.top
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| Introduced | November 18, 2014 (General Availability) |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Generic top-level domain (gTLD) |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | .top registry |
| Registry website | www.nic.top |
.top is a generic top-level domain, officially delegated in ICANN's New gTLD Program on August 4, 2014. The extension is managed and operated by the .top registry,[1] and can be registered by anyone since November 18, 2014.
Development
- June 20, 2011, ICANN officially announced that the application for new gTLDs was to open in 2012.
- April 11, 2012, the application was submitted online. On June 9, 2012, it appeared on the ICANN public list.
- March 20, 2013, it passed initial evaluation.
- March 20, 2014, the registry signed a contract with ICANN.
- August 5, 2014, the domain entered the root zone of ICANN new gTLD.
- October 15, 2014, it entered its sunrise period.
- November 18, 2014, .top domains could be registered openly. Registration volume exceeded 10,000 on the first day.
- April 24, 2015, .top was put on record with Chinese national government department MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology).[2][3]
- September 2015, .top domains obtained 250,000 new registrations within one week, making its registration volume surge to 530,000.
- December 2015, .top registration reached around 1,000,000.
- January 2016, .top released its IDN domains, supporting Arabic, Chinese (traditional + simplified), French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish - the availability can be checked by .top whois.[4]
- December 2016, .top registration broke 4,500,000.
- June 2017, .top registrations had gone down to about 3,000,000.[5]
- October 2017, .top registrations had gone down to about 1,900,000.[6]
- January 2018 .top registrations had gone down to about 1,300,000.[7]
- March 2018, .top registrations had gone up to about 2,100,000.[8]
References
- ^ http://www.nic.top/en
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-08. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
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- ^ http://www.nic.top/en/whois.asp
- ^ https://domainpunch.com/tlds/deleted.php
- ^ https://domainpunch.com/tlds/deleted.php
- ^ https://domainpunch.com/tlds/deleted.php
- ^ ".TOP - New gTLD - Top Level Domain Statistics". NameStat. Retrieved 2018-04-29.