.top

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.top
.top domain.svg
IntroducedNovember 18, 2014
(General Availability)
TLD typeGeneric top-level domain
(gTLD)
StatusActive
Registry.top registry
Registry websitewww.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[]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ "About us". .Top Domains. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  2. ^ "INDICATOR-COMPROMISE Suspicious .top dns query". Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Malwarebytes Browser Guard Settings screen". Malwarebytes Support. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  4. ^ "信息服务". MIIT (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Whois". .Top Domains. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. ^ a b c "Domains Deleted from Zone Today - Daily list of deleted gTLD domain names". DomainPunch.com. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  8. ^ ".TOP - New gTLD - Top Level Domain Statistics". NameStat. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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