Global Brands, Asian Businesses, IDN Registrants, Community
Initiatives, Celebrities and Pioneers Invited
HONG KONG, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- DotAsia today
launches Sunrise for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Internationalized
Domain Name (IDN) registrations (http://www.idn.asia) and announces the
opening of the IDN Pioneer Domains Program (http://www.think.asia). The Pioneer
Domains Program is open for any interested applicants to build out
the best domains (e.g. http://xn--tlq248c.asia("trade.asia"
in Chinese), http://xn--yckc3dwa.asia
("video.asia" in Japanese),http://xn--o79al52c.asia ("game.asia" in
Korean), while Sunrise provides registered businesses, trademark
holders and existing ".Asia" domain holders priority to protect
their brands in the largest and fastest growing Asian Internet
marketplace. Application is not on first-come-first-served basis.
Applicants will not be rejected as long as they submit it before
the July 20th deadline.
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"DotAsia is a driving force for the implementation of IDNs.
Today most Asian users search in native language. IDN will not only
be a natural extension to that, but will help businesses improve
their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts to drive traffic
from Asia," says Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia Organisation. Chung is
a pioneer of IDN technologies and currently co-chairs the two
international working groups on IDN Top-Level-Domains and
internationalization of domain registration data.
Following the successful ".Asia" Sunrise and Landrush in 2007,
which achieved 100% satisfaction from an online survey, over 40,000
auctions and resulted in 0 disputes, DotAsia implements an enhanced
and simplified process for the introduction of Chinese, Japanese
and Korean names for the ".Asia" top-level-domain (TLD). Besides
trademark and businesses, existing Pinyin, Romaji and Romaja
'.Asia' domain holders and IDN ccTLD (country-code TLDs -- .CN /
.TW / .HK / .SG / .JP / .KR) registrants are also invited to
participate in Sunrise