.top
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Introduced | November 18, 2014 (General Availability) |
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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.
.top is blocked by default by Snort rules.[2]
.top domains are often used for malware and phishing, and is included in the list of banned TLDs for some antimalware venders (i.e. Malwarebytes [3])
Development[]
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- 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).[4][5]
- 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.[6]
- December 2016, .top registration broke 4,500,000.
- June 2017, .top registrations had gone down to about 3,000,000.[7]
- October 2017, .top registrations had gone down to about 1,900,000.[7]
- 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[]
- ^ "About us". .Top Domains. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "INDICATOR-COMPROMISE Suspicious .top dns query". Retrieved 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Malwarebytes Browser Guard Settings screen". Malwarebytes Support. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
- ^ "信息服务". MIIT (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ "Why is .TOP domain one of the only FOUR new gTLDs approved to be built website with in China?". .Top Domains. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "Whois". .Top Domains. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ a b c "Domains Deleted from Zone Today - Daily list of deleted gTLD domain names". DomainPunch.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ ".TOP - New gTLD - Top Level Domain Statistics". NameStat. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
Categories:
- Generic top-level domains
- Computer-related introductions in 2014