.asia scam??

[dugu]

I registered a few .asia domains with Godaddy, right after the countdown ended. The process went through, and I have paid for them. After a while, I revied this kind of emails from godaddy:

"Dear Dugu,

The following domain name has failed to be registered:

BANGKOK.ASIA

Error: Add domain failed for BANGKOK.ASIA: 2306:Parameter value policy error (bangkok.asia is reserved for sunrise1 application)

We will evaluate this error and retry the registration
if appropriate.

If we are unable to successfully register the domain
name, your account will be credited accordingly. Please
allow one business day for the refund to be processed.

Please contact GoDaddy.com, Inc. if you need any further
assistance:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/support.asp?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc=gdbb14

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc."



WTF is this?? Does anyone have any idea? I though it was first come, first served!!

 

[Name Trader]

I was told that if one or more party reg a name, we would be invited to an auction. This was the condition over which I was willing to invest time and some money. This did not happen and .asia has ignored my request for an explanation.

This exact same thing happened to me with my sunrise application. I thought it a waste of time, energy, emotion to try to contact them after crawling all over their website and not finding a way to contact them.

At the proposal of this new tld, I was in praise of how they were going to handle multiple applications by way of an auction. However, they have complete mishandled that process, either intentionally, by corruption, or unintentionally, by incompetence.

Their claim to be a non-profit organization is BS. What are they going to spend all those auction profits on? Salaries?

 

[damagedgoods]

This exact same thing happened to me with my sunrise application. I thought it a waste of time, energy, emotion to try to contact them after crawling all over their website and not finding a way to contact them.

At the proposal of this new tld, I was in praise of how they were going to handle multiple applications by way of an auction. However, they have complete mishandled that process, either intentionally, by corruption, or unintentionally, by incompetence.

Their claim to be a non-profit organization is BS. What are they going to spend all those auction profits on? Salaries?

AMEN! SCAM it is!

5 minutes ago I received this:

We regret to tell you that BET.ASIA could not be registered in your name because your application was denied by the .ASIA registry. Your registration fee will be returned to you in the original form of payment (the application fee is non-refundable).

We value your business and thank you for choosing GoDaddy.com, Inc. for domain registration. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to call us at (480) 505-8877 or email us at [email protected].

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

No explanation as to the "basis" of denial. I do not remember any distinctions being made between "registration fee" vs "application fee" ????
What I read was that if unsuccessful moneys would be returned. Maybe somewhere in the fine print! Nothing obvious after days of reading available info. Obviously the "landrush phase" of .asia is a complete scam! Even if GD refunds 100% of my investment.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely! .asia scammers! BTW How much is the f'n application fee? I can't find this anywhere!

Like I mentioned in previous post with a few exceptions I can't see this extension going anywhere. I am tired of seeing so many appraisal requests here of .asia nature. My wife is asian but we both agree it's sort of a stupid extension in many ways, and with all these newbie domain investers regging western keywords with it. Just rediculious! Sorry folks...I must vent!

It has easily been the most deplorable mess ever of a new domain extension release, that I know of anyway. So many problems, you can't tell if a domain is free or not on most registers or even the main registry for whois. Many of us getting funds taken out of our PayPal or cc accounts by registers for domains that are not even available and then having to wait for days till we get out money back. This could be difficult for some on low budgets. .ASIA will be known for "How Not To Release a New Domain Extension". The whole contact thing is also very confusing and there is no instructions on how to get this right. I live in Australia and don't even need to have a contact but that was not accounted for when I go to register, I'm treated as outside Asia region.

AMEN!

 

[vitalir]

domainers bark caravan goes

 

[damagedgoods]

domainers bark caravan goes

vitalir, can you please expand your post so that a newbie to this forum like me can understand it? dogs bark, "domainers" speculate, invest, sometimes gamble, but complain when they feel they have been wronged' because the above 3 ventures require clear and concise rules to warrant playing the game. I hate suv's especially caravan. I also hate to be mislead... Do you mean to say "go with the flow"? If so, yeah' I agree! Bot do I not have a legit beef here? I can build a website in 1 day with more disclosure and info than .asia with all their big $

Anyway, if it wasn't for the .asia debacle I would have not landed on this site, and I'm glad that I did. On a positive note :D

 

[SonnyCooL]

AMEN! SCAM it is!

5 minutes ago I received this:

We regret to tell you that BET.ASIA could not be registered in your name because your application was denied by the .ASIA registry. Your registration fee will be returned to you in the original form of payment (the application fee is non-refundable).

We value your business and thank you for choosing GoDaddy.com, Inc. for domain registration. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to call us at (480) 505-8877 or email us at [email protected].

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

No explanation as to the "basis" of denial. I do not remember any distinctions being made between "registration fee" vs "application fee" ????
What I read was that if unsuccessful moneys would be returned. Maybe somewhere in the fine print! Nothing obvious after days of reading available info. Obviously the "landrush phase" of .asia is a complete scam! Even if GD refunds 100% of my investment.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely! .asia scammers! BTW How much is the f'n application fee? I can't find this anywhere!

Like I mentioned in previous post with a few exceptions I can't see this extension going anywhere. I am tired of seeing so many appraisal requests here of .asia nature. My wife is asian but we both agree it's sort of a stupid extension in many ways, and with all these newbie domain investers regging western keywords with it. Just rediculious! Sorry folks...I must vent!


AMEN!

the application fees should be USD 85 ....
that is the reason why i don't go for any .asia before landrush ....

