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.Asia Internet Domain Launched
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on Tue Oct 09, 2007 08:56 AM
from the always-room-at-the-top dept.
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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need? (Score:4, Funny)
(http://thepeckfamily.us/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @11:19AM)
Re:need? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:need? (Score:4, Funny)
(Sorry, couldn't help it)
Re:need? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/~Spy+der+Mann/journal/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @12:32PM)
I thought the host file didn't accept wildcards...
Re:need? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://tetsujin.sourceforge.net/)
Having more TLDs gives people a bigger namespace to play in, but the problem is people don't generally want a bigger name space for domain names. They want their domain name to be unique, for recognition and to avoid confusion...
Re:need? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://tetsujin.sourceforge.net/)
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?
In a word... (Score:2, Informative)
(http://altgrendel.exit0.us/)
No!
Fixed... (Score:2, Funny)
Who can tell? (Score:5, Funny)
Higher ranking (Score:1)
It will be higher for the short period of time. Then search engines will adjust their ranking algorithms.
P.S. Thanks for giving shorter filter for ranking abusers.
How about (Score:2, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Sunday September 30, @09:20PM)
Re:How about (Score:5, Informative)
(http://janneinosaka.blogspot.com/)
If it's a commercial website it's fine in
Someone better tell... (Score:2)
(http://www.unanimocracy.com/about.html | Last Journal: Tuesday April 04 2006, @12:04PM)
Although I would support maybe the following domain names:
HeatoftheMoment.Asia
TheSmileHasLeftYourEyes.Asia
quick (Score:3, Funny)
(http://circletimessquare.com/)
Heat-of-the-Moment.Asia
Dont-Cry.Asia
Alpha.Asia
and perhaps:
Carrera.Asia
Argento.Asia
you can thank me later
Re:quick (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 22 2006, @10:27PM)
euthan.asia
anast.asia
fant.asia
d-.asia/vu
Re:quick (Score:5, Funny)
Reverse the question.... (Score:2, Redundant)
Is there some sort of limit where too many top level domains break something?
Because if not, I really don't see the point in worrying about whether we 'need' another top level domain or not. Having more top level domains means more chances that when you look at something, having its domain name can actually tell you something.
In other news. . . (Score:5, Funny)
or . . .
In other news, insensitive clods still refer to new TLD as "dot-orientals".
Stupid.
First dibs (Score:4, Funny)
(http://jaduncan.net/)
Also relatively rapid post!
The possibilities! (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday September 28, @07:21AM)
More interestingly, though, will be the issue when countries fail to establish control over things like india.asia, china.asia, etc. I have to wonder, though: given the "worldwide" attitude of the web, do we really need to make geographic distinctions at the TLD?
Hmmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @06:00PM)
Then came back here figuring the same comment had already been made, but people seem to have jumped on references to the 80's band instead.
And now you find yourself in 82. The disco hot spots hold no charm for you.
Obvouis 1984 domain (Score:1)
meh... (Score:5, Funny)
And if you think .asia is a bad domain name... (Score:4, Interesting)
"sex.asia" could not be found. (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday May 10 2005, @03:47PM)
If this page used to exist, you may find an archived version:
No thanks (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @10:09AM)
I'll wait for .antarctica to become available.
Popular searches (Score:1)
It's like that audio daily double (Score:1)
"Asia"
Great, next we need. (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
search / TLD (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday January 21 2004, @08:36PM)
Search Terms... (Score:4, Insightful)
How many? (Score:1)
Something I always wondered... (Score:1)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Just the need... (Score:2)
(http://www.cybernexus.net/)
- Create new TLD.
- Sell domain names to corporations again.
- ???
- Profit!
It's a good thing. For someone else.
My captcha for this post: 'proffer'. Damn, but he's good.
4 letter TLDs? (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/~nurb432/ | Last Journal: Friday August 27 2004, @03:24PM)
Whats next 5? How about an entire sentence..
That's Easy enough... (Score:1)
Of *course* there's a need (Score:1)
advice to register their trade name in "every available TLD"... which is a) moronic, b) counterproductive, and c) breaks the DNS rather badly.
Chris Ambler (whose
But no, it's all Layer 8 and 9 crap, instead of engineering, as usual.
Let's simplify it even more. (Score:2)
Need for domains (Score:2)
.asia over .xxx?? (Score:1, Insightful)
New domain! Free pr0n! (Score:2)
(http://www.yvan256.net/)
Eh, it's just a joke, it's not a real domain. Yet.
Do we need more... (Score:2)
(http://www.valerieandevi.be/)
Yes, there can always be more. We like MORE TLD's so domain squatters can spend MORE of their money on pointless domains up to the point it doesn't become profitable enough. Next to that, it's also easier to filter the net if you can tell Amavis to always add +5 to domains coming from asia, russia and china without having to query a freakin' GeoIP database.
tag: allowarbitrarytld (Score:1)
(http://robotterror.com/slashdot | Last Journal: Thursday November 04 2004, @05:48PM)
Instead of ibm.com, ibm.biz, ibm.net, ibm.org, ibm.info... just...
ibm
gnu
slashdot
google
of course, amazondotcom, etc.
DNS is Hosed. (Score:1)
(http://kevinairy.com/)
I.e. you should be able to register for any DNS entry you want, but in the case of multiple registrations, sort the choice of which site to go to by traffic. You could set a threshold of say if site has had > 100k hits, and gets > 75% hits, default to the most popular site.
Why on earth would we have to PAY for little bits of electronic data? And we did it to ourselves...
That's weird.. (Score:1)
(http://www.singularityfps.com/)
Update Bookmarks (Score:1)
(http://rolando.do.sapo.pt/)
Well, I'll have too update the wowgold.com to wowgold.asia now.
Was that really necessary?
Re:I bet the first domain with .asia (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday August 18, @01:56PM)
Re:XXX & SEX most searched for terms (Score:2)
(http://www.open-rsc.org/)
But, a newly Bush appointed director of the commerce department got a phone call.
Turns out Karl Rove had got a letter from a large (read "powerful") southern religous organization with three demands: 1) no gay marriage 2) no stem cell resrarch 3) no
Rove picked up the phone to them and said "I think I can help you with that third one", called commerce and nixed the
Theory: ICANN has a narrow mandate of technical administration of names and numbers on the internet by measuring and implementeing "community consensus". That's what's on paper.
Reality: it's all trademark lawyers, registrars and government officials; they do as they please.
That whiting sound you hear is Jon Postel spinning in his grave at 15,000 RPM. This is exactly the thing he worled so hard to prevent before he died suddenly durng the formation of ICANN.
Re:I bet the first domain with .asia (Score:1)