pizza. Went to Namebio, set the price at 20K and up, looked at the last 20 sales of 2022 for swetha:

So last 20, only 4 parked or don't resolve. The rest are developed crypto, NFTS, business etc. So actually very believable. Big portfolio of mainly single words, so it makes sense she would dominate sales.

conduit.xyz - crypto

chroma.xyz - godaddy parked page

lore.xyz - crypto/nfts

mantle.xyz - crypto

bull.xyz - doesn't resolve

sino.xyz - big business site, hong kong, 11,000+ employees

mew.xyz - dan sold page

keys.xyz - metaverse

singular.xyz -crypto/nfts

kinetic.xyz - nfts

psychedelic.xyz - dan sold page

happening.xyz - big tech site

evaluate.xyz - nfts

redeem.xyz - crypto tech

pixels.xyz - games, crypto

taiko.xyz - crypto

sportsbet.xyz - betting

bebop.xyz - crypto

territory.xyz - coming soon, web3

roundtable.xyz - software/ai

kylin.xyz - doesn't resolve

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

I'd sold many .xyz domains between 2015 and 2018 up to about $5k before GDPR came into effect and stopped inquiries via email. After I priced everything in my portfolio over a long weekend and put it up on Alter.com I sold Places just two weeks later in October 2021. Things were strong the rest of that year. Quiet in Q1 2022 when I pivoted to Dan.com, picked up again in Q2-Q4, then quiet again until recently.

Since October 2021 these are the .xyz domains I've sold for more than $2000 from my own portfolio:

Heirloom $8000
Hackathon $9999
Bio $10000
Contracts $14888
Uno $16888
Merch $16888
Places $16888
MVP $42888

There are three other transactions that were lease to own that stopped paying between 4-9 months :
Riot- 12 month LTO paid for four months and I netted $4800 (a finance startup that didn't take off)
Gigs - 60 month LTO paid for six months and I netted $3180 (only ever got to a landing page)
Dos - 60 month LTO paid for nine months and I netted $3177 (DreamOS "the operating system for Web3)

I have two LTO active for .xyz domains: insiders and mega.

Hi @kellie Thank you for sharing this valuable insight and details.

Question, when you sold Mega xyz what was your m/o set at in relation to the BIN? I've been trying to determine if its best to give them all the wiggle room or cap it at 1/ - 2/3 of the BIN as not to appear weak.

I have the google cached ss of your dan sales lander prior to the sale which shows exactly as you shared. ( I would post here with your okay) however a cached page will not give the min O price.

I ask as I've been going months with one of my .xyz and a certain company and the CMO whom if it were up to him, a deal would be done at the price range I've been standing by ( close to your sale he's still working to convince his seniors......I wonder if the m/o set to low or at all withh a HIGH bin is creating to much friction.


As for everyone esle and the >XYZ sh8T show run by Mann and so many others, I'll say my piece in time but I think many look very silly with there accusations.

1) Anyone can go back years in the XYZ thread and see where Sweath started out as most, and actually had some crappy names lol...over time in the thread.. you can see where she began to grow a Great 1 word portfolio. At that time they were still 0.99$ and people are amazed how one person got 20K of the best LMAO...

you also can see when she began catching .xyz before most,


2) If your not a Fly Fisherman, you shouldn't be giving lesson on Fly fishing :

MOST not all MOST xyz sales are Web3 /Crypto Blockchain related companies! If your not active in nfts, crypto, web3 , blockchain...or should I say part of it...How many of you here own an NFT? use a crypto wallet, or actullay understand anything about the metaverse?????? Tech grows, it changes, and we seeing a new digital era

When Sweata was making the many great sales in a row, the crypto BULL market was hot Eth was $4,500 a coin! These compaines were fueled with VC funding before FTX crash & SVB crash.

They DO NOT want a 3 word Mann .com for 594,888......A Brand!

Any cool or great tech 1 word .com would be 6/7 figures.

