We are always looking for ways that we can give our readers a chance to make money. From the sales posts, to guess where an auction will close, to the .XYZ $500 giveaway on the meaning of AYDACFU.
Here is another opportunity to win $500, this one is going to be a little bit of work.
This is the IDN count challenge, .XYZ would like research data on IDN’s.
Let’s get the disclaimers out of the way upfront.
- TheDomains was not compensated in any way to make this post.
- TheDomains staff has no say or involvement in determining the winner.
- The $500 prize will be paid out by the .XYZ registry.
By leaving a comment you acknowledge the above disclaimer.
Here is what you need to do:
1) Post a comment in this post containing 1) a list of the
top 10 overall TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) with the
most IDN domains.
2) the number of IDN registrations per TLD.
3) a short description of your sources.
* An IDN is defined as a domain with a punycode (xn—) and ASCII
value.
* Contestants agree to allow XYZ to reference their findings in our
marketing materials.
* Email hello@gen.xyz all data/sources supporting their findings
for verification, along with a link/confirmation of their comment on
TheDomains.
* Submissions will be checked/verified in the order they were
posted on TheDomains. Supporting data must be emailed within 1 hour of the comment, or we will move on to the next submission.
* The first comment with verified data will need to submit a W9 or
similar form, along with their PayPal email address to receive the
$500 prize
So remember after you post here your work is not done, you need to email .XYZ at the email mentioned above.
The comments here on TheDomains serve as a public timestamp, so each reader who participates will know exactly when other participants posted their data.
Comments are to be about the challenge, not looking for off topic comments or remarks about .XYZ.
It is not for win, but just for info. I don’t even know how much .xyz registered in idn
Idn registration on July 2017 :
Com : 1,015,052
Net : 241,701
Se : 83,631
Biz : 56,091
Tel : 28,747
Org : 25,735
Info : 23,733
Nu : 17,209
Asia : 5,671
Name : 1,934
Cat : 1,540
Mobi : 377
Museum : 6
XXX : 4
Post : 2
Source StatDNS.com, July 2017 report
xyz — 292,706
Idn registration on July 2017 :
1. Com : 1,015,052
2. xyz : 292,706 (data from Kevin Murphy)
3. Net : 241,701
4. Se : 83,631
5. Biz : 56,091
6.Tel : 28,747
7. Org : 25,735
8. Info : 23,733
9. Nu : 17,209
10. Asia : 5,671
11.Name : 1,934
12. Cat : 1,540
13. Mobi : 377
14. Museum : 6
15. XXX : 4
16 Post : 2
Source StatDNS.com, July 2017 report
I confirm that xn--p1ai — 9,01,244 is for total registration, not only idn (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D1%80%D1%84)
Total domain with idn in right of the dot (source : https://namestat.org/s/top-idns)
1 .网址 (web address) 191,233
2 .рус (russian speaking community) 108,198
3 .信息 (knowledge) 88,968
4 .公司 (business organisation) 49,661
5 .网络 (network) 33,208
6 .手机 (cell) 29,415
7 .在线 (online) 26,002
8 .コム (com) 25,606
9 .москва (moscow) 16,077
10 .我爱你 (i love you) 14,871
11 .닷컴 (dot com) 12,944
12 .中文网 (website) 12,474
13 .商标 (trademark) 8,603
14 .移动 (mobile) 8,177
15 .世界 (world) 5,952
16 .商城 (mall) 5,129
17 .网店 (webshop) 3,436
18 .닷넷 (dot net) 3,195
19 .онлайн (online) 2,832
20 .みんな (everyone) 1,331
21 .орг (org) 1,291
22 .сайт (site) 1,067
23 .дети (kids) 1,061
24 .شبكة (web) 847
25 .网站 (website) 783
26 .集团 (corporate group) 698
27 .بازار (bazaar) 526
28 .موقع (site) 479
29 .商店 (shop) 311
30 .机构 (org) 256
31 .企业 (enterprise) 179
32 .游戏 (game) 164
33 .广东 (guangdong) 129
34 .娱乐 (entertainment) 123
35 .佛山 (foshan) 110
36 .संगठन (organization) 106
37 .ストア (store) 79
38 .セール (sale) 50
39 .八卦 (gossip) 45
40 .ファッション (fashion) 31
41 .書籍 (book) 31
42 .家電 (consumer electronics) 28
43 .食品 (food) 27
44 .健康 (healthy) 26
45 .クラウド (cloud) 24
46 .vermögensberater (financial adviser) 1
47 .vermögensberatung (financial advice) 1
So .xyz is number two most registered in idn base to available data.
You have no license to source my data. If you win, you have to send 50% to Verisign’s lawyer cocaine fund.
Ok if I win. Hope your .xyz IDN registrations data is valid because I only used that one from you.
