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