new gtlds No More .Top at Uniregistry

Silentptnr said:

The article I linked to mentioned that the decision was based on lack of registration activity.

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tonyk2000 said:

... if .top pays them enough ...

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Good joke hahaha

If, then it's the other way around, .top doesn't need GoDaddy.

GoDaddy can be happy if they will be able to negotiate an agreement that allows them to list / offer .top, their "coming soon" just indicates that they are trying to get them on board.

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"We are still negotiating to get .top and we hope that we can offer it soon, follow us to get informed when we have managed to offer you the untoppable TLD."

That's how I read it (between the lines).

I am sure GoDaddy, Verisign and many other major players are still frustrated that they were not the ones with the idea to apply for .top because they all know only .top is (literally) top.

DOMAIN ILLUMINATI said:

untoppable

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Silentptnr said:

I have this in com.

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Well, great keyword in .com but since I own it already in .top I am not interested thanks

Bob Hawkes said:

It is interesting that most of these extensions don't seem to have been on the Uniregistry extension price list, so not sure if this has been happening for some time, just announced now.

According to nTLD stats Uniregistry were the registrar for just over 1300 of the 1.4 million or so .top registrations, so not much impact.

On .icu their prior activity was even less, just 160 of the more than a million and a half registrations total in the extension.

The .eco has registration restrictions, which probably make the pain of operating it not worthwhile if you don't have many registrations.

The dropping of .cx and .vc, both of which seem somewhat growing in use and investor interest, seems, as others noted, surprising.

Nevertheless, it may make sense if GoDaddy plan to keep both as separate registrars to only handle certain extensions at Uniregistry.

Bob

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DOMAIN ILLUMINATI said:

I don't know if or how bad .top is really used for spamming operations but I know the SPAMHAUS website and I am aware that .top is unfortunately currently listed there. This is, however, hopefully, just the status quo and it may change soon. For a long time .top wasn't even in this list.

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UPDATE

.top is not longer in this list.


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