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Internet top-level domain the domain name the file extension and format XYZ file format other uses XYZ (disambiguation)XYZ March 2021 March 2021 .xyz .xyz logo.svg 180px 2014 2 19(root server)2014 6 2(general public) Generic top-level domain (gTLD) Active * Generation.XYZ (registry) CentralNic (registry technical operator) None None ICANN Registry Agreement https://gen.xyz Yes .xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program for consisting of the last three letters of the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain, which was created by entrepreneur Daniel Negari.Said By Carolyn 2015-08-01 What's in a name? .xyz, others vie for Web domain dominance https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/What-s-in-a-name-xyz-others-vie-for-Web-6418747.php 2026-06-23 San Francisco Chronicle en It became available to the general public on June 2, 2014, thereafter becoming widely used by tech startups, creators, and Web3 projects. Adoption .xyz was the largest of its group of newly-released TLDs.Disposable botnets https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3407023.3409177 2026-06-22 dl.acm.org en 10.1145/3407023.3409177 Negari paid US$185,000 for the domain.Is .xyz the new .com? HackerNoon https://hackernoon.com/is-xyz-the-new-com-6f3c3e5829df 2026-06-23 hackernoon.com en In mid-2014, domain name registrar Network Solutions gave away potentially hundreds of thousands of .xyz domains by placing them into some customer accounts on an opt-out basis. This resulted in domain name registry VeriSign bringing a lawsuit alleging that Network Solutions paid for the domains using advertising credit.Allemann Andrew Verisign presses Network Solutions for details on .XYZ registrations http://domainnamewire.com/2015/08/19/verisign-presses-network-solutions-for-details-on-xyz-registrations/ Domain Name Wire 24 November 2015 2015-08-19 November 25, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151125115911/http://domainnamewire.com/2015/08/19/verisign-presses-network-solutions-for-details-on-xyz-registrations/ liveGibbs Mark NetSol's new con; renewing unwanted .xyz domains https://www.networkworld.com/article/941880/netsols-new-con-renewing-unwanted-xyz-domains.html Network World 24 November 2015 2015-08-04 April 26, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240426184213/https://www.networkworld.com/article/941880/netsols-new-con-renewing-unwanted-xyz-domains.html liveHalvorson Tristan Der Matthew F. Foster Ian Savage Stefan Saul Lawrence K. Voelker Geoffrey M. From .academy to .zone: An Analysis of the New TLD Land Rush 28 October 2015 381–394 IMC '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference Association for Computing Machinery New York 10.1145/2815675.2815696 In part due to this promotion, the number of registered .xyz domains reached 428,806 by August 2014; however, only roughly 10,000 of the promotional domains out of the 351,457 given away were in active use by July 2015. In November 2015, .xyz reached 1.5 million domain name registrations, possibly boosted in part by Google's decision to use abc.xyz for its corporate (Alphabet Inc.) website, one of the first major corporations to use the domain.Ewing Jack Hardy Quentin 2015-08-11 Alphabet? Google Might Get Some Letters https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/technology/google-creates-alphabet-but-runs-into-bmw.html The New York Times 2015-08-12 2019-08-02 July 9, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170709133122/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/technology/google-creates-alphabet-but-runs-into-bmw.html live Roberts Jeff John 2015-08-13 Squatters swoop on Google ".xyz" names in wake of Alphabet http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/google-alphabet-xzy-urls/ Fortune 2019-08-02 July 14, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170714150847/http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/google-alphabet-xzy-urls/ live Berkens Michael .XYZ Tops 1.5 Million Domains As Domain Registrations Return To Normal http://www.thedomains.com/2015/11/23/xyz-tops-1-5-million-domains-as-domain-registrations-return-to-normal/ 2015-11-23 The Domains 2019-08-02 November 24, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151124154053/http://www.thedomains.com/2015/11/23/xyz-tops-1-5-million-domains-as-domain-registrations-return-to-normal/ live Google reportedly paid Negari US$8 per month to maintain the domain. In 2020, .xyz had the seventh-most registrations of all TLDs with 3,182,692 registered domains. In 2022, it rose to the fourth-most registrations (below .com, .net, and .org), with 4,563,254 registrations.Aguerre Carolina 2023-05-04 The legacies of long tail and the unfolding of consolidation and concentration in the top-level domain sector https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23738871.2023.2290057 Journal of Cyber Policy en 8 2 218–238 10.1080/23738871.2023.2290057 2373-8871 free A 2022 analysis showed that 93% of all .xyz domain name registrations lasted for only the minimum registration time of one year, compared to 60% for more mainstream TLDs such as .com and .net.Affinito Antonia Sommese Raffaele Akiwate Gautam Savage Stefan Voelker Geoffrey Botta Alessio Jonker Mattijs Claffy KC 2022 Domain name lifetimes: baseline and threats https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10594597 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) 250278773 By mid-2025, over 6 million domains were registered using the .xyz TLD..xyz Top-Level Domain Breakdown https://ntldstats.com/tld/xyz 2026-06-23 nTLDStats en 1.111B Class On June 1, 2017, .XYZ launched the 1.111B class .xyz domains, cheap domains priced at US$0.99 per year and renewed at the same price. The class of domains consists of six, seven, eight, and nine-digit numeric combinations between 000000.xyz and 999999999.xyz. Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, stated that it was meant to bring competition, choice, and innovation to the market.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/1111-billion-xyz-domain-names-300464764.html 1.111 Billion .XYZ Domain Names October 5, 2019 August 5, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200805192045/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/1111-billion-xyz-domain-names-300464764.html live Malicious domains In 2023, the Anti-Phishing Working Group stated that the .xyz and .shop domain names were in the top 5 for malicious domain registrations, due to low prices and quick registration processes.Fadilpašić Sead 2024-12-09 New domain names such as .shop and .xyz are proving popular for cybercrime https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/new-domain-names-such-as-shop-and-xyz-are-proving-popular-for-cybercrime 2024-03-23 Tech Radar Future US, Inc. en-US It was estimated in 2022 that 6.62% of extant domains in the .xyz TLD were malicious. Due to these instances of malware, scams and phishing, multiple anti-malware vendors have blacklisted many or all .xyz domains.Proske Sandra May 6, 2019 Why is there's so much spam coming from .xyz and other new top-level domains? https://blog.f-secure.com/why-is-theres-so-much-spam-coming-from-xyz-and-other-new-top-level-domains/ January 10, 2025 F-Secure Blog https://web.archive.org/web/20241004054033/https://blog.f-secure.com/why-is-theres-so-much-spam-coming-from-xyz-and-other-new-top-level-domains/ October 4, 2024 dead Malicious domains in the .xyz TLD were found to have, on average, significantly shorter lifetimes than in other TLDs, with 9799% of malicious .xyz domains having lifetimes shorter than one year (the minimum domain registration period), with a median deletion time of 13 days after being blacklisted. See also List of Internet top-level domains .xxx References Category:Internet properties established in 2014 Category:Generic top-level domains Category:Companies based in Santa Monica, California