news Boom！.TOP Debuted on China Central TV

[vicho]

The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry and Information (MIIT) is using CNMaker.top instead of the usual choice like .cn, .gov.cn, .com etc., for 创客中国/China inventors. This website is about innovation contest of life changing technologies, highlighted in the high-tech circle including college students and medium/small enterprises. The innovation works are listed on the website and winners will finally be awarded with prize. In this case, .TOP fits well with the contest spirit - get to the TOP. This is another most influential website with .top extension after Alibaba Group’s global B2C platform Hitao.top, which was previously reported on Namepros.com.

MIIT bought cnmaker.top from the initial registrant for only 20CNY without letting him know about the real purpose. According to whois information, the domain was registered on January 17th, 2015 and changed owner on March 9th, 2015. Seems like a lesson can be learned by the impatient domainers.

The contest was reported on China Central TV, the largest TV station in the country only reporting national major events and almost every Chinese people watch it. This is the best and free advertisement of .top so far.

 

[vicho]

Congrats! A real estate corporate YanDa Group use sweetcity.top as their official website.
This company has crossing business in high-tech materials, PVC, R&D, real estate, logistics, hotel, medical health, pension institution, etc. and sponsored the "sweetcity" high-speed railway.

Now .TOP debuts on high-speed railway train, another free advertisement with lots of exposure.

 

[1NiteStand]

I can see .top being used a lot in China and by the Chinese, as the word TOP is basically one word awesomeness, like COM

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

I can see .top being used a lot in China and by the Chinese, as the word TOP is basically one word awesomeness, like COM

Yes, and more - .top have the power to turn global because 'top' is nearly a global used term.

 

[Johnsn]

I find some .TOP links useful for building websites, and you can check them out. http://www.moviesone.top/ and http://asuransi.top/.

 

[vicho]

Anther great .TOP domain WIZ.TOP has been built into website by end-user who dedicated in providing big data analysis, process inspection and optimization solutions for engineering and high-tech field.

 

[111ONE]

so many reserved domains, wtf nic.top

 

[Andy Dexter]

so many reserved domains, wtf nic.top

.Top registry is in China and as we know that Chinese culture is profound.Every word is marked with the Chinesephonetic symbols ,which result in same pronunciation, different meaning.
For example, py has various meanings: PengYou means friends, PianYi means cheap, PanYan means rock climbing, PingYu means comment, PiYi means fur clothing and so on.
I think that is the main reason why so many reserved domains.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

so many reserved domains, wtf nic.top

China is a huge country with megacities and big future projects.

Imagine that everyone in China would reg. only one single .top domain - that would mean that about 1.3 Billon .top domains are needed.
Or imagine that every 10th would reg. 10 .top domains - the same.
Sure it is unrealistic that everyone will reg. a domain - but this theory could help to understand the dimension.
And, maybe you have heard about it, a few days ago the chinese government set down their previous 1 child policy.
It sounds simple - because it is simple: More people, more domains.

 

[vicho]

@111ONE Besides the commonly reserved English words, some Chinese domain market targeted name types like pinyin and digits are also reserved, which might seem meaningless to non-Chinese speakers. If registering premium .top domains is not your current plan, you can try to grab combined English ones with your expertise, imagination and creativity. There must be many available and this is why .top average reg is 2000+ and total reg ranks NO.2 among all new G's, even with premium domains reserved. The volume will surge once .top IDN domains come out. These in turn further prove the potential of .top.

 

[vicho]

A new website was built with .TOP extension. This time it is a Pinyin .top domain NiuMei.top (Niu means "TOP/Awesome", "Mei" means "Beauty"), which is a B2C platform targeting at digital office, gift bags, home decoration, clothing and shoes, household appliances, cosmetics, food & beverage and other lifestyle products.

Original report can be seen on eName.com