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!

 

[alcy]

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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I lost track of all sales u posted but its gotta be well into millions.. so nice job and u got yourself what is known as generational wealth so I hope u do or will have many kids cause they all be live like kings in what I assume is country of India.. where i myself thought to move cause there u live normal for 5 bucks a day and in USA u live under bridge and eat rat for 5 bucks a day

 

[Online Ruler]

....
I am the biggest seller in the entire world on .US at resale price
...


Cheers

Touché.
I don't think any of us like too much exposure. Keep it within acceptable parameters please. I agree, Just mentioning it was a 'Premium purchase' would have been enough/acceptable

@BaileyUK : so true but thats a two way street

 

[MadAboutDomains]

.swetha domains would have all 1,2 and 3 word domains reserved with purchase values of $XX,888 for all

 

[VadimK]

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.

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.

 

[Lox]

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.

Chia is running on Chia.net . The Chia.xyz acquisition is of defensive nature (brand protection, wallet) by Bram via Kevin.

DD is not a one hour job.

Regards

 

[MadAboutDomains]

.swetha domains would have all 1,2 and 3 word domains reserved with purchase values of $XX,888 for all

Full disclosure... I'd still be happy with her successes. I like seeing people succeed in this game.

 

[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?

 

[Lox]

Do you want me to spoon-feed you with more research?

Please, don't. Let the ppl practice DD and expand /develop skills & knowledge. Thanks for your time and DD.

The last 48h. funding rounds that a dot xyz projects raises:
Lens.xyz - $15M
HyperPlay.xyz - $12M
Taiko.xyz - $22M

Regards

 

[Online Ruler]

Basic you throw away 3000 USD just because someone made some sales of .xyz
Good job …

Look wp.xyz got renewed for another year ️

 

[Armageddon]

Look wp.xyz got renewed for another year ️

Well...i have 5 .xyz Premium by registry but have standard renew price & all exp. in 2025
Don't want to buy them ?
Much much much much much more value than your WP .xyz

 

[alcy]

Well...i have 5 .xyz Premium by registry but have standard renew price & all exp. in 2025
Don't want to buy them ?
Much much much much much more value than your WP .xyz

how u know they prem if regular renew fee?

 

[VadimK]

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:

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:



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?

I like these xyz cult affiliates - they never give up. ))) I would never ever spend that much time on you, believe me ))) But thanks - that's flattering )).

If you did read my post, you would notice that I mentioned that some of the sales are real indeed. My whole point was that xyz gained some fraction (very much artificially created as Mike Mann said - through fake sales, where some real ones slipped thru - I would add) in the short period of time within a very narrow niche - and that's it, tld is dead now.
But you go ahead of course - do some more research. Create links and find investors for all the broken links of Swedha's sales - that would be quite entertaining. Get to work. ))

 

[nametrekker]

Mike Mann was honored at last week' NameCon in Austin.
I've tried to buy domains from Mike's portfolio but he wouldn't budge on negotiations -- of course this is his right.
He sold a portfolio of domains in the early aughts for over $50 million USD.
Owns luxury real estate in the USA.
I've never met him but he's def made F U money and can retire if he wants.
I'm not sure why he claims Negari is Swetha. If this is so, I'd imagine there would be legal ramifications. I can't imagine Negari would risk something like this, and I have no idea or interest as my investment in xyz was miniscule. But I do feel bad for those who invested their hard-earned monies into .xyz, thinking they could get a sale comparable to those reported by Swetha,

 

[Armageddon]

how u know they prem if regular renew fee?

On Gen.xyz you can find list with all Premium .xyz domains
On each domain is price for first registration , renew price & transfer out price
Also on some registrar ( Dynadot for example ) if you type a .xyz that is listed for sale show listed price on market but also show renew price

Example WP .xyz show ( now ) is for sale at 1.1 mil. $ & renew price 3000 USD

 

[alienbaba]

I like these xyz cult affiliates - they never give up. ))) I would never ever spend that much time on you, believe me ))) But thanks - that's flattering )).

If you did read my post, you would notice that I mentioned that some of the sales are real indeed. My whole point was that xyz gained some fraction (very much artificially created as Mike Mann said - through fake sales, where some real ones slipped thru - I would add) in the short period of time within a very narrow niche - and that's it, tld is dead now.
But you go ahead of course - do some more research. Create links and find investors for all the broken links of Swedha's sales - that would be quite entertaining. Get to work. ))

Obviously you wouldn't spend much time on me because you have displayed that you are incapable of using Google & your brain lol. So I 100% believe you on that one. It was really a simple task and you kinda failed and came here to report your lazy researched findings and poor logical arguments as evidence , when you could have just scrolled a little bit down the google serp and found the Kevin Rose connection and others I posted..

