.XYZ Celebrates Four Months : 100,000 active .XYZ Websites

.XYZ Registry celebrated four months on October 2,2014. The new gTLD, .XYZ, continues to be the most popular and the fastes growing new domain name extension.

At the time of writing this article, there are nearly 100,000 active .XYZ websites.Moreover, according to the latest stats , there are 549,851 .XYZ domain names registered .

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“Time sure flies when you’re working on the next big thing. And it makes it all worthwhile when we see internet users everywhere with their .xyz domain names.

We might only be 4 months young, but .xyz continues to be the most popular and fastest growing new domain extension. According to the latest stats, there are 549,851 .xyz domains registered and 98,883 active .xyz websites.

That means we’re quickly approaching 100,000 ACTIVE .xyz websites!
That’s more than double our nearest competitor, meaning #GenXYZ, you’re leading the pack with creating amazing websites for everyone to enjoy.

As our CEO and Founder Daniel Negari pointed out, the success of a domain extension cannot be measured purely by registration numbers. What’s more important is to look at how the domains are actively being used by real people like you, #GenXYZ. You can read more about this on Daniel’s blog post titled: .xyz is the most used gTLD – Boooooooom!

On a fun sidenote, any guesses on what the 555,555th .xyz registration will be? Here are what some of us at the XYZ headquarters are thinking:

    BestHalloweenCostumes.xyz
    DiaDeMuertos.xyz
    iPhoneTips.xyz
    WorldSeries.xyz
    北京新闻.xyz
    555555.xyz (great guess, but this one’s out of the running. It was already taken!)”