RSSICANN Signs Contract for '.asia'
By the Betanews Staff | Published December 8, 2006, 11:57 AM
ICANN said late Thursday that it had signed an agreement with DotAsia Organization, Ltd. to run the ".asia" top-level domain, approved by the organization in October. The group said registration of the names would be restricted to those with residency in the region, which would include Australia.
With the addition of .asia, 266 domain names now exist on the Internet. DotAsia is a consortium of domain name managers from countries within the region. The domain name itself is seen as an opportunity to unify the entire region, ICANN says.
Anyone want to bet on when euthan.asia will be registered?
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|Grrreeeeaaatt! Lets divide the web even more.. That's gonna make things better. Frankly I'm not surprised. Just recently .mobi came to destroy the open web. Why don't we just assign everyone on earth a global number (ssn) and then each person can own their own unique domain, lol, this will help unify all of man-kind. ...yea, that's about how much sense these new domains make these days. That just makes it that much more difficult for new computer users to find anything they are looking for or understand why they net a .org,gov,edu,com,net,....,mobi,*asia* in their address bar. When are "standards" ever going to mean anything for the internet?
Lame move if you ask me. Looks like just another way to control what can be published. Only time will tell.
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