ICANN has approved the .asia top level domain for use in Asian countries. In fact, Asian counties such as China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have jointed together to press ICANN to release this top level domain for 2 years. Their argument is that currently all top level domains (.com, .net. .edu. .org etc) except country code top level domains (.hk, .cn) are perceived as Western-based and yet over 60 % of the world’s population and 90 languages reside in Asia.
Corporations having up their businesses in Asian countries could just use a single domain name abc.com.asia instead of having abc.com.hk, abc.com.cn. abc.com.tw and abc.com.sg registered with the domain name registration bodies of individual countries. I think .asia domain will bring benefits to both SMEs and corporations in this region.
The .asia domain will be opened for registration in the 2nd quarter of 2006.
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