Google has something neither you or I have -- $Billions of cash reserves -- they can afford to flood the .xyz registrations with cheap introductory pricing for years.
Google has registered almost 2 million names in 24 months most in the last 6? months. What is interesting is the 'attempted-adds' 13,4396,770 -- cybersquatters?
**I meant MM (millions) and not K above ^corrected : " in the other 134MM+ .com"
Google could give index value to all those .xyz domain in a year -- then what is .com really worth in SEO? The domain string may not mean squat soon. The semantics of the TLD string may. You may end up writing off a lot of .coms held in speculation all of the marginal crap anyway. I have let most of my marginal .com and other EMD domains just expire not being worth the effort and time to MAYBE get a few hundred dollars -- I would rather walk away and work on things with greater potential.
A lot of 'ifs' but stranger things have happened -- how much was the Euro worth in 1960 -- the Euro changed the whole world currency exchange foundation gambit. The new gTLDs will disrupt the overall domain market. Maybe close to $2 billion dollars is being spent on the new gTLDs.
VeriSign Sarl operates as a subsidiary of VeriSign, Inc.
VeriSign Sarl bought 14 new registry delegations -- 12 of then foreign language names. Verisign, the registry for .com, .net , et. al, is butt-hurt over this and hedging their bets in local language domain strings. A lot of 'ifs' but stranger things have happened -- better have a plan 'B' or you may be butt-hurt too
