Dot .XYZ registrations dip below 800,000 domains “in the zone”
We’ve been following the performance of the .XYZ gTLD and post weekly reports on its numbers. The news is that dot .XYZ domains have now less than 800,000 registrations, dropping from 803,856 to a new total of 791,038 XYZ domains. The numbers represent the number active domains that exist in the zone file, and therefore […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Weekly loss for dot .XYZ domains slows down to 22,000 names
Since last week’s report, the rate of expired .XYZ domains has slowed down. Our previous report showed a loss of about 35,000 domains, but this week the total drop was at 21,794 .XYZ domains. The number represents a 2.71% loss week-to-week, down from 3.96% of the week prior. According to data provided by gTLD tallying […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Weekly loss for .XYZ almost 35,000 domains per zone file
We’ve been monitoring the ‘health’ of several gTLDs, among which is dot .XYZ. The only new gTLD to have approached – but not reached – one million registrations, is a special case among the gTLD roster. June is the one year anniversary for .XYZ domains, and thanks to a massive promotion that occurred last year […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Regofix UDRP splits decision : Dot .COM stays, .XYZ leaves
A Swiss company filed a UDRP for the domains Regofix.com and Regofix.xyz, claiming it infringed on their REGO-FIX mark. The trademark was registered in Switzerland in 1997. Meanwhile, a former partner of the company, residing in Singapore, registered the .COM in 1996. Once their partnership ended several years ago, they offered the .com for sale […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .XYZ infographic : We hit the reset button on the Internet!
The folks over at the .XYZ Registry are known for their focus on the ‘XYZ generation’, and apparent obsession with purple. So when it comes down to creating an infographic spanning the last 30+ years of the Internet, be prepared for lots of purple color. Paying tribute to the 30 year anniversary of the first […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ : To the top of Kilimanjaro with the help of a Domainer ‘sherpa’
Despite a stingy situation that involves a lawsuit filed against it by Verisign, the XYZ Registry is gearing up to ascend new peaks. Last month, we covered the upcoming climbing of Mount Kilimanjaro by iron-kneed domainer, Ian Clark. Ian’s attempting to climb the tallest mountain in Africa, hoping to raise money for WaterSchool. One cannot […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Vote: Is this .XYZ video really ‘disparaging’ towards dot .com domain names?
The news of Verisign filing a lawsuit against the .XYZ registry is quite shocking. Not because of the variety of allegations included, but because Verisign – a behemoth of massive proportions – actually feels threatened by a gTLD registry. The fact is, that there are no good .com domains available to register – at registration […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Spam scum: Chinese registrar IISP.HK sends out .XYZ spam to harvested WHOIS emails!
Two years ago, the Chinese domain registrar IISP.HK (NiceNIC) casually copied two dozen DomainGang articles verbatim. After we complained, they took that content down. Today, they sent out a spam email, promoting $2 dollar .XYZ domains to email addresses directly harvested from the WHOIS information of domains. According to Japan-stationed domain investor, David J. Walker, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot gTLD: XYZ wins the prestigious ‘Houdini Award’
This year’s TRAFFIC awards somehow failed to acknowledge the impact a very special new gTLD brought to the domain industry. Established domain industry trend-setters, Dot .XYZ did not win any accolades or prizes, despite being nominated by more than three professionals. Charismatic entrepreneur and generation ‘XYZ’ domain convergence apostle, Daniel Negari, did not appear discouraged: […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign’s gTLD report is unreliable, thanks to .XYZ ‘wizardry’
Verisign’s data release on gTLD distribution, titled “Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs” provides some insight about what the heck is going on in the world of gTLD domain names. The data analysis uses the methodology described below, to identify the status of gTLD domains (developed/parked) after registration: “Our analysis also found the most […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.XYZ: Sign the petition for inclusion to Google Domains!
After perusing the domain gTLDs included in the newly launched, beta version of Google Domains, we kinda asked ourselves: Why wasn’t dot .XYZ included on the list? After all, the ‘generation XYZ’ registry considers itself hip and groovy, so why not include .XYZ domains to the approved list of manageable Google Domains? There is no […]
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