Is .TOP Going to be next gTLD Hit or Flop?

[Nile Patel]

Is any one has any idea , why new investor love .top as investment tool , why not any other gtld.

Here what i see in this article is how Chinese new domineers following trend and math of investment.
https://www.yumi.com/news/xindingjiyu/newgtld-14982.shtml

I know top means best in china and everywhere , but is any other new gTLD going to follow this kind of marketing hype and do western investors going to follow this bandwagon.

Is .com going to loose power if few more gTLD hype get success in new investor after .xyz and .top???

 

[silentg]

Top will do okay with current registrations. They need to start doing marketing by spending money and should stop spamming. Spamming discourages people from registering domains.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

If we look at the current registrations of .top (for example at namestat.com) it could really be possible that they will hit the 1 million registration mark this year already.
Of course this wouldn't mean the world - but in a wide view it will help indirectly all those who own .top names.

 

[Andy Dexter]

The total registration of .top has reached 829,181.
Hope this upward trend will continue indefinitely.

 

[zycfour]

The total registration of .top has reached 829,181.
Hope this upward trend will continue indefinitely.

we will see about that after a week, when their first wave of renewal comes.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

As soon the world outside China will start registering .top names in a similar amount like China, .top will reach hundreds of millions of registered .top's fast (currently about 90 % of reg. top's are from China).

And if we take into account the fact that the whole trading world is becoming increasingly global, it's quite possible that .top is also becoming even more global.

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CORRECTION
Of Course I meant namestat.org (in my last post) and not .com

 

[brandnow]

As soon the world outside China will start registering .top names in a similar amount like China, .top will reach hundreds of millions of registered .top's fast (currently about 90 % of reg. top's are from China).

And if we take into account the fact that the whole trading world is becoming increasingly global, it's quite possible that .top is also becoming even more global.

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CORRECTION
Of Course I meant namestat.org (in my last post) and not .com

BREAKING NEWS: Guy Named "kingof.top" Sees Big Things for Future of .Top.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

BREAKING NEWS: Guy Named "kingof.top" Sees Big Things for Future of .Top.

Please relax, I do not 'see' that (as you wrote) - I just bring it as a theory which everyone can reflect.
I love to think in large scales.

 

[Kate]

As soon the world outside China will start registering .top names in a similar amount like China, .top will reach hundreds of millions of registered .top's fast

But why would they ? Apparently .top is an extension for Chinese, and endorsed by the communist party. Is this what I would want ? Nope.

 

[jmcc]

As soon the world outside China will start registering .top names in a similar amount like China, .top will reach hundreds of millions of registered .top's fast (currently about 90 % of reg. top's are from China).

Unlikely. The .TOP gTLD may be a Chinese TLD with minimal global registration.

Regards...jmcc

 

[brandnow]

As a thought experiment, and echoing the comment above by Kate, if I wanted to create a web site / blog called TaiwanIsIndependentCountryDoesNotBelongToChina.Top would the domain be banned by the registry? And I start writing about how Taiwan is a country and does not belong to China.. I wonder what the Communist Party government would do or the registry.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

.top, as a global used term, is meant as a global extension and not (only) 'for chinese', although it currently maybe could make this Impression for some.
But if we look closely we see registrations from all over the world and I am sure that .top will spread outside China more and more but it takes time.
We are all using products made in China and China using products made outside China.
The world is more global than we can realize.
It goes hand in hand and the winners will be on top.

 

[JudgeMind]

The total registration of .top has reached 829,181.
Hope this upward trend will continue indefinitely.

Is one thing for a bunch to be getting registered. Is another thing for those registered names to sell before expiring.

 

[Axc]

at 60cents a pop on alpnames its worth regging a few

 

[Andy Dexter]

As a thought experiment, and echoing the comment above by Kate, if I wanted to create a web site / blog called TaiwanIsIndependentCountryDoesNotBelongToChina.Top would the domain be banned by the registry? And I start writing about how Taiwan is a country and does not belong to China.. I wonder what the Communist Party government would do or the registry.

