The zone files finally updated for Thursday and Friday,and there are now more than 21 million new gTLD domain names registered. Yesterday we reported the .XYZ passed .info but did not have the actual number of registrations. Today we know the actual number of registrations for .XYZ is 5,580,532 through the last zone update. .info according to registrarstats.com currently has 5,509,571 … [Read more...]
Breaking: .XYZ Passes .Info With Over 5.5 Million Registrations; Now 4th Biggest gTLD In the World
The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Generic Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone files for yesterday have not updated but TheDomains.com reached out to the .XYZ registry who confirmed that they now have more registered domain names than .info. The only generic top … [Read more...]
Just Released: Searchable Tool To Find Available .XYZ Domains Taken in .Com, .Net & .Org
The .XYZ registry just released a tool that finds available .XYZ domain names that are registered in .Com, .Net and .Org I'm told the database is over 2 million domain names. I beta tested the tool for the last hour and wound up registering several hundred .XYZ domain names centered around some keywords. You can place any word, letters or numbers into the tool, select the maximum number … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Selling 12 New gTLD Extensions For $.85 Including .Club, .Top, .Online, .Site, .Link
While .XYZ has been make headlines with its tremendous numbers of domain registrations for as low as $.01 at Uniregistry, (as well as other domain registrars for $.02) Uniregistry has deeply discounted the price of 12 other top selling new gTLD's to $.85. The $.85 price for 12 new gTLD's is live on Uniregistry, but the special pricing only goes through June 7th. Of the 12 new gTLD's … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Owns 40K+ .XYZ Domains & They Were Registered A While Ago
There were a several comments on our blog posts on .XYZ over the last few days raising the issue of whether Frank Schilling owns .XYZ domain names in his portfolio, with several commentators citing the fact the he does not even own the domain FrankSchilling.xyz (that domain name was registered yesterday to a company in the Cayman's). So I gave Mr Schilling a call last night to see how many .XYZ … [Read more...]
Over 400,000 .XYZ Domain Names Already Registered Today
I just chatted with the .XYZ registry who told me that over 400,000 .XYZ domain names have been registered today on June 1st as of 1pm EST. Yesterday Uniregistry announced $.01 .XYZ domain registrations, but today many other domain registrars joined in and are offering $.02 .XYZ domain registrations. Of course the day is not over and almost 40,000 registrations were added in just the last … [Read more...]
Uniregistry $.01 .XYZ Promotion Gets 12K Registrations in 1st Few Hours
It looks like around 12,000 .XYZ domain names were registered in the first few hours into the $.01 .XYZ domain promotion. According to ntldstats.com, Uniregistry had 41,299 .XYZ registrations as of yesterday's z0ne report before the announcement which was made around 5PM EST. According to the last zone update there were 53,381 .XYZ domain name registered at Uniregistry. So basically the … [Read more...]