P.S. If you actually believe that what I said was "vitriol and attacks" then say hi to the elves and unicorns in Fairyland.
If you read what I wrote, I never said what you were posting was "vitriol and attacks". I said that I'm used to the vitriol, attacks and trolling from the crypto industry..... and that this is nothing. I don't get fazed by any of it. Also having experienced crypto in its full glory, being very skeptical of all claims is the norm, not the exception.
Anyways I've happily shared my IRL profile on X, so have nothing to hide. I directly retort to Mike Mann's claims there all the time as well. He has no logical/coherent replies to me. I've always been one to "See wrong, say wrong!". So when I see someone making claims that I believe to be untrue, I will say my piece from my experience.
Speaking of Mike, I would say many of those sales he posts are ridiculous as well. $100K for HappyMonster.com? $15K for burgermeester.com? There are a ton of his sales that I find questionable, but I also know people buy some weird things for a lot of money!
In regards to your comments about people holding .xyz domains and not seeing the results that Swetha has: that's normal. I hold a few thousand domains (mostly .com), don't outbound, but do list on markets. A few sales per year come in. And I have super premium names. If I outbounded my sell-thru rate would be multiples higher. Those that outbound and network, get a higher amount of sales. If Swetha never advertised her sales and kept quiet, do you think you'd even know her name? Be any drama like this about her? On the other side, would she get as many sales? I say No to both. So her marketing her sales is smart, as the biggest holder, because it promotes her niche specialty and shows comparables to future buyers.
Now from what i've read, Swetha has 20K+ .xyz domains? She's also active and doing a lot of business deals in the background. I can see where she gets the sales. Others sitting there with a small portfolio, not doing the grind complaining? What did they think was going to happen? Someone magically is going to think of one of their 100 xyz domains, go out of their way to contact them and make a deal? You can have the best domains on the planet, but if you aren't advertising them, marketing, outbounding and making your presence felt, you get almost no sales.
In regards to your comment about outliers.... that's normal too. There are outliers in ALL professions. We call them superstars in business. Those that aren't on their level always assume the worst: "He/she is sleeping with the bosses!", "He's doing something shady I know it", "This is fishy, how can HE/SHE perform like that?", etc. Sometimes people are right: there's something fishy going on. Most of the time, they're just hating on the success of others, not able to fathom that outworking, out-marketing and out-grinding your competition leads to a different scale of winning.
Again I don't know Daniel or the happenings at XYZ personally. All I can do is speak from my experience, from what i've heard with my ears, saw with my eyes, and what my brain tells me is going on. What I see is a lot of attacks from big .com owners on a person who's been grinding and working hard to grow something that those attackers have no skin-in-the-game for. In fact, what she's doing is actually an attack on THEIR holdings, so I can see how they feel. Instead of "things might be changing", they're saying "this is a scam!". Swetha has shared her afternic and other info publicly. What else could she do to make you believe her sales? Nothing I think.
As the face of the .xyz aftermarket, she's obviously going to keep getting attacked, ridiculed and trolled by them. It happens when you stick your neck out a bit, and what you're doing doesn't meet the norms of the encumbents expectations. I know this feeling personally, as I was attacked, ridiculed and told to go "play with your little bitcoins" more often than I care to mention. After 14 years, I'm the one laughing now, and the haters are mostly silent, or have changed their tune: bitcoin is a scam, bitcoin will be banned, it is used by criminals etc.! I just see that as people hating on something they've missed out on, and now have built their persona around hating it... and have to keep going to save face! "How could bitcoin have the audacity to be taken up by governments and banks, they're all in on it!!!" LOL
Anyways that was a super long reply, it's a Friday AND halloweeen, so I have to finish some work and get ready for the trick-or-treaters! Enjoy gents/ladies.
@dotcomma has said has seemed pretty reasonable and level-headed. I have no reason to doubt or discredit them.
