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 was adding on average 3K registrations a day before the announcement, and confirmed what we reported earlier that .XYZ had 20,000 domain registrations in the two days following the Google announcement.
“XYZ is the future.
The alphabet ends in XYZ and so should domain names.
You can watch the interview here, unfortunately its a Yahoo feed so you will have to suffer through a 30 second commercial to watch the interview.
Not too much in the domain space is hotter this week than .XYZ.
Can’t blame him. He’s got a lot of money invested, so of course he’s going to say things like that even if he doesn’t believe it. The .COM diehards say the exact same thing about gTLDs. He just happens to be pretty good at marketing and is reaping in the benefits.
I have no idea if .xyz will surpass .com some day ( I doubt it) but I know this-Bloomberg is a serious financial network and they took notice. I’ve also noticed that some comments on the blogs have “knocked” Mr Negari in an arrogant fashion just as they did a couple of years ago-very close minded.
the owner of the dot com will be contacted no less by any owner of non com – probably more…..ultimately
should existing TMs hold up against ABC.xyz…you will see a negative reaction to non coms
In the stocktrading world is called ‘talking your book’.
Talking up what you’re invested in.
But who knows. I got a few .LOL’s .
Maybe they can displace .XYZ once xyz shreds the
trillions invested in dot coms and turns the world
economy upside down?
Previous 2 posters, on non .com domains.
Yes, the future. He’s only 117+ million regs behind .com. The “next .com” needs to do better than 7.8% United States regs according to Namestat. But there’s always those $1 regs, until renewal time.
Apparently .XYZ had a ‘boom’ of 20,000 registrations yesterday. .COM gets 115,000 registrations every day. Even if .XYZ continues to get 20,000 regs every day, .COM is growing four times faster.
To be fair, you need to consider the thousands of .com that also drop daily. However, the spike in XYZ registrations can be attributed to the continuing $1 specials at NameCheap and elsewhere.
The ntldstats tracker shows 767k active domains, that’s only 67% of the total XYZ registrations – all thanks to the NetSol promo of last year: many of those freebies are dropping.
Yes as predicted the only way to make headway with so much competition is to reduce prices to the lowest level like the $1 special. It’s a race to the bottom. Like the .info fiasco when they got banned because of all the spammers using their cheap domains it’s only a matter of time before this catches up with them.
I wonder if he’ll do an interview then?
Just like the first black and white television sets, that are all now replaced by flat panel 3DHD color televisions, so to will .com be replaced by much more relevant and intuitive endings to digital real estate.
I’m not sure how long it took everyone to exchange their black and white TVs when color came out, bit it didn’t happen overnight.
I have no doubt, this is definitely the beginning of the end of the “.com era”. I imagine our grandchildren won’t even know what .com means, except when they read their history books.
I actually thought it was going to be a .brand that really got the ball rolling, but anytime Google does something this big, the entire world takes notice. And it’s only a matter of time before 60 minutes, or another news program picks this stuff up and the next boom will begin. A much more colorful (.red, .pink,) and .sexy and .cool boom that really .rocks!
Enjoy the ride 🙂
Is there a link to the whole interview anywhere, because if you noticed she raises a question that must be near and dear to every domain investor’s heart and then the video abruptly ends. The question she raises there is very important to the big picture indeed. So far I have not found a longer version of the video.
Okay, so check out this partial quote from Ron Jackson’s excellent article on this…AND THEN ASK YOURSELF what things might have been like by now IF ANY OF THIS HAD EVER BEEN DONE FOR .US:
“I think the fact […] has overshadowed the non-stop marketing spadework Negari and his team has done with registries, purple man mascots, bobsled teams – you name it. He has managed to keep his extension and himself in the spotlight ever since .xyz went live.”
Has .US ever even once been promoted “in the spotlight” that you’ve ever witnessed all these years since 2002? No of course…certainly not the “spotlight,” and at most a few tiny pin pricks here and there, even when a site like Del.icio.us was popular and known no less…
P.S. Ron Jackson’s DNJ article is of course here: dnjournal . com/archive/lowdown/2015/dailyposts/20150812.htm
@Pat
Comparing .com domains to Black & White domains and the new GTLD extensions as brighter and more intuitive makes little sense — and not a good metaphor.
There have been hundreds of extensions for the last 16 years or more….
.COM is Park Avenue, Board Walk – prime real estate
if you have a penthouse (key word) on the property, jackpot!
.TLD is real estate that you hope gets developed or some giant company (like Google) decides to build an office and maybe buy your land too — good luck with that!
@ Steve
This is my last comment on the matter, I choose not to banter back and forth, time will tell. However, the premise in your “Boardwalk & Park Avenue” analogy doesn’t consider the important concept of expansion. Since we’re talking about real estate, either physical of digital, expansion is an extremely important concept.
If one were to use the same sort of logic you’re using 300 years ago, one would conclude, “Europe is where it’s at, what’s this United States of America? “.
“It’s always been Europe, and it will always be Europe.”
But alas, we’ve crossed the Atlantic and expanded the real estate, just as digital real estate is being expanded today.
But where I really differ from your anology is the concept that .com will be around forever. Europe is still Europe, even though USA exists. Since there’s no intuitive rational for ending anything in .com, it will go the way of the irrelevant black and white TV.
