.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations.
According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073
The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net.
We at TheDomains.com were the first to figure out that NetworkSolutions, which is part of the Web.com group (WWWW), were stuffing free .XYZ domain names into customer’s accounts when the extension first launched.
However the number of .XYZ domain names registered at Network Solutions currently sits at 376,612 and has been stalled at that level for a few months, so within a matter of hours or days the percentage of .XYZ domain name registered at Network Solutions will fall below 50%.
.XYZ is closing in on a legacy domain extension, .Mobi which sits around 830,000 registrations.
With the total number of new gTLD registrations sitting around 3.5 Million that means that over 20% of all new gTLD registrations are .XYZ domain names.
You may love it or hate it but you can’t ignore it.
Even backing out all the “free” Network Solutions registrations .XYZ would have 350,000 registrations more than twice the number of domain names registrations under the second most registered new gTLD extension .Berlin (which also offered free registrations).
.XYZ didn’t launch until June 2nd of this year which is several months after the first new gTLD’s launched.
A lot of .XYZ registrations are coming from the Asian Market.
.XYZ has over 186,000 registrations from Xin Net in China and is featured on its home page:
The second most registered new gTLD after .XYZ at Xin Net is .Wang with under 8,000 registrations
.XYZ is also featured on the home page of onamae.com a large Japanese registrar which is owned and operated by GMO, group, has registered over 77,000 .XYZ domain names.
The next most registered new gTLD at onamae.com is .Tokyo, with over 26,000 registrations:
Yes .XYZ is a very low priced, new gTLD extension, but there is obviously a market for it.
Congrats to .XYZ for hitting 750,000 domain name registrations.
Why such a big hit in Japan? Simple. The Japanese don’t care about the TLD, as long as a domain is dead cheap, they will register .co.jp, .biz, .cc and of course XYZ. For 150 yen – $1.27 in current rates – the XYZ domains are next to free. The fun begins at renewal time next year.
Acro – Check out http://dotto.xyz
We have done a complete immersive campaign with the Japanese market. Other TLD’s are offered for similar price points, but do not sell as many units. So although availability is important, Japanese love .xyz Other asian markets such as China have also embraced our brand, we offer a flexible choice for internet users, and they are voting by choosing .xyz over .com over .IDN and so on.
Hey, more power to them, but if dotXYZ is going to lead the pack for the new gTLDs the press is going to have a field day. Doamin bloggers scrutinizing their marketing practices is one thing, the business journalists of the major networks and publications are another.
Hey David, How you doing? Overall – I am ecstatic at the success of .xyz. We have brought consumers an alternative to .com. One must look into the reasons behind the fear created in the market. Most of those who write negative stories on gTLD’s or .xyz do so as they have a lot to lose in the devaluing of their .com or .tv portfolio.
I know this first hand as I have been aggressively selling my .com domains as well.
While speculation is a big proponent of every market, we are targeting end users in a worldwide awareness campaign. Ultimately it is the end users that matter.
Tell your brother Michael, I say hello.
D
Hey, I’m genuinely happy for you guys. This is a high risk world and anyone partaking at this stage deserves credit. However, I wouldn’t begin to call dotXYZ an alternative to dotCOM. It’s not even in the same ballpark – unless you’re speaking to a client 🙂
Regardless, the true acid test will be your one year renewals. If dotXYZ is truly gaining traction with the public that will be the surest way to know.
Take Care,
David
The first year renewals might not be quite the acid test for .XYZ, David,
Some registrants might hold on to their domain names for two or three years before making the decision to drop them. The first year’s spread of domain registration types in a new TLD is always a bit of a strange mix. While the freebies will have a lower than typical renewal rate, the registrations are spread over a relatively long period. This means that the boom and bust cycle for these regs will happen but it will be smoothed out rather than appearing like a large spike in drops like .EU, .MOBI etc. There’s also a contra-intuitive element in that after each land rush anniversary drop, there’s a spike in new registrations as people pick up domains that they think that they could flip or develop. With .XYZ gTLD, it is almost like there are two gTLDs – the paid registrations and the freebies.
