.xyz Domains
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Three letters with no baggage and no borders — the extension for projects that don't fit a category. Excellent name availability, and live on fast DNS within minutes of registration. Register from $2.99/yr — searched, priced and live in one visit.
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The Extension
Why .xyz?
.xyz arrived in 2014 as the deliberately unopinionated extension: no industry, no geography, no implied purpose. That blankness became its identity — startups, side projects and web3 teams adopted it precisely because it carries nothing but the name in front of it, and a famous holding company put it on the map for good.
Its practical strength is availability: short, clean names that vanished from older extensions a decade ago are routinely open on .xyz. Registration activates instantly, our anycast nameservers answer from the first minute, and WHOIS privacy is included as standard.
Good Fit
.xyz works best for
- Startups and experiments that outgrow categories
- Web3, crypto and decentralised projects
- Side projects, demos and hackathon builds
- Short brandable names taken elsewhere
What You Get
Included with every domain
A genuinely open namespace
The best availability of any mainstream extension — your first-choice name is plausibly still free.
No implied meaning
Nothing to explain and nothing to outgrow: the extension stays neutral as the project pivots.
Live in minutes
Instant registration and anycast DNS mean the idea can have an address before the standup ends.
Common Questions
Questions about .xyz
Is .xyz taken seriously?
Increasingly so — high-profile adoptions from major tech holding companies to web3 platforms have normalised it, and search engines treat it as a standard generic TLD. As with any newer extension, the site's quality does the persuading; the suffix no longer gets in the way.
Does .xyz rank differently in Google?
No — Google has confirmed new generic TLDs are treated the same as established ones. Content, links and performance decide rankings; a .xyz with a fast, substantial site competes on equal terms.
Why is name availability so much better on .xyz?
The namespace opened in 2014, decades after .com, so it has not accumulated forty years of registrations and parking. Short dictionary words and clean brandables that resell for fortunes elsewhere are frequently open at standard registration here.
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