.asia

. asia is the sponsored top level domain of the DotAsia Organization, behind which the consortium Afilias is. It was introduced on 19 October 2006 by ICANN and is primarily intended for natural persons and companies from the Asia -Pacific region.

History

The so-called sunrise period the. Asia domain has started on October 9, 2007. Under this could first secure their claims to certain domains businesses and people in public life, in particular to ensure brand protection. The sunrise period ended on 31 January 2008. The Landrush Period started on 20 March 2008, the public registration for everyone on March 26, 2008.

Despite the transnational target group asia could. Internationally not yet taken off. In December 2011, asia domains were only about 200,000. Registered.

Award criteria

A. Asia domain may be requested by any natural or legal person. It is not necessary to have a residence or place of business in the Asia-Pacific region. The length of a domain could be between three and 63 characters, the registration by DotAsia or Afilias is usually within a few hours. Since the end of 2011, one-and two -digit domains are. Asia possible.

The ccTLD since July 2012 supports the use of special characters as so-called internationalized domain name, so for example, Chinese characters can be used. However, the function has not been implemented by all registrars. Had at the beginning asia- domains to be at least three characters long, but this restriction falls away in October 2013 -. Well Domains with only one or two letters and digits only domains are possible.