new gtlds .XYZ Becomes 1st New gTLD To Top 900,000 Registrations

[News]

According to new ntldstats.com .XYZ has 900,739, domain registered.

There are only 6 new gTLD extension to have broken the six figure mark (excluding the IDN .网址 (xn--ses554g) which are all registry owned) and here they are in order:

.XYZ
.Science
.Club
.Berlin
.Wang
.Link

Full Article: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/05/02/xyz-becomes-1st-new-gtld-to-top-900000-registrations/

 

[brandnow]

Congratulations XYZ!!

 

[Ms Domainer]

Yeah, right.

Cooking the stats.

According to Bram on The Domains (Comment section):

-- 42% of all.xyz domains were given away for free (Netsol)

-- 41% of all .xyz domains were sold at around $1-$2 a pop (Xin Net + GMO + Chengdu + Alibaba)

-- At least 10% of .xyz domain registrations had a huge discount as well at various registrars.

-- Basically this leaves 7% paid .xyz registrations at a regular price (around 63,000 .XYZ registrations).​

My guess: without the freebies and the $1 .xyz domains they would not have reached 100K registrations by now.​

Let's see how many of these are actually renewed BY THEIR OWNERS.

 

[Rick Ace]

Indeed, 2016 is going to be the deciding factor for .xyz . It will tell us whether .xyz (at least the best names) will survive.

I wonder if .xyz might be break the record for 900,000 domain drops. :D

 

[brandnow]

At least .XYZ is truly a new generic. For those few people who registered .rocks and .ninja (for example).. these were sold for .99 cents also for a lot of them.. they're gonna drop like rocks (pun intended) a year from now.

I also think .XYZ will become more popular in China as time goes on.. so that market should also drive it up.

In my opinion .biz and .mobi are on the way out.. though .mobi has been on the decline for a few years. And .XYZ and .CLUB are on their way "in."

 

[The Grinch]

xyz is as generic as .sdkfajasdfljk

still useless, and not attractive.

can't even give my short xyz domains away.

 

[vivaldi]

Is this extension even marketed in the west world anymore?

 

[brandnow]

xyz is as generic as .sdkfajasdfljk

still useless, and not attractive.

can't even give my short xyz domains away.

I'll take 'em

 

[Rick Ace]

I'll take them as well. :D

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Time will tell. I had 3, dropped 2. See how many people start Developing.xyz domain names. I haven't seen or heard of many sales. O'Leary says numbers don't lie. That doesn't apply to domaining

 

[The New Guy]

Will .xyz be #1 in drops this year? Time will tell!

 

[brandnow]

#1 in drops will be .biz

 

[Kate]

At least .XYZ is truly a new generic.

Generic ? How ?

I also think .XYZ will become more popular in China as time goes on.. so that market should also drive it up.

Why in China in particular ? They already have .top for spamming and selling counterfeit goods.
Oh wait, there is also .pw that spammers love

...
O'Leary says numbers don't lie. That doesn't apply to domaining

The numbers may not lie, but still be misleading.
That's precisely what the .xyz registry does: cheat, show off and mislead.

A more relevant measure of value is development (along with trust and mindshare), and this is where all new extensions will fail miserably. The numbers cannot conceal the abysmal failure in terms of actual use of the domains.

 

[brandnow]

Why in China in particular ? They already have .top for spamming and selling counterfeit goods.
Oh wait, there is also .pw that spammers love

True. Good point. :D

 

[ivansy86]

I think .xyz is giveaway.. saw it few months ago, but i just don't like the extension.

 

[pdevananth]

Xyz is 3 letter extension still it doesn't make any sense.

Waiting for .web

 

[fstjosh]

Pls what is d meaning of

 

[fstjosh]

XYZ

 

[fstjosh]

I'm new here

 

[simon churchill]

Selling all mine for $2 each