True, but the average domainer won’t lock his money for too long. Regardless, in dotXYZ’s case there were so many bizarre names given to people for free that they surely won’t pay to register them.
@ceo.xyz
“I know this first hand as I have been aggressively selling my .com domains as well.”
You should sell me your xyz.com then. I’ll gladly take it off your hands.
The problem with boom and bust marketing in TLDs is that the boom is always followed by the bust. The renewal rates on freebies is very low and can be somewhere between 5% and 20%. The biggest issue for .XYZ now is not the freebies but rather web usage and development rates. Development kickstarts interest in a TLD and it gradually leads to increasing renewal rates. With most freebie offers by registrars there is a positive action by the registrant (they accept the offer and the domain name). However with .XYZ there was no such acceptance and this might be a major factor in renewal rates.
John – Love reading your comments. Everyones voice deserves to be heard, and I am glad you make yours well known. We have been very happy with the utilization of .xyz and publish showcase end users on a weekly basis with #WebsiteWedensday
http://gen.xyz/blog
Check it out sometime, let us know what you think.
The showcase promotions form an interesting strategy, Daniel,
But it is the Mom and Pop web usage and development that is the more important trend. That’s a sign that a TLD is gaining acceptance. The showcase strategy misses the real growth and development in a TLD. (This is something that I measure in regular web usage surveys.) From what I remember, COInternet used the showcase strategy to publicise its ccTLD but their advertising budget and effectiveness was far greater than has been seen to date in the new gTLDs. (The dynamics of that market were quite different to those of the new gTLD market in that they had no major competing TLDs launching in the same timeframe.) The .CO ccTLD also used a “brand champion” approach when entering new markets in that it had a small number of registrars and these were often the leading players in their markets. All the non-core (not COM/NET/ORG) gTLDs tend to have lower web usage and development rates than .COM. The high level of PPC parking in .XYZ is mainly due to the NSI freebie campaign and it obscures natural development in the gTLD. If you are relying on the Alexa data as an indication of usage in .XYZ, this is a mistake as it is very unreliable and almost completely misleading. The NSI freebie deal was badly marketed. It should have been presented as brand protection for Mom and Pop websites and domains hosted on NSI. That way, the renewal rate might be better. But that’s just marketing. How are you measuring utilisation in .XYZ?
John
As I have said in relation to the new G’s in general and not just .XYZ is that we really won’t know anything until we have gone through the 1st renewal period in 2015.
Having said that the numbers are the numbers for now and these guys got over 20% of the market
David
If you missed it I published a post last week of how many of the 3.5 million registrations are paid by third parties and we came up to 2.7 Million so we try to tell the story for all sides at all times
I believe we are the only blog in the domain space that attempted to figure the number out and publish it
http://www.thedomains.com/2014/12/11/new-gtld-pass-3-5-million-but-how-many-are-third-party-paid-registrations-heres-the-answer/
Hi Michael:
That statement wasn’t meant for you 🙂
Best,
David
Yep Michael,
The XYZ landgrab strategy built volume quickly but it is a very high risk one. I’ve been doing some work on renewals prediction recently and there are some freebie patterns that have shown up in various TLDs. Most of the domains in these groups are one year wonders – they are not renewed and hardly ever developed. The whole registrar discounting model when it is used to drive short term registrations (1 year regs and no renewal) is an unsettling feature of most TLDs these days. Ordinarily it is possible to set some kind of range for renewals on freebies and special offers where the registrant has to take some kind of positive action. The renewal percentages are brutally low on these discounted domains. With . XYZ, there is no positive registrant action and most registrants don’t even bother to set up their domain and it is just pointed to a PPC landing page. There are signs of life in the new gTLDs but it may be the second and third renewals that will be the most important for new gTLDs as that’s when web usage and development should be accelerating as the gTLDs become more recognised. It is quite an achievement for .XYZ registry to have grown its TLD so quickly.
