“.xyz is the domain of a new generation and new technologies. It’s where everything interesting is happening.” — Chris Heatherly, CEO, TheMysterySociety.xyz
Twelve years ago, .xyz launched with a simple but radical idea: the internet deserved a domain extension as open, bold, and boundless as the people building on it. What began as a fresh alternative to the status quo has grown into the world’s most popular new domain extension, trusted by registrants across more than 230 countries and territories. Today, XYZ Registry has surpassed 10 million domain registrations across its portfolio of 35 domain extensions, led by the explosive growth and global adoption of .xyz. With rapid adoption surging across emerging technologies like AI, AR, blockchain, and quantum computing, year 12 is shaping up to be the most exciting chapter yet.
It’s an annual tradition: every birthday, we offer .xyz for just $1 for the first year.
The sale comes back every year. Your perfect name might not. Secure your .xyz domain today at one of our featured partners below and join the global movement shaping the future of the internet!
Find even more participating registrars at gen.xyz/birthday. While there, you can also find a dedicated hub celebrating 12 years of .xyz. You’ll discover a wide range of resources, including a global #GenXYZ user showcase, a collection of testimonials from members of the #GenXYZ community, and a sourced deep dive into $5B+ in venture funding raised by projects built on .xyz domains.
In venture-backed projects calling .xyz home, we’ve identified more than $5B in funding, just the tip of the iceberg. For many, it started with $1. From neurotechnology to decentralized finance to artificial intelligence, the companies choosing .xyz as their home are not just pushing boundaries. They’re raising serious capital to do it.
AMILabs.xyz, the AI research company founded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, raised $1.03B to build world models (AI that learns from reality rather than just language).1 Science.xyz, the neurotechnology platform co-founded by Neuralink’s Max Hodak, raised $230M as it pushes to become the first brain-computer interface company to bring a product to market.2 Rain.xyz, an enterprise-grade infrastructure platform for stablecoin-powered payments, raised an additional $250M in a Series C round.3
But it’s not just the companies raising money on .xyz. The firms writing the checks are here too — from crypto-native funds to multi-stage global investors.
Paradigm.xyz, founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang, operates a $2.5B venture fund. Dragonfly.xyz closed its fourth fund at $650M, with offices in New York and Singapore. Cherry.xyz, a Berlin-based firm, has raised over $340M across its funds.
This is the #GenXYZ community. Builders who don’t wait for permission. Investors who back the boldest ideas. Innovators choosing .xyz because it reflects who they are and what they’re building. Explore a deep dive into venture-backed .xyz companies at gen.xyz/birthday.
Big raises make headlines. But the heart of .xyz has always been independent creators, small business owners, creative agencies, and more who all saw themselves in .xyz from the very start. They are the foundation of everything #GenXYZ has become.
This past year, we had the pleasure of spotlighting some of the individuals and small businesses whose stories continue to inspire us. Here’s a look at a few of the forward-thinkers we celebrated:
Imperfecta.xyz is the online home of Imperfecta, an art and design gallery based in Portland, Oregon. The gallery focuses on “elevating women artists and underrepresented creatives” and presents a range of work, including visual art, sculpture, and installations.
SUUVI.xyz is the personal website of Suuvi, formerly known as Sophia Bacelar, a Cuban-Chinese producer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist. Suuvi began studying cello at age two and was accepted to Juilliard at ten.
GreatPen.xyz is the online home of Allan Buntoengsuk, an independent product designer who partners with startups and established organizations to design and improve digital products across mobile and web platforms.
Wondermake.xyz is the online home of Wondermake, a London-based design studio founded by Jonny Gibson, a designer and creative director with over a decade of experience across global brands, startups, and local businesses.
HandyEntertainment.xyz is the online home of Handy Entertainment, an event entertainment company that advocates for, trains, hires, and mentors historically disadvantaged people, groups, and businesses.
GinaThings.xyz is the personal website of Gina Kang, a Colorado-based graphic designer and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Gina specializes in brand design and storytelling, crafting visuals that merge creativity and function across print, digital, and environmental design.
College.xyz is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit network built by students for students, aiming to close the gap between traditional education and the fast-moving pace of technological innovation.
DaltonGriebel.xyz is the personal website of Dalton Griebel, a Massachusetts-based CMF (Color, Material, Finish) and graphic designer with a background that bridges retail, business administration, and visual design.
From personal portfolios to full-service creative studios, the diversity of this community is one of .xyz’s greatest strengths. Whatever you’re building, there’s a place for it here.
