.Asia Landrush opens with 300,000 Domain Applications

[EuroDNS NL]

Hong Kong, 21 February 2008 – DotAsia Organisation, the registry operator of the “.Asia” Internet domain, is happy to announce the successful launch of its Landrush period. A total of 266,663 applications were received by the registry within the first 24 hours of the Landrush, demonstrating great interest from around the world to stake claims in the most prestigious cyber real estate in Asia. Including pre-Sunrise, Sunrise, Pioneer programs and the first day of Landrush, the total number of domain applications to date is 298,861. .Asia Landrush opened Feb 20 and will close on March 12, 2008.

Unlike conventional first-come-first-served processes, DotAsia is utilizing a model that treats all applications received equally no matter if you submit the application within the first second or on the last day of the Landrush period. For domains receiving two or more applications, an auction will be held between the applicants. Domains with only one application will be allocated directly without auction. It also means you must apply during the Landrush period (Feb 20 – Mar 12, 2008) in order to be eligible to participate in the domain auctions.

“We are very excited about the smooth launch of Landrush. The volume of interest demonstrates strong demand for .Asia. Unlike conventional opening rushes where the best names are snatched in the opening seconds, you still have 20 days to submit your application without losing out,” says Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia. “We are also excited to see strong participation from Asia, with 5 out of the top 10 registrars coming from Asia.”

Over 35% of the Landrush applications received came from Asia, with 40% from North America and 24% coming from Europe. A total of about 28,000 domain names received more than one application on the first day. The top 10 registrars in the first day, in order, are: EuroDNS S.A. (www.asiadns.asia), Dotalliance Inc. (www.dotalliance.asia), , Communigal Communications Ltd., GoDaddy.com, Gabia, HiChina Web Solutions Ltd., Key-Systems (www.domaindiscount24.asia),
NamesBeyond, DomainPeople Inc. (www.domainpeople.asia), eName Corp..

About DotAsia Organisation:
DotAsia Organisation (www.dotasia.org) is the Sponsoring Organisation and Registry Operator for the .Asia Sponsored Generic Top Level Domain. DotAsia is a not-for-profit, community-based organisation incorporated in Hong Kong. The .Asia domain aspires to embrace this dynamism in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for Internet activity and development in the region. To learn more about DotAsia, please visit: www.registry.asia.
Media Enquiries:
For press enquiries, please contact Pavan Budhrani at +852.3741.0015 ([email protected])

 

[leede]

good news

it is seeking good importance

 

[Charley]

[/B] The top 10 registrars in the first day, in order, are: EuroDNS S.A. (www.asiadns.asia)

I am surprised, why you don't accept Paypal as a payment mode, when other top registrars have it.

Care to share a comment.

 

[Dr. Mindwrecker]

can anyone apply for a .asia domain?

 

[Charley]

can anyone apply for a .asia domain?

Check out this site for that information.

.Asia

 

[Sir Regalot]

BBC article on .asia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7255320.stm

 

[Charley]

BBC article on .asia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7255320.stm

.Asia was given a big hype in India as well. Many celebrities consider this a very good investment.

 

[Alao25]

Yes, I know it before

 

[raghudomains]

Dotasia's Mony Game

IT'S ALL DOTASIA'S CHEATING GAME.

first-come-first processes Is the best and good for any applicant.It all seems DOTASIA IS Cheating people by putting domains in auction?


it takes more than 2 months time to wait for a domain.But there is ni guarentee.nearly collecting 40$ for a domain.But no chance.The people who are rich will win the auction,but the domain Buyers never.Haaaaaaaaaa




CHEAT DOTASIA CHEAT.ALL AND ALL THE ORGANIZATION ONLY NEED MONEY BUT NOT BUSINESS AND CUSTOMERS.

 

[sirxl]

yea. I thought the auction part was a big turn off

 

[Name Trader]

I bid in the Sunrise period only to have the domain given to another applicant without it ever going to auction.

 

[trlsker01]

Hello Sander of EuroDNS.

