The gTLD domain industry is heating up, after email messages were exchanged between Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ and Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB.
According to a message posted by Colin Cambell at Rick Schwartz’s blog, Daniel Negari expressed his strong displeasure over recent comments by sending Campbell this email titled, “Ethics”:
“Wow – Your ethics – or lack thereof beyond baffle me. The truth will be told and come out – completely. I hope you lose sleep at night knowing I know everything you have been behind.”
Colin Campbell responded thus in public:
“If Mr. Negari, believes that I am behind all of the uproar behind the opt out registrations and that I managed to convince an entire industry through a few of my own personal comments I think he is misguided. If anyone who was influenced by my comments or my concerns with this marketing campaign, please come forward. I’d really like to understand how I could have caused all of .XYZ’s issues?”
Up until the week of the .XYZ launch, the .CLUB gTLD was ranking first among all the other gTLDs, a position it lost after a massive XYZ campaign by Network Solutions that received widespread criticism from various media; one of the strongest remarks was made by Ron Jackson at DNJournal.
Is this an indication of “number wars” between competing gTLDs for a piece of the million dollar pie?
You can read the full exchange here.
