More than 20,000 .XYZ dropped today

[Fancy.domains]

Hello,

According to Domainpunch's statistics, more than 20,000 .XYZ were dropped today. Far from a surprise, but maybe worth to mention. Are these the Network Solution drops?

They are probably not available to register for quite some time yet.

Ps. I just check the ones with up to 5 characters and all (maybe except 2 or 3) were just nonsense.

 

[Optimal Names]

Whoomp There It Is

Hello,

According to Domainpunch's statistics, more than 20,000 .XYZ were dropped today. Far from a surprise, but maybe worth to mention. Are these the Network Solution drops?

They are probably not available to register for quite some time yet.

Ps. I just check the ones with up to 5 characters and all (maybe except 2 or 3) were just nonsense.

 

[alcy]

sounds like a lot of great keywords were droppped

xyz is cheap to get now

 

[Instrma]

just a thought .. since the giveaway
to promote xyz a lot of people actually invested in xyz
so xyz is a combination between false regs and true regs
false regs to drop

what is left ? it must be significant number

 

[Skyvisum]

Dot com for me.Used to it since forever.Wont put my money into xyz.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

Dot com for me.Used to it since forever.Wont put my money into xyz.

I'm not a domainer. I can't tell what kind of a domain name is going to gain in value and what is not, though this forum has inspired me to try a few because it seems like a good mental exercise to try and figure it out.

But anyway for the new gTLDs what I as a system administrator / php hacker have been telling people, get the dot.com if you can but for the ngTLDs there is value in the ones that have meaning, metadata if you will.

jazz [dot] radio - in the near future I suspect will be worth more than jazzRadio [dot] com.

That's the example I like to give even though .radio does not yet exist.

But what does .xyz mean? Absolutely nothing.

I buy cheap junk domains to make demonstrations for clients, often I use their domain name but a junk cheap TLD. Marketing tactic, they like to see their domain name, makes them like my work.

When .xyz is cheap, it can be used that way, but for production I just don't see the value. It means even less than .com does, so if going with a ngTLD why the hell would I choose .xyz ??

 

[mad409]

I'm not a domainer. I can't tell what kind of a domain name is going to gain in value and what is not

But what does .xyz mean? Absolutely nothing.

I can assure you if a reporter went on the streets of any major city and even worldwide and asked people what .com means and even today the mass majority wouldn't have a clue.

If xyz launched the same time com did the only difference would be one is pronounceable and the other isn't. But xyz is easy to remember. Back in the day many had to tell people when saying com how to spell com. Again if it would have been xyz everyone would have understood it better than com. JMO

I still reg and even buy a few com's but every time I look at empty payphone drive up stands in parking lots I'm wondering why. These new gTLDs are not going anywhere despite the ups and downs in renewals.

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

xyz is easy to remember, but hard to say - three syllables. And dot-com has a meaning just from the dot-com boom. There wasn't a dot-xyz boom to bring it into awareness.

That's why the new gTLDs I like all have some kind of obvious meaning like .audio or .radio or .nyc or .chat or .cam - the extension means something making it a different kind of memory than just the last 3 letters of the English alphabet (which really only has meaning to westerners, those with different native alphabets, even if they speak English, it may not be as memorable to them - Greek alphabet for example ends in Chi Psi Omega)

 

[dordomai]

.co is very easy to understand and .cc is too .net is super easy to understand and very generic.

Don't think .xyz is significantly better than any of these.

That is why they will never compete with .com

 

[mad409]

.co is very easy to understand and .cc is too .net is super easy to understand and very generic.

Don't think .xyz is significantly better than any of these.

That is why they will never compete with .com

.tv is easy to remember, .io is too but the thread is .xyz drops. I can assure you no gTLD will surpass xyz in their current state. I will watch .web though...

Never say never, I know that but I just don't see it happening despite the freebees, the ones I was never offered.

.ooo should not be compared to xyz that's a additional explanation as to whether it's zero's or LLL.

 

[Kate]

I can assure you if a reporter went on the streets of any major city and even worldwide and asked people what .com means and even today the mass majority wouldn't have a clue.