Thank you for acknowledging the achievement on the growth. While renewal rates are important to the strength of the long term business they are a factor in a cocktail of factors with the long term success of a generic alternative to .com
David – Although you don’t view me as a threat to .com today – Give me 15 years and we can see where the tides turn. The total of all gTLD’s are a huge competitor to .com and although it has growth spurts, new gTLD’s will win in the long term.
Thats not to say that 1 word or very valuable .com domains are not going to retain or grow in value. I think big .com’s like Auctions.com ow Whiskey.com will always retain / grow in value. But three or four word .com’s or domains with dashes or numbers in it are at imminent risk to be replaced by shorter, more memorable .xyz or any gTLD domain names.
Checking off the blogs with this one, back to the grind, of bringing competition and choice to the marketplace 🙂
No problem having this chat in 15 years. I’m not saying that some of the gTLDs will not do well. However, I am saying that dotCOM will always be King. And the main reason is simple: dotCOM is the #1 universally TLD. Period. And it has done nothing wrong to warrant a successor. Nothing except become hugely popular throughout the world. DotXYZ may do well but it will never touch dotCOM. In fact it will never even come close because there is no logical reason for anyone to switch out their dotCom for a dotXYZ. None. And there are plenty of reasons why it would be a disastrous marketing move. Many of the gTLDs will find popularity in their niche market and some will surely prosper. But conquering a niche market is not the same as conquering the planet.
With all those .XYZ registrations I haven’t seen one .xyz website used or advertised in the ‘real world’ yet, only in .XYZ promotions on domain sites. I haven’t seen any other new gtld’s in the ‘real world’ yet either though. For the record I have bought about a dozen new gtlds (.property, .pizza, .quebec) and will probably buy some more that haven’t launched yet. Mostly I prefer to sit back and watch it unfold…
xyz is the robo-registration master … plus all those very cheap promotions … the FAKE festival, which will collapse soon … very low renewals (unless registrants get, directly or indirectly, paid for renewing them … lol) will just be the first hit … just wait and see …
I think we won’t need to wait for 15 years … in less than 5 years xyz will be like or worse than .cc …
How to define it? … I would say … irrelevant …
xyz as an alternative to .com? LOL! 😀 yeah … right … pathetic …
Negari, you can keep faking the figures or the whole picture, but this Gtld will remain what it is … JUNK …
I am wondering how many of Xin Net’s 186,000 registrations are real ones paid by general consumers.
all of them.
@domain observer
Xin Net is giving away .xyz at $2 a pop last time I checked. So the high amount of registrations was to be expected. When .info domains where still $1 a pop (or even free when purchased with a .com) tons of people used to buy them (and use them mainly for affiliate redirection pages, bulk emailing/spamming, parked pages,…). Just like with .info domains practically none of those .xyz domains from Xin Net will have a developed website on them.
When renewals come up and if Xin Net decides that the renewal price should be around $10 (instead of their $2 current deal ) , let’s see how many of those 186,000 domains will be renewed. 😉
*where still –> were still (early morning here 😉 )
87k, if you subtract the the regs from China, Japan and the free netsol ones. There maybe a market there (I actually think Arco may be onto something) but it doesn’t look like an alternative for d0t c0m owners, IMO. 15 years? Lets have the conversation in about 15 months.
Dont be so negative Ramahn! Life is grand – build out a domain on a .xyz a .com or any extension.
Your analysis is flawed, that would be like subtracting China and Japan from .com which is in direct competition with .xyz – how is that relevant with the worldwide results and activity? Many TLD’s growth is entirely around Asian markets .com included in that statement.
Your comment implies that our registry is losing money. To be clear – although we are re-investing a significant amount into marketing. Our registry is cash flow positive from .xyz operations and we make money every month. We have also been expanding the registry and will be launching more TLD’s in 2015! Big news we will announce over time.