Every week, we shine a spotlight on members of the #GenXYZ community through our ongoing blog series: Website Wednesday (gen.xyz/ww): A new #GenXYZ member every week. AI Monday (gen.xyz/aim): Spotlighting innovators building with AI. Blockchain Thursday (gen.xyz/bct): Highlights from the web3 community. Game Day (gen.xyz/gaming): Showcasing #GenXYZ members in gaming. XYZ TLD Day (gen.xyz/tld): Innovators using XYZ TLDs. Domains Report (gen.xyz/dr): Key trends from .xyz. XYZ Quarterly (gen.xyz/quarterly): Tips and ideas for a successful web presence, as well as quarterly updates on the XYZ Team’s activities.
Every new .xyz domain registered is a new idea taking shape, a new voice joining the conversation, and a new face in the .xyz community.
To explore more of what this community has built, visit gen.xyz/birthday. From venture-backed innovators to independent creators, what you’ll find there speaks for itself.
The future is being built on .xyz. Make it yours.
“To us, xyz stands as a subtle rebellion against the status quo. While it’s equally (if not more) memorable than a legacy TLD, it also conjures feelings of mystery, excitement, and innovation.” — Alex Fine, CEO, Fun.xyz
XYZ stands at the forefront of technological innovation, providing a diverse array of domain name options, including the globally popular .xyz. The registry’s impressive portfolio spans across domains such as .Cars, .Car, and .Auto, .College, .Rent, .Security, .Protection, .Theatre, .Storage, .Baby, .Monster, .Beauty, .Hair, .Skin, .Makeup, .Quest, .Homes, .Autos, .Motorcycles, .Boats, .Yachts, .Tickets, .Game, .Guitars, .Audio, .Christmas, .Diet, .Flowers, .Hosting, .Pics, .Mom, .LOL, .Lat, and .CEO. Discover more about XYZ at www.xyz.xyz.
1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1-03-billion-to-build-world-models/
2. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/science-corp-closes-230m-round-as-it-pushes-to-get-its-brain-implant-to-patients/
3. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rain-raises-250m-series-c-to-scale-stablecoin-powered-payments-infrastructure-for-global-enterprises-302657084.html
peaq.xyz – Cloudflare customer – (UAE)
Forward-looking developers and builders use .xyz domains to power the next generation of machine intelligence and autonomous infrastructure. AI research company AMILabs.xyz, co-founded by Yann LeCun, is focused on building world models for real-world intelligence. AI data infrastructure Hub.xyz builds a distributed network for real-time machine intelligence. AI Scientist platform PathIntegral.xyz is designed to support global collaboration and accelerate scientific discovery. In this week’s #AIMonday, we’ll introduce you to a layer-1 blockchain building economic infrastructure for autonomous machines and the apps that run on them: peaq.xyz.
peaq.xyz is the online home of peaq, a layer-1 blockchain designed to serve as infrastructure for the Machine Economy, a framework in which robots, vehicles, devices, and AI agents operate as autonomous economic actors. According to the website, the platform gives machines the identity, wallets, credit ratings, and financial rails needed to transact, earn, and be financed independently, across multiple supported chains. peaq.xyz states that peaq is currently home to 60+ applications across 22 industries, with more than 6 million robots, machines, and humans onboarded and over 48 million transactions processed by machines to date (as of May 20, 2026). In March 2024, peaq announced a $15M pre-launch funding round led by venture firms GenVentures.xyz and Borderless Capital, with participation from additional investors including Animoca Brands, Spartan Group, and HV Capital, among others.1
The platform’s core product is peaqOS, described on peaq.xyz as an operating system that turns robots and machines into financial assets and economic actors. According to the documentation, peaqOS gives any machine a decentralized identifier, an omnichain wallet, a Machine NFT representing it as a financial asset, and a live credit rating ranging from AAA to NR, queryable by any counterparty on any supported chain. This positions peaq within the emerging field of physical AI, where autonomous machines operate not just as tools but as independent participants in financial systems. Several applications built on peaqOS illustrate how this infrastructure translates into real-world products.
