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.Asia Internet Domain Launched

Posted by Zonk on from the always-room-at-the-top dept.

eldavojohn writes "Expect to see sites ending in .asia pop up soon, as ICANN has allowed DotAsia to recently open bidding on the new domain. A DotAsia representative is quoted as saying, 'Our research has found that Asia is one of the most searched-for terms and by having a .asia website, your ranking on Google or Yahoo will become much higher.' Is there really a need for more top level domains?"

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  1. The possibilities! by PlatyPaul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    fant.asia, your.asia, anast.asia... the list goes on and on.

    More interestingly, though, will be the issue when countries fail to establish control over things like india.asia, china.asia, etc. I have to wonder, though: given the "worldwide" attitude of the web, do we really need to make geographic distinctions at the TLD?

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  2. Re:need? by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why does there have to be a need? will too many make the net too heavy or something? The thing that gets me about all these new TLDs is that .com is still by far the most recognized, and so people continue to use it whether it's appropriate or not... But at the same time they scoop up the equivalent name in other TLDs as well to avoid confusion. For instance, a site I go to has a front page on .com - a store site on .biz, and a forum on .net...

    Having more TLDs gives people a bigger namespace to play in, but the problem is people don't generally want a bigger name space for domain names. They want their domain name to be unique, for recognition and to avoid confusion...
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  3. Search Terms... by Androclese · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What they fail to tell us is that the matching search term was "girls"...