I was checking whois on the domain name 1.xyz, that sold for $182,971, while researching for this article questioning some of the high value .xyz domain sales. I discovered by accident that the XYZ registry …

Are all .xyz domain name sales real? Over the weekend some articles and comments came out saying that a lot of the .xyz sales are just publicity stunts. The truth is that .xyz does not …

The domain name 1.xyz sold for a record breaking price: $182,971. Several other domain names like hk.xyz, vip.xyz and 66.xyz sold for $30k or more. According to Sold.Domains, a website documenting all New gTLD domain …

Newgle just launched and is touted as “The non-COM search engine.”. Newgle allows you to search the web with only the New gTLDs in the results. The creators claim they built Newgle to show how …

December was another great month at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. Also more than 250 comments were made by readers. The most popular post was “You are not the only one interested in …

The XYZ registry auctioned off 16 .xyz domain names at West.cn. The auction ended today and all 16 .xyz domains were sold for a total of $379,376 USD. The auction included short domains like xx.xyz …

Last week I wrote about a reader that complained that his .xyz domain name was suspended by the registry after a trademark complaint. I advised the reader to reply to the registry with a simple …

I got an email from a reader that thought he had received a UDRP or a URS on his .xyz domain name. It turned out he was wrong. The registry had suspended his domain name. …

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced on its Facebook page the next Townhall Q&A. He used a .xyz domain name, and not a very good one, for the streaming video: hacktv.xyz. Here is the link Mark used:

The auction for the domain name 8.XYZ closed at $81,919 at the 2015 Domainfest Asia auction. The auction had 157 bids from 11 bidders. The Right of the Dot (ROTD) auction for DOMAINfest, powered by 4.CN, …

2015 Domainfest Asia may have ended but bidding at the domain name auction is going strong! The Right of the Dot auction for DOMAINfest, powered by 4.CN, is running September 2-10, 2015 – before and after …

After Google announced that it is creating a new holding company, called Alphabet and the new website is using the domain name abc.xyz I ran a poll asking readers what they thought the domain abc.xyz …

Colin CampbelI, founder of .CLUB, has officially challenged Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, to a debate at THE Domain Conference that takes place this September in Florida. Colin is debating that free or nearly free …

The .XYZ is running a parallel .xyz and .com domain name registration contest. I was the only judge for the first round and these are the winners and how I arrived to this decision. The …