“Based on the information and records gathered through several weeks, it was determined that .TOP Registry does not have a process in place to promptly, comprehensively, and reasonably investigate and act on reports of DNS Abuse.”
.top holds about 2.76 million domains, and more than 117,000 were phishing sites in the past year. That is over four percent of all new .top registrations. The operator, Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology, was already the fourth biggest source of phishing sites more than ten years ago, before ICANN approved it to run an entire TLD. ICANN handed a known problem its own registry and now gives it until mid-August to act surprised.