discuss Is .top worth investing in?

[rayman617]

This new gTLD .top seems to be one of the most popular but are they worth investing in and easily liquidated?

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Take 300-500 those domains... non-Chinese...
And after 1 year this NameBio data will become for you as just for fun.

Most hype on this forum is from those who has 1-20 domains per TLD.

 

[Domainstore]

This new gTLD .top seems to be one of the most popular but are they worth investing in and easily liquidated?

Regardless of what everybody says : .top still has an enormous amount of registrations. And it doesn't matter that 80% would be from Chinese registrants. This means that Chinese people can be interested in your registerred domains also.
Look at it on the long run.
What's important : They're cheap for the moment. ((at the right registrars 1 or 1.99 USD). And also renewal is cheap.
Once a year at certain registrars renewal is only 1,99 in a certain month. But you have to look for it. If you renew for 5 years then, it only costs 10 USD in that case. (but now cheap renewal is also found at 4.99 USD).
For some OTHER extentions indeed it's not much money either, for 1st year (promotions) but renewal is 20 USD or more.
If you registerred 100 dot.whatevernewextention-domains for 300 USD (3 USD/ piece 1st year promotionregistrations) and you have to renew at 20 USD/piece, the renewal will cost you 2000 USD for all of them. And that is much less at .top.

For english use : it's important that you use .top with "top" used as a meaning added to the word in front of ".top" so in fact the actual word you register).
It's in fact the same meaning as .best,; but renewals for .best are 17,95 USD or more. And for .top that's not the case; renewals are (still ; for the moment !!!) cheap.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

That query will include undeveloped domains too. You can't know how many of them are developed websites. "site: " doesn't mean site. It will show indexed domains, in other words, all domains with working dns and http server giving http 200 and sometimes 301/302 response.

Not even domains...
This command shows the indexed PAGES...

 

[Josytal]

That query will include undeveloped domains too. You can't know how many of them are developed websites. "site: " doesn't mean site. It will show indexed domains, in other words, all domains with working dns and http server giving http 200 and sometimes 301/302 response.

Of course they are not 100% accurate.
Be as it may, one common thing I've observed about the results is that, statistically, they are directly proportional to the officially published number of registered domains for the extensions. Unless you have other figures to dispute this.

 

[poweredbyme]

Of course they are not 100% accurate.
Be as it may, one common thing I've observed about the results is that, statistically, they are directly proportional to the officially published number of registered domains for the extensions. Unless you have other figures to dispute this.

It will not give "active/indexed websites with .top domain name extension." It will give number of indexed pages as @Jurgen Wolf said and as I said it will not give all registered domains in top extension.
Number of indexed pages are irrelevant to number of registered domain in TLD. Every number has a proportion to another number. That proportion, say 85% or 47% or another, may change over the time and doesn't create a conclusion on its accuracy or relevancy as there is no reliable correlation.

There is no way to find it on google search. Lack of other figure doesn't mean it's more or less accurate. It's an entirely different and irrelevant thing. For instance, 1K sites on top TLD may be totaling 100M indexed pages on google, it will inflate the number by 100M. Dynamic sites may have more than 10x pages on index as category, tags, search, paginations etc pages may get indexed well, no matter how the content is duplicated. Also if linked somewhere, some text files may get indexed as if they are HTML pages as most browsers display those files properly like HTML.

There is no reliable correlation.

 

[Blitzpotz]

If you still are in doubt about .top then you might want to read my report about my only sale in this extension two months ago: Link.

 

[Josytal]

It will not give "active/indexed websites with .top domain name extension." It will give number of indexed pages as @Jurgen Wolf said and as I said it will not give all registered domains in top extension.
Number of indexed pages are irrelevant to number of registered domain in TLD. Every number has a proportion to another number. That proportion, say 85% or 47% or another, may change over the time and doesn't create a conclusion on its accuracy or relevancy as there is no reliable correlation.

There is no way to find it on google search. Lack of other figure doesn't mean it's more or less accurate. It's an entirely different and irrelevant thing. For instance, 1K sites on top TLD may be totaling 100M indexed pages on google, it will inflate the number by 100M. Dynamic sites may have more than 10x pages on index as category, tags, search, paginations etc pages may get indexed well, no matter how the content is duplicated. Also if linked somewhere, some text files may get indexed as if they are HTML pages as most browsers display those files properly like HTML.

There is no reliable correlation.

You ended supporting what you're trying to disagree with.

The logic behind those figures are very simple: domain extension popularity, since the primary objective of domains are websites.
The more domains registered in an extension, the higher the probability of more websites and pages being created and hosted on those domains. Logical?

site:".top"
About 85,300,000 results

site:".club"
About 155,000,000 results

site:".co"
About 815,000,000 results

site:".net"
About 6,710,000,000 results

site:".com"
About 25,270,000,000 results

You can query for other extensions and see the correlation.
Finally, it's my opinion and I'm not here to force it on anybody.

 

[offthehandle]

The more domains registered in an extension, the higher the probability of more websites and pages being created and hosted on those domains. Logical?

No correlation of registrations to website. Tons of valuable or speculative 2 word .coms sit parked or dropped after a few years, then reregistered.

The more domains sold for cheap 0.99 deals like .Top did, the more sales. That causes increases of promo only registraion, or first year registrations or spikes in sales. Nothing to do with development.

.xyz and Uniregistry were touting their nnnnn.xyz’s here as the future of connecting your toaster and hairdryer and IOT and bitcoin for .088 cents.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/88-cent-domains-how-many-are-you-buying.1021822/

There are other tools to see what is developed, very few .tops are in the top million sites.

 

[PowerDN]

If you start typing out toptoptoptoptop to infinity you can claim to own the most expensive domain or the illuminati will come after you. (someone will get my humour)

I remember
Where is he now?

 

[lock]

I remember
Where is he now?

The Aluminarti swallowed him up.

 

[WarpedMind]

不好
bù hǎo
no good

.top - don't bother - Just my humble opinion. I'm sticking with .com, .org, .io personally. I have various one-offs (like I just bought fundraiser.live), but for the most part, I'm sticking with the oldies but goodies.

 

[JimmySun]

no

 

[Sheogorath]

If you like to gamble, yes.
If you prefer logical decisions, no.

I'm staying away from .top.

 

[Josh R]

no

 

[WarpedMind]

no

Haha @Josh R! You are as succinct here as you are on Twitter!