Besides I'm spending as much time talking logic & evidence based sense to you, as you are spending here making a fool of yourself because you got proven wrong and have chosen to double down on your foolery, just to sound consistent rather than admit your fault which is more honorable. Congrats..

Everything you've said has been debunked and obviously you're upset you've been made to look like a dummy (which you've shown a lot of evidence for) & salty that you can't actually reply with any evidence, just more crystal ball rubbing theories like your guru Mike & guru Rick..

You claim fake sales, show evidence. Undeveloped site doesn't mean fake sale which is the basis of your argument. Simple lol..

 

[HostGeeks.com]

It’s not hard to create crunchbase accounts with twitters and some articles and get some followers doesn’t prove nothing

 

[VadimK]

Obviously you wouldn't spend much time on me because you have displayed that you are incapable of using Google & your brain lol. So I 100% believe you on that one. It was really a simple task and you kinda failed and came here to report your lazy researched findings and poor logical arguments as evidence , when you could have just scrolled a little bit down the google serp and found the Kevin Rose connection and others I posted..

Besides I'm spending as much time talking logic & evidence based sense to you, as you are spending here making a fool of yourself because you got proven wrong and have chosen to double down on your foolery, just to sound consistent rather than admit your fault which is more honorable. Congrats..

Everything you've said has been debunked and obviously you're upset you've been made to look like a dummy (which you've shown a lot of evidence for) & salty that you can't actually reply with any evidence, just more crystal ball rubbing theories like your guru Mike & guru Rick..

You claim fake sales, show evidence. Undeveloped site doesn't mean fake sale which is the basis of your argument. Simple lol..

Everything I am saying is simply flying over your head, lol ))) The more you are trying to explain, the more idiotic you look - that's what you don't realize, since no one is arguing with few possible occasional real sales. The point is an artificial hype on xyz, created by xyz owners (highlighted for especially smart ones)

But of course, you keep going. All sales are real. People just hit BIN in Afternic for 60000, 80000, 50000 from one single person only - no negotiations, bargaining, questions - nothing ))) Why bother? $120000? Say no more, here, I got the money, keep the change )))

I suggest you go ahead and buy some more xyz too ))) Wait, hold on - some single words you can buy nowadays for pennies on actions - better save your hardly earned salary )))

Nooo....Swedha's sales are... REEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

 

[alienbaba]

It’s not hard to create crunchbase accounts with twitters and some articles and get some followers doesn’t prove nothing

Yet another crystal ball stroker..

If you used your brain and google you'd know that 1. yes anyone can create a crunchbase account & 2. Not everyone can show investment rounds on company profiles, because crunchbase team verifies it with VC firms who report on what they are investing in..

I linked to profiles with verified reports of investments from crunchbase..unless maybe Daniel Negari is actually the research team of Crunchbase and bypasses the rest of the research team to make fake reports..

Anyone can get some articles? I literally linked to meta.com blog, binance, Tim Ferris podcast website. Since anyone can get articles, please get one on any of these sites for Hostgeeks and prove me wrong..

 

[Grego85]

This thread is an embarrassment. NP has become such a cesspool.

 

[HostGeeks.com]

Yet another crystal ball stroker..

If you used your brain and google you'd know that 1. yes anyone can create a crunchbase account & 2. Not everyone can show investment rounds on company profiles, because crunchbase team verifies it with VC firms who report on what they are investing in..

I linked to profiles with verified reports of investments from crunchbase..unless maybe Daniel Negari is actually the research team of Crunchbase and bypasses the rest of the research team to make fake reports..

Anyone can get some articles? I literally linked to meta.com blog, binance, Tim Ferris podcast website. Since anyone can get articles, please get one on any of these sites for Hostgeeks and prove me wrong..

No need to insult to make a point, the elephant in the room is alleged companies paying $100k+ for an xyz domain that is super unknown and uncommon, I don't see the justification for that and neither do Tiptop domainers like Mike Mann , yet here we have you Mr.alienbaba have it all figured out. That is why they had "Swetha" verify "her" "sales", it is not clear to anyone what's going on.

 

[HostGeeks.com]

Also does Swetha have any good .com's with all that money?

 

[VadimK]

Also does Swetha have any good .com's with all that money?

