[nischalhp]

I am a co-founder of a company which has .xyz domain. We had a clear idea why we got .xyz domain but after 3-4 months of registration, we started seeing some issues with the domain. For starters, the visa office was unable to open our website to check the authenticity of our company before issuing visas for us to travel as their firewall had banned .xyz domain.

Some of our emails always was marked as spam when we were using it for marketing.

Thankfully, because of our organic growth .xyz did not hinder us too much but I personally think it will take a good time before .xyz is being used by commercial companies and hence I would suggest you to refrain from buying a .xyz domain for now.

[Yabood]

Thank you, this is really helpful. I think we'll just go ahead and cough up the $1500 to acquire the .com version.

[zachlatta]

I'd recommend the same. We paid around the same for hackclub.com and it was definitely worth it (we started with hackclub.io).