The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees domain names, approved the .asia domain name last October after beginning negotiations in late 2005. Now, DotAsia Organization Limited has announced that the first net addresses ending in .asia will be assigned towards the end of 2007. The non-profit group, representing countries including China, Japan and India, will start giving names to governments and registered trademark holders in October, and follow up with companies in mid-November. Potential registrants must be based in Asia, including Australia and New Zealand. Asian internet users can now use a name reflecting their country of origin but DotAsia wants "to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for internet activity and development."
Asia is already the single largest region for internet traffic, the group's website said. Citing information from Alexa Web Search, it said 13.6% of the traffic going to Yahoo, MSN and Google comes from Asia, compared with 12.5% from the United States and 7.7% from the European Union. "Will this translate into traffic to .asia domains? Not on Day 1," DotAsia said on its website. But it added that, given the Asian population, rapid economic growth, and number of internet users (about 400 million, compared with 253 million in North America), an address in Asia will be a valuable asset. DotAsia plans to treat all company applications as though they were received at the same time, and if two or more applicants want the same address, it will auction the name.
News source: CBC News
Asia is already the single largest region for internet traffic, the group's website said. Citing information from Alexa Web Search, it said 13.6% of the traffic going to Yahoo, MSN and Google comes from Asia, compared with 12.5% from the United States and 7.7% from the European Union. "Will this translate into traffic to .asia domains? Not on Day 1," DotAsia said on its website. But it added that, given the Asian population, rapid economic growth, and number of internet users (about 400 million, compared with 253 million in North America), an address in Asia will be a valuable asset. DotAsia plans to treat all company applications as though they were received at the same time, and if two or more applicants want the same address, it will auction the name.
News source: CBC News
Now to contact the respective government agencies for re-sale!
... but seriously. That's all that's gonna happen. A whole bunch of stupid squatters are going to sit on those names, and re-sell them for ridiculous amounts of money. It happens whenever they add a new TLD.
Recently, I was appalled to find someone beat me to a domain I was looking at. They're now squatting on it, and want to sell it for $3,000. I think this kind of thing should be banned. You should have to prove you're acquiring the site for legitimate business or personal purposes. Ugh, I hate the Internet.
Yeah, it should be handled in a similar fashion that Australia handles com.au domains. The government doesn't allow you to register them unless you have a registered business/organisation. Some sort of separate registration system would help to reduce the amount of squatters.
Yup.
I think this would stop the majority of squatters.
depending on what the dot is, a lot of the time squatters have no rights. Also from what i hear it is quite easy to forcibly remove squatters if you are a big enough company with enough $$$
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
I'd worry that such an expansion would break some validation scripts... an email address validated as (letter-number-symbols)@(letter-number-symbols-and-periods).(two or three letters) was valid in 2000, but is probably growing increasingly unusable.
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
I'd worry that such an expansion would break some validation scripts... an email address validated as (letter-number-symbols)@(letter-number-symbols-and-periods).(two or three letters) was valid in 2000, but is probably growing increasingly unusable.
.co.jp, .co.uk, .com.au, etc etc, are those more than 2-3 or are they something completely different?
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
I'd worry that such an expansion would break some validation scripts... an email address validated as (letter-number-symbols)@(letter-number-symbols-and-periods).(two or three letters) was valid in 2000, but is probably growing increasingly unusable.
.co.jp, .co.uk, .com.au, etc etc, are those more than 2-3 or are they something completely different?
Because they all have dot separators, it still works. The 4 letter stuff might cause a problem, but I'm sure if that's the case, those issues have already been resolved.
.museum
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.info
.name
And between the eighties and 1996 there were a .nato tld.
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
Why exactly is .info pointless?
And there is also a .coop domain:
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails....=52689&pm=1
Cheers, Roman
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
Why exactly is .info pointless?
If I see "foo.info", it conveys nothing more than "foo.com". At least "foo.de" suggests the German division and "foo.aero" the aerospace division. It adds more information.
Incidentally, even .eu makes a little more sense than .asia because the EU reflects some political and legal commonality-- A company with a .eu address is more likely to be offering something for most or all of the EU nation states-- I doubt most of the sites which register .asia addresses will offer the same range of products and services for every country in Asia.
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
Why exactly is .info pointless?
If I see "foo.info", it conveys nothing more than "foo.com". At least "foo.de" suggests the German division and "foo.aero" the aerospace division. It adds more information.
Well, no. Not all websites are related to business or corporations or even the dot-com bull****.
Let's pretend that I have an hobby, say... all types of needlework or just knitting, for instance, and I want to create a website that supplies a general background on knitting, techniques, news and a list of upcoming events in several countries(
The website would be knitting.info. Why? Because it's an informational website. It's not a company, it's not a business, it's not a network structure, it's not an organization.
(And yes, I'm ****ed up with the dot-com buggery. It's not normal for everyone to own a freaking .com)
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Let's pretend that I have an hobby, say... all types of needlework or just knitting, for instance, and I want to create a website that supplies a general background on knitting, techniques, news and a list of upcoming events in several countries(
The website would be knitting.info. Why? Because it's an informational website. It's not a company, it's not a business, it's not a network structure, it's not an organization.
(And yes, I'm ****ed up with the dot-com buggery. It's not normal for everyone to own a freaking .com)
I've seen exactly two places where I've ever seen a .info domain used:
1. One of the local home-building companies has their site at a .info site---obviously a commercial endeavour.
2. We were offered "free .info domain if you buy hosting" and we needed a specialised hosting account for testing, so we now own a .info domain at work which gets three hits a week.
We've had some of the more pointless ones for a while (.info, .aero as I recall).
I'd worry that such an expansion would break some validation scripts... an email address validated as (letter-number-symbols)@(letter-number-symbols-and-periods).(two or three letters) was valid in 2000, but is probably growing increasingly unusable.
dude update your scripts it woudl take all of 5 seconds e.g. letter-number-symbols)@(letter-number-symbols-and-periods).(two, three or four letters)
I bet the internet is pleased
I've always remembered North America as a continent, as that was what I was taught in my geography classes... By European Union, they probably mean Europe, the continent, which is also a continent. So it's comparing continents to continents.
I've always remembered North America as a continent, as that was what I was taught in my geography classes... By European Union, they probably mean Europe, the continent, which is also a continent. So it's comparing continents to continents.
Yep. USA and Canada are usually known as North America, but If you want to get really technical about it(source Wikipedia):
Northern America is used to refer to the northern countries and territories of North America: Canada, the United States, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are often considered distinct from the southern portion of the Americas, which largely comprise Latin America. The term Middle America is sometimes used to collectively refer to Mexico, the nations of Central America, and the Caribbean.
Maybe the Chinese Childrens Welfare Association could be 'youth-in.asia"
Disney could get "Fant.asia"
A magician might want "i_will_am.asia"
Then again maybe it will be a flop like .biz or .info
Given the Internet I've come to know, I think it's more likely to be registered by some Asian porn site.
Cock.asia/n
http://eu.than.asia
It's only lately we apparently shifted and joined another continent.
That makes for two funny aspects to this... Why is this new domain needed, and why is Australia and NZ in this case considered part of Asia?
How will a new top domain do that? And how will it make many more addresses available? It's as stupid as .eu -- companies will only start to have to register multiple domains to avoid domain squatters.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hahaha. but then we need .wtf
Wheres the flip off smiley when you need it?
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