No, of course she doesn't. At least when I last checked few months ago, but don't think anyhting changed ever since )) One person keeping 20k+ domains for many years (one extention only, and forget the renewals of course - it's nothing for her) never sell, all of a suddent - 200 sales in 2 years, all of the same type, BIN, no bargaining, no one else sells, tld is unpopular as hell amongst all the industries except few crypto geeks maybe, but alienbaba will now explain to all of us that all sales are real, Swedha is truly leading by example )))) All of you just don't worry, keep buying ))) Just ''use google and brains'' (that's a special key on his keyboard )))))

 

[alienbaba]

No need to insult to make a point, the elephant in the room is alleged companies paying $100k+ for an xyz domain that is super unknown and uncommon, I don't see the justification for that and neither do Tiptop domainers like Mike Mann , yet here we have you Mr.alienbaba have it all figured out. That is why they had "Swetha" verify "her" "sales", it is not clear to anyone what's going on.

Sorry for the insults. I was channeling my inner domain king Rick persona..

The company that paid Mike Mann $300,000 for digitalartists.com in 2021 is the same type of company paying 5 figures for .xyz & .eth domains, or buying monkey jpegs & fidenzas for 6 figures, or trading millions on dog coins. Hope that answers your question..

So your argument is that because a "tiptop domainer" like Mike or Rick make up some theories, it's true? And you'll just believe it rather than doing your own investigation?

Mike and Rick have a right to their opinion about .xyz being ugly or whatever, and they have been very vocal about their hate for anything that is not .com. But they did not bother to research into the typical end user buying Swetha's .xyz names for these prices before leading the witchhunt of saying the sales are fake..

The argument against Swetha initially was "I think .xyz is ugly/spam, so it is 100% impossible for anyone to pay 5 figures for an xyz".

When shown 5 figure sales from companies like twitter, paramount etc they changed to "Yeah some sales might be real but most are fake and didn't actually happen".

When Swetha let namebio login to her afternic to verify ALL reported sale transactions actually happened they changed to "Swetha doesn't actually exist. An indian woman couldn't have written in English like this. It is Daniel Negari in disguise buying from himself".

When shown developed sites they changed to "Yeah some sales are real and Daniel Negari actually used his massive influence to trick rich crypto investors into buying .xyz"

When told that even some of Mike Mann's .com reported 5 figure sales haven't been developed and it's actually a common thing, their argument turns to crickets..

The more evidence is shown, the more deranged the arguments get..

 

[UncleBrand]

it was pretty clear that all these big sales coming from one person mean only one thing

that it was a blatant promotion for the extension
people dont realize how easy it is to cheat with any online business
and some fortune were made with fake numbers

this is almost a repeat of the same story that went with others extension that appeared ten or 15 years ago,

ps: i tried to register F..Kxyz.com but someone already took the initiative, that would be a popular blog for sure

 

[HostGeeks.com]

It’s Not about being developed or not

.com of course is 80% of sales. I believe the founder of SH had a chart that shows that second is .org.

.xyz just came out the woodwork and at one point was being offered for some thing like a dollar

Since then tell now. 99% never see anyone using xyz

Then you have these “companies” putting there whole business presence essentially in .xyz tld. something the average consumer never heard of and will be scratching their heads at.

And who’s selling these xyz domains to these companies “swetha”, no one else (in the price range “she” advertises”

Sorry for the insults. I was channeling my inner domain king Rick persona..

So your argument is that because a "tiptop domainer" like Mike or Rick make up some theories, it's true? And you'll just believe it rather than doing your own investigation?

Mike and Rick have a right to their opinion about .xyz being ugly or whatever, and they have been very vocal about their hate for anything that is not .com. But they did not bother to research into the typical end user buying Swetha's .xyz names for these prices before leading the witchhunt of saying the sales are fake..

The argument against Swetha initially was "I think .xyz is ugly/spam, so it is 100% impossible for anyone to pay 5 figures for an xyz".

When shown 5 figure sales from companies like twitter, paramount etc they changed to "Yeah some sales might be real but most are fake and didn't actually happen".

When Swetha let namebio login to her afternic to verify ALL reported sale transactions actually happened they changed to "Swetha doesn't actually exist. An indian woman couldn't have written in English like this. It is Daniel Negari in disguise buying from himself".

When shown developed sites they changed to "Yeah some sales are real and Daniel Negari actually used his massive influence to trick rich crypto investors into buying .xyz"

When told that even some of Mike Mann's .com reported 5 figure sales haven't been developed and it's actually a common thing, their argument turns to crickets..

The more evidence is shown, the more deranged the arguments get..