Will people in Asia do business with you just because you have a .asia domain, I wonder? I would expect them to trust a .com a lot more than a TLD that screams out that your site is a new one. Plus, I firmly believe that people in the West will be as keen on clicking on a .asia as they are on a .cn. Why spend good money on something that may prove to be positively detrimental to your business?
Why spend good money on something that may prove to be positively detrimental to your business?
if you are doing major business in asia and you have a keyword or brand to protect...
[dotasia.org...]
It's in *English*
what countries speak English as a native language in Asia?
None!
DUH.
1. It is longer, not as easy to type in
2. .EU never really took off.
3. All the asian countries already have their own extensions and they are being used heavily.
4. Countries are very proud of their heritage, etc... For instance, China would much rather remain .CN domains than say they are just part of "Asia".
5. Their music isn't played too much on radio any more
Just my 2 cents!
what countries speak English as a native language in Asia?
As an official language:
Hong Kong
India
Pakistan
Philippines
Singapore
English, apart from Mandarin, is probably the most widely spoken language throughout Asia and is definitely the most widely taught as a compulsory school subject alongside national languages and regional dialects and especially so amongst the most populous countries such as China and Indonesia.
Is The New .ASIA TLD Going To Be Better Than .COM
The title of this thread says it all...this is just they type of sucker they are looking for :)
fly.asia or travel.asia would be nice though....
fly.asia or travel.asia would be nice though....
There could be some very nice generics if secured.
A week into this landrush and all my applications are still showing "submitted to registry". Do we assume one of two scenarios:
1. As soon as another application is submitted it automatically registers as "auction"?
2. We will not know until March 12th and then all multiple applications will then turn to "auction"?
If it is #1 meaning that no one else has submitted for the same names as myself, then why the long, drawn-out process?
If it is #2 then why not just say so? It certainly does not in their PDFs.
To be honest I find this more annoying than the .eu launch!
this is whole waiting for different stages sucks!
do you know why it takes a while once you register the .asia names?
it says pending on my account,
Because .asia is in a landrush pre-release. see [webmasterworld.com...]
Total number of applications: 505,838
45,697 received more than one application per name and will go to auction
buy.asia most sought after with 400 applicants followed by hot, gold, fun and girl...surprise, surprise:-)
Brief pdf document here:
[dotasia.org...]
And here is the list of domains receiving more than one application:
[dotasia.org...]
Hmmm...50% success rate for me and I now have to go into auction for my company name! So do many others by the looks of it.
"Only 30,780 applications have been filed for .asia domain names so far compared with 330,000 at the same point in the launch of the .eu domain name," said Jonathan Robinson, chief operating officer of NetNames."
according to: [news.bbc.co.uk...]
Also see [news.bbc.co.uk...] in regards to .eu
Not sure on the effect on Asian Domains, if any!
Once bitten, twice shy.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Possibly however the restrictions and qualifying procedure are much more robust however could it also possibly be that they've not made a killing out of reselling their .eu names?
Ok, I make no apologies for repeating:
Total number of applications: 505,83845,697 received more than one application per name and will go to auction
+/-460,141 can't be called too shabby i.e. 505,838 less 45,697, it's the darned auction process which is annoying me. I've heard nothing from anyone yet.
we will receive an email at least 10 days prior to auction date notifying us the exact date of the auction for our particular domain.
If we havent heard anything yet, means we wont start bidding the next 10 days (not before the 29th according to my calendar!)
I had thought we would take ownership of our domains and be done with the auction before open-registration, but according to Pool.com representative all of our domains pre-registered would be on hold and no one can register for them after open-registration. During that time, the applicants will start bidding on those name pre-registered during landrush!
So in short: I think it will take much more time that we orignally thought it would!
There is no deadline for the auction. As long as you bid higher, the auction can go on forever and that is why you may see different dates for domain auction closure.
So from what I understand, you can have different starting dates as well as different amount of days it would take you to close the bid! (a.k.a. win the domain)
