new gtlds .XYZ, .CLUB and .VIP Receive Government Approval In China

[Silentptnr]

Been reading all over about this today. Looks like approval has finally come for .xyz, .club and .vip. Should see inceased registrations now that sites using these three tld's can be hosted in china.

I read about this on domaining.com.

 

[The Durfer]

whoo hoo! (boobs bouncing up and down.) lol

 

[grigio]

I've waited for this day congrats to the .Club registry.

 

[The Durfer]

had no idea, this means sales right? yea!

 

[Silentptnr]

had no idea, this means sales right? yea!

Yes, I believe so!

 

[namezest]

That will be interesting to see now if any go at NamesCon.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I totally missed out on .xyz and .club and .vip extensions. I just stuck with the "old guard" type thinking that these extensions are worthless to stick with .com's I guess you investors of such things are having the last laugh huh?

 

[BrandChimp]

I invest where the money is. Startups likes .xyz China likes .xyz There are a lot of new tech startups in China I invest in .xyz

 

[Ategy]

I understand that it was a business sale and not a domain sale but it is another good End-User using .XYZ.
Abc.xyz Starship.xyz Engine.xyz
Those are three other noteworthy End-Users. There is a long list at ...

There will be end users in every extension ... particularly new ones as some start-ups try to gamble ahead of time on what will be the next hot new TLD ... but at the end of the day if you take the ratio of built up end-user sites divided by the number of domains in circulation and .xyz probably has the smallest fraction of % usage.

This new news will definitely drive up short term sales and speculation .. but the real question is if it will actually drive end users to use/develop these domains .. or more likely simply inflate the .xyz bubble even further?

Their price points make the answer to that question almost impossible to tell. At pennies for first year registration these domains are essentially free ... it's not a business model that lends to easy evaluation.

China is a very weird market .. the growth/bubble last year had little to do with actual usage of the domains and more to do with the money market and unusual loan system over there. It's something that's very hurtful to domains in the long term as it creates artificial bubbles (although I guess if you sell on the high side of the bubble it can be good for you .. but this bubble isn't based on domaining fundamentals at all).

Obviously if you have/get great key-terms left of dot at $0.01 then there really isn't anything to lose .. you'll definitely come out a winner at this point ... but with millions of .xyz domains already registered by domainers the real question is are there any solid domains left in significant numbers (because yes .. even in .com the odd great one can still be hand regged .. but I think you know what I mean)?

At the end of the day this is actually more "non-news" than people think .. as the real news would be something that generated more end-users .. which for us would mean more RETAIL sales at better prices. This news simply moves a small handful of low-end .com sales over to .club and .xyz ...

At first thought without looking at the numbers at all, is that although this is good short term news .. but I'm thinking it's completely insignificant compared to the crushing drop for .xyz next year when the $0.01 registrations face full price renewals.

Combine that with the fact spammers flock to the lowest price extension and I'm not sure if I'd want to be holding anything but the top 0.01% left-of-dot .xyz domains next year (ex: single-key-term, LLL or less, NNNN or less, short-Chinese-terms, etc).

At the end of the day there are WAY too many .xyz out there to justify the demand .. plus the sale price point for most of them doesn't justify holding them longer than 364 days .. at that point will you sell enough to make it worth your time/effort? My guess to that answer is "no" for pretty much any .xyz domains still left today .. the only exception is possibly Chinese speakers who have tons of time to go through a lot of possible terms and popular play-on-words not registered yet ...

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I wonder exactly what parameters need to be met to even be accepted like these three in China? bribes? lol and I wonder when other extenstions will if ever get accepted in China? like .bet?

Oddly enough. chinese extensions are not even being allowed to be listed on 4.cn and Ename. why?

 

[boker]

I have some like: louhu, dilian, dituce, pinlu, ruanti and others in xyz
and some like: gexin, wok, won, guben, keben, meicuo, ticao, wokan, ershi ant others in pw

Pretty good traffic from China, but lets see if I get some nice offers with this move.

 

[dordomai]

Oddly enough. chinese extensions are not even being allowed to be listed on 4.cn and Ename. why?

because there is no serious market for these...

 

[namezest]

I wonder exactly what parameters need to be met to even be accepted like these three in China? bribes? lol and I wonder when other extenstions will if ever get accepted in China? like .bet?