.io is great but not the same as this New Generation of Tech builders cough cough .....Gen X Y Z!


Loaded with crypto, VC funding, a raging Bull market and Culture..... 1 word .xyz was it.

Now you have large Institutions getting in on crypto with BLACKROCK coming full circle and apply

for Bitcoin ETFs

Folks are still building even thought the market and flow has slowed.

As Ethereum goes back up, you can be sure @DNGear will be reporting more sales.

Seriously...all of you including the mr mann himself should go read .xyz thread and see how started and and grew as we all do.

Earlybid gets the worm..... oh wait that was a sale to EarlyBird.xyz ( what do you know a Dev Web3 Cross chain platform)



The fact someone has shared here Aftenic loggin, pics, pics of her on twitter with Anita Walker, ( whom mann and others claim as fake, N's army of scammers) is shameful silly, and bitter foolish to make assumptions without know all the facts....... She is Indeed a woman, whom I have heard speak numerous times in Twitter Spaces and Discord for NFT projects, such as the one started by Booth (Paradise.com) whom no longer runs that project. Point being........so many fingers being pointed at others...be people that are GREAT at what they do .....dot com, domains, mann is great...............................but Web3 Tech & culture are Str8 fuc*king Clueless!!


As R Josh said and joked on TW, I too can't wait to close my 1st high 5/+6 Fig xyz and be labeled a fake unreal person and start handing out my login receipts as well.

It's shameful honestly! ...Jack the domainer is a clown, and it's just so many narrow sighted people that need to really take off the blinders and dive in.

yes ..20K names,,,,shes making all the big sales....becuase SHE grabbed 95% of all the best Brandable 1 words...

Yet other great brokers have still made large .xyz sales too, as they were able to get a few good ones, Rosner is just one of the many.




....I'm done, I never planned to write this much or get sucked in but I'm Fucking sick of seeing this shit!


Have a blessed one all of you.

( ps im not going back to typo proof, so make due)

Cheers

 

[twiki]

Don’t know either way. Took a look at some sales, lots of crypto/nft sales, generic but well known company names like paramount, clubhouse not so generic names like Clinique, so companies that have money.

So for this to be a scam, Daniel would have to be smarter than the rest of the domaining community, which based on his past history, is hard to believe. Because I haven’t seen anybody definitively take this apart.

How about a scam that BECOMES real. Due to the buzz around it.

You know, fake it till you make it.

So now, it is real because it has made it into real. Of sorts.

Edit: I'm not claiming this is the actual situation, because I have no proof, just mentioning what would explain it.

I actually don't know if those sales are fake or not. But there is something very odd about xyz indeed.

 

[bmugford]

You're missing my point. I'm not interested in (the success of) other sellers, I don't care whether those sales are real or not. What I care about is whether or not .xyz domains are valuable.

You may argue that they are valuable based off Swetha's sales. But that's not necessarily true. It could be that Swetha is just a really good salesman (or saleswoman) getting in contact with the right people and giving them the right sales pitch. It could also be a marketing ploy by Generation to promote their extension. We don't know.

What we do now is that one seller is supposedly making more money off .xyz domains than all other sellers combined, which is not only unusual: it's unique! So some healthy skepticism is warranted.

If you want to invest in .xyz-domains that's fine, but I'd advice doing some thorough digging beforehand.

I have pointed out the uniqueness of the situation in the past.

Just to clarify though -

- I own 0 .XYZ.
- I have no interest in .XYZ.
- I am not a fan of Daniel Negari, for a number of reasons.

I am more than willing to took at actual evidence, but what I have seen is basically just speculation.

Many of the claims involve things like "the domain isn't developed", "she won't video chat with me", etc. Those are not compelling arguments to me.

Brad

 

[HotKey]

So people still think she isn't a real person after this?

It's to the point where people will go as far as saying it was all ai or something.

