Here's a thought experiment: Would you be willing to use a .xyz as your main personal web site url?

[brandnow]

Quick little thought experiment. I'm just curious how many people here would be willing to develop / direct their main personal web site to be a .xyz domain? Say for example, if you owned <firstname>,xyz? Would you be willing to use it or would you continue to wait for something "better," e.g: <firstname>.me, <firstname>.com, etc. Granted, for most first names the .me or .com varient would be out of reach, ridiculously expensive.

I was thinking about this recently because I was wondering how ridiculous or confusing a .xyz personal web site would be or sound to most non-domainers. Like if your .xyz were on your business card or if you were giving it out over the phone to a client or person, do you think in mid-2017 that most people would just be like 'uhhhhh x-y... what?'

Thanks for any responses

 

[bmugford]

Nope.

 

[TopShelf Domains]

I forward my 3 letter xyz to my linkedin page. It's my initials

 

[Beezy]

I forward my 3 letter xyz to my linkedin page. It's my initials

Nice! I love this use case. Anyone else forward .xyz to anything social, etc? I had mine just forwarding my blog for a while, but somewhere along the line it lost nameservers and i just never bothered fixing it. I also have a .cc too.

You inspired me to think of creative uses! Cheers.

 

[GoKaizen]

Yes

If the registry paid me $10 million dollars.

 

[Kate]

Doesn't that also sum up part of the problem with xyz and other ngtlds. It's domainers selling to domainers instead of to end users. That another reason I think this simple thought experiment would be a bit insightful.

Indeed. When domainers try to strings to end users, that they wouldn't use for a real world business it speaks volume about the confidence in the products they are peddling. I would say it's the greater fool theory in action.

 

[atinc]

No, I have zero .xyz domain and I do not have interest to have one.

 

[imadoer]

Whoever spent 200k on casino.online just wasted 200k they will realize that in a few years

 

[bmugford]

Casino.Online sale that happened this year already proves you are wrong.

Yeah, one isolated sale out of 25M+ registrations clearly shows a healthy and booming market....
I couldn't be bothered looking it up, but I assume the domain was also registry reserved.

Might as well just play the lottery, the odds are better.

Brad

 

[Kate]

Casino.Online sale that happened this year already proves you are wrong.

It was yet another registry sale. Domainers never make sales like these in new extensions, in fact they usually don't have a chance to get those (registry-reserved) keywords unless they pay dearly.
Just saying.
It's important to realize the casino is there and you are here.

 

[OmarVG]

.xyz

 

[mpls]

It was yet another registry sale. Domainers never make sales like these in new extensions, in fact they usually don't have a chance to get those (registry-reserved) keywords unless they pay dearly.
Just saying.

Here the truth.

Domainers, if lucky, will sell the registries scraps for 3 figures.

A 200k sale with a newG, for domainers, is and will remain only a dream.

 

[lotk]

My wife, Julie, says no to julie.xyz

 

[mad409]

My wife, Julie, says no to julie.xyz

She'd rather you make money than use it.

 

[imadoer]

I wouldn't use .xyz for anything

Execpt if i had a child i would remove the dot And teach them the end of the alphabet

 

[imadoer]

Man at least buy the .co .org net a cctld gtlds are done. I wouldnt use one for anything let them die in peice

 

[garptrader]

My view is that while Negari may be a skilled marketer, he made a very poor choice to launch a business around such a meaningless letter combination as XYZ. Why the &^%$#@! would a real business do that? I am sure there are a few but when it comes to providing your credit card number or wiring funds or downloading files from the internet, trust is an important factor. A weird extension does not instill trust so there is no way I would buy from any business operating on a XYZ.

 

[brandnow]

This thread answered a few things for me with nearly 75% of folks voting "No" to the question. Thanks! With .xyz not even bothering to add any transfer nor renewal promotions it seems like a no brainer not to develop on a .xyz domain.

 

[gpmgroup]

how about .info and .pro (they've been around for 12 years or so)... would you use a .info or .pro for a personal site? just wondering thanks

Yes .info is fine

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

would you use a .info or .pro for a personal site?

I'm using 2 .PRO domains for me and my family ~7.5 years already...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Also I had a few inquiries on my personal names .PRO

+ I saw many in use... like Director of Product Management at Facebook: quid.pro/about-me/

 

[ksusha64]

xyz is the worst extension possible. link,me,io,net, web,live,life pro,site,website makes more sense.

 

[Hemanttilotia]

My company name is Vitt llc, and I plan to develop Vitt.xyz

 

[atinc]

Lol So you want to tell people you think gtlds are great to invest into but you wont put your money in them? Making fun of my avatar huh lol if i post my real one it might scare the glasses off your face. I dont have a idea thats news to me. I do just fine selling .COM what have YOU sold recently?

I am not sure if you are able to read my signature cause I can read yours.

What makes you think that I have not invested on new gTLDs, LoL

Your avatar is cute, go ahead and post your real one I am sure it is cuter than your current one.

You don`t sell .COM btw, you sell a domain and you seem to be a full time domainer right, like selling few every week?

If we are going in to discuss whose budget is larger kind of conversation here, than I am out. cause that`s not my style no matter how I feel confident about it.

You made a wrong point and I just corrected you with a recent sale of 200K

Yeah, one isolated sale out of 25M+ registrations clearly shows a healthy and booming market....
I couldn't be bothered looking it up, but I assume the domain was also registry reserved.

Might as well just play the lottery, the odds are better.

Brad

What do I have to do with those 25M+ registry sales or their drops?

I am a private investor and those numbers are not my concern.

We saw that new gTLDs can reach over 200K in price for some investors, that is the whole point.

 

[.X.]

of almost all the new GtldS .xyz is the most unattractive to me, No .xyz for me, or any other GtldS either.

CCtlds make sense,I don't own any more,but, GtldS were made for domainers to buy and registerys to make millions off of, in my opinion. Childs Play so to speak.