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???

 

[jedaprin]

how long has .top been around for ?

 

[Nile Patel]

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.

Read that sentence in view of that given article link, in that article they talk oh i bought some .top name for cheap and i will hold and flip for 3 times, something like that kind of wording which i m unclear too..
So i try to ask Chinese domineers here is that how they evaluate new .top for investment or do they using other kind of math to return their investment after few years later.

 

[vicho]

how long has .top been around for ?

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

 

[KDN]

Let's wait and see.

 

[baseballworld]

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

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[brandnow]

For example, I don't particularly like .XYZ but at least I'm not concerned about censorship with a .XYZ domain / web site. It is controlled by an American company / entrepreneur and not sanctioned by the Chinese government. Hope you can understand what I mean.

 

[zycfour]

For example, I don't particularly like .XYZ but at least I'm not concerned about censorship with a .XYZ domain / web site. It is controlled by an American company / entrepreneur and not sanctioned by the Chinese government. Hope you can understand what I mean.

Hope you provide solid convincing evidence that anyone's .top website will be censored by the cn govn't.

 

[brandnow]

Hope you provide solid convincing evidence that anyone's .top website will be censored by the cn govn't.

Go back to my post. I was asking a question for you and the other .Top employees regarding censorship of content and domain names for .Top. It's not "hate speech" to ask a fair question about censorship, though I know in China asking this question would probably have the citizen disappeared by the net police.

 

[fuzzy]

I might probably not open the door but yell "I've paid the water bill online"

I lol'd.