Daniel Negari of .XYZ with the new huvr hoverboard.
Daniel Negari, founder of XYZ, the multi-generational gTLD, is well known for his affinity to big, bright projects.
The .Monster CEO has managed to strike a deal with UNR, the poster child of Uniregistry-exiting founder, Frank Schilling. UNR auctioned off its gTLDs (but not itself) and Negari grabbed a select few to build more fun projects on.
We asked Daniel Negari to describe his vision of the newly acquired gTLDs, and this is what we received:
Hey there guys! I appreciate your interest in our newly expanded family of top level domains! First of all, don’t call them “new gTLDs” as we are pushing a decade since the launch of XYZ.
But onto the new guys on the block!
I remember fondly one time right before .Christmas that my .Mom asked me what toys I wished to receive from Santa. Being only seven, all I wanted was a brand new .Game, perhaps something cool like Connect 4, Hungry Hippos, or Battleship.
We ate so much food during the holidays that I had to go on a .Diet and I still am embarrassed by the .Pics. My friends received some cool .Audio gifts, such as a Sony Discman. Jimmy and Larry, my twin best friends, received .Guitars!
That day I gave my mother .Flowers and I opened my presents, only to find coupons for unlimited web .Hosting, not exactly what I wanted! .LOL
Oh well. About my vision for these TLDs…it’s all about the memories, so search into your childhood’s best ones and register the domains that best represent you.
Much love,
Daniel.
Slightly.. distracted.. by.. hoverboard.. fie
With similarily out-there beyond-curve pricing a world could be imagined where each audio track / release has its own domain. The registry / registrars could integrate addon functionality such as that of the recently aquired bandcamp, or other things, semi-baked in. Listener/community interaction auto-renews domain, or all unregistered domains regex-resolve to tracks and voilà… a fleet of hoverboard at audio HQ have their decks spell .audio
Unrealistic for a registry as would have to spit out permutations which propogate, but just a thought bubble.
My thinking is audio could have addons like text has wordpress, and every release could have a domain.