When I launched .xyz the domain blogs were largely negative on all new gTLD’s and they blamed the registries for not doing any marketing. Now you are blaming me for doing marketing! I care greatly about the domaining industry as a whole, and I am a product of it. Your success is defined by the path you lead.
D
“I care greatly about the domaining industry as a whole, and I am a product of it.”
No offense, but IMHO you are a product of the bubble … and bubble sooner or later burst … good luck! 😀
Last one is “bubbles”, not “bubble”, typo 🙂
can all of china register unlimited .com’s for 1-2 bucks, no. if you would of ran this like other new gtlds that didn’t stuff peoples accounts with domains no one asked for and 1-2 dollar regs, its obvious the numbers would be far lower. success by any means necessary seems to be your motto and its not one that results in longevity typically. you’re young and seem to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder, that can help or hurt you. in this case it seems to be hurting you. best of luck.
Whether a sham or a success, .XYZ and Negari will always be remembered for deceit.
“…how is that relevant with the worldwide results and activity? Many TLD’s growth is entirely around Asian markets .com included in that statement. ”
This is an interesting point but not for the reason that domainers think. The true global (worldwide) part of the .COM market is only a part of .COM’s market. The .COM TLD has a lot of legacy registrations and typically forms, with a country’s ccTLD, the main axis of registrations (>80%) in any developed country level market. If looking at Asian markets like China or Japan, then the comparisons should be based on be CN/COM/etc registrations (and other TLDs registered by people in those markets) and JP/COM/etc respectively. The .ASIA sTLD has run some promotions over the past few years to build registration volume but these promotions typically have a low renewal rate. It is quite different from the .EU ccTLD which is the European Union TLD. However .EU ccTLD has about 3.89M domains but it has relatively low levels of usage (compared to ccTLDs and .COM) because most of the countries in the European Union have mature domain name markets and two of the biggest ccTLDs (.DE and .UK) are based in the EU. The .EU registrations for most EU countries form less than 10% of the domain market in those counries. In many country level markets, .XYZ isn’t just competing against .COM TLD. It is competing against a set of TLDs. The real battle for acceptance will be fought in these markets rather than just the global market.
“. XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains”
and U2’s latest album is the most popular of all time.
Of course, Apple and U2 forced it onto everyone’s iPhone. It turned out to be a big embarrassment for both parties, they had to develop a way to let people remove it, and Bono apologized. Imagine if, a year later, every iPhone user also had to pay $10 to keep the album? Year after year? It would become the most deleted album of all time (if it isn’t already.)
Similarly, @esurance became the most popular twitter account right after the Superbowl, as they gave away $1 million to a random follower. Once the award was announced, it became the most unfollowed account ever.
I wish .XYZ well, but they created this situation and they deserve their reputation. At least esurance was a legitimate business before and nobody was forced to follow them. U2 was a popular band, and Bono is recognized for his humanitarian work. .XYZ doesn’t have that good will.
“Your success is defined by the path you lead.” Indeed.
Todd:
Being in the music business, I practically spit out my drink with your comment about U2 🙂
Then my work here is done! 🙂
Todd, totally agree with you, you mentioned two very relevant (and comparable) examples of a certain way of doing business which can destroy your reputation (and your business itself).
When I saw what happened with U2 and Apple I immediately thought about Negari borderline and unfair practices …
But I’m not so surprised, because it seems he’s not new to those kind of deceptive business practices … leopard can’t change its spots …
There’s a world of difference between U2 pre-loading its album on the iPhone and .XYZ stuffing its domains into unwitting non-customers’ accounts.
#1. iPhone users bought the iPhone willingly, which (like most computing devices) included free add-ons. .XYZ’s registrar stuffing was done without the consent or knowledge of customers. They didn’t purchase anything that was packaged with a bonus .XYZ domains. .XYZ wasn’t an optional or even a mandatory add-on. It was slipped in their drink like a rufi.
