Tag Archives: .XYZ

Tue 27th October 2015
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UDRP Filed on Gorgonzola.xyz By Owner of Gorgonzola.com - The “Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola” just filed a UDRP on the domain name Gorgonzola.xyz Gorgonzola of course is a cheese, and Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola translates to “Consortium for the Protection of the Gorgonzola Cheese” yes seriously and they own the domain name Gorgonzola.com. Its pretty amazing how much you learn writing a blog: “Following the Stresa meeting of all major European experts in the dairy sector, an agreement was entered into on ... read more ...
Mon 26th October 2015
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Verisign v. XYZ set for jury hearing subsequent week - Verisign’s false advertising case about .xyz top level domain name is scheduled for jury trial next week. [Update: the judge has granted summary judgment to XYZ.] .Com registry Verisign is scheduled to present its case against .XYZ next week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Verisign filed a false advertising suit against .XYZ and its founder Daniel Negari in December. At the center of Verisign’s argument is that .XYZ gave away free .xyz domain names and then used these “inflated” ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2015
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.XYZ is Back Over 1 Million Domain Registrations & None Of Them Are Free - The new domain extension .XYZ has crossed the 1 Million domain name registration mark again. However now all of the “free” Network Solutions (NetSol) domain names that were stuffed into customers accounts on a non-automatic renewal basis have run their course. So all remaining Netsol registrations for an .XYZ domain exist because the owner paid to register or renew the domain According to Zone file records .XYZ crossed back over 1,000,000 domain registration mark for the first time today, since ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
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Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September - Verisign’s (VRSN) published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com list. In all 2356 .com domain names were registered that contained XYZ and here is the list of  September .com registrations that contained XYZ Curiously the domain name google-abcdefghijklmnopkrstuvwxyz.com was registered in September before it was ... read more ...
Tue 13th October 2015
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Famous Four Media Becomes 3rd New gTLD Registry To Pass 1 Million Domains - According to a Press Release out today, Famous Four Media has become the 3rd new gTLD registry to pass one million domain names. Donuts was the first to hit 1,000,000 domain registrations but they  offer well over  100 new domain extensions for sale. .XYZ was the second registry to hit 1,000,000 domain names but they did that only on 1 new domain extension .XYZ. According to the press release; Famous Four Media “reached this milestone in just over a year following the launch of its first Top ... read more ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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Company Re-Brands From .Com To .XYZ Purchased For $5,700 -   A company which re-branded to a .Com in March, from a .Org, has purchased an .XYZ domain name from a domainer and re-branded to an .XYZ domain name. According to its site, “Engage, is a division of INHS, is one of the largest MEDITECH hosting partners in the United States. With 20 years of extensive MEDITECH experience, Engage provides a wide range of infrastructure solutions including hardware refresh, virtualization, data migration, data center migration and implementation. Engage leverages ... read more ...
Sat 19th September 2015
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.XYZ Is Back Over 900,000 Registrations & Netsol Regs Once As High as 85% Are Under 15% - The new gTLD is back over the 900,000 domain mark in the zone file. The first time the .XYZ new gTLD crossed the 900,000 domain registration mark was in May of 2015.  At that time the percentage  .XYZ domain names registered at NetworkSolutons.com was over 41% The extension which had as many as over 1.13 million registrations according to https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz, fell below 800K registrations as the “free” .XYZ domain names given to Network Solutions customers expired and started going ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Web.com: Verisign did a "blatant bait-and-switch" - Company doesn’t want to provide accounting information to Verisign. Web.com is fighting back against a Verisign request for more information about how the registrar accounted for .xyz domain name registrations. Verisign is suing .XYZ for false advertising after .XYZ boasted about its registration volume — which Verisign alleges was inflated by a Network Solutions giveaway. Web.com owns Network Solutions, which gave away hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names to its customers. At issue appears ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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Hot in August: Top 5 Stories on Domain Name Wire - A look back at the past month in the domain name biz. It’s back to school, cooler weather and domain name conference season… But before that, August was a news-making month for the domain name industry, in particular the .xyz domain name. I wrote multiple stories on some of the hotter topics, so I’ve grouped these together on the list. 1. Google is now part of Alphabet, uses ABC.xyz. This surprise announcement lifted awareness of all new top level domains. 2. Verisign v. XYZ – It was a busy ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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.XYZ seeks to boot Verisign's consultant testimony - New TLD company claims some expert testimony should not be allowed. .XYZ is asking the court to dismiss expert testimony from four expert witnesses in Verisign’s false advertising lawsuit against the new top level domain company. Some of the court filings are heavily redacted, leaving out the juicy details many in the domain name want to know. All expert witness reports were filed under seal. For example, just what kind of deal did .XYZ have with Network Solutions when the latter gave away hundreds ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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Here are a Exhibit and Witness lists for a Verisign v. XYZ trial - Lists will hit home in the domain name industry. Verisign’s lawsuit against XYZ.com, LLC and Daniel Negari continues to move forward at full speed, thanks to the “rocket docket” in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia. Both parties have submitted their proposed exhibit lists and witnesses for the trial. Reviewing the exhibit lists, it’s clear that if you emailed Daniel Negari about .xyz, there’s a good chance Verisign has reviewed that email. If you wrote or commented about ... read more ...
Wed 19th August 2015
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Verisign presses Network Solutions for sum on .XYZ registrations - Company files motion to compel Network Solutions’ parent company to provide a witness. Verisign has filed a motion (pdf) in a Florida court to compel Web.com, parent company of Network Solutions, to provide a witness to testify about how the registrar accounted for free .xyz domain names. Network Solutions gave away perhaps hundreds of thousands of .xyz domain names last year. They weren’t just offered for free; They were placed in customer accounts on an opt-out basis. Verisign is suing .XYZ ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2015
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Sorry Google The .XYZ Registry is Not For Sale - Reuters.com, is reporting, despite some rumors in the domain space that the .XYZ registry is going to be bought by Google, after its purchase of abc.xyz, the CEO of the .XYZ registry said today its not for sale. The CEO of the .XYZ registry Daniel Negari was quoted by Reuters that his company is not for sale. “I believe I was put on the earth to do .xyz, and to bring it to the market. “My work is nowhere near done” Negari added the .XYZ registry has seen interest from large technology players ... read more ...
 
