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XYZ.com has just formally announced the acquisition of the new gTLD .tickets, which we reported on in April. The company said it plans to keep the domains at the current high price of $500 retail per year, in contrast to its recent practice of dropping...
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July 6, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, xyz.com
When XYZ.com tied up the automotive gTLD market by bringing .car, .cars, .auto and .autos into its portfolio last year, I speculated that a big price increase may be on the cards for .autos. I was wrong. The registry has in fact dropped its wholesale p...
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June 3, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.autos, Domain Registries, dominion, xyz.com
Newly installed .spa registry Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council has started using a .xyz domain for its official registry web site. The organization last week had its IANA records updated to change its “URL for registration services” ...
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November 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.spa, aswpc, Domain Registries, dotasia, xyz.com
Grab-happy registry XYZ.com has expanded its stable of strings to 22 after buying five little-used gTLDs from Dominion Registries. It recently came into control of .autos, .motorcycles, .homes, .yachts, and .boats, CEO Daniel Negari confirmed earlier t...
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October 14, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.autos, Domain Registries, dominion, xyz.com
XYZ.com has bought another unused dot-brand to add to its portfolio. It’s taken over the contract for .quest from original registry Quest ION Ltd, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing company called QNet, according to ICANN rec...
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November 19, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.qnet, .quest, assignment, Domain Registries, dot-brands, xyz.com
The secret wholesale prices for hundreds of TLDs have been leaked, due to an alleged “bug” at a registrar. The registry fees for some 259 TLDs, including those managed by Donuts, Verisign and Afilias, are currently publicly available online...
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July 1, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Cloudflare, Domain Registrars, rra, wholesale, xyz.com
New TLD company files for three trademarks on existing TLDs; readies two more namespaces. New top level domain name company XYZ.com LLC filed three trademark applications last week that match the slogans it uses to market three top level domain names. The applications are for: Express your passion (.theatre) Advancing online security (.security) Claim your […]
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February 5, 2019 Andrew Allemann
xyz.com
XYZ.com seems to have acquired the .baby gTLD from Johnson & Johnson. ICANN records show that the .baby registry contract was assigned to the growing portfolio registry November 19. The news, which has yet to be announced by buyer or seller, arrive...
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December 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Services, xyz.com
XYZ.com’s effort to sell over a billion numeric .xyz domains at just $0.65 each does not appear to be gaining traction. The number of qualifying domains in the .xyz zone file has plummeted by almost 200,000 since the deal was introduced and dippe...
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December 7, 2017 Kevin Murphy
1.111b, Domain Registries, xyz.com
XYZ.com has reopened .storage to registrations with a new, much higher price tag. A confusingly named “Trademark Holder Landrush” started yesterday and will run for three weeks. It’s not a sunrise period — .storage already had its ICANN-mandated sunrise under its previous management — and it appears that it’s not actually restricted to trademark holders. […]
