I published a post earlier today about .XYZ registering over 18,000 domain names in its first day of General Availability based on ntldstats.com, which is what we rely on consistently for our registration numbers.
At the time we did point out that over 50% of all registrations were made at NetworkSolutions.com which was quite unusual, since that registrar has only 8% of the new gTLD market overall, including the 9K+ .XYZ registrations.
Obviously this seemed strange to me since NetSol’s rack rate on a .XYZ is $40 at least 2 1/2 times the rack rate of most registrars.
.XYZ registry has posted on its own blog that .XYZ registrations have passed 31,000 and included some tweets from end users who registered domains.
However, I pulled the zone file for .XYZ this AM and started to review it and came across some domains that I couldn’t believe would be registered especially on the 1st day of a new extension that had virgin territory.
I obviously started at the beginning of the file which are domain names that start with numbers
I found 157 new .XYZ registrations that made no sense to me:
00938625.xyz
01051-plus.xyz
023yks.xyz
027yi.xyz
0282ub.xyz
02pf.xyz
03304cjp64ubzd1.xyz
03fffff.xyz
0577fc.xyz
0707msc.xyz
0731jsq.xyz
0758l.xyz
0758rl.xyz
0797taxi.xyz
0bsf.xyz
0bt09a55wr.xyz
0orwykg35.xyz
0pxqm.xyz
0q1if.xyz
0uv8kbsg.xyz
0w86mb.xyz
0xs8vw.xyz
1-leg-up.xyz
100blackmen-atlanta.xyz
1010onlyroses.xyz
105riiy.xyz
1111arch.xyz
123ug.xyz
13jauz.xyz
16rq8.xyz
16z9y.xyz
17ft4vru.xyz
17mms.xyz
17swang.xyz
1b5n4c.xyz
1eighty.xyz
1kcn.xyz
1nfrf.xyz
1qds3xxp.xyz
1secureaudit.xyz
1sourcelogistics.xyz
23c565.xyz
23uoy.xyz
24monthlenderintx.xyz
2l2puv9.xyz
2nd8jc774.xyz
2qd5zy.xyz
2upop.xyz
2wn650twd.xyz
30thdemswa.xyz
320ranch.xyz
32h7c59z4.xyz
343er4.xyz
343sc.xyz
34t53.xyz
365betbyhwz.xyz
366thspsk-9.xyz
37iov.xyz
37mqjh.xyz
39xwodi.xyz
3cp99hm5.xyz
3cuv0k.xyz
3j-3pya.xyz
3l93b4.xyz
3vcm.xyz
404riskauditcd.xyz
430k5bj4j.xyz
43ppl.xyz
44cpq.xyz
451drafting.xyz
45bjh.xyz
45gy.xyz
45i72j.xyz
4asz.xyz
4freedoms4kids.xyz
4h0r8e.xyz
4i99ws.xyz
4ii2yav.xyz
51bianyaqi.xyz
51book8.xyz
51cydb.xyz
51gredk.xyz
51sulian.xyz
51tuomao.xyz
53rf2.xyz
54jh8.xyz
54kjh.xyz
550zl742.xyz
56r35c.xyz
5739xa5.xyz
58p078.xyz
5s26i.xyz
5upuf.xyz
678yulecheng12344.xyz
67n660.xyz
67zy5.xyz
69qipai.xyz
6alabat.xyz
6i8ql653.xyz
6o9l1.xyz
6tvey8.xyz
73rdbombwingassociation.xyz
758ag0lm.xyz
7ex9jpzpk.xyz
872007zrylc.xyz
872blfylc.xyz
88348107.xyz
888vipdarenxsylc.xyz
88xdtambjlwsdc.xyz
88yuelecheng88.xyz
8bocaitong.xyz
8ca92e1.xyz
8k6uc.xyz
8u13ij.xyz
951ylcylcb.xyz
9a0894f.xyz
9bet365kaihu.xyz
9eshiboyulecheng.xyz
9lkn2uh.xyz
a-jmediaservices.xyz
a-rmanagement.xyz
aacfo.xyz
aagtx.xyz
aaosymw.xyz
abk3g6kr.xyz
acky56.xyz
acwyulecheng.xyz
adafruir.xyz
adamgottschalk.xyz
adiniron.xyz
adioselcancer.xyz
adlhochcreative.xyz
admark360.xyz
adminet.xyz
adrenalineforce.xyz
adzro.xyz
aeccpl.xyz
aepex.xyz
aerchivist.xyz
aerieinc.xyz
afdfqna.xyz
aftylc.xyz
afxtg9.xyz
agapdx.xyz
ahehhb.xyz
aikidomochizuki.xyz
aimashiyulechengcom1646634613.xyz
aimeiguojiyulecheng263.xyz
ajoselowpc.xyz
akcdoublebgoldens.xyz
allouezparksidevillage.xyz
ams4og.xyz
aomenbocaishequ099.xyz
aomenduchanggl353.xyz
aomenpujingduchang197.xyz
aomenwangshangbaijiale804.xyz
aomenyulecheng35532.xyz
So I ran the matching .com domain names though the whois and found out of the 157 domain names, all but 4 were registered at Network Solutions plus 5 .com domain were no longer registered
Here those are:
023yks.com registered at enom
0577fc.com registered at ename.com
51tuomao.com registered at hichina
adamgottschalk.com registered at DomainPeople
These are not registered:
100blackmen-atlanta.com
16rq8.com
30thdemswa.com
9lkn2uh.com
agapdx.com
A reader on TheDomains.com blog commented:
“I recently got the email from Netsol offering me a complementary .xyz for my so-so .com free for 1 year. and in order to decline such an offer I had to visit a link and click decline, otherwise the domain would be mine automatically.”
Personally I haven’t received any such deals from NetworkSolutions.com although I do not have a lot of domains there (just domains won on Namejet.com and not transferred yet).
Reviewing the emails I have received in the last 30 days from NetworkSolutions.com on new gTLD’s none of them even mentioned .XYZ anywhere in the email.
So it all remains very strange.
I didn’t go through all 18,000 domain names that were in the Zone file this AM so this is just a small sample of registered domains.
I reached out to Daniel Negari CEO of .XYZ on this issue and he told me “The .XYZ registry has been paid for every registration”.
So did NetworkSolutions give away .XYZ domains?