 

[vitalir]

vitalir, can you please expand your post so that a newbie to this forum like me can understand it? dogs bark, "domainers" speculate, invest, sometimes gamble, but complain when they feel they have been wronged' because the above 3 ventures require clear and concise rules to warrant playing the game. I hate suv's especially caravan. I also hate to be mislead... Do you mean to say "go with the flow"? If so, yeah' I agree! Bot do I not have a legit beef here? I can build a website in 1 day with more disclosure and info than .asia with all their big $

Anyway, if it wasn't for the .asia debacle I would have not landed on this site, and I'm glad that I did. On a positive note :D

Ok :D
The meaning was: domainers don't have any influence on things (well maybe with the exception for the big 5). They may bark, shout and swear on a new tld and it then can perform well, or they may have dreams of one (and buy loads of absolute rubbish in it) and it then can ruin. Whatever domainers do it is not them who decide on and make tld's future.

 

[aliweb]

I am also not happy with how .asia is being handled. I searched a couple of popular dictionary words on registry.asia and they were available. But when I went to GoDaddy to register they said the domains are not available!! I mean WTF! they don't show any whois info it's just blank...same is the case with DynaDot...they also said the domains are not available and no whois info
I am pissed off!
When you check whois info on registry.asia it shows you 4 kinds of responses.

1. The domain, bank.asia, is a Community Reserved Name and is not available for registration at this time.

Ok I understand they have reserved for may be auction.

2. The domain "news.asia" is either not found or not allocated.

Hmm...so this domain is available...but wait till you go to registrar and there you will see it's not available!!!

3. Domain not available and WHOIS information is shown below

Fine with me.

4. Reserved by DotAsia

Now WTH is this!?? if it is reserved then they should have displayed the number 1st response. What's going on?

 

[elsombreron]

I think they really muffed up the auction processes (anything pre-GoLive). It seriously can't be that hard for pool.com to get it together with dotasia and schedule some auctions. The GoLive regos seem to be working perfectly well though, unless my moniker account is lying to me with nudebollywood.asia and bollywooddvds.asia....

a class action...exciting! which firm's putting its hand up to lead/underwrite it? :=)

 

[DOMAINNAMEWATCH]

For Everyone,
You actually need to cross reference the DN in the sunrise and landrush lists.
When it comes up, "Not allocated" well it's not. It is however going to auction so...
All the other things "Community reserved" and bla bla is .Asia and china sitting on everything.

Basically, all 3 letter words are going to auctions
I.E.
aaa.asia
aab.asia
.
.
zzy.asia
zzz.asia

:hehe:

So, during the initial opening of Go Live I think everyone had some problems.
Even though people get upset with this registry and that one you are actually only getting an invoice, you card most likely has not been charged.

There really are not any scams from the registers.
I though i had travel.eu through godaddy a while ago.
Got an invoice and everything, never charged though, and just reversed the invoice and said sorry.

I think lots of us would like to own shoes.asia and shopping.asia ... some of us thought about it prior to golive though.
:hehe: :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: :bingo:

 

[aliweb]

For Everyone,
You actually need to cross reference the DN in the sunrise and landrush lists.
When it comes up, "Not allocated" well it's not.

Where can I see this list?

I looked news.asia in

Closed Auctions

and

Scheduled Auctions

and

Current Auctions

but couldn't find.

 

[toh.benny]

i think maybe before you submit for .asia, other than the normal whois,you might want to go through these list as well:
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-DomainsAppliedFor--2008-02-27.txt
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-D...tAsia-Reserved-Names--COMPLETE-2007-08-10.pdf

 

[slapman]

not entirely true. some of those during sunrise were not paid for. went through that list on day 1 of open reg. got some good ones

 

[aliweb]

i think maybe before you submit for .asia, other than the normal whois,you might want to go through these list as well:
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-DomainsAppliedFor--2008-02-27.txt
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-D...tAsia-Reserved-Names--COMPLETE-2007-08-10.pdf

Cool!
thanks man

By the way who is the cheapest .asia registrar?

 

[SonnyCooL]

check whois is domain.com they pretty fast and sharp, not like domaintools, always display " clear" ...

 

[damagedgoods]

.asia scam

not entirely true. some of those during sunrise were not paid for. went through that list on day 1 of open reg. got some good ones

Oh really? And what are these gems you speak of?

i think maybe before you submit for .asia, other than the normal whois,you might want to go through these list as well:
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-DomainsAppliedFor--2008-02-27.txt
http://www.asia.asia/info/DotAsia-D...tAsia-Reserved-Names--COMPLETE-2007-08-10.pdf

I registered prior to these docs based on all available information. BTW, still have not received my refund. Note: whois doesn't help you register a domain! Do I need to explain why?

 

[ThreeD]

We've had our .asia name pending since March 26th even if it ISN'T in any of the lists above. Anyone have any idea why it's still going to auction? Godaddy and moniker still show it as available

 

[james2002]

We've had our .asia name pending since March 26th even if it ISN'T in any of the lists above. Anyone have any idea why it's still going to auction? Godaddy and moniker still show it as available

Did you check at

www.whois.asia ?

 

[ThreeD]

Did you check at

www.whois.asia ?

yeah James, always comes back with the same result: The domain "xxxxxx" is either not found or not allocated.

 

[damagedgoods]

yeah James, always comes back with the same result: The domain "xxxxxx" is either not found or not allocated.

Hi ThreeD,

So how can this be explained? Incompetence? A glitch? Just a delay? A misunderstanding? Corruption? Or all of the above?

I wish you the best of luck to get the domain that you wanted (honestly I do!) but, the way I see it, is all of the above! I guess your registrar and ICANN are useless in this arena. Maybe you could contact .asia people directly like I did to get no answer from them as well.

 

[ThreeD]

Hi ThreeD, Maybe you could contact .asia people directly like I did to get no answer from them as well.

thanks bud, I did contact the .asia registry, but I haven't heard back from them either The whole .ASIA domain is one big mess!