Everybody at least in the western world, actually knows .com, even if they don't realize it originally means 'commercial'. This is a moot point really.
On the other hand, few people know about .xyz and the other new extensions.

Do you know the meaning of acronyms such as GSM, AMPS, HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, SSL, BGP, DAB and so on ?
Yet it's technology you use on a daily basis.

 

[dordomai]

I can assure you no gTLD will surpass xyz in their current state..

Well that could be right. Personally I am not so sure.

I think it comes down to the quality of the $1-2 registrations. Will they renew or not? If they don't i could see .xyz being surpassed by others for example .web. Even if they renew I think .web could surpass .xyz over time.

Let's not forget that we are talking about global potential. At the moment .xyz is an asian extension mainly. It really isn't very popular in the US.

.web will quickly surpass .xyz in the US and perhaps EU markets in my opinion.

If .xyz should become popular and a household name then sdsinc needs to change the signature to:

The answer is $1-$2. What was the question ?

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

Well that could be right. Personally I am not so sure.

I think it comes down to the quality of the $1-2 registrations. Will they renew or not? If they don't i could see .xyz being surpassed by others for example .web. Even if they renew I think .web could surpass .xyz over time.

Let's not forget that we are talking about global potential. At the moment .xyz is an asian extension mainly. It really isn't very popular in the US.

.web will quickly surpass .xyz in the US and perhaps EU markets in my opinion.

If .xyz should become popular and a household name then sdsinc needs to change the signature to:

The answer is $1-$2. What was the question ?

If .web is full of premiums then may not pass .xyz - I haven't done a full analysis but looking at TLDs that I ran into premiums with vs TLDs where I didn't run into premiums, the ones that did not have premium domain names (at least that I encountered) had significantly more domains registered.

So I think it depends upon what happens with premiums in .web.

I don't want to pay $500+ a year for a domain name, not when I can $15 a year. Hopefully more registries understand that, including .web.

Supply and demand, there are a lot of registries to choose from (large supply), premiums are thus bad business.

 

[dordomai]

good point but is the number of reserved premiums really that large?I think uniregistry had 40k registered for themselves.

Once you have hundreds of thousands of registrations do the premiums make any
difference?

 

[Alice Wonder Miscreations]

good point but is the number of reserved premiums really that large?I think uniregistry had 40k registered for themselves.

Once you have hundreds of thousands of registrations do the premiums make any
difference?

I think yes for generic gTLDs. Just like there is a lot of loyalty to .com now, I think many companies would rather use the same TLD for all their domains than several different TLDs.

That is why a company will pay a lot for keyword dot com even when keyword dot net is available.

With saturation of dot com there is opportunity for a new TLD that could gain loyalty but not if they sabotage themselves with premiums.

 

[Omar Negron]

I didn't drop any...because I don't have any. lol.

-Omar

 

[Ms Domainer]

X Y Z = eXamine your zipper.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I dropped two and kept 1, just renewed so I am a big fan for at least one more year. Developing.

 

[enterscope]

.XYZ gets my vote as the worst domain extension of all time. It's just so bad. If you saw "Cars.xyz" on a billboard, and knew very little about domain names, you might skip over that completely. Whereas, Cars.us or Cars.org.uk at least have some resemblance to a website address.

 

[dordomai]

has anyone noticed that not only xyz is losing registrations but many others as well? .berlin -31k, .club -1.3k ect..

the gTLD program as a whole had negative net gains over the past 2 days (-17k today)

Now that the renewals are coming in you can see that growth rates are going to drop. It won't be as easy as in year 1.

 

[Loko]

I do like .xyz - I work a lot in cartography and I'm aware of the meaning of these three letters.
But I guess not everybody is aware of its significance.
Once you interpret this as a synonym of location - knowing your place in the world - it becomes much more interesting.
But alas, I mumble.

Good call..never thought about it even though I'm doing some 3d stuff.

Got my first unsolicited netsol .xyz on may 23th 2014, it's in dropping/deletion now.