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Since 18th November 2014 till the end of 2015, around 1,000,000 .top domains were registered from 226 countries. To meet the requirement of multi-language and multi-cultural enterprise and personal websites, .Top Registry, approved by ICANN, will start to support six additional IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) besides current ASCII and Chinese language in January 2016, making .top the new gTLD that supports the most IDNs so far – Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Exact date of IDN release will soon be announced.

How to register IDN domains

The same as registering other .top domains.

There is no limit with combinations between languages, numbers or hyphen.

Are there any reserved

Except for the few special words ICANN required to block, none of IDN characters will be reserved, even single or double characters.

Compliance

.Top Registry is in compliance with RFC, IETF and IDNA.

Variants of Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish are not supported, but Chinese.

Dear customer

Jiangsu Bangning is authenticated by Internet names for Assigned Names and numbers(ICANN)and become one of global top level domain registries to manage and maintain .top gTLD.

The company decided that from 2014-10-15 to 2014-11-15, it is Sunrise Period for valid user to register domain names. Other Periods will be update on this website shortly. The details of Sunrise Period are following:

I Time Arrangement
1. From 2014-9-15 00:00 to 2014-10-14 23:59, it is Sunrise Period notice phase.During this phase,the company does not accept any registration.


2. From 2014-10-15 00:00 to 2014-11-15 23:59,it is Sunrise Period registration phase.During this phase,the company will accept registration but not allocate.


3. From 2014-11-16 00:00 to 2014-11-17 23:59,it is Sunrise Period sequence quiet phase.During this phase,the company will allocate domain names based on FCFS(first come first serve)basis.


4. From 2014-11-18 00:00,registrant(trademark holders) may query domain names by WHOIS.

PS.the time above is based on Beijing timezone(UTC+8),otherwise on registry interface time.

II Registration


According to ICANN policy,only trademark holders(or called registrant in this case)or agency who are verified by TMCH and hold valid SMD(Signed Mark Data)file generated by TMCH can register domain name during Sunrise Period.

III Price
1. The price of registration in Sunrise Period is 18000RMB/year per name,need to be paid to registry in application.


2. Registrant need to choose from 1 year(min) to 10 year(max) for domain name active time when registration.


3. While domain name is successfully applied in Sunrise Period,no funds willl be returned even if registrant

revoke registration.
4. Full funds will be returned to registrant who are not allocated to achieve domain name they desired in sequence quiet phase.

IV Registration Rules and Process
1. Registry will not directly accept any registration.Registrant need to apply domain name through registrar who are verified by ICANN and authenticated by registry.


2. When registrantion in Sunrise Period,user must meet the following:
   a. provide SMD file to registry in accordance with domain name label
   b. must comply with registry policy (please see http://www.nic.top/en/policy.asp for more information)


3.Registry will allocate domain name for registrant based on FCFS(first come first serve)basis if two or more registrants apply this domain name.

V Sunrise dispute resolution
Challenges to Sunrise Registrations on the following grounds may be filed with Asia Domain Name Dispute

Resolution Center in accordance with the SDRP(Sunrise Dispute Resolution Policy)

1. at the time the challenged domain name was registered, the registrant did not hold a trademark registration of

national effect (or regional effect) or the trademark had not been court-validated or protected by statute or treaty;


2. the domain name is not identical to the mark on which the registrant based its Sunrise Registration; or


3. the trademark registration on which the registrant based its Sunrise Registration is not of national effect

(or regional effect) or the trademark had not been court-validated or protected by statute or treaty.


VI Explanation

The Registry Operator reserves all right to the explanation of this announcement. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.nic.top

 


Please refer to https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registrars/transfers-en

Note, for following three situations, transfers are not supported:

1. when the domain is in AutoRenewPeriod (45 days)

2. when the doamin will expire in 15 days

3. within 60 days after the domain is created