RiceAI.xyz — According to its website, RICE AI aims to advance the development of AGI robots through a decentralized framework, and is backed by Rice Robotics, a Hong Kong-based robotics company. As reported by CoinDesk in July 2025, Rice Robotics has robots deployed at SoftBank’s Tokyo headquarters, Mitsui Fudosan’s Tokyo Midtown Yaesu property, and 7-Eleven Japan stores. CoinDesk also reported that the company is part of the Nvidia Inception program and raised $7M in pre-Series A funding from investors including the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Soul Capital, Audacy Ventures, Sun Hung Kai & Co., and Cyberport HK.2
MachineX.xyz — The MachineX website describes the platform as an onchain marketplace for trading DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) tokens within the Machine Economy on peaq. A portion of each trade fee is directed toward peaq’s Machine Subsidization Treasury, which the website describes as investing in machines and devices to be added to DePINs within the network.
peaq is co-founded by Till Wendler and Max Thake. According to Till’s LinkedIn profile, Till has served as a founder of peaq since May 2020 and previously held the role of Head of Operations at Advanced Blockchain AG, described on his profile as the first blockchain company listed on the Xetra (Frankfurt) stock exchange. Till also co-founded EoT Labs, which according to his LinkedIn profile, develops and supports open-source projects focused on the Economy of Things. As shared on Max’s LinkedIn profile, Max has served as co-founder of peaq since May 2020 and is a fellow of the Sigma Squared Society, a non-profit global community of founders selected for impact-driven initiatives.
The innovative platform enters this next chapter with $15M in funding, 60+ applications across 22 industries, and a founding team with deep roots in blockchain infrastructure, building toward a future where autonomous machines are active participants in the global economy, not just tools operated by humans. That vision is already attracting builders across the .xyz community, with projects like RiceAI.xyz and MachineX.xyz choosing to build on peaqOS as they develop their own approaches to the machine economy. peaq is a platform whose work spans robotics, AI, DePIN, and decentralized finance, making .xyz a natural fit, generic by design, unbounded by industry, and widely adopted by the deep tech and startup projects defining what comes next. We look forward to seeing what peaq, and the community building on it, accomplishes. You can learn more by following the platform on X/Twitter and LinkedIn @peaqxyz, and visiting peaq.xyz.
1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/layer-1-blockchain-peaq-raises-100000730.html
2. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/31/rice-robotics-to-debut-rice-token-for-ai-data-marketplace-on-tokenfi-launchpad
Initia.xyz – GoDaddy customer – (Singapore)
Innovative developers use .xyz domains to build blockchain platforms and services. Blockchain platform N1.xyz supports high-throughput applications and financial use cases. Digital securities platform Axiology.xyz supports issuance, custody, trading, and settlement under an EU regulatory framework. Stripe-acquired payment platform Bridge.xyz, built by former Coinbase leaders, supports stablecoin payments. In this week’s #BlockchainThursday, we’ll introduce you to a Layer 1 blockchain and interwoven rollup system designed for a multichain future: Initia.xyz.
Initia.xyz is the online home of Initia, a blockchain project developing a Layer 1 network and a system of interwoven optimistic rollups. According to Initia’s documentation, the architecture is built around three components: the Initia L1 base layer, a network of Layer 2 rollups built on top of it, and the Interwoven Stack, a framework for building those rollups and applications. In February 2024, The Block reported that Initia raised $7.5M in a seed round co-led by venture capital firms Delphi Ventures and Hack VC, with participation from Nascent, Figment Capital, Big Brain, and A.Capital.1 In September 2024, The Block reported that Initia raised an additional $14M in a Series A round led by Theory Ventures, also with participation from Delphi Ventures and Hack VC, bringing Initia’s total funding to $22.5M and its fully diluted token valuation to $350M.2
The Interwoven Stack is central to how Initia positions itself within the blockchain space. As described in Initia’s documentation, the framework is designed to reduce decision fatigue for developers by providing built-in solutions for infrastructure components such as data availability, interoperability, and oracles. Rather than requiring development teams to source and configure these components independently, the Interwoven Stack includes them from the start. Layer 2 networks built on Initia, referred to as Minitias, can be customized with different virtual machines, gas tokens, and transaction ordering mechanisms, as noted in Initia’s documentation. A separate economic layer, described on Initia.xyz as the Vested Interest Program (VIP), is designed to reward users, builders, and liquidity contributors across the network. As reported by The Block, 12 projects were actively using the Interwoven Stack to build their own Layer 2 networks at the time of the Series A announcement, having collectively raised over $13M in funding.3
Initia is co-founded by Stanford Liu and Ezaan “Zon” Mangalji. As reported by The Block, both Stanford and Ezaan worked at Terraform Labs, the company behind the Cosmos-based Terra blockchain, before founding Initia. Stanford focused on MEV research there (a practice in which miners extract value by ordering transactions in particular ways), while Ezaan worked as a smart contract developer. According to Ezaan’s LinkedIn profile, Ezaan joined Initia Labs as co-founder in January 2023. The Block reported in February 2024 that prior to founding Initia, the two had begun building a separate Cosmos-based DeFi blockchain, but paused that effort and returned funds to investors following the collapse of the Terra/Luna ecosystem.4
The blockchain project has secured $22.5M in funding, assembled a founding team with roots in the Cosmos and Terra ecosystems, and attracted a growing network of Layer 2 projects building on its stack. The .xyz domain is a natural fit for a venture like Initia: generic by design, not tied to any single industry, and widely adopted across the deep tech and startup community. As Initia’s work spans Layer 1 infrastructure, Layer 2 networks, and an expanding developer ecosystem, Initia.xyz is a domain that can grow alongside it. We look forward to seeing how Initia continues to grow. You can learn more about Initia by following the project on X/Twitter and LinkedIn, joining the Discord, and visiting Initia.xyz.
