Is there any value in .asia domains?

[MissyBC]

Are there any value in....

One word asian language.asia
Say Money in Japanese.asia?

English words .asia?

etc?

 

[owntype]

Any extension can be profitable if you invest in the right name and find the right end user.

But .asia is one of the worst extensions.

 

[jmcc]

Are there any value in....

One word asian language.asia
Say Money in Japanese.asia?

English words .asia?

etc?

Perhaps in the long term (five years or so). At present, the .asia sTLD is in its Junk Dump phase. This is the anniversary of the landrush phase when all the domains that could not be sold or monetised are dropped. The domain count for the .asia zone was 217100 yesterday morning. That's down 21613 from 01/May/2009. It will probably go through the 200K registrations mark in early June. Unlike .mobi, the numbers of new registrations each month is not good and it is really performing like a small ccTLD.

The problem for .asia is that it has to compete with large country code extensions such as .cn (over 13M doms), .au (over 1M), .jp (over 1M) and .kr (over 1M). Regional TLDs such as.asia do not do well unless there is a solid political identity such as that of the EU and .eu ccTLD. The problem for a regional TLD is that the ccTLDs will still be the dominant extensions. If you look at the numbers of .eu domains per country and the number of domains in each of those country's ccTLDs, then you will see that .eu registrations only account for 8 to 16% of the equivalent number of ccTLD domains. Add in the .com/net domains and that percentage falls again. So unless you can sell a .asia to an end-user, then there is probably little value in it. I've even seen high value single keyword domains in .asia not selling.

Regards...jmcc