Indian Companies Line Up For Dot Asia Domain
Bharti Airtel, Reliance ADAG, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra, T-series and several other companies are in the queue for a .asia domain name for their company. [via Economic Times]
Priced at $100, the .asia domain names will carry a registration fee of Rs 1,600 for two years fee. In India, Net4, an Internet Service Provider for enterprises, along with two other ICANN registrars Directi, GoodLuckDomain will offer the .asia domains from October 9. In the first phase domains will be offered to all sovereign rights holders (like government or industry associations).
The second phase will be open for companies having registered trademarks. The third phase will be for companies who have applied for trademarks. In the fourth and last phase will be a land rush which will close in one day. In a land rush, individuals can buy all unregistered domain names.
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Comments (5)
Oct 12, 2007 1:45 PM
dot asia will be a star domain, looking at the way the internet is going in india and china http://searchbox.mobi
Oct 29, 2007 2:14 PM
$100 for a domain is defintely overrated. Next will be co.asia, then biz.asia, then mobi.asia, then tv.asia and on and on. The list is endless.
Dec 3, 2007 10:57 PM
Experts predict that 95 percent of all South Korean households will be wired for broadband Internet by the year 2010. Ninety-four percent of Japanese homes will have broadband access, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia expected to be nearly 80 percent wired. By 2010, China will have replaced the US as the largest Internet market in the world.†
Dec 4, 2007 1:52 AM
Nothing can beat the .com popularity and i dont think .asia will be a hit
Dec 12, 2007 9:37 AM
well, it will depend upon whether the dot asia serves to be a vertical or horizontal. since it is limited to an area it will be horizontal, but with the countries having their own sepecifc domains, dot asia might be a dud
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