I understand your reasons but IDN's in my belief will not at all affect .ASIA. I still believe that English is here to stay as an indispensable language for intranational communication and/or international communication in many countries in Asia. In Southeast Asia, for example, English is used as an indisputable lingua franca for regional cooperation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations organization comprising ten states.
All other countries recognize the extraordinary importance of English as a language of wider communication in Asia and of course the world around, and put a redoubled emphasis on English language teaching (ELT). China, a country of about 1.2 billion people, has 300 million students enrolled in the English classrooms. If I recall correctly, Japan has initiated a full-fledged action program to pave the way for improved ELT in five years, with a focus on teaching English in English in primary and secondary schools.
The use of English as an Asian language encourages the teaching and learning of English in Asian contexts. The U.S.A. and the U.K. used to be the places for ambitious students to go to in order to learn English. But now this urge has comparatively weakened. Some Asian countries are added to a list of their destinations. Quite surprising, but true nonetheless.
A key reason, of course, for the use of English as an Asian lingua franca is its use as the world’s lingua franca. Both roles are likely to continue expanding: in the air, by sea, in the media, in telecommunications, and so forth. Asia does, however, differ from other continents in having no large native
English-speaking population base, but at the same time it has had a long acquaintance with English as the key medium of first the British Empire then the United States.
We must all remember that in at least eleven territories (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, the
Philippines, and Hong Kong), English may not be a mother tongue for more than a tiny minority, but it has long been a key ‘other tongue’ of millions of residents, big firms and multinational enterprises with activites across these territories and nations, as well as overseas. We will soon be confronted with .ASIA progress and evolution as time goes by. It may not do as well as .COM or .NET for sure. But it will surpass .eu and some other good TLDs as well.
Asian nations will continue to value English-speaking websites/domains and this recognition will only increase for obvious reasons.
