[LINK] Dot Asia a good idea?

[Roger Clarke]

It's been a long-running story - I sat beside the primary player at a 
lunch in Hong Kong about 4 years ago.  He wasn't very convincing as 
to why it was needed or appropriate.

On the other hand, one way to squelch silly fights over domain-name 
space is to make sure there's plenty of it.


At 15:31 +1000 9/10/07, Tom Worthington wrote:
>Had a call from Radio Australia asking about the new top level web 
>domain for Asia (.Aisa or "Dot Asia"). This is run by the DotAsia 
>Organisation with the authority of ICANN. The agreement was signed 
>December 2006. But there has been a recent flurry of publicity about 
>it. I assume that .Asia are doing some PR.
>
>There has been some criticism of the idea. I told the radio 
>interviewer that companies doing business from or in Asia might like 
>to get a .Asia domain name to use alongside their country or 
>international domain name, but that Aisa was a less distinct entity 
>than Europe (with .EU).
>
>There is also still some debate on how to handle 16 bit character 
>sets for Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The 
>easy way is to convert them to the existing ASCII subset used for 
>domain names. But this is not as convenient as a native 
>implementation.
>
>Blogged version with links: 
><http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/10/new-top-level-web-domain-for-asia.html>.
>
>
>
>
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