.xyz tops 500,000 names
XYZ.com’s new gTLD .xyz has become the first in this round to accrue over half a million domains in its zone file.
This morning I count 500,050 domains in the zone, up 3,485 on yesterday.
The registry has added over 60,000 domains in the last 30 days.
It’s well-known that the large majority of .xyz names have been given away for free, largely without the registrants’ explicit consent, so it’s not a great measure of demand.
Still, it’s a milestone of sorts.
Some percentage of .xyz’s registrants will renew for a fee next year, so the larger its installed base, the larger the number of paid-for domains the registry could wind up with.
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.xyz is now £1 on http://www.crazydomains.co.uk
Is it being given away free to other registrars now?
I predict that they will auto-renew and eat the fees for thousands of domains next year. After all, the robo-registration freebie-thon must not die. It’s the XYZ generation’s demand!