She could literally be standing in front of mann or the jack domainer guy, close a sale in front of their eyes and then it will be "But but this is a hologram prove is not a hologram".

Best to just let some narratives fade away.

 

[bmugford]

Killing some time as I wait for the pizza. Went to Namebio, set the price at 20K and up, looked at the last 20 sales of 2022 for swetha:

So last 20, only 4 parked or don't resolve. The rest are developed crypto, NFTS, business etc. So actually very believable. Big portfolio of mainly single words, so it makes sense she would dominate sales.

conduit.xyz - crypto

chroma.xyz - godaddy parked page

lore.xyz - crypto/nfts

mantle.xyz - crypto

bull.xyz - doesn't resolve

sino.xyz - big business site, hong kong, 11,000+ employees

mew.xyz - dan sold page

keys.xyz - metaverse

singular.xyz -crypto/nfts

kinetic.xyz - nfts

psychedelic.xyz - dan sold page

happening.xyz - big tech site

evaluate.xyz - nfts

redeem.xyz - crypto tech

pixels.xyz - games, crypto

taiko.xyz - crypto

sportsbet.xyz - betting

bebop.xyz - crypto

territory.xyz - coming soon, web3

roundtable.xyz - software/ai

kylin.xyz - doesn't resolve

Thanks for sharing that.

Though even if hardly any were developed, it is not that compelling as "evidence" of anything.

Many of my personal sales are never put to any use.

You can go to NameBio and pull up big sales in every extension. Many are never used.

Brad

 

[VadimK]

On top of all the other factors there is one simple fact. She's been doubling and tripling her portfolio since 2014-2015 (that's when she supposedly started to grow it) despite no sales whatsoever until 2021. And you simply don't do this - as a domainer, businessman, investor - whatever - that's an extremely anti logical thing. She had to pay a million at least already in renewals until she started seriously ''selling'' (put it in brackets for purpose) something.

Imagine you don't sell anything for years (talking about large purchases obviously, considering size of her portfolio), not a single word domain (which cost millions in .com) and for years - would you go ahead and buy more 2- words, misspells, numbers? (I analyzed her portfolio once - there were lots of very weird and simply bad names). Would you? No, you wouldn't do this. No person in their mind would.

And if, let's say, you ''believe'' in tld (how she claimed) and still have some funds to burn - you probably would leave maybe a 1000 cool single-word names, and that's it, and you'll cut the rest and go diversify your portfolio (another thing she never did, and that's extremely weird approach of not buying .com or any other extention), which, amongst the other factors bring me to a simple conclusion -

you only go more and more and more into the only one tld constantly buying if you are really backed up, connected and associated with this tld by somehow, or ... if you are this tld.

 

[hal]

Many of Swetha's .XYZ sales have been verified. Some are developed by end users and also she is not the only one to have success with .XYZ.

Quite pathetic that people are still talking about this without producing any evidence.

 

[kellie]

If Swetha just left then .xyz-domains would be dead in the water anyway. Because he's the only one selling these domains.

If Swetha ever announced that *she* was leaving the industry someone would buy her portfolio.

And if any of you are one word .xyz holders planning not to renew your standard renewal domain names I'll be happy to review them and make you an offer.

 

[Sumeeth]

From Mike Mann on LinkedIn -

“Swetha is just an alias of Dan Negari. The vast majority of those high end .xyz sales are fake. The reason they appear to sell for BIN is because it is too complex and risky to use Afternic as a proxy to negotiate prices with himself.”

If this is true that would be unreal!

I think we can ignore Mike views saying she is not real, he himself afraid to accept her challenge few months back.

If he is so sure, why he didn't accept her challenge?

 

[johnn]

Why do you wasting the time to know what's your neighbor is doing?
Stop being nosy and spend the time to market your name.
She did not cheat or scam anyone so why wasting the time to do the investigation.
This is not fair to her and this is how you lose money because what she did is none of your business.
Mod should close this thread. Why let everyone humiliate a member?