[LINK] Dot Asia a good idea?

[David Goldstein]

And here I was thinking you'd read the article in The Guardian on Dot Asia Tom!

What's the point of the .asia top-level domain?
... Curb your enthusiasm at the back. Oh, you were standing up to leave? Can't blame you. In what must have domain registrars around the world rubbing their hands with glee and ordering new yachts, we now have another TLD that nobody can quite remember asking for (is it like the gherkin in a fastburger?) which will coin it from all the companies that feel they have to register their name just to make sure that nobody else does. Which especially means all the banks and other brands, but which equally means that typosquatters and phishers can have a new way to play havoc with everyone's lives.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/10/08/whats_the_point_of_the_asia_toplevel_domain.html

It will be interesting to see if people actually use their .asia domains, as opposed to their .eu domains which usually revert (OK, wrong word, can't think of the right one right now) to a .com or other address.

David

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au>
To: link <link at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October, 2007 3:31:05 PM
Subject: [LINK] Dot Asia a good idea?

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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