#2. Bono didn’t pretend that distributing his album through the iPhone made U2’s latest offering the most popular album in the world. U2 thought they were sharing their music (which is what music is meant for), and they were very public about it.
But Daniel Negari’s .XYZ registrar stuffing was meant as “evidence” that his messianic prophecy of a million registrations during year 1 is being fulfilled. Even after the dirty secret had been revealed and roundly condemned, Negari continued to point to it as evidence of .XYZ’s amazing popularity. Some people have been deceived by the bogus numbers and .XYZ’s claims.
Nobody can accuse U2 of promulgating such a lie. To my mind there’s a crucial difference between U2’s behavior and Negari’s.
“world of difference”? Really? Others disagree and see it as quite similar. And U2 didn’t “pre-load” their content on iPhones. It was automatically added, after the fact, without permission, and without being able to uninstall, consuming space, and Apple bragged about it being the largest album release of all time.
#1 .COM users bought the .COM willingly etc. U2’s iTunes stuffing was done without the consent of customers. U2’s album wan’t an optional or even a mandatory add-on. It too was slipped in to people’s iPhones, requiring a special tool to remove it.
#2 Tim Cook DID pretend that the album was the most popular. ‘Calling it the “largest album release of all time,” Cook touted that Songs of Innocence would be available across 119 countries to the more than half a billion iTunes customers’
The minor distinction is that Apple announced their strategy, and took action to undo the damage when people complained. XYZ and NetSol haven’t. But it’s hardly a “world of difference”
Of course it’s different. If you’re angry about U2, fine. But think about it:
Did U2 include its album in order to point to its massive market demand and sell more albums?
No.
Did .XYZ force domains into people’s accounts in order to point to high registration volume and sell more .XYZ domains?
Yes.
That’s different.
Calling the U2 debacle the “largest album release of all time” isn’t pretending. It would have been an immense album release. Unwanted. Annoying. But literally true.
Did U2 pretend that putting its album on people’s iPhones was a sign that the world loved their album?
No.
Did the .XYZ pretend that stuffing .XYZ domains into people’s accounts was evidence that people were eagerly registering .XYZ domains?
Yes.
That’s another difference.
Did U2 or Apple conceal what they were doing?
No.
Did the .XYZ conceal what it was up to?
Yes.
3 very clear differences. You can dislike U2 and Apple as much as you please. But what .XYZ did is quite different and much worse.
Every analogy is different… by definition. That’s kinda the point. Otherwise, the only comment you’d approve of is “That whole XYZ thing is just like that XYZ thing.”
To say those minor distinctions are “a world of difference” is just silly.
Both Tim Cook and XYZ bragged that they had a record-setting launch. Both were artificial inflations. Both were unwanted. Both were to gain some marketing advantage / publicity.
For the record, I *like* U2, and have paid my own money (not Apple’s) for U2 songs and even a concert, and love Apple, and been to many WWDC’s and MacWorlds, etc. I don’t dislike either. I think XYZ has a lot to learn from the backlash to U2’s campaign AND FROM APPLE’S RESPONSE AND BONO’S APOLOGY.
Todd, you’ve missed the point.
Arguably, the .XYZ registry engaged in a kind of fraud.
The same cannot be said of Apple or U2.
That’s not a minor distinction.
Not sure any comparison to a new gTLD in this market to .Co is fair
For one they had the world stage for two years as the only new extension.
For two, .Co had 100% of the backing of Godaddy, they were the only new extension on the front page of Godaddy for two years
They were the only new gTLD to be promoted by the Godaddy
They even co-branded three superbowl ads
Godaddy couldn’t if they wanted to, co-brand a super bowl ad now with a new gTLD extension or registry, each registry is a customer of Godaddy and there are just too many other customers that would be pissed off if they favored one over the other.