1. https://www.theblock.co/post/279038/former-terra-developers-raise-7-5-million-for-rollup-focused-blockchain-initia-targeting-q2-launch
2. https://www.theblock.co/post/318102/initia-funding-token-valuation
3. https://www.theblock.co/post/318102/initia-funding-token-valuation
4. https://www.theblock.co/post/279038/former-terra-developers-raise-7-5-million-for-rollup-focused-blockchain-initia-targeting-q2-launch
LoganHardin.xyz – Namecheap customer – (United States)
Skilled creatives use .xyz domains to showcase their career highlights. NYC creative director Geo Hagan uses GeoHagan.xyz to highlight a portfolio spanning Lincoln, Serena Williams, and brand culture. UX designer Erik Gartzke uses ErikGartzke.xyz to present case studies and design work. CMF designer Dalton Griebel uses DaltonGriebel.xyz to share work for brands such as Chevrolet and SharkNinja. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to a Warner Bros. technical sound designer who showcases a career in game audio, including work on Fortnite and Forza Motorsport, using a “FirstNameLastName.xyz” domain of his own: LoganHardin.xyz.
LoganHardin.xyz is the personal website of Logan Hardin, an award-winning technical sound designer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Logan’s LinkedIn profile, Logan has held technical sound designer roles at Warner Bros. Entertainment and Meta, and previously served as a sound designer at Turn 10 Studios. As stated on Logan’s LinkedIn profile, Logan currently works for Warner Bros. Entertainment on contract with Epic Games, contributing to Fortnite, one of Epic Games’ flagship titles. Prior to that role, Logan contributed to Meta Horizon Worlds, a social virtual reality platform developed by Meta. Logan holds a Bachelor of Science in Visualization, with a minor in Performance Studies, from Texas A&M University, and an MFA in Sound Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
The homepage of LoganHardin.xyz leads with Logan’s Sound Design Portfolio, an embedded video showcasing a selection of projects Logan has contributed to. The Games page of the website provides a fuller picture of Logan’s project history. According to the website, Logan joined Turn 10 Studios in 2021 and shipped Forza Motorsport (2023) as a sound designer, with involvement across multiple areas of the game, including the Reactive Cockpit System, Track Audio, Audio Description, and UI and Cinematics. The website notes that since release, Forza Motorsport has received multiple honors, including Innovation in Accessibility and Best Sports/Racing at The Game Awards (2023),1 and Racing Game of the Year at the 27th Annual DICE Awards.2 LoganHardin.xyz also lists Roboxing, an arcade-style robot boxing game developed in collaboration with Husky Game Development at Michigan Tech University, for which Logan served as audio designer, handling all sound effects, music, and mixing.
The More page features tools and side projects Logan has developed independently. These include a collection of Lua scripts for the digital audio workstation Reaper, written in a scripting language commonly used in game development. Also featured is Troubadour Tabletop Audio, a Discord bot Logan built to stream adaptive audio for tabletop roleplaying game sessions using FMOD Studio, an audio middleware platform widely used in game development. Additionally, the page highlights Solar Science, a mod for the space simulation game Kerbal Space Program that Logan originally developed as a high school-directed study and which, according to LoganHardin.xyz, accumulated approximately 50,000 downloads across platforms over five years.