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Donuts: Verisign perplexing to intimidate, brag competitors with .XYZ lawsuit - New top level domain company issues statement after court finds in its favor. A judge in U.S. District Court in Washington state has denied Verisign’s request for reconsideration in a subpoena battle involving competitor Donuts. Donuts says Verisign is trying to intimated and bully competitors through similar subpoenas. Verisign subpoenaed Donuts as a non-party in the .com registry’s lawsuit against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Donuts fought back, asking the court to quash the subpoena. The judge ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Verisign sues CentralNic and .XYZ over .Theatre, .Protection and .Security - Company upset that Verisign was dropped as registry services provider in favor of CentralNic. Earlier this week I noted a lawsuit Verisign filed in Virginia against .XYZ and Daniel Negari. Thanks to a request by the defendants to remove the case to federal district court, I now have a copy of the lawsuit (large PDF). As it turns out, Verisign originally sued Key Brand Entertainment, applicant for .Theatre, and CentralNic back in March in Circuit Court in Fairfax County. The basis of the lawsuit was ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Breaking: 8.xyz Hits a DOMAINfest .asia Auction during No Reserve -     The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan. All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China. The number 8 ... read more ...
 
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Report: Traffic to Alphabet.com Surges 5,000%; ABC.XYZ Gets 4 Million Visits in 2 Days - According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a “digital measurement service” says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw “an average of 3,000 desktop visits” prior to Google announcement ” surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google’s announcement on Monday before spiking to around 163,000 on Tuesday. The story goes on to report that the domain name abc.xyz ... read more ...
 
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Google Alphabet news causes CentralNic shares to burst 50% - Shares in .xyz services company are up big this week. Shares in domain name registry company CentralNic have jumped about 50% since Monday afternoon. The company thinks this is due to Google’s selection of the domain name abc.xyz for its new company Alphabet. CentralNic is the backend registry provider for .xyz domain names. Shares on the London AIM (CNIC) traded for about 40 pence on Monday afternoon, and have shot up to 61 pence at the time of writing. CentralNic issued a statement this morning: The ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2015
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Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: "I Think It's Over" - Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain name. We know that .Com is king,  how long will that last? Daniel: “I think its over” Negari went on to say .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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See .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari on Bloomberg - Bloomberg features .xyz and how Google’s big announcement has affected it. .XYZ and its CEO Daniel Negari are riding the wave of Alphabet, Google’s new parent company. The company’s official website is abc.xyz, representing the first and last three letters of the alphabet. Negari was on Bloomberg earlier today discussing the spike in registrations his company has seen since the Alphabet announcement. The video also features commentary from GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving about the availability of ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement - Since Google Inc. announced Alphabet Inc. on August 10, 2015 around 3 PM ET and stated they will be using the domain name ABC.XYZ, the new gTLD .xyz has had nearly 20,000 new domain names registered! It started with over 6,000 .xyz domains being registered after Google’s announcement. New registrations for .xyz cranked that rising total up over double in one day with 13,000+ more domain name registrations! (13,206 to be exact) with a two day total of about 20,000 newly registered .xyz domain names. It ... read more ...
 
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Has .XYZ Forever Changed a Name Game ? - Lexi Pandell of Wired wrote a very interesting headline for a story on Google using ABC.xyz, “Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance”  Lexi mentioned that she interviewed Daniel Negari earlier in the year and he gave his vision on .XYZ. “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turns out someone agrees with him. Yesterday, Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, revealed that it is making its online home at abc.xyz—a move ... read more ...
Tue 11th August 2015
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Did Google Buy Alphabet.Xyz for $3,800 - GTLD.link is a forum that focuses solely on new gtlds. Last night at 8:28 a member posted he owned Alphabet.xyz and sold it. Sold too cheap So, I received a $2,500 Sedo offer last week for alphabet.xyz. I didn’t think much of the domain, so I countered with $3,800, and the buyer accepted.And then, this today: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/08/10…ame-is-abc-xyz Feeling very stupid right now. Could have easily sold for $15k. ... read more ...
 
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Google's Alphabet Inc. Announcement Fires Up .com / .net Registrations - As we noted earlier today over 6,000 .XYZ new gTLD domain names were registered yesterday,  after Google Inc. announced it’s holding company Alphabet Inc., using the domain name ABC.XYZ. It is interesting though, as Mike pointed out that of the 6,000 newly registered .xyz domains registered yesterday hundreds of them related to ABC, Alphabet and XYZ. I wanted to compare that to .com / .net domain registrations relating to those three terms. The “Alphabet” term ranked the highest, followed ... read more ...
 
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Verisign's lawsuit opposite .XYZ continues, pesters Donuts & ICANN as well - Lawsuit marches on, creating legal headaches for many of Verisign’s competitors. Why did Verisign sue .XYZ for disparaging .com and allegedly falsely inflating the company’s success? It’s pretty clear that Verisign thinks new top level domain names pose a threat to .Com, otherwise it wouldn’t have bothered. This goes beyond .XYZ. The lawsuit is surely costing Verisign and .XYZ a lot of money, something that the former has plenty of thanks to its monopoly on selling .com domain names. This ... read more ...