Network Solutions could be in a lot of hot water for papering the house with their .XYZ domain name to thousands of their domain owners. What ‘papering the house’ means is the giving away large amounts of tickets to increase audience numbers in hopes to create a positive word-of-mouth that was suffering from lackluster ticket sales. This is quite often done in the music, sports and entertainment industry. And what Network Solutions did was similar, in the fact that they gave away to some of their .com domain owners the same-term domain name in .XYZ without their knowledge or approval to hopefully boost interest in the .XYZ domain. It is speculated that Network Solutions did this because the registration figures for their .XYZ domains lower than expected and was most likely hoping that increasing their rankings, which this action pushed it to #4, and would create more interest of the .XYZ to potential domain name buyers.
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