.Asia Coming in 6/9 Months

[ekal]

http://www.domainnews.com/icann/1020061020/icann-approves-asia-domain-name/

The ICANN Board has agreed to consider the responses to its inquiry relating to the four pending gTLD agreements for .ASIA, .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG during their meeting on 18 October 2006.

ICANN said Wednesday that it had approved the “.asia.” top-level domain, which will provide an additional suffix possibility for companies based in the Asia-Pacific region. The new TLD would be controlled by the DotAsia Organization, made up of groups running domain names for other Asian countries. Registration will not begin for another six to nine months, as the contract has not yet been finalized.
Like previous new TLDs, the group will give trademark holders first rights to domain names, and it plans to restrict registrations to companies based within the region. Individuals and groups would also be able to register names as well. Pricing for .asia domain names would likely vary, DotAsia said.

 

[floatingworld]

http://www.domainnews.com/icann/1020061020/icann-approves-asia-domain-name/

The ICANN Board has agreed to consider the responses to its inquiry relating to the four pending gTLD agreements for .ASIA, .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG during their meeting on 18 October 2006.

ICANN said Wednesday that it had approved the “.asia.” top-level domain, which will provide an additional suffix possibility for companies based in the Asia-Pacific region. The new TLD would be controlled by the DotAsia Organization, made up of groups running domain names for other Asian countries. Registration will not begin for another six to nine months, as the contract has not yet been finalized.
Like previous new TLDs, the group will give trademark holders first rights to domain names, and it plans to restrict registrations to companies based within the region. Individuals and groups would also be able to register names as well. Pricing for .asia domain names would likely vary, DotAsia said.

...now this extension release will be very interesting and likely to be a much better success than .euro

 

[jaydub]

If they can try and run a legit reg process.
Hopefully they have learned from the .EU fiasco...

But I agree it will be very interesting extension....probably very inclined to IDN names...

 

[Coopey]

We were discussing this the other day in another thread.

I'm not disagreeing, but just out of interest, why do you you think it will be a bigger success than .eu?

 

[MadAboutDomains]

hasnt asia already got an extension?

 

[bocanames]

thanks for the info Ekal !!

I also think this will be bigger than .EU, although there may not be as much shenannigans and hoopla the first week (technical terms) About 1/2 of the world (depends how you draw the lines I suppose) lives in asia right?

It will hopefully be hyped less by shameless promoters searching for pre-registration money that won't be returned, and fly-by-night fake registrars will hopefully be made to wait in line with everybody else. Or maybe I'm just naive.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Why would .ASIA be more 'successful' than .EU? Just cause you are all anti-eu, not because of the facts

There may be ALOT of people in Asia, but they're not all domainers!

• Will there still be rich domain spectators on .ASIA as there were for .EU?? YES
• Will there be more domains for people to buy for .ASIA than .EU?? NO
• Are the the number of Internet users are practically the same in both Europe and Asia?? YES
• Which has more, popular languages spoken around the world making the domains in the differen't languages more valuable? EUROPE (.EU)

If you continue to take every opportunity to say that .EU is a shambles you fall in to one of the following categories:

• You are a non-EU citizen
• You are jealous, it's just that the people that want to hold/sell/develop domains on a large scale got them instead of all of you. If you wanted the names you should have spent alot more.

.EU was not un-sucessful.

 

[HcDomains]

Good news ! Esp for me (I am from China)

 

[namebug]

I wonder how well this will go over, at least the EU was a united political grouping. Still a lot of bad feelings between Japan and China and Korea.

 

[cache]

very exciting! There are so many people who live in asia.

 

[accent]

Wonder why they didn't choose a two letter TLD like .EU???

JK

 

[MadAboutDomains]

.AI and .AS are already domain extensions... I guess they didn't have much choice.

 

[Nam]

very exciting! There are so many people who live in asia.

Yes, you are right. EU with about 300-400 million persons, and ASIA with about 3-4 billion persons and many countries with economic development very fast as China, india, japan, korea, singapore....event Vietnam with 8-9% GDP rasing every year. I can say dot asia could be the hottest area domain extention.

 

[Jeffrey]

I am from the Philippines, but i personally think that EU is still valuable than ASIA. But i would still buy .asia domains during the landrush.

 

[ekal]

One thing to remember, "eu" signified Europe in almost every major European language, whereas many Asian countries don't use "Asia"

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Yes, you are right. EU with about 300-400 million persons, and ASIA with about 3-4 billion persons and many countries with economic development very fast as China, india, japan, korea, singapore....event Vietnam with 8-9% GDP rasing every year. I can say dot asia could be the hottest area domain extention.

More cybersquatters to snatch domains?

 

[Kate]

I don't really get the point of .asia.
And I don't think we can compare .asia to .eu
Unlike the EU Asia is not a homogenous political entity.

Even after reading through the TLD application
http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/asia.htm
it looks like another vanity TLD to me.

Perhaps the TLD will be successful with companies wishing to establish their panasian presence, other than that I don't see a lot of added value in the ext. I predict that it will be at least as popular as .museum or .coop.
As usual, end users rule :gl:

 

[abdussamad]

So what kind of domains should us small timers aim for? I mean do I have any chance of getting travel.asia during the landrush? How do I decide what domains I have a chance of grabbing and should go for?

 

[nmr86]

good to read,, i will be there when the time comes..

ready to snap up some good .asia names and sit on them

 

[dgridley]

I'm thinking if they handle it correctly, .asia stands a good chance of becoming a dominating force on the web at some point.