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Google has something neither you or I have -- $Billions of cash reserves -- they can afford to flood the .xyz registrations with cheap introductory pricing for years.
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registrar-name,iana-id,total-domains,total-nameservers,net-adds-1-yr,net-adds-2-yr,net-adds-3-yr,net-adds-4-yr,net-adds-5-yr,net-adds-6-yr,net-adds-7-yr,net-adds-8-yr,net-adds-9-yr,net-adds-10-yr,net-renews-1-yr,net-renews-2-yr,net-renews-3-yr,net-renews-4-yr,net-renews-5-yr,net-renews-6-yr,net-renews-7-yr,net-renews-8-yr,net-renews-9-yr,net-renews-10-yr,transfer-gaining-successful,transfer-gambitgaining-nacked,transfer-losing-successful,transfer-losing-nacked,transfer-disputed-won,transfer-disputed-lost,transfer-disputed-nodecision,deleted-domains-grace,deleted-domains-nograce,restored-domains,restored-noreport,agp-exemption-requests,agp-exemptions-granted,agp-exempted-domains,attempted-adds
Totals,,1,874,719,117444,139777,558,220,4,117,0,0,1,0,36,3959,87,24 ,8,19,1,0,1,2,0,370,2,427,2,0,0,0,55,60330,0,5,0,0 ,0,134396770
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Google has registered almost 2 million names in 24 months most in the last 6? months. What is interesting is the 'attempted-adds' 13,4396,770 -- cybersquatters?
**I meant MM (millions) and not K above ^corrected : " in the other 134MM+ .com"
Google could give index value to some of those .xyz domains in a year -- a gambit? -- then what is .com really worth in SEO? The domain string may not mean squat soon. The semantics of the TLD string may. You may end up writing off a lot of .coms held in speculation all of the marginal crap anyway. I have let most of my marginal .com and other EMD domains just expire not being worth the effort and time to MAYBE get a few hundred dollars -- I would rather walk away and work on things with greater potential.
A lot of 'ifs' but stranger things have happened -- how much was the Euro worth in 1960 -- the Euro changed the whole world currency exchange foundation. The new gTLDs will disrupt the overall domain market. Maybe close to $2 billion dollars is being spent on the new gTLDs.
VeriSign Sarl operates as a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc.
VeriSign Sarl bought 14 new registry delegations -- 12 of then foreign language names. Verisign, the registry for .com, .net , et. al, is butt-hurt over this and hedging their bets in local language domain strings. A lot of 'ifs' but stranger things have happened -- better have a plan 'B' or you may be butt-hurt too  |