Oddly enough. chinese extensions are not even being allowed to be listed on 4.cn and Ename. why?

Probably because they are not Chinese, most are actually American and the rest European.

 

[BrandChimp]

alearady have some 3L 4N 5N and a bunch of premium 6N

 

[BrandChimp]

How about .shop and .store?

I get it for .XYZ as it means 'Next' in Chinese and it is a lso a "CHIP'.

I don't know why .Club and .Vip are approved. Maybe .SHOP can be next if they have applied.

Who knows!

 

[168]

That will be interesting to see now if any go at NamesCon.

I'm submitting mine !

Congrats Colin and staff !!
Greatly appreciate your efforts for the benefit of all !!!
Merry Christmas
Cheers

 

[longtaitou]

I get it for .XYZ as it means 'Next' in Chinese and it is a lso a "CHIP'.

I don't know why .Club and .Vip are approved. Maybe .SHOP can be next if they have applied.

Who knows!

In our country, these junk suffix has been resisted by the domain name investors. Very few people play

 

[westdotcn]

 

[westdotcn]

http://West.xyz another good End-User.

Yes, of course, as the biggest newG registrar in the world, we use dai.top to built domain financial platform, use west.xyz as our international website, and we will use west.vip as soon as possible.

 

[London555]

We just hand reg'd 888o.xyz not the best but not too bad for China -has to be worth something with this new approval- so there are still names out there. Good luck to all.

 

[Ategy]

And to top it off, the company Sling.xyz just got acquired for $10 Million USD.
http://www.geektime.com/2016/07/12/brazilian-avante-to-acquire-israeli-startup-sling/

Yeah .. but that was likely $9,999,900 for the business .. and giving the benefit of the doubt absolute beyond maximum value of $100 for the actual sling.xyz domain (probably more like $20 after the little post-approval bubble dies off)

 

[grigio]

Some results from the daily West.cn auction Today -

.XYZ

vqr.xyz - $93.94 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25166828
agj.xyz - $93.94 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24900729
mmq.xyz - $257.58 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24887865
ftq.xyz - $196.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228874
ysq.xyz - $227.27 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228865
qvw.xyz - $109.09 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236307
jql.xyz - $204.55 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228870
ajh.xyz - $103.03 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236298
vxa.xyz - $93.94 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236320
2811.xyz - $219.70 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24887867
sif.xyz - $96.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24999508
sjv.xyz - $93.94 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25167097
jla.xyz - $103.03 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236302
hna.xyz - $109.09 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236300
jkq.xyz - $189.39 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228871
wrj.xyz - $242.42 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25331810
ffq.xyz - $219.70 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228875
vva.xyz - $109.09 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236319
tqc.xyz - $196.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228866
guw.xyz - $78.79 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24984224
qps.xyz - $189.39 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228867
veu.xyz - $78.79 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25016105
xxb.xyz - $295.45 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24887861
8958.xyz - $204.55 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=24984227
zyp.xyz - $196.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228863
hxf.xyz - $196.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25228873

.CLUB

yhk.club - $196.97 - https://www.west.xyz/en/trade/show.asp?pid=25236280

 

[London555]

We already had 88a.club but also reg'd 888a.club and 888w.club We'll see if these ever become worth anything-they just might now. Any thoughts if .ws gets China approval? We own one of the best pinyin names in .ws and are going to hold to see what happens. We have enough but NNL.club names are still avail. but probably not for long re: 99x.club etc We have enough already. Good luck to all.

 

[ZapNano]

Been reading all over about this today. Looks like approval has finally come for .xyz, .club and .vip. Should see inceased registrations now that sites using these three tld's can be hosted in china.

I read about this on domaining.com.

How about .shop and .store?

 

[168]

I get it for .XYZ as it means 'Next' in Chinese and it is a lso a "CHIP'.

I don't know why .Club and .Vip are approved. Maybe .SHOP can be next if they have applied.

Who knows!

.xyz also means little universe
reg numbers and popularity in the china market are a consideration but mostly you have to be willing to set up an office in china and be willing to work with their back end providers, comply with reporting,standards, etc.
All reasonable requirements to protect their market. It takes a lot of work, paper trails, and investment so hat's off to those who put in the effort.
China buyers are still buying those not approved like .red, .dog, .fish as collectables