The world is changing and it’s an exciting time to be alive while the matrix of digital real estate expands.
so basically you are saying Verisign is the colonialist, and Daniel .xyz Sam is Colombus(.xyz) ?
Im sure the people of Gevova are celebrating non-stop.
Poor analogy
regardless of your opinion, generic strings like .xyz are no more intuitive than .com, net, etc.
as for descriptive strings, even if they release 1000 a year there will still be tens of thousands of business names that won’t work with the available strings resulting them to either have to chose a generic gtld which offers zero benefits over .com, use a .com or change their name to suit what is made available in terms of new gtlds.
DotCOM is the #1 universally accepted TLD and will continue to be so simply because there is no compelling reason for it to be otherwise. In fact, to the worldwide market, dotCOM isn’t a TLD – it’s a brand synonymous with the Internet. Regardless, the aftermarket is the most accurate litmus test of the public’s perception and until you have these new gTLDs regularly selling for six and seven figures to endusers you’re still living in PT Barnum-land.
“XYZ.com CEO Daniel Negari responds to Google…”
Contradiction, much?
Enjoy the hype while it’s hot. Easy come, easy go. Hope the cheerleaders are still around when they launch .google, .alphabet, or they simply acquire the corresponding .com in a non-public deal..
You have to applaud his tenacity that’s for sure. We’ll see where all of the new GTLD’s are in two years with respect to renewals.
I personally don’t see the new GTLD’s taking off beyond niche areas, for the same reason companies aren’t taking advantage of the influx of cheap .Net domains that are available in the aftermarket. What was once a $300K .Net domain could be purchased for $20K or less. It’s a bloodbath out there for the most part, yet business aren’t taking advantage. Every time there’s some business that starts with a non .com, scales up and finds success, they end up upgrading to the Premium .Com. Box.net became Box.com, even a crazy start-up like Soylent went from Soylent.me to Soylent.com. Lot’s of other examples of URL upgrades to premium .Com’s out there.
There will be some small levels of success for some of these new GTLD’s, but as far as .Com being over, get real. If it were going to happen, it would have by now with any of the others that have followed .Com, .Net and .Org.
From an investment standpoint, anything other than .com, and to a less extent .me, .tv, and .io, none of the other extensions offer any sort of ROI at this time.
i have never been able to look someone in the eye and sell them a bill of goods stroke.
that said I cannot be the only one getting solicitations to buy a DOT XYZ version of a DOT COM I already own.
Speculators – which is essentially 99.999999999999999999% of the non dot com space – proceed with caution
@striker @brian
I agree. Maybe .de, but even this extension is not doing as well, due to troubles in the EU.
I’m a valuable investor. & I take on enough risk by launching startups. & do what I can to mitigate risks.
.com is prime property — Park Avenue, Ocean Drive, Worth Avenue, Ginza
Not everyone can afford to live there. So there’s always XYZ Circle in ______, Georgia, or OMG Court in _____Idaho
Get your Google Map/Earth app and try to get there.
Typo – “I’m a valuable investor” — I wish. The only people who would say that would be my kids. Meant – “value-based” as opposed to growth and chance
His quote reminds me of how Decca Records passed on The Beatles by saying, “We believe that guitar bands are on the way out.”
well dropw –
at one time I was given over 10,000 dot info domains matching my dot coms FOR FREE.
and I promptly contacted them and demanded they be cancelled immediately – which the registrar did.
remember – the bulk of the dough has already been made in the new no dot coms in real hard cash and sweat equity. so tell me how the new owners of dot CO are really doing after very sharp businessman jaun calle sold ?
bri
The registrar cancelled all the names because “you demanded” they did? Oh really. Please share a few of those names with us if you would so we can all learn something.
Hmm not really sure what this had to do with my comment. When .info dropped it’s prices spammers started registering them in spades and setting up so many crap sites google banned the extension. How that relates to you getting so many given to you free by your registrar and cancelling them escapes me.
If you want to know what’s going to happen just think of whatever industry you’re in locally. A lawyer, A restaurant, a broker, plumber, painter etc. Imagine 1700 or so new companies moving in locally. The only way prices are headed is DOWN. They can talk fairy dust all they want but ultimately reg prices are heading down. When these johnny come lately extensions start to fold because they don’t have enough subscribers consumers are going to be hurt and the industry is going to suffer a huge black eye.
In any crash people head to quality. Quality = .com and your local CCTLD.
In the meantime Icann walks off with hundreds of millions of dollars for their fancy trips, salaries and digs administrating something they really don’t have a clue about.
That was @ Brian BTW sorry I didn’t make that clear.
So John –
Around October of 2004 – the operators of the DOT INFO registry (Afilias) did a “clearly desperate” promotion with eNom (and other registrars) where a complementing DOT INFO was given to the owner of a DOT COM free for one year. By example that included ProvoProperties.info in our eNom account all the DOT INFOs were cancelled by the end of October 2004. FYI – We sold ProvoProperties.com in 2012 I think.
You should be able to do a reverse WHOIS using DomainTools or some other service to find the thousands of others in our account.
Hopefully you and other speculators new to internet domains can learn something from this desperate promotion and the $1 stuff mentioned by DropWizzard and others.
Actually I’m not new to .coms at all unless you consider the year 2000 “new” but thank you for your reply.