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Operator of the dot-com registry and two root servers, Verisign, has settled one of its two lawsuits against upstart .XYZ. CEO of XYZ, David Negari announced the news in an update on his personal blog. The unusual wording of the update was clearly a part of the settlement, with Negari noting that his company's actions had " …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Dear Verisign

    Guess whose domains I'll not be buying? Three guesses but you'll only need one.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Just a reminder that XYZ want to pre-emptively censor thousands of names, because they want to do business in China.

  3. John Klos

    .xyz are worthless

    Because .xyz domains are cheap / almost free / free, tons of spammers have set up thousands of domains expressly for spamming. All the mail servers I administer don't and won't accept email from any email server which uses .xyz, .science or .top TLDs in their hostnames because of this.

    When a company is in a mad rush to get as much money as possible like this, bad things happen. I doubt .xyz will ever be considered a legitimate and respected TLD.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: .xyz are worthless

      They're not free. It's an introductory price of about 60p year. Though they'll have completely trashed their reputation by then.

  4. hellwig

    .COM is old hat

    There, I said it.

    Time to load up on .MOBI, that's where the future lies! Is .IOT a thing, if so, I'll need to stock up on those.

    Sarcasm aside. I mentioned this in the article where the MPAA and/or RIAA made agreements with a couple registrars to have direct take-down permissions of domains hosting copyrighted data. Who actually CARES what TLD a website uses? I do try to avoid domains ending in a country code that's not mine (El Reg aside), since they either aren't relevant to me or are highly likely to host malevolent content. Otherwise, .COM, .NET, .BOOBS, whatever, it's all the same to me.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: .COM is old hat

      You weren't wrong.

      .com is old hat, and domains controlled by 'murica are best avoided.

      1. Sebastian A

        Re: .COM is old hat

        Old hats are the most comfortable.

        If I'm looking for a business, I'll try a .com first, or the version applicable to my country. After that it's a search engine. There's no way I'm typing in whatever.xyz, or widgets.science, or companyname.newtld.

        All these new TLDs are just a way of extorting money from organisations by trying to scare them into defensive registrations. Pretending they're useful for newer companies who can't get their desired .com address is pretty disingenous.

    2. brotherelf
      Trollface

      Re: .COM is old hat

      Surprisingly, .thing seems not to be a thing yet either.

  5. Mark 85

    My how times have changed...

    strengthen the belief that Verisign is making it plain that it is prepared to use its financial might to protect its reputation and market position

    That ^^^ says it all. Used to be product, service, and price did that. Now it's the freaking lawyers.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Those new top-level domains have accumulated 17.5 million new names between them.

    Yes, that's right 17.5 million new spamming oportunities.

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