Internet to get .asia addresses
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
on this topic i’ld like to ask who in the name of All that is sane and logical came up with jamaica’s country specific domain name. The idea of “.com.jm” to me honestly makes no sense. Why isn’t it like the other set (.de .co.uk and so on) with nothing of the .com.. A kid i know personally emailed the registrar in jamaica which is located in montego pay it seems. As he was directed there and not to uwi (which is where it was initially handled). He has gotten no response from them and he’s emailed them from about march i think, roughly 3 months ago. kid has a wonderful vision of jamaica relative to an internet standpoind but stifled by the powers that be and their limited visions. how the old fashioned can sometimes not see 5 minutes pass their own noses. with thier Brick Morter and print mentality when they transition into the digital age they try to apply the same principles when it just simply will not work. I hope jamaica someday change theirs to comply with international standards like the newly found .asia.. change the damn thing to .jm dammit. n stop being stupid.
Jamaipanese said,
7-1-2007 in 11:54:49 at 72.252.117.72i doubt Jamaica was responsible for the .com.jm mistake, they just had it pushed down their throat.