.XYZ, a leader among all new gTLDs, is back over 1 million delegated domain names. This mark was first reached in July, 2015. However the .XYZ results were questioned by a lot of specialists as the considerable part of names was provided to users for free. In particular, a large registrar Network Solutions in the framework of promotion action, joint with .XYZ, provided to all the clients who registered names in the .COM zone the same names in .XYZ as a gift. In many cases, users didn't even know that they are domain registrants in this zone.
It was certainly logical to expect a fall in renewal period in this situation. It happened, but the .XYZ managed to quickly return to its former position due to paid registration. Not so long ago the number of domains in the .XYZ zone exceeded 1 million again. Moreover, now less than 20,000 registrations in the .XYZ domain fall to the share of Network Solutions. Therefore it isn't necessary to speak about any marketing tricks.
