Tech company on show creates division using .xyz domain name.
The .XYZ domain name was featured on HBO’s Silicon Valley last night.
A big tech company featured in the show, Hooli, creates a new experimental division for moonshot projects called Hooli XYZ, hosted at Hooli.xyz.
The show created a website on Hooli.xyz.
The site says:
HooliXYZ = who? A select team of “XYZeniuses.”
It also list a bunch of the projects Hooli XYZ will work on:
Self-driving cars? Flying cars? Self-flying cars? A space elevator? A cure for the AIDS virus? A non-polluting engine that runs on the AIDS virus? Are these things even possible?
Well…at HooliXYZ, we are in active discussions about the long-term feasibility of these, as well as many other projects
Here’s a screenshot from Name.com:
I’m thinking…
#satire
I have said it times without number that .xyz has a global appeal and will dominate the new gTLDs, at least for now.
While I never bought into their premise that .XYZ is for the new generation (combining Generation X with Generation Y and Z)… I did see a value in an extension that has no specific meaning in any language, so I bought a bunch.
My thinking was that something like .Shoes is meaningless if you are wearing Zapatos, Scarpes, or Chaussures, so there would be more demand in aggregate for extensions that are not language dependent than those that are.
Sorry, still not buying this extension. 🙂
Although I have big doubts it could take off, but it’s an inexpensive hedge.