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Has over 400,000 domain name registrations — .XYZ now

Has over 400,000 domain name registrations — .XYZ now

Freebies and deep discounts add up to a big figure.

.XYZ domain nameThe .XYZ domain name now has over 400,000 registrations, as stated by zone file notes.

Of course, the majority of these registrations were given away free to Network Solutions clients on an opt-out basis.

nTLDStats.com shows that regarding 353,000 .xyz domain names were registered at Network Solutions. If it charged full price, then you’d expect it to have maybe 1,000 registrations.

The second place registrar for .xyz is GMO Internet, Inc. aka Onamae.com. It is offering .xyz domain names for regarding $1.75 USD.

Taking a look at other registrars, it appears regarding 25,000 registrations are regular-price (or at least higher-priced) registrations. That’s not bad by any means; that would place the extension among the top 15 fresh TLDs released so far.

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