If you are eager to point out a winner in yesterday’s gTLD launch of dot .XYZ, look no further than the matching .com, owned by the Registry: XYZ.com.
Unlike all other gTLD Registries that operate under their respective gTLD, XYZ runs from XYZ.com, a domain that was acquired in 2010 for $50,000 dollars.
And there lies the genius of XYZ CEO, Daniel Negari: any unregistered XYZ domain, when accidentally appended the “.com”, will end up at XYZ.com.
For example, try these (currently unregistered) XYZ domains:
The introduction of new gTLDs to the general public is guaranteed to create confusion; for quite some time in the future, the early adopters of domain names and the Internet will be tagging a “.com” after every gTLD.
As a young entrepreneur, Daniel Negari is a visionary, and through the positive and negative feedback he’s currently receiving, he’s bound to adjust his navigation of the gTLD waters, en route to success.
And Daniel should take the opportunity to divert random123.xyz.com to random123.xyz, if the latter is registered.
fizz – The behavior mentioned does not apply to registered XYZ domains, for example: the.xyz.com redirects to the.xyz.