What you do has broken the Chinese Anti-Secession Law and it is normal that the domain name will be banned.
I think if you break the law in America, you will face legal sanction.
It is the same the world over.

 

[Andy Dexter]

Is one thing for a bunch to be getting registered. Is another thing for those registered names to sell before expiring.

that's right. it is undenied that the foreign transactions is not as much as chinese market.
But I'm still confident with .top.
If you doubt whether the .top be sold before expiring and don't mind chinese interface, you can take a look at the transactions in Chinese QQ auction group.

 

[JudgeMind]

that's right. it is undenied that the foreign transactions is not as much as chinese market.
But I'm still confident with .top.
If you doubt whether the .top be sold before expiring and don't mind chinese interface, you can take a look at the transactions in Chinese QQ auction group.

Chinese QQ auction group?

 

[Andy Dexter]

Chinese QQ auction group?

Yep, you can download the QQ app and join the group.

 

[JudgeMind]

I have QQ app but how do I join the group?

 

[Andy Dexter]

I have QQ app but how do I join the group?

You can use group ID 51448939 to search the .top auction group.
This group is only allowed to talk about .top and sell your .top domain name.
No other extentions. No promotion.
I was banned for a week last time due to publish some ads.
But in this group, you'll know the .top price and more about .top

 

[zycfour]

As a thought experiment, and echoing the comment above by Kate, if I wanted to create a web site / blog called TaiwanIsIndependentCountryDoesNotBelongToChina.Top would the domain be banned by the registry? And I start writing about how Taiwan is a country and does not belong to China.. I wonder what the Communist Party government would do or the registry.

Alright, alright, everybody knows you are a .top hater. Where there is a .top post, there is a Brandnow, attacking. But what's the meaning of dragging politics in? You can say Beijing and Shanghai don't belong to China either, and then what changes? Naive.

When you did build the site, wrote that and the government or registry did just what you "expected" to you, then come here and whine.

 

[ithinkso]

nice domains

 

[zycfour]

at 60cents a pop on alpnames its worth regging a few

Of course, money is money; like it, reg it; hate it, beat it.

 

[brandnow]

Alright, alright, everybody knows you are a .top hater. Where there is a .top post, there is a Brandnow, attacking. But what's the meaning of dragging politics in? You can say Beijing and Shanghai don't belong to China either, and then what changes? Naive.

When you did build the site, wrote that and the government or registry did just what you "expected" to you, then come here and whine.

No. Taiwan is a country.

Shanghai and Beijing are cities in China.

There's a BIG difference.

My concern is that because .Top is controlled under the Chinese Communist Party that freedom of speech would not be allowed and censorship will rule this extension.

 

[zycfour]

But why would they ? Apparently .top is an extension for Chinese, and endorsed by the communist party. Is this what I would want ? Nope.

In a few months, you will find a number of non-Chinese operated TLDs/registries and registrars run their businesses in China, given MIIT license, in your words "endorsed by the communist party".

A friend of mine works in the company that helps these registris and registrars to get the license to open their outlet in China. This is certain although he won't tell which TLDs and registrars as they have NDA. But we will see soon.

MIIT license is just a normal license for you to run IT business in China, not so different from that you will still need to open a business in most of any other countries anyway. Only being afraid that sth might be bad or evil without any previous records/experience is unnecessary.

 

[brandnow]

and politics have much ado with the .Top extension because it's owned by China and sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party which currently rules China.

I know what Internet censorship is like in China, unfortunately most Chinese people in China do not, because they never experienced the Internet without censorship and blocked sites. It's a crappy version of the Internet where 40% or more of the web is blocked.. access to Facebook, Wikipedia, and other vital sites are blocked. Freedom of speech is not allowed. Only the government view is allowed on any topics of real importance.