Guys
If you look at the top 50 sales from Dnjournal for this year I would say 1/2 or more are from China
I don’t think we can hold China out as the best and greatest buyers of LL.com domains or NN.com or NNN.com, or NNNN.com oand NNNNN.com domains, not to mention words that have a special meaning in China on one hand and then discount China completely on their other domain investments.
Simple undisputed fact is that the Asian market is the most important domain market outside of North America
China has capital but it’s in the hands of a few, not of many. The majority of Chinese buyers wants to spend $10 on premium letter LLLL’s in order to resell them for $200-$500 in the usual Chinese marketplaces.
Since we are on the subject of China, it’d be great to mention the staggering percentage of domain theft that originates there.
@ Acro said:
Originates HERE! The thefts are sanctioned by ICANN-Verisign-major Registrar syndicate. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t happen! Godaddy/eNom/Network Solutions would flag every request to transfer to eName or any other Chinese Registrar, and phone the customer to confirm.
If they didn’t plan this with their Chinese partners, it wouldn’t be happening.
Louise – The vast majority of domain thefts are facilitated by Eastern European, Middle East / African and Chinese criminals. But since you mentioned registrars let’s not forget Moniker that bared all to the Egyptians.
I want to put in a good word for Moniker support staff, such as David Fede and Marti Johnson, who have corrected mistakes in my account.
Make the consumer vote: the Registrar who PHONES a client based on suspicious activity is the one who renders the great customer service.
Why doesn’t Godaddy PHONE its client, before a transfer to eName? Transfer to ename should raise a flag, right?
If ICANN wasn’t complicit in this, wouldn’t be happening AND you would get a phone call before a valuable 3 or 4 or 2-character dot com gets transferred. AS IF they didn’t know it was happening! They PLANNED it! That is why the Registrant does not receive a phone call.
Include Key Systems, the owner of Moniker, with Network Solutions, Godaddy, and enom.
The Registrars watch all their valuable domain names like a hawk. That is why valuable dot com domains which aren’t renewed, do not get deleted. They’re not easy to transfer, even for a Registrant.
A good registrar first owns their mistakes. In the latest mass breach at Moniker, they insinuated there were only attempts, not a breach. Then the size of the breach was unveiled, and yet Moniker remained silent. This was a security issue, plain and simple. You can point the finger at ICANN’s lack of identity matching, phone confirmations, DNA samples etc. but the bottom line is someone found the back porch door to Moniker unlocked. Using a phishing scheme – as it’s the norm at GoDaddy – isn’t as serious as infiltrating the registrant accounts en masse.
I’m only saying because I am a Jehovah’s Witness, and life is cheap in this world, but it won’t always be this way.
Mafia Mafia Mafia Mafia Mafia
Joesph
I didn’t like Netsol stuffing either, remember I was the one that figured it out on day one and broke the story, however as of today Netsol registration account for less than 50% of XYZ total registrations and they still have 2x more than .Berlin which is second most registered new gTLD which also gave 1/2 there domains for free
Mike, I happily give credit to you for uncovering the .XYZ register stuffing.
I haven’t been commenting here on today’s .XYZ numbers. My intention is to remind people (not you) of the .XYZ registry’s original duplicity. When I see some in the industry laughing off the .XYZ numbers as merely free giveaways or comparing their tactics to U2’s pre-loaded iPhone album, it concerns me. We shouldn’t forget that faking the registration numbers was used as a disingenuous sales pitch by Negari in order to lure in naïve customers.
Ethically if not legally, it’s the same as publishing a false prospectus in order to entice investment.
That’s my point. Whether .XYZ succeeds in getting additional registrations as a result of large first-year discounts or even through real marketing success some day, I think this should be emphasized and not forgotten.
I know .berlin also offered free domains, however .berlin gave away around 70,000 free domains in a 5 day period whereas .xyz stuffed close to 400,000 .xyz domains in customer’s accounts without their knowledge or consent. In other words .xyz gave away more than 5X the amount of free domains compared to .berlin so isn’t it only normal .xyz has more registrations compared to .berlin or am I missing something here?
