.top
 | |
| Introduced |
November 18, 2014 (General Availability) |
|---|---|
| TLD type |
Generic top-level domain (gTLD) |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | .top registry |
| Website | www.nic.top |
.top is a gTLD (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 will release 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]
References
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