Comments on: Dot.Asia Domain Auction Results

By: ngoc

ngoc — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:11:55 +0000

There is also the second round of investment, with Dot Asia rolling out IDN, what effect will it have on registration and businesses?

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By: eurasia

eurasia — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:08:04 +0000

Good point! However, EU in my mind stands for Europan Union. Europe or the European Union can not be considered a country. I’m based in Europe and have never had a desire to register a .eu for any purpose, unless perhaps I would have had a project specifically relating to the European Union as in the governmental organisation or monetary union. For some reason I feel dotAsia is far more appealing as a general purpose TLD, relating to whatever the users in the region or elsewhere considers Asia.

The success of new TLD’s has been and still is strictly limited to the imagination of the ICANN board and its rules and procedures, which has served well mainly to those who own a good dotcom. That simply isn’t enough.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:54:41 +0000

Eurasia – keep in mind that .eu is a country code domain (unlike .asia). I’m not sure, but I believe country code domains have to be two characters.

By: eurasian

eurasian — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:52:35 +0000

Asia and EU are not comparable. The .eu acronym will leave many to think of a political block of nations and so on.

Politics is boring and most people or businesses want as little to do with the subject as possible, certainly not advertise themselves as part of one particlar political entity or other.

DotAsia is more appealing and broader in scope.

A .europe on the other hand would have worked well, because it would have allowed for a wider scope of cultural associations, rather than some political stigma.

However, I guess the ICANN board probably voted in favor of .EU at the time, simply because the bureaucrats of that particuar organisation really like the sound of it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:36:02 +0000

Nic – I bet .eu wishes it had done an auction on sunrise for reasons other than avoiding the fiasco. There was quite a bit of money to be made!

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:20:06 +0000

“Or am I just a naive American?”

There is an element of this in your tone, yes. In the nicest and friendliest possible way.

All new TLDs are of course speculative, but for someone with a business in Singapore for example, where surround countries are effectively a domestic market, .asia theory is even more compelling than .eu.

Moreover, the whole point of the .asia auctions was to prevent the fiasco that was the .eu Sunrise where domain-pros got head of the game by retying on Benelux same day trademark.

Your normal “.com rules” rationale, eg that all new TLDs will simply strengthen the .com brand, and pseudo extensions like .me and all together silly, is a well founded and powerful message.

But I for one do think you have been a bit hard on .asia.

Nic