.xyz
Internet top-level domain
Why this is trending
“.xyz” surged to position #4 among the most-read Wikipedia pages on 2026-06-02, with roughly 175,698 views recorded.
Categorised under Business & Economy, this article fits a familiar pattern. wt.cat.business.2
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Key Takeaways
- xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program, and became available to the general public on June 2, 2014.
- com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain.
- 5 million domain name registrations, possibly boosted in part by Google's decision to use abc.
- ) website, one of the first major corporations to use the domain.
- 111B class On June 1, 2017, .
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Source summary
Wikipedia.xyz is a top-level domain name that was proposed in ICANN's New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program, and became available to the general public on June 2, 2014. The domain name came about because the three letters are the last in the Latin-script alphabet. XYZ.com and CentralNic are the registries for the domain.
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. However, domain name registry VeriSign and others have claimed that domain name registrar Network Solutions gave away possibly hundreds of thousands of these names by placing them into customer accounts on an opt-out basis.
On June 1, 2017, .XYZ launched the 1.111B class .xyz domains which are cheap domains priced at US$0.99 per year and renewed at the same price. They are 6-digit, 7-digit, 8-digit, and 9-digit numeric combinations between 000000.xyz – 999999999.xyz. Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ said that it is for bringing competition, choice, and innovation to the market.
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