Congratulations on winning the contest, Surya! We will communicate with you directly via email to award your prize.
Thank you everyone who participated and submitted your entries! Please follow us on Instagram @XYZ or subscribe to our newsletter (bottom of our homepage http://www.gen.xyz) to learn about our other contests and events.
– Team XYZ
What are the criteria for winning? Does one have to present an exhaustive comparison of IDN SLD registrations in all 1,500+ active TLDs, a great many of which do not make any registration data publicly available? Are we being asked to conduct many tens of thousands of dollars of research for a $500 prize? Or are we being asked to guess?
They asked for 1) a list of the
top 10 overall TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) with the
most IDN domains.
2) the number of IDN registrations per TLD.
3) a short description of your sources. So they just want to have something to double check your work.
Yeah, I read that Ray, thanks.
Would you agree that there is no way of knowing which TLDs (including legacies, nTLDs, ccTLDs) have the *most* IDNs unless you have access to registration data from *all* TLDs?
Would you agree that there are over 1,500 TLDs, many of which make no data available whatsoever?
Would you agree that your competition sponsor wants the IDN data for *all* TLDs? That is a quest. That is a quest that would cost tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, rather than a pitiful 500 bucks competition prize on offer.
One has to wonder why XYZ.com is doing this as a prize competition, rather than actually paying a researcher to get the data they want.
In any event, this is what I have right now:
com — 1,015,052
xn--p1ai — 9,01,244
[placeholder for Chinese domains in Chinese ccTLDs]
xyz — 292,706
net — 241,701
se — 83,631
xn--vuq861b — 57623
biz — 56,091 ,
xn--55qx5d — 40,086
tel– 28,752
xn--kput3i — 28,504
My sources were a quick-and-dirty PHP script I wrote that counted up all the IDNs in today’s gTLD zone files, augmented by data I gathered from ccTLD web sites.
It’s not comprehensive, because it’s impossible to compehensively answer the impossibly stupid and expensive question XYS is asking here.
If I win this competition, I only want two things in return:
a) Daniel Negari stops ignoring my emails.
b) The $500 prize is directly donated to Verisign’s most overpaid lawyer, with the explicit instructions that it is only to be spent on cocaine and oysters.
Cheers,
Kev
I agree that it is an arduous task, and that for most it the juice would not be worth the squeeze. It was a prize which we have no involvement in, they are not paying us, I know that $500 means different things to different people, so if someone is offering I wanted to let people know. Everyone might look at it as too much work for too little money and skip it. That’s fine too.
I will try to get Shayan to reply and add to your questions here.
I know that $500 means different things to different people, so if someone is offering I wanted to let people know. Everyone might look at it as too much work for too little money and skip it. That’s fine too.
That’s the beauty of the Internet you can participate or not.
Since you posted here you can include your questions to hello@gen.xyz because anything posted here needs to be emailed there as well.
My guess is their intent with (2) was the number of IDN registration in those top-10 TLDs… anyway, Kevin’s response is incomplete due to the Chinese ccTLDs, so if someone wants the $500, just quote him and another source. 😉
I’m waiting for them to do it.
So I guest you are the Winner Kevin. Because I got no email. It has to be clear because you asked me to donate 50% if I won because I use your .xyz idn regisration data.
I believe that .xyz is in top ten list of idn, since 10 language supported and prefered by Chinese. So .xyz need to confirm it and show it. And at least with this thread .xyz can confirm the spot, but it is almost impossible to find a link with very actual and legitimate report about all idn registration. I guess .xyz can spot the second or third spot.
Thread cleaned up, every comment not related to posting of the data is deleted. If you have further questions submit them to .xyz when you submit your data if you are looking to win the $500.
$500 is not enough? Move on, that’s what they are offering.
Thanks Ray! I hope this retarded competition works!
I’ll take my prize whenever they’re ready.
That will be at .XYZ discretion, so email them. @Surya you should have emailed them too.
I had Raymond, thank you.
All these stress for $500 ? What an idea to save huge money on research cost. Wish the researchers luck
Is .xyz going to reply to all submissions, or will they ignore some?
I was told they will reply to all and it will be through email not here on TheDomains.com.
Thanks for all the submissions so far! We will be accepting submissions for another week before announcing the results.
– Team XYZ
Will you be replying to everyone who entered the competition or will you ignore some?
We will respond to all email submissions after entries close.
– Team XYZ
When is that, Team XYZ? What date?
The winner will be announced tomorrow 7/19.
– Team XYZ
Dear Team XYZ, why I don’t get email about the result? If some one else is the winner is ok, even might be some data is coppied from my data or my link I provided. But still interesting to know the result, thank you…
Hi Surya,
We’ll shoot you an email shortly. Thanks for following up!
– Team XYZ