advice .XYZ or .INFO or .IO?

[Simon Ward]

I am finding it really difficult to find valuable 1 word or 3 - 4 letter .coms. I think lots of people are probably in the same situation, especially people like me who are just starting to trade domains. I am just after a little bit of advice. I have found some 1 word and 3 - 4 letter .xyz, .info and .io domains, but which extension would get a higher price in an auction in general? Obviously, it would take into account the name, letters or length of the domain but which one is really best, .xyz, .info or .io?

 

[DNGear]

.xyz or .io

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If German words - .info definitely.

 

[000]

You may do well to consider alternative extensions. There are so many. It is possible to succeed with many types of domains, but the ones you've mentioned are not exactly the most lucrative you could have chosen. . .

At any rate, I would not mess with .xyz, personally, and .info isn't far behind.

 

[decode]

.xyz is a great long term choice. The fact that there are so many strong feelings about .xyz for and against shows it has resonated better than most of the new GTLD. Validation of its use check out abc.xyz (re google)

.io if it is tech related and .io has a lot of momentum right now.

 

[GoKaizen]

None. Stick with .com, .org, .net and certain cctlds.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I was just typing that.
Do not consider other extensions like 000 said. Not xyz
As for 1 world or 4L .com
If you have enough money to consider them you can afford to stay away from these new ext.

 

[decode]

lol google uses .xyz for one of its most important pages.
Obviously a one word .com has over 2 decades of market proof, go with that if you can.
But dismissing .xyz when the biggest internet company in the world stands behind it is interesting.
5 years ago people were laughing at 4L.com so understanding the long view is important.

No company bigger than Google has put an important site on any new gtld.
So the biggest vote of confidence is from Google for .xyz check out abc.xyz for ref.

Please someone who disses .xyz find me a bigger, more important company putting a new gtld into action other than google using .xyz

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Link to site that google uses and dont send me abc.xyz
Why did they not use CapitaG.xyz?

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

@decode waiting for the link to the important site that google is using..

xyz is poison https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/zrlefelp4wY/6Jx-eXXtAwAJ

Where is link to spamhuas most spammed extension? Wanna see if .xyz.tops.top yet

 

[Casey L]

If it's a solid keyword: .info
If it's tech related: .io
If you want to throw money in the toilet: .xyz

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

@decode abc.xyz looks like a real big important site. A lander
All that means is they realized its a waste of time developing it because email providers will block their emails.
Google.xyz doesn't resolve.
And they own it.
Why is that not developed or even forwarded to the .COM¿

 

[dordomai]

in some ways .xyz are a victim of their own success. They gave away so many domains so cheap that the spammers took advantage of them. Now they spam email accounts to death with .xyz and people start to hate the extension and associate it with spam.

If it goes on like that email providers will start to block them and then no end-user will want to build on an .xyz.

How can I block all .xyz junk mail.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/zrlefelp4wY/6Jx-eXXtAwAJ

Fed up with 8-10 daily spam from xyz domain. All a sameness gifting vouchers/gift cards from Boots and Aldi. They go in to spam box but would like this domain blocked.

I too am SICK of numerous emails per day from the top level .xyz -- why can't we set up a filter that immediately deletes ANYTHING with xyz in the sending address? Other email programs can do it. The name in front of .xyz changes each time, so setting up Gmail's current filters does no good.

p.s. The same would go for anything from .date !!!

 

[Kate]

lol google uses .xyz for one of its most important pages.

that nobody visits... But good luck with your .xyz. With good marketing perhaps people might take you seriously who knows

Please someone who disses .xyz find me a bigger, more important company putting a new gtld into action other than google using .xyz

They used plenty of other extensions. Doesn't mean they are all investment-grade.

I am just after a little bit of advice. I have found some 1 word and 3 - 4 letter .xyz, .info and .io domains, but which extension would get a higher price in an auction in general?

My advice: don't waste time and money on garbage. It's already hard enough to sell good .com. It takes money to make money. In other words, good names are already registered. Don't settle for the leftovers. If you want to sell domains, you need good domains, and you need to go where they are.

 

[Pierre Barnard]

but which extension would get a higher price in an auction in general?

.io

 

[GoKaizen]

Where is link to spamhuas most spammed extension? Wanna see if .xyz.tops.top yet

[URL]https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/[/URL]

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I dont see.xyz

Maybe Daniel is cleaning house?

Probably just lead to more dropped names

 

[GoKaizen]

I dont see.xyz

Maybe Daniel is cleaning house?

Probably just lead to more dropped names

List changes constantly. You only see new Gs on there.

 

[BOBAH]

I am finding it really difficult to find valuable 1 word or 3 - 4 letter .coms. I think lots of people are probably in the same situation, especially people like me who are just starting to trade domains.

i checked once the .COM , .NET and .INFO domain zones against most popular 3000 english words and against 100 adult words.

there are no free COMs and NETs, but several INFOs are free, like
weaken.info
kneel.info
condemn.info ecc...

i would not suggest investing in new tlds, may be only in liquid NNN or LLL ones

 

[Simon Ward]

Thank you everyone for the great advice. I am glad I made the post and asked the question before investing into a load of xyz domains! You probably just saved my marriage!