I am really amazed when someone posts such a question especially when
@DNGear always post screenshots of her sales whether she is selling at afternic, dan or squadhelp. She is Queen of XYZ and accumulating these domains in the past many years when no one was interested in them and the result is currently she is having more than 16000 of XYZ domain names some are as good as Gold.
Sometimes I seriously think our community really need a Thought Leader who can think independently and provide honest guidance to our small community. Why because this type of question was never raised for .CO and .IO
Do you really know the country code .IO geographical location or any leader from this ccTLD?
Do you know that a piece of land in the Indian Ocean has only 3000 people?
Do you know that as per UN Tribunal this land belongs to Mauritius and not to the United Kingdom?
Do you know that in the next few years this land will transfer to Mauritius just like Hong Kong?
Given these backgrounds, you can imagine the SEO, Google search reputation and future prospects of IO extension. Still, the IO extension is selling at record price every passing day, why? Because of the sentimental value or perceived value because investor or entrepreneur think it as "I Own"
In branding, perception plays an important role sometimes more than the real value. BitCoin and recent rise of DogeCoin are some of few examples.
Now coming back to XYZ extension, first about Swetha of course she has the best collection of XYZ domain names and volume thus definitely, she has a better probability of sales. Now why XYZ is selling like a hot cake, if you observe carefully XYZ represents many options, providing you alternative x, y or z. An important and trending features of today where technology, people and society is moving from a centralised system to a decentralised system. No wonder most of these domains are acquired by cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi and Blockchain related companies and the best part is all are owned by end-users and currently live. So unlike other extensions, it is used by the end-users.
Unlike many others being suspicious about her achievements, I get inspiration. I observed, carefully reviewed these sales feature and thereafter based on my own conviction started building my small XYZ portfolio. I invest in .com and normally avoid investing in IO or CO but I truly believe in this extension, I may be wrong but I am ready to take that risk.
Thank you Swetha
@DNGear for inspiring us and following your own gut feeling. It really needs the courage to go ahead against the trend and conventional wisdom and we are proud that you are doing this single handle with .XYZ from last 5 years.
Thank you!