Someone just got a $225,000 dollar bill for .XYZ domain renewals!
Remember that .XYZ penny promo from last year? Almost 3 million .XYZ domains were registered in June of 2016, at the Registry’s loss, for a penny each. It’s renewal time, and someone who registered 45,000 .XYZ domains having spent $450, received a renewal bill for $225,000 dollars! That amounts to $5 bucks per .XYZ domain, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry and XYZ : Numbers, numbers, numbers for $0.88 a pop
Uniregistry is among the domain registrars participating in an unprecedented promotion by the XYZ Registry. In a nutshell: 1.111 billion numeric .XYZ domains are being released, and Uniregistry will be offering them for $0.88 dollars. If you’re in the market for numeric domains, now’s your chance to tap into this particular niche. The full press […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ to double its domain registration numbers with ingenious “hack”
The XYZ Registry is about to double its domain registration numbers, becoming the first new gTLD Registry with more than 11 million domains. Using an ingenious “hack” that involves Bit Register Overlay Shift (BROS) technology, all .XYZ domains will co-exist in both lower and upper case. “We’re about to bring innovation and revolutionize the domain […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Uniregistry on .XYZ domains : Automatic renewals are set to OFF
Uniregistry has notified holders of .XYZ domains that were registered during last year’s “penny promo” that auto-renewals are disabled. A year ago, the .XYZ registry allowed the registration of .XYZ domains for $0.01, resulting in almost 3 million registrations. Being able to register 1000 .XYZ domains for $10 bucks has consequences. At around $12 a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ : One year anniversary of “penny” mega sale approaching fast
In a little over a month from now, the .XYZ registry will be facing the one year anniversary of the “penny” mega sale. Almost a year ago, dot .XYZ domains could be had for 1 cent a pop, no questions asked, no limits. Millions of .XYZ domains were registered, more than doubling the numbers from […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Bulging domain numbers : Busy day in SXSW for XYZ “purple man”
An XYZ Registry “purple man” had a busy day today in Austin, Texas, where the SXSW conference is taking place. Stepping aside from the group of other XYZ purple men, the most animated guy donning purple tights removed his mask, temporarily. “I don’t want my friends and family to know I do this part time,” […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ali Zandi drops 1500 domain names – guess the TLD!
Domain investor and broker, Ali Zandi, has taken investment risks before; he often shares his successes and failures as part of his commitment to transparency. In a recent exchange on Twitter, Zandi stated he had just dropped more than 1500 domain names: “The PURGE: 1500+ domains… #deleted. Feels good. Can you guess the TLD?” Wow. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainers talking industry lingo got booted off Delta flight!
When boarding a plane, be careful what you say. A small group of domain investors got booted off a Delta flight on New Year’s Eve, after their conversation raised the suspicion of an Illinois grandma. Flight 2275 from Chicago, Illinois to Las Vegas, Nevada was delayed, in order to investigate the incident. According to the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ video : Domain sales are exploding!
Judging by the rate of growth (ROG) of .XYZ domain registrations, the future of “Generation XYZ” domains is unstoppable. Fresh data provided by the XYZ Registry in a promotional video confirm that sales are exploding. “We’re foreseeing millions of new .XYZ domains in China, now that we convinced the Chinese government that we’re the good […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ : June 2016 growth the result of “penny” promo, at a 7 figure loss
In a recent post, XYZ Registry CEO and founder, Daniel Negari, gloated over the company’s growth in 2016. Negari stated that .XYZ registrations outsold those of .COM by “over 1 million in June.” That number might be true: more than 3 million .XYZ domains were registered in June, 2016, when an ongoing “penny” promotion allowed […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dollar General to start selling .XYZ domains
Citing a paradigm shift in the domain registration market, the .XYZ Registry announced a new partnership: Dollar General. With more than 12,000 stores in the US and a net income of $1.165 billion dollars last year, Dollar General was founded in 1939 – before World War II erupted. “We’ve had so many .XYZ promotions, from […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.SpamHaus : Is .XYZ the most abused new gTLD ?
Dot .XYZ has accumulated a long history of controversy; from its launch two years ago, to its adoption for Google’s Alphabet project, to the penny promotion for its 2nd anniversary. With more than 6.4 million registered .XYZ domains, the brainchild of CEO and founder, Daniel Negari, began with the acquisition of XYZ.com for $50,000 dollars, […]
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