According to ntldstats.com, .XYZ has more domain registrations than all of Donuts strings combined. Donuts has 1,527,510 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com (including 35,306 which are upcoming delete) while .XYZ has 1,560,576 active domains according to namestat.org. There are 183 new gTLD's of Donuts in general availability (GA) meaning they can be registered on a first come … [Read more...]
.XYZ Tops 1.5 Million Domains As Domain Registrations Return To Normal
.XYZ just broke through the 1.5 million mark in registered domain names which is net includes pending deletes. The CEO of XYZ Daniel Negari told TheDomains.com that he was ecstatic! and thinks they should break 2 Million within the next 6 - 9 months. In general domain world returned to normal numbers over the last few days as yesterday looked like a typical Sunday. Total new domains were … [Read more...]
Judge In 1st Verisign vs. XYZ Case Publishes 15 Page Opinion
The federal judge CLAUDE M. HILTON who granted a summary judgement in favor of .XYZ and Daniel Negari last month throwing Verisign's case for false advertising out, today handed down a 15 page Memorandum Opinion supporting the summary judgement decision and of course its very interesting. Here are the highlights: THIS MATTER comes before the Court on Defendants XYZ.COM, LLC and Daniel Negari … [Read more...]
First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto
Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by "David Kain as a way to assist … [Read more...]
CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD
CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names. The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+ is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed … [Read more...]
Godaddy May Be The World’s Largest Domain Registrar But Not For New gTLD’s
Godaddy.com, which is the world's largest domain name registrar (having the most domain names under management) is no longer the number 1 domain name registrar for new gTLD domains. According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has fallen into the 2nd position worldwide when it comes to domain registered with new domain extensions, known as new gTLD's. A China based domain registrar, Chengdu West … [Read more...]
.XYZ Did Not Block 12K Domains on Request of China; Liberty.xyz is Owned & We Have His email
Its been an interesting couple of weeks for the .XYZ registry. It all started when Domainincite.com published a post on October 12th, talking about that .XYZ might block almost 40,000 domain names at the registry level on the request of China. That number of 40,000 words and phrases seemed to be reduced down to 12K in a Twitter post that now seems to have been deleted. Since the Domainincite … [Read more...]