Logan’s career spans student game jams, independent mods with tens of thousands of downloads, and sound design credits on some of the most widely played titles in gaming today. The .xyz domain is a natural fit for a creative professional like Logan, whose work touches multiple studios, platforms, and genres. Logan’s body of work continues to grow, and the extension’s lack of industry ties makes it a flexible foundation for wherever that work leads. Additionally, using a FirstNameLastName.xyz domain like LoganHardin.xyz gives Logan an online presence directly tied to his name and body of work. This naming approach can help people searching for his work locate a single, clearly identifiable destination. Anyone who searches for “Logan Hardin” will find LoganHardin.xyz at the top of search results (as of May 13, 2026). We look forward to seeing what Logan builds next. You can learn more by following Logan on Bluesky, LinkedIn, Vimeo, and GitHub, and visiting LoganHardin.xyz.
1. https://www.sportsgamersonline.com/games/racing/forza-motorsport-wins-best-sports-racing-game-at-the-game-awards/
2. https://www.interactive.org/awards/27th_annual_dice_awards_winners_2773sT2.asp
Beastro.Game – Porkbun customer – (United States)
Innovation in gaming lives on .Game. Award-winning action title Batora.Game follows a choice-driven sci-fi journey. Creative sandbox game RetroGadgets.Game centers on building and programming virtual gadgets. Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies presents MindsEye.Game, a dystopian adventure focused on technology, power, and ambition. Today, we will introduce you to a fantasy role-playing game where the kitchen is just as important as the battlefield: Beastro.Game.
Beastro.Game is the online home of Beastro, an upcoming fantasy cooking role-playing game (RPG) for PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, developed by independent game studio Timberline Studio. Players take on the role of a fox named Panko, a young chef running a local eatery in the village of Palo Pori, where cooking meals for adventurers known as Caretakers is central to protecting the town from outside threats. On May 6, 2026, Timberline Studio announced a release date of June 11, 2026.1
Image via Beastro.Game
According to Beastro.Game, gameplay centers on gathering ingredients, growing produce, and preparing meals tailored to the tastes of each Caretaker, who each hail from a distinct flavor region. The website shares that dishes directly influence Caretaker abilities, with balanced flavor profiles designed to boost spirits, sharpen skills, and unlock new combat moves. Each ingredient also unlocks a card, feeding into a turn-based deckbuilding combat system inspired by trick-taking games. In deckbuilding games, players construct and refine a personal hand of cards over the course of play, using them strategically in combat. As reported by art and design platform Creative Bloq, the food in Beastro is made from magical and unusual ingredients, including fictional plants and monster parts, with real-world culinary inspirations drawn largely from the Los Angeles-based team’s own dining experiences.2 When Caretakers head out to battle, their encounters are recounted through an in-game puppet theatre, a visual mode described by art director Kate Rado as “light-hearted and physical,” with 2D puppet elements rendered in 3D space.3
Timberline Studio is an independent game studio based in Los Angeles, CA. The studio is co-founded by Lindsey Rostal, who serves as Founder and Game Director, and Nathan Fulton, who serves as Founder and Creative Director. According to Lindsey Rostal’s LinkedIn profile, Lindsey brings a background in video game production, publishing and developer relations, and business operations, and previously served as Vice President and Producer at game development studio The Odd Gentlemen, where Lindsey served as sole producer on the 2015 reimagining of King’s Quest. According to Nathan Fulton’s LinkedIn profile, Nathan’s background spans 3D animation, game development, technical art, and gameplay design, and Nathan also previously held a Lead Artist role at The Odd Gentlemen. Timberline Studio’s prior release is The Red Lantern, a rogue-lite narrative game launched in October 2020.4
Beastro arrives with a distinctive creative vision, a founding team with credits spanning King’s Quest and The Red Lantern, and a confirmed June 11 release on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. For a studio like Timberline Studio, whose work blends genres and builds vibrant worlds, a .Game domain is a natural fit for its online home. Beastro.Game signals to players, press, and the gaming community exactly what the website is and who it is for, reinforcing the game’s identity where it counts. You can learn more by following the game on Instagram, joining the Discord, and visiting Beastro.Game.
1. https://x.com/TimberlineGames/status/2052043103435923515?s=20
2. https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/how-unreal-engine-5-indie-game-beastro-uses-paper-puppets-to-reinvent-rpg-art
3. https://www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/how-unreal-engine-5-indie-game-beastro-uses-paper-puppets-to-reinvent-rpg-art
4. https://www.timberline.studio/the-red-lantern