Plus .xyz sold most of the remaining of their “paid” registrations for $1-$2 a pop which of course helped greatly in getting their “750,000” total registrations.
I would love to know many people paid regular pricing on .xyz domains so far? (my guess only around 10% of all .xyz registrations were paid at regular pricing)
I have no idea of what people paid to register a .XYZ
I know I have been offered domains by other registries at $1 per based on a volume purchase, the color domains I think we discounted as low as .$75 to certain clients.
There is a lot of discounting going on so that is why I focused on free and related domain names registrations when I determined there were about 2.7 million “paid” new gTLD registrations in the story I published the last week
Joesph
You realize the “blame” for the NSI stuffing belongs 99% to the registrar not the registry.
Its NSI that stuffed the domains. Its NSI customers not .XYZ customers.
XYZ couldn’t have done it without NSI
Mike, my assumption is that the .XYZ registry colluded with NSI to stuff domains in customers accounts and that .XYZ probably spearheaded the idea. Would you say that I’m mistaken on that score?
There are 2 issues:
(1) From the perspective of NSI customers, unwanted .XYZ were placed in their accounts. In his comments above, Todd Bernhard makes a valid comparison (as far as this goes) with the consumer backlash against U2 and the iPhone.
Maybe you’re referring to #1 when you say that 99% of responsibility falls on NSI. But I’m focused on #2:
(2) Negari predicted a million registrations within year 1. Immediately after his “prophecy”, he began pointing to the high volume of .XYZ registrations as proof of .XYZ’s popularity. That he was unaware of the NSI registrar stuffing is inconceivable. Even after you uncovered this story, Negari dodged answering direct questions. And he continued pointing to these early registrations (most of which were fabricated) as proof of .XYZ’s success, urging everyone who would listen to register .XYZ domains on account of this spurious “success”.
What would happen to a publicly traded company outside the unpoliced domain industry if its CEO knowingly pointed to inflated sales numbers when communicating with investors?
#2 is 100% Mr. Negari’s responsibility. If I’m wrong, correct me.
Joesph
You also realize that in every story where I talk about the overall new gTLD numbers or .XYZ numbers I always chat about the free domains by NSI
Mike, I haven’t implied any criticism of you whatsoever. Your handling of the .XYZ issue has been commendable.
acro said: “Using a phishing scheme – as it’s the norm at GoDaddy – isn’t as serious as infiltrating the registrant accounts en masse.”
Godaddy’s phishing scheme isn’t implicated in the latest theft which has a thread at Namepros of 6462.com. The author said, he didn’t click any email links.
Let’s check this address:
http://whois.domaintools.com/service-godaddy.com
from evirtual1’s phishing email, which he said he didn’t click:
service-godaddy.com/raaverification/verification/VerificationCode=EFEE26A4-32C3-473E-8A5B-FE9415411864
found here: https://www.namepros.com/threads/my-domain-6462-com-has-been-stolen.842592/page-2#post-4757767
evirtual1 is the owner of 6462.com, which domain name is now at ename.
Please be patient. You are smart. Think it through.
Search wipo for godaddy. Godaddy, likely using software similar to the one at valuate, which flags trademark (please click on:
https://www.valuate.com/support-godaddy.com
Some of Godaddy’s wipo victories include:
gowilddaddy.com
godaddysgirls.com
godaddytraffic.com
godaddyebay.com
godaddysebay.com
godaddysreseller.com
godaddythat.com
godaddythatdomain.com
gomommy.com
Even gomommy.com and other domains that might be considered grey area, have incurred a cease and desist to the Registrant. Maybe there are many more C&Ds than there are wipos.
So, a Registrant at eName.com is using support-godaddy.com for phishing, registered in June?
Only if Godaddy is complicit.