I am writing here regarding my current .asia domain purchase at Eurodns.
The domain in question is bid.asia which I purchased by my debit card.
The purchase went through and I saw it with my pending purchased domains list on my Eurodns account. After 5 days it just disappeared from my pending domains list on my account at Eurodns.

I made the payment for bid.asia on 2-26-08 and Paypal put a temporary hold on the funds as they stated that EuroDNS have 4 days to accept the funds.
They told me that EuroDNS did not took action and Paypal have to Expire the transaction on 3-5-08.

I also purchased beijing.asia and aside from my other purchases on 2-27-08, everyone have been submitted to the register except that one beijing.asia which still shows a status of "ready for submission" up to now (that purchase was made on 2-27-08). Your support emailed me back stating that the purchase of beijing.asia is restricted??? Then why is it available when I made the purchase and even now if I go to your website, it still shows that anyone can purchase it???

Also, I purchased 33 (LLL.asia) 3 letter .asia domains and all states its "ready for submission"??? Except, the one word generics that I've purchased which all have been submitted to the registry. (Currently I managed to purchase 80 domains with Eurodns and I am only have been sorting from letter A-G).

Sander, could you please check on this to make sure that your staff at Eurodns accept my purchase within the allotted time so as a repeat of the bid.asia occurrence would not repeat itself.
Please do this for me and Eurodns.

Art M.

Please pm me.

 

[Charley]

I bid in the Sunrise period only to have the domain given to another applicant without it ever going to auction.

Was it a trademark name ?

 

[trlsker01]

How is this possible???
I believe that anyone could register 3 letter .asia domains during the landrush and before 3-12-08. Why is your support team saying that these domains are taken??? Just like what you did on the bid.asia domain that I registered that disappeared from my domain lists because eurodns did not claim my paypal payment within 4 days!
Something is wrong here and I have reason to believe that you guys want to have all this domains to bank on it specially now that 3 letter .com domains are very much within the $5,000 range. This is totally unacceptable.

Mr. Mueller or Scholten, please explain in detail as to why this domains are already taken before 3-12-08 and by who???

Art .M
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Email below from your support:

Dear customer,

Those domain names are already taken at the registry and cannot be
registered. You will be refunded soon.

Have a nice day

Nuno SOARES
EuroDNS Support


> *** REGISTERED USER ***
> =============================================================
> Identifier: ######
> Name: Art M#######
> Login: #######
> Email address: #######@verizon.net
> Phone number: #############
> Reply in: EN
> Short summary: Why domains not yet forwarded to registry?
> =============================================================
> Full description:
> Why are these domains still not forwarded to registry like the rest
of my orders???
>
> beijing.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
>
> vwr.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kps.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kao.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> dkm.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wcm.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kds.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> dws.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> svr.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> hkt.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> xls.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wbr.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wpt.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> ktm.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kia.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> ksb.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> bvd.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> vca.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> cvb.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> waa.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> skf.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wea.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> xda.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kdb.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wtc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kgi.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> wkc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kbc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> qvc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> skc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> xsi.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> kpi.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> vjc.asia new Ready for submission EuroDNS
> =============================================================
> END OF MAIL

Sander SCHOLTEN <[email protected]> wrote:
Arturo,

my colleagues confirmed that your names are submitted and that you have no open invoices.

If there is anything else pls contact mr muller during my holiday: [email protected]

Sander

PS. Also, the above 3 letter .asia domains have all disappeared from my Eurodns lists of pre-registered domains and with no credit to my account???

I am for sure that these domains were not registered before when I registered it because when I did my .asia domain search within Asiadns(Eurodns), it shows on the results under the status that these .asia domains have green check mark on both .asia and .asia.com extensions.

Now, I believe your interface tells me that the .asia extension have been registered or somebody have pre-registered if I did a search but the .asia extension shows under the status with a greeen check mark on .asia extension and a red stop sign icon under the status of the .asia.com extension.

I figured that since the .asia extension still shows a green check mark is because of the 3-12-08 deadline for anyone to register the premium .asia extension. But the red stop sign icon under the .asia.com extension is an indication that the .asia domain have been pre-registered.

Correct me if I'm wrong but that is what I observed!
Anyone who registered with Asiadns have noticed this???