Baldrick Schwanz: Lucky owner of XYZ.Berlin talks about his freemium domain investment
The war of numbers between the gTLD domain registries is heating up; the XYZ Registry gave out 133,000 .XYZ domains in a Network Solutions promotion and now other domain registries follow suit. The proud German registry of dotBerlin launched a short-lived promo on dot .Berlin domains that didn’t last long, after Sedo sweethearts DomCollect tried […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Photoshop trademark: Will this be the first .XYZ domain UDRP?
Trademarks are meant to be enforced, or they risk becoming genericized; it happened with aspirin and others. Despite the recent (ab)use of “Photoshop” as a lower case verb indicating retouching of a photo or image, it is still very much a live trademark of Adobe, Inc. It comes as a surprise that Photoshop.XYZ is flat […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stihl: First .CEO UDRP ends with a gTLD domain transfer
The domain name Stihl.CEO was lost in a UDRP.
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.HosterStats: 85% of the XYZ websites have an IP associated with the Virgin Islands
HosterStats, a long-standing authority on facts and figures related to domains and web sites, has published some interesting metrics about the development status of various gTLDs. Despite claims of ongoing development of XYZ domains into active web sites, a very low adoption rate is demonstrated by the HosterStats figures; currently only 1% of XYZ domains […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.It’s .CLUB against .XYZ in email spat between the two CEOs
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 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ICANN: Zone file system planned downtime
If you’re getting the latest zone file stats for gTLDs, you’re most likely aware of the controversy over the XYZ numbers. Regardless, the system, provided by ICANN to allow access to the Registries’ zone files, will undergo some down time. According to a notification email: The Centralized Zone Data Service (CZDS) website will undergo planned […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Tim Schumacher on .XYZ: How to know you really fucked up!
After reading Ron Jackson’s editorial on the XYZ “scandal”, Tim Schumacher, co-founder and former long-term CEO of Sedo.com stated: “A behavior like this is truly something I don’t miss, being out of the domain industry now for over two years… And on a side note: if even Ron Jackson, one of the kindest and nicest […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Flippa seller using artificial dot XYZ numbers to promote domains!
Pumped by an unprecedented promotion by Network Solutions, the registration numbers of dot .XYZ appear to have crossed the 100,000 threshold. As debunked by many reputable domain analysts, such as Mike Berkens, Kevin Murphy and Ron Jackson, these numbers should not be counted as valid domain registrations. Unfortunately, the damage to the general interest in […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dyslexic domainers find paradise in gTLD names domains
The proliferation of gTLD domains has been a boon for many forward-thinking domain investors, who go after meaningful, keyword+gTLD strings. Another side of the gTLD success is the proliferation of its use among domainers, investors and end-users suffering from dyslexia. Indeed, combinations such as stool.bar, stop.rest and domainers.social are prime examples of reversed linguistic order; […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Poll: Are the .XYZ numbers ‘kosher’ or not?
The .XYZ launch has been making headlines for this past week. But is all publicity, good publicity? As Rick Schwartz said on Domain Sherpa regarding the registration numbers of .XYZ: “I’m sorry – that does not count to circulation, OK?” Aided by 64,693 .XYZ registrations at Network Solutions that are most likely ‘freebies’ to NetSol customers, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Funny .XYZ video captures the jubilant moment of launch
It’s Phriday, so chill out, mmmkay? Here’s the latest video created by the XYZ team, to celebrate the launch of the only gTLD to be bought up en masse by Network Solutions, on its very launch day. So what if the numbers included 25,000+ robo-registrations? What truly counts is the fun the team had, right? […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Rick Schwartz bursts the XYZ bubble on epic Domain Sherpa video!
As part of the Sherpas team of domain investors, Rick Schwartz fully burst the dot .XYZ bubble and its artificially inflated numbers. The weekly Sherpa interview included Adam Dicker, Mike Berkens, Page Howe and Rick Schwartz – Michael Cyger is the moderator and owner of DomainSherpa.com. After being told by XYZ CEO, Daniel Negari, that […]
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