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???

 

[Brandon.Domains]

Yup

People may think the internet has evolved a lot over the decades, but actually we are only at the very beginning.

Brandon

 

[baseballworld]

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

 

[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.

 

[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.