.XYZ below 5 million. Dropped 168k today

[Fancy.domains]

According to Domainpunch, .xyz today dropped 168170 names and is now below 5 million in total. Maybe not much of a news update, but just FYI.

 

[bmugford]

Seems like their 1.11 Billion number promotion has not really taken off. lol

Brad

 

[Fancy.domains]

Is always a good sign when major companies register on a new tld.
- see apple.xyz ( which redirects to apple.com )
- see abc.xyz ( Google's domain )

These are two of the examples... I trust this gtld.

Yep, still, it's a fact that it just dropped more than 400,000 names in two days.

I have many one-word .xyz and have sold a bunch as well for $xxx - $xxxx per each. I am just presenting the stats. I am somewhat bored with the idea of praising your "favorite" extension and dissing the rest. Why not be transparent regarding data, stats, gains, drops and sales?!

 

[jmcc]

Only the start.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Fancy.domains]

Yep, coming

Upcoming Deletes:
787,897 (13.99%)

Was a high around 6.7 million

Haha, crazy. But we "all" knew that. Domain giveaways will not be renewed, unless you forgot to switch a button

 

[jmcc]

A quick comparison of new XYZ domains from June 2016 with today's XYZ zone shows the following:
Total New June 2016 (20160601 to 20160701): 3,373,359

Not deleted: 360,941
Deleted: 3,012,418

That's approximately 10.7% not deleted yet.

Regards...jmcc

 

[offthehandle]

...looks like .xyz is not even the "most popular"

The most popular dropping extension.

 

[jmcc]

I am referring to the perception of the entire extension, especially when you give them away for a penny, it ruins any perceived value....though the markets do have short memories.

The market seems to have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. There are more domain names deleted than are currently registered. The 1c promo was a calculated move by XYZ. Normally, about 5% or so of heavily discounted domains renew. If XYZ manages to get close to that, the promotion has been a success. But it does make it a lot more difficult for people who are developing websites on the TLD when people start to think of it as a wasteland or zombie gTLD.

I like your website btw, thanks for it! I used the 500 top list ing.com, .ers.com for sorting expired lists, thanks for hosting it!

Thanks. I must update some of those lists. I've built a table with the most popular domain names across all the legacy gTLDs (COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA) and the new gTLDs that might be of some use. Have to get the time to merge it into the site.

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

Today's XYZ count: 2,393,438
June 2016 new XYZ remaining: 166,203 (4.926%)
June 2016 deleted from zone: 3,207,156

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

Today: 2,387,052
June 2016 in zone: 157,788 (4.68%)
June 2016 deleted: 3,215,571

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

120,145 left in zone out of 3,373,359 June 2016 new registrations. (29 July 2017)
3.56%

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

It's just not a particularly appealing letter set. It's perhaps somewhat enlightening to know that a project with the weight and power of google behind it still has the potential to fail.

It doesn't have the power of Google behind it. Google just decidd to call its corporate holding operation 'abc' and .xyz was the best gTLD to use. It has also tried to purchase the 'abc' string in other TLDs, I think. In publicity terms, it put the .XYZ gTLD on the map and gave it a boost. However, It is not a failure. In terms of marketing, .XYZ is quite good and it still has approximately 2.3 million registrations. It is not a .COM killer but the fragmentation of the market into geographical and niche gTLDs has changed things for generic TLDs. The deals that .XYZ did with various registrars to promoted discounted registrations has locked the gTLD into a Boom and Bust cycle with spikes in new registrations followed by spikes in deletions a year or so later. Nobody expected the 1 cent promotion domains to renew in large numbers. The renewal rate for discounted domain names in established gTLDs can be as low as 5% but it depends on the discount. Freebies tend to have the worst renewal rates and if this promotion comes out with over 1.5% renewals, it will be doing well. The renewal period for a gTLD domain name is approximately 45 days so the actual renewal rates won't be known until the end of the promotion date plus a year and 45 days or so. ICANN publishes the official renewal data in the registry reports and these are delayed by three months. Some of us who track registrations at a domain name level can estimate renewal rates by watching when a domain name appears as new and is then deleted from the zonefile. It is not perfect but it can show how a TLD is performing. While the deletions on .XYZ are large in terms of new gTLDs, the number of .COM domains that were once registered, deleted and never reregistered is in the hundreds of millions.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Fancy.domains]

Yep, almost 250,000 more names dropped today. Down to 4,66 million in total.

Not much of a surprise though. If you "give away" names, a lot of people will register loads of crap, that will not be renewed. Obvious stuff.

 

[JB Lions]

Another huge drop today. +200K names gone in a single day.

Below 4M this weekend maybe?

Yep, coming

Upcoming Deletes:
787,897 (13.99%)

Was a high around 6.7 million

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I shudder to think of how much money people have wasted on this terrible gTLD.

Shudder
168,000 domains is a whopping $1680 lol

 

[Embrand]

It will be interesting to see if most of these investors dropping them will give up on domaining altogether or look to .com. If .top and others experience the same thing, maybe this could give .com a new boost.

 

[Fancy.domains]

I have seen some (well known) city names on an expiring list earlier this week. Someone picked them up, so they won't be dropping.

Yep, a very few good names among tens of thousands of crappy ones.

 

[JB Lions]

Before the weekend it looks like, tomorrow Friday, another big drop, -212,000+, now 4,001,582 - https://namestat.org/xyz

Upcoming deletes up -
Upcoming Deletes:
945,584 (16.81%)
https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz

-250,296
Total Domains 3,751,286
https://namestat.org/xyz

Upcoming Deletes:
1,022,410 (18.19%)
https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz

It was about 2.8 million regs before that penny promotion.

 

[alcy]

at this stage most people woudln't even bother with xyz even if it was free.. or the very close to free 1cent promo imo

 

[EmotiveDomains]

Was always going to happen.

 

[Fancy.domains]

at this stage most people woudln't even bother with xyz even if it was free.. or the very close to free 1cent promo imo

Have sold .xyz for about 10K. Just sold one to a member here, about 24 hours ago.

It is up to the names

 

[bmugford]

at this stage most people woudln't even bother with xyz even if it was free.. or the very close to free 1cent promo imo

I will consider regging some when they start paying me

Brad

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Most were used like condoms...
Don't take so seriously this drop...

 

[jmcc]

Lot of spam sites and spam registrations were getting dropped. Its getting clean.

This is something that a lot of people don't realise. When a TLD starts to drop speculative registrations, most of these speculative registrations had no working or developed website attached. Domains with developed websites are less likely to drop than domains with no website. Thus the web usage percentage for .XYZ will have increased as a percentage of overall registrations. However the usage in XYZ is lower than that for .COM or the ccTLDs.

Regards...jmcc

 

[NamePrime]

I can't say I'm surprised