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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Would you like to buy an A,E,O vowel? First .XYZ domain lost in UDRP
After more than 230,000 robo-registrations of .XYZ domains at Network Solutions, it was bound to happen: the decision for the first UDRP for a dot .XYZ domain name was just delivered. American Eagle Outfitters filed the UDRP at the National Arbitration Forum; the case involved the domain AEO.xyz, registered at Uniregistry. The Complainant operates from AEO.com […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Network Solutions applies for domain “robo-registration” patent after .XYZ success
Network Solutions, the registrar of more than 180,000 automatic registrations of .XYZ domain names, has applied for a patent of the process at the USPTO. Application number 54922212173-XYZ covers the process as follows: “A method of domain allocation, utilizing a software script, that registers and places a domain name into the account of an existing […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.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 © 2025 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 © 2025 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 © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Father Domainicus and the papering of our Domain Church
Greetings and salutations, my brothers and sisters in domaining; this is Father Domainicus on this fine Father’s Day, with yet another important message. Many a member of our Domain Church have asked this question: What exactly is the ongoing “papering of the house” that Brother Ron has written about? In the days of the Sodom […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domainers at the hospital after .XYZ sponsored party during NamesCon
Several domainers from California have checked in the San Diego Regional Hospital’s disease control clinic, citing side effects from alcoholic drinks consumed this past January. “We’re looking into possible exposure to a mysterious substance called ‘agent purple’, that interacts with the patient’s melanin receptors,” said Dr. Tricia Cummings of the SDRH. “The change in color […]
Copyright © 2025 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Premium domain name Boobs.XYZ sells for seven figures
It’s finally redemption and acknowledgement of value for the much-hammered gTLD domain, XYZ. After months of negotiations with publisher Larry Flynt, the domain name Boobs.XYZ was sold. The transaction is in the low seven figure range and it’s bound by an NDA, something that will make the task of confirming the sale rather difficult. […]
Copyright © 2025 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 […]
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