Welcome to the Asia CENTURY
About me
• Ching CHIAO, VP Community Relations
• Responsible for business development, channel communication, regulatory affairs, and socio-techno projects and programs
• Over 8 years experience in domain industry
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About .Asia• Not-for-profit Organisation
• Focused Mission: “.ASIA” gTLD Registry
• Contribute to Asia Internet community:
• Digital Inclusion Projects
• Educational Initiatives
• Research and Development
• From Asia / For Asia
• First global top-level-domain headquartered in Asia
• Participation and Support from Asia
• Open Membership
Members
Multi-phased Startup• Pioneer Domains Program
• Community / Global Brand / Partner: Jul – Sep 2007
• Celebrity / Social: Jan – Feb 2008
• Sunrise
• SR1 – Governmental Reserved Names: Apr 2007 (ongoing)
• SR2 – Registered Marks: Oct 9, 2007 – Jan 31, 2008
• SR2a: Early Bird Sunrise
• SR2b: General Marks Sunrise
• SR2c: Extended Protection
• SR3 – Registered Entities in Asia: Nov 13, 2007 – Jan 31, 2008
• Landrush: Feb 20 – Mar 12, 2008
• Go Live: Mar 26, 2008
Reserved Names
• 4,526 names submitted by, or prepared for Asia/Australia/Pacific governments from Mar~Aug 2007
• Tier1-Country names (2-letter code, full name or variants)
• Tier2-Major city / place names: Reserved for 18 months after GoLive
• Tier3-Other important city / place names, government service marks: Reserved before GoLive
• Activation: Oct, 2007 ~
• Validation Through related Government agencies
• Azerbaijan, Australia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Singapore, S. Korea,. etc
www.unesco.asia www.unesco.eu
Up-to-Date Numbers
• Sunrise & Landrush: ~500,000 applications
• GoLive (Mar. 26th, 2008): ~300,000 registrations
• Daily growth: ~1,000 registrations (Mar~June average)
• Auction: ~$7 Million USD up to now
• Industry contribution: $20 Million USD (est.)
Distribution by Applicant (SR)
Distribution by Applicant (LR)
New / IDN TLD
• Offer IDN.asia (example: 中文.asia) and .Asia IDN-TLD (example: 日本語.アジア)in other Asian languages
• Multilingual TLD registry (DotAsia sTLD app. in 2004
http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/asia.htm) • Requests from Registrar Community
• Provide experience and knowledge for future new TLD process to the ICANN Community
COM + EU + ASIA
BJ08.asia
Thank you
Ching CHIAO [email protected]://www.registry.asiahttp://www.chiao.asia