debate Will .xyz flourish in 2019?

[Laguna]

What are your thoughts on .xyz in the coming year or two ?

 

[offthehandle]

All Sold out when they were touted as the next Bitcoin and only .88 cents.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/88-cent-domains-how-many-are-you-buying.1021822/

 

[Laguna]

You mean they are all taken ?

 

[offthehandle]

 

[BestDomains2828]

The only extension I can not invest money on, I hate this extension with passion, very worthless I don't even understand the meaning of this extension.

 

[Laguna]

I guess none of us can predict the future on this, so time will tell

 

[Bob Hawkes]

While the aftermarket sales have been weak the last two years, I have good feelings re .xyz. It has more real world use than most new extensions. I like it as a general purpose extension that is not based on English. I dont think we will see many large sales in 2019 but I predict the sales volume will be up compared to this year.

 

[Laguna]

I hope so because I just hand regged about 30 for a total of around 32 bucks. Won't lose a fortune but maybe a little money to be made

 

[Laguna]

Onlineflights.xyz
Only 1 buck but worth the risk in my opinion

 

[Fancy.domains]

- I sold a few ones in 2014 and 2015.
- I sold many in 2016 and 2017.
- I sold only one in 2018.

I will only keep my very best one-words...

 

[BestDomains2828]

Onlineflights.xyz
Only 1 buck but worth the risk in my opinion

you already had your answer if it worth will you get it at 1 buck ask yourself this.

 

[Keith]

.xyz is dead

 

[Laguna]

Yep I think so . However I spend more on a bottle of water

 

[Keith]

Yep I think so . However I spend more on a bottle of water

You get something out of the water - hydration. Xyz domains are just a waste. Just burn your money, at least it will look cool.

 

[Laguna]

Lol Keith, I'm sure you must of spent quite a lot money on domains in the past that have never sold. Even .coms struggle most of the time. Only a small percentage sell and cost a lot more. So on risk assessment alone, .xyz might be a viable option if the keyword is right

 

[Brands.International]

As usually, if you can take nice keyword name for standard renewal, of course take it

Xyz sells well when the keyword is good. Keyword should really have an appeal, so be very selective, and again, renewal must be standard (around 8-10 at most registrars).

 

[Brands.International]

In addition: I would stay away from word1word2 names, definitely, very slim chances of resale in 2018.

 

[Laguna]

As usually, if you can take nice keyword name for standard renewal, of course take it

Xyz sells well when the keyword is good. Keyword should really have an appeal, so be very selective, and again, renewal must be standard (around 8-10 at most registrars).

VRcasino is a decent keyword

 

[Brands.International]

VRcasino is a decent keyword

Well, one can think so, but only unless we go to uniregistry.com, and insert string "vrcasino" into search field, and find 224 available alternatives in new gTLD space (some very good, for $1,99)...

this can tell us what are the chances of selling such name...I think not much in 2018.

I really would go only for pure keywords like
vr
casino
poker
style
design
etc..just 1 worders.

 

[Internet.Domains]

Historically, New Gtld's top sales are when the keyword and the extension create a meaningful string. It's very hard to come up with a meaningful string with the .xyz extension. Perhaps Google took the only possible one with abc.xyz. Concluding, I will remind that New Gtld investing should be focused on meaningful strings and not on the extensions.