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???

 

[Nile Patel]

.top is definitely powered by registrations from Asian countries - they seem to love it. I know .xyz has a huge number of registered domains but I wonder if it's not a bubble. The key to their success was selling the domains dead cheap - even giving them away for free at one point. That's their weakest point I think. Even premium .xyz domains are often priced quite cheaply in the few hundred dollar range.

You right .top is Asian Registry, but what I m asking here is the domain business in china is new compare to what western countries doing since it born, the market in china is not mature yet, they can not afford to buy good keyword .com names now so if registries like .top do heavy marketing and try to convince new investor in asian country by saying hold our names and after few year later you can flip with big profit do the investor go behind them.
After seeing .xyz and .top success other new registry going to follow same marketing path may be in different region and try to grab as many new investor as they can and eventually it can hurt .com market.

 

[Nile Patel]

GA at 17th November, 2014. You can check: https://namestat.org/top

Congrats on your success within 1 year you have many registration, we do not know they are cheap or free or what ever else but the number speaking itself.

vicho can you put some light on all the scam email complaint everyone doing here on this forum , may be you have heard that too in other threads.

Note : I do not own any single .top or any other new tlds names( i m like wait and watch kind of little shy guy)

 

[Brandon.Domains]

You right .top is Asian Registry, but what I m asking here is the domain business in china is new compare to what western countries doing since it born, the market in china is not mature yet, they can not afford to buy good keyword .com names now so if registries like .top do heavy marketing and try to convince new investor in asian country by saying hold our names and after few year later you can flip with big profit do the investor go behind them.
After seeing .xyz and .top success other new registry going to follow same marketing path may be in different region and try to grab as many new investor as they can and eventually it can hurt .com market.

That makes sense. The problem I see for a possible new "favorite domain" for a different region is that everybody has to go for and back the same gTLD - like with .top in this case.

If there are 2 or 3 good alternative options available, registration numbers will spread over several gTLDs which will erode the value. A gTLD needs critical mass (i.e. a certain number of total registrations) to take off and stay successful in the long run.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)

Brandon

 

[Nile Patel]

Nothings gonna weaken dot com. far as gtld they all hype I up then die down. history will repeat as usual.

Do we have history of 1000 or more gtld came in past , this game is different this time verisign is fighting with heavy pocket guys like google and amazon this are not small guys compare to any country tlds or other registry.

 

[jmcc]

We want to help end-users, website builders to focus more on creating a nice website, so we started from providing domains that cost as less as possible, and now we are also in cooperation with Mobik to provide free mobile website builder and free hosting. This bundle service is only available on Alpnames right now and should be available on other registrars later.

I ran a web usage survey (basically categorising how websites are used in the new gTLDs) on the new gTLDs in October 2015 and .top seems to be showing signs of development. However Some Chinese and Japanese hosters and registrars have large number so their registered domain names without websites. PPC parking is running at about 7% and domains for sale about 3.94%. The statistics are still being processed but the delay between a domain name registration and a working website is visible.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Andy Dexter]

There is still a long way to go for gtlds. The major problem to be solved is that getting more recognition and support from endusers and domainers. It takes time but I still have confidence in gtlds investing.
It wasn't that all the gtlds are worth investing. Just keep your eyes sharp.

 

[Andy Dexter]

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

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[Axc]

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

 

[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]

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

 

[domix]

Chinese will pump .Top to the moon

 

[Andy Dexter]

When I first vote the thread that when will .top break 1 million registeration mark, the total registeration of .top was about 550,000. And now the registerations have broken 870,000.
If that rise continues, it is easy to break 1 million before 2016.

 

[dataman]

Pretty strange websites that are using the .TOP domain extension
siterankdata.com/show/extension/top

 

[zycfour]

Yes cheap extensions attract strange/sketch sites

http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/xyz - pretty sketch
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/info - also sketch

then look at .IO and .CO
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/io - pretty quality sites
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/co - pretty good

Nice website you are running there. If .rich and .luxury have live sites providing enough data,
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/rich or/luxury might be more quality :D
Looks like the number of good sites within a TLD is proportionate to domain price.

 

[dataman]

Nice website you are running there. If .rich and .luxury have live sites providing enough data,
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/rich or/luxury might be more quality :D
Looks like the number of good sites within a TLD is proportionate to domain price.

Thanks for the compliment, site is not finished but giving it an early test run to see what data is useful. (Alot of the functions are not there yet including search)

Yea it seems there is no site with a .rich extension that is currently in top 1m Alexa but .luxury actually has 2 sites
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/luxury

 

[zycfour]

Thanks for the compliment, site is not finished but giving it an early test run to see what data is useful. (Alot of the functions are not there yet including search)

Yea it seems there is no site with a .rich extension that is currently in top 1m Alexa but .luxury actually has 2 sites
http://siterankdata.com/show/extension/luxury

Given .luxury's selling price $780 for even standard domains, one website there, habituallychic.luxury, did surprise me.

 

[jedaprin]

Well Heres the Thing Xyz is Cheaper and sounds more appealing theres only a few .tops that would be extremely appealing as for xyz it deosnt mean anything

Creamon.top
Shopon.top
tampon.top LOOL
iliketorideon.top
iwason.top
on.top

I could just keep going its endless

 

[jedaprin]

yea i think your right but theres always preference to keep in mind everyone loves .com i personally love .xyz and .pw for some reason, if i was to own a .top i would want ti to be clever and memorable like shopon.top
or bottomto.top

I just picked up Insured.pw not SURE what im going to do with it

 

[INamewiz]

Back to the thread, did anyone see that trend and math of investment? Seems complicated and didn't fully catch the meaning.

Domaining is a brain-racking work.

 

[Brandon.Domains]

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???

.top is definitely powered by registrations from Asian countries - they seem to love it. I know .xyz has a huge number of registered domains but I wonder if it's not a bubble. The key to their success was selling the domains dead cheap - even giving them away for free at one point. That's their weakest point I think. Even premium .xyz domains are often priced quite cheaply in the few hundred dollar range.