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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. How about by damn_registrars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just pushing for people / companies to actually register in the appropriate TLD's for their country? As it is, there's nothing to prevent you from purchasing a .com domain from a registrar in China, for a website to host in China. If we actually tethered the website domains to the countries they reside in, then we may be able to reign in the never-ending "canadian pharmacy" spam campaign that pushes out zillions of spams per second.

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  2. And if you think .asia is a bad domain name... by rdwald · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just wait until .berlin and .nyc come online. I mean, at least the culture-based domains (.cat for Catalan culture, and the proposed .bzh, .cym, and .gal) are for areas not already defined by the underutilized country code TLDs.

  3. Great, next we need. by Usefull+Idiot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .na - North America .ca - Central America .car - Caribbean .sa - South America .eu - Europe .me - Middle East .ar - Arctic .an - Antarctic .af - Africa .nh - Northern Hemisphere .sh - Southern Hemisphere .eh - Eastern Hemisphere .wh - Western Hemisphere .eq - Equator .tcn - Tropic of Cancer .tcp - Tropic of Capricorn .np - North Pole .sp - South Pole .mn - Magnetic North .pm - Prime Meridian .isl - Miscellaneous Islands

    Anything else I'm missing? Why not just start using degrees latitude and longitude in the tlds as well, just because we want as many as possible, right?

  4. Re:need? by Tetsujin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't care if a name is recognizable. I use google when I don't remember exactly where something is at. But the point is, people who create sites do care if their name is recognizable. They have to. Nobody wants to create a popular site, and then have somebody else squat the exact same URL (except with a different TLD) and populate it with a bunch of porn links or ads.

    Put another way, what value are we getting out of more TLDs? More sites can share the same name? Is that really something we want?
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  5. Re:.eu by stoolpigeon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    europe was another 80's band like asia. it was a joke.

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