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Want To Earn Millions of Dollars? Register .asia Domain Now

Hiren Pathak

Currently, Internet users in the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific region only have the option of utilising a generic TLD (gTLD) whose registrants are dominated by US and European individuals and businesses, or country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) that are intended for local use. According to VeriSign Global Registry Services , only 11% of .com and .net (the two largest gTLDs) registrants came from Asia . However, Global Reach estimates that over 64% of the Internet's population are non-English speakers and that Asian languages alone make up 33% of the online population. (source:DotAsia.org)

So this leads to the need for .asia domain and the good news is, you can apply for your .asia domain name now. The domain ".asia" will begin in February, according to DotAsia organization. If a particular domain name has more than one applicant, it will go to the higher bidder.

One of their marketing strategy for .asia domains is to show people how much the previous domains were sold for. According to their Pioneer .asia domain campaign, they have mentioned about the famous domain names $ value, like creditcards.com was sold for $2.75 million in 2004.

But hey, they made it little difficult for people like us to register the domain name in their pioneer program. In their pioneer program (community pioneer), they want you to submit

Your Business and Marketing Plan describing the concept and proposed scheme for the .Asia domain

Outline your Operations and Financial Support

Community and Social Consideration

And on top of all these documents, you have to deposit a commitment of US$ 10,000 to the marketing of .Asia domain.

I can imagine Reliance and other giants might register their .asia domains soon.

Oh and by the way, if you want to know who you can register the .Asia domain to, here is the list of names. Few of them that I recognize are

eNom, Inc. [ http://www.enom.com ]

Web Werks India Pvt. Ltd. [ http://www.dfordomains.com ]

007Names, Inc. [ http://www.007names.com ]

Check out the list for more details.

Written By: Hiren Pathak. You can contact him at informationmadness AT gmail DOT COM
Our valuable member Hiren Pathak has been with us since Tuesday, 12 December 2006.

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2008-01-08 15:31:08
2007.11.12 -- More than 15,000 applications received for new .Asia domain -- Interest in the new .Asia domain is gaining momentum as the second phase of registration begins November 13 (-‡)

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.†

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