What the hell is .xyz domain?

[blueskull]

It has been not long ago (~4 days) since I started receiving spam emails.

Before that, I receive about 1~2 spam emails per day, from different, random domains.

Starting from 4 days ago, I receive ~6 spam emails a day, from different domains, but ALL END WITH .XYZ.

So I'm wondering, what the hell is this .xyz domain? Anyone has the same experience?

BTW, I use Gmail.

[EEVblog]

BTW, I use Gmail.

I get practically zero spam on gmail.

[Deathwish]

.xyz is a top-level domain name. It was proposed in ICANN's New generic top-level domain (gTLD) Program, and became available to the general public on June 2, 2014. XYZ.COM and CentralNic are the registries for the domain.

In 2015, XYZ.com proposed that ICANN allow it to ban thousands of potential .xyz domain names from registration by global registrants in order to comply with censorship demanded by the People's Republic of China.[1] XYZ.com hopes to become an officially recognised registry in China,[2] which would allow it to directly offer domains to Chinese customers.[3]

In November 2015, .xyz reached 1.5 million domain name registrations, possibly boosted in part by Google's decision to use abc.xyz for its corporate (Alphabet Inc.) website.[4][5] However, domain name registry VeriSign and others have claimed that domain name registrar Network Solutions gave away possibly hundreds of thousands of these names by placing them into customer accounts on an opt-out basis.[6][7]

Looks in short like your being spammed by .......China