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?

 

[Zilla]

Because Chinese people only want to be on TOP. There's no other place that's acceptable.. so if your business is TOP, they want it!

my personal view: from Chinese culture view, .top is really a over high profile extention, there was a famous video while a stupid people introduce himself as a TOP designer( and many other TOP titles ) in front of Jack Ma, people just laugh at him just like find the most stupid guy on the earth....too high profile to be respected...

so, well educated business man in China will never call themself the top....if u meet some Chinese always flaunt/display himself as the top,, just stay away from him...our culture encourage low key....so, the failure of .top is foreseeable in my view...

....I have no any relationship(good or bad) with .top company or its staff, I have only 1 .top name which I am going to drop...

just my 2 cents

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

As of today, I sold the only one .TOP for $850 to the buyer from Moscow.
Without GoDaddy - this TLD is a question of luck only.

 

[HotKey]

Can you share what some of your offers were? I'm sitting on a bunch of generic .top names that could fetch a decent price in .biz or .info.

Upper xxx and 1k with the names I gave as example. They fit well with their dot-top extension.

 

[jmcc]

It is at least an 82% Chinese registrations gTLD with, from memory, about 10% US registrations. That means that a lot of English language keyword domain names may not sell well. If you know the Chinese market then it may be worth a gambling on a few registrations but don't expect .COM winnings.

Regards...jmcc

 

[lock]

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)

 

[Bob Hawkes]

An investor would probably make it resolve to some kind of lander.

You would think so, but a surprising number of domains sold in all extensions do not seem to resolve to anything even long after sale. Now a few of them may be future use or defensive or misguided acquisitions, but I continue to be surprised how widespread this is, in .com, new gTLD everything.

Re .top itself for last while, but now more sporadically, the registry report sales above some level via their premium network to NameBio. I am surprised how many and at high values there are. There are also sales reported via traditionsl aftermarket venues. Most sales are Chinese words but a number English. Top usually dominates the list of new gTlD sales in a year, although it will seem less so in 2019.

Now that more new gTLDs are officially approved in China, not sure if that will weaken interest in .top.

I personalky have held a few but never been able to sell above lowish $$. If one looks at under $100 sales in NameBio subscription database I am not alone. I still hold a few hoping that I will sometime find a sale at $$$. At prices to buy and even hold, it is a low expenditure risk.

It is probably partly due to western world biases in the Alexa methodology, but concerning that .top does not find proportionally as many in Alexa 1M as many other extensions.

Bob

 

[lock]

After circus.top was taken I moved on to another gtld

 

[rayman617]

What new gTLD do you guys recommend investing in for an English speaking market?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

A check on NB shows a flurry of sales end of June and beginning of July in the upper $xxxx,

It used to be that they reported every week or two but in 2019 seem to just be doing it every few months. Not sure reason for change.

What new gTLD do you guys recommend investing in for an English speaking market?

It is a tough question to answer. Rather than looking at certain TLD I would concentrate on great matches across the dot that you can hold without high premium renewals.

Bob

 

[lock]

What new gTLD do you guys recommend investing in for an English speaking market?

The one with the most relevant searches associated with it. eg word + gtld makes that sense and is best of the premium results without too high premium renewals. The most logical word to go in front of the gtld.
Forget 2 words + gtld for now.

 

[poweredbyme]

Is there any market for English use?

namesilo

What new gTLD do you guys recommend investing in for an English speaking market?

I try to develop new websites on the TLD's with lowest renewal fee, under $5 /year.
I don't think .com is king in organic search traffic. Why should I pay $9 per year for a dot.com while there are cheaper TLD's?

 

[Josytal]

Another relevant factor you might want to consider is the number of active/indexed websites with .top domain name extension.
For example, you can google:
site:".top"
About 85,300,000 results

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

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

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

You can query for other extensions.

 

[Ivan Rasskazov]

As I continue to follow this thread, is .TOP worth acquiring as an investment if you are another registry?

 

[manpreet]

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

No, unless there is a perfect short one word that makes sense with .top

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

What new gTLD do you guys recommend investing in for an English speaking market?

What you see on GoDaddy main page...

 

[frank-germany]

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

out of 400 .top registered I kept about 4 of them

blouse.top
bustier.top
vneck.top
travelinsurance.top

feel free to make me an offer
they are for sale

 

[frank-germany]

my personal view: from Chinese culture view, .top is really a over high profile extention, there was a famous video while a stupid people introduce himself as a TOP designer( and many other TOP titles ) in front of Jack Ma, people just laugh at him just like find the most stupid guy on the earth....too high profile to be respected...

so, well educated business man in China will never call themself the top....if u meet some Chinese always flaunt/display himself as the top,, just stay away from him...our culture encourage low key....so, the failure of .top is foreseeable in my view...

....I have no any relationship(good or bad) with .top company or its staff, I have only 1 .top name which I am going to drop...

just my 2 cents

looks like that name is your top-drop

 

[Zilla]

looks like that name is your top-drop

well, I just aware it have more than half year to expire...

 

[poweredbyme]

Another relevant factor you might want to consider is the number of active/indexed websites with .top domain name extension.
For example, you can google:
site:".top"
About 85,300,000 results

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

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

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

You can query for other extensions.

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.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

It is important to realize that a few new gTLD registries report sales to NameBio (.top some of the time, .global, a selection of .club, periodically very high value Radix) but the vast majority do not. So we should not misunderstand that because .top and .global have a fair amount of the new extension sales volume on NameBio that they are the most sold new TLDs. I suspect something significantly less than 5% of registry sales of premiums are reported to NameBio, and in any case those are registry sales.

Bob