Who caught the awesomely quirky article on .xyz in the April issue of Wired Magazine? ICYMI, check out the article below, boldly titled “The battle to make .xyz the next .com.”
We can assure you that it’s a great read – and an excellent way to test your acronym knowledge!
The hilarious, ever-popular HBO series that captures startup culture, Silicon Valley, hit an all-time high last night with 2.1 million viewers. Are you a Silicon Valley fan?
If you are, then you already know. (And if you are but haven’t caught-up on last night’s episode, spoiler alert!)
For a little bit of background, Silicon Valley is a comedy series that takes a satirical look at the tech industry and startup culture. The main storyline involves the dynamic between Pied Piper, an up-and-coming underdog startup with an amazing product, and Hooli, a Google or Oracle-like tech giant.
In last night’s episode, Hooli extravagantly announced its most innovative, groundbreaking “moonshot” new division, HooliXYZ. And what is HooliXYZ’s website? That’s right – hooli.xyz!
If you haven’t already, visit hooli.xyz to learn more about Hooli’s “experimental division” and its team of XYZeniuses. Their ultra innovative projects in the pipeline include self-driving cars, flying cars, self-flying cars, and even a cure for AIDs.
What do you think of HooliXYZ and their appointment of Nelson as the “Co-Head Dreamer”? Total marketing move, right?
With .xyz, we’re all about supporting online communities where people can come together and share their ideas, regardless of age or location. This week’s #WebsiteWednesday exemplifies exactly this with their .xyz site.
Across the pond in the UK, a team of passionate mothers has dedicated MUMS.xyz as an online resource for parents to turn to each other for advice. Covering everything from the latest educational toys, to fashionable sportswear for the moms (even special discount codes), this parenting blog connects mothers across the UK and supports them with advice, tips, and tricks.
said Emma who represents MUMS.xyz. When asked how they chose their domain name, she shared:
Show your support for devoted mothers by voting for their cause at Virgin Media’s #PitchtoRich!
Winning #PitchtoRich will let MUMS.xyz reach out to even more mothers out there, and offer them the advice, help and support they need in the daily parenting life.
This week’s #WebsiteWednesday is extra special – you might have already even spotted this amazing artist and website yourself!
Last week, CNET’s Stephen Shankland tweeted his .xyz discovery in the wild:
First .xyz domain I found in the wild without looking for it: Artist Charles Levalet. Fantastic street art in Paris. http://t.co/mxz5bQVNP4
— Stephen Shankland (@stshank) April 8, 2015
Charles Leval, aka Levalet, is a 27-year old street artist from northeastern France. His recent work covers the streets of Paris with his hand drawn characters that interact with the urban architecture. Levalet shared his art with the online world through Levalet.org, which he now moved to Levalet.xyz. On his newly designed portfolio site, he is certainly capturing more fans throughout the world!
Does his art look familiar to you? That’s because Levalet was recently featured in huge outlets like Huffington Post, Visual News, the Laughing Squid, and even on the main Instagram account where he racked in 615,000 likes!
If you want to read more about Levalet, we recommend checking out this article on Smash from a few weeks back
On another exciting note, while we were researching through everything Levalet, we also experienced a .xyz meta moment of sorts. Another .xyz site called Alter Minds, which blogs about art, culture, history, and even about hyperrealistic paintings of greasy hamburgers (what?!) also featured Levalet’s artwork! That’s a .xyz reporting on another .xyz. How exciting is that?
Have you spotted any .xyz websites in the wild, #GenXYZ? Keep us posted through Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, and we’ll be sure to feature the best!
We’re ecstatic to announce the newest member of our XYZ family, .Rent! With .xyz as the domain extension for every website, everywhere, and .College as the shared-purpose and knowledge driven extension, we’re now adding a business-focused domain member to our growing extension crew.
.Rent is an open namespace for businesses to list and manage their rental properties, products, and services online. With .Rent at the end of your domain, you’ll attract customers looking to rent your services and it will serve as a built-in call-to-action.
.Rent is set to launch exclusively for Trademark holders in early September of this year. Following this special registration period, .Rent will go into a quick 7-day Early Access Period, where the general public can register .Rent domains at premium pricing. Everyone will have the opportunity to register .Rent domains at standard pricing starting in mid-October.
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