new gtlds .Top is among the most popular gTLDS

[masonzhang]

Hey everyone. Many people think that we are aggressive. Definitely not, we are good at promoting ourselves.

Please check the chart below.

We are welcome to any comments.

Thank you for your comprehension.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I do note that .top sales seem pretty consistent, and that some English words do sell. However the high fraction of registrations from China make it challenging for most of us to, I think, reach potential customers for the domains. Do you have any suggestions regarding this @masonzhang. Also do you have plans for promotion to try to make the user database more global?

Also, the fact you can not list them on Afternic remains a challenge (although DAN is a good alternative). Have you had discussions with Afternic to see if they would reconsider, or what conditions they need for that. Given their expanding office in China, it seems strange not to handle a TLD that is widely registered, and it seems traded, there.

Personally I have a handful of .top domain names still, but not many. One potential use I can see for them is for companies based outside China that want a presence in China, along with some use elsewhere, or for phrases where the .top makes sense.

Thank you for being active on NPs to represent the registry, @masonzhang.

Bob

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Afternic is out because GoDaddy is NOT accredited by this Chinese registry.

 

[masonzhang]

Thank you Dan, I really appreciate your comments. First of all, we have to admit that .Top registry has put a lot of efforts into the chinese market because of the geographical reason. Besides that, our team is quiet young and we have not got so many experiences. To be honest, I am the first one who has been studying out of China for many years. Personal experience, I have been studying in France and Canada for several years. Then, I moved to New Zealand and worked for Instra Corporation, which has been acquired by Centralnic-a stock listed company based in London. Unfortunately, I have to move back to China for personal reasons. Thank you for your remarks.

What we intend to do:

1) Work closely with the registries overseas, in particular, the US is our main market

2) We will try to avoid any illegal infringements and give people the options to invest on this Gtlds

3) Launch a new marketing strategy

The reason that we are unable to do use afternic is partially because Godaddy has some abuse concerns about .Top domains. Still, we are working hard to negotiate with them.

We welcome all the comments and please let us know if you need any assistance.

@Rob Monster We had a great pleasure to work with you.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Moniker just unblocked this random victim.
Spent 6 days.

 

[briguy]

Hey everyone. Many people think that we are aggressive. Definitely not, we are good at promoting ourselves.

Please check the chart below.

We are welcome to any comments.

Thank you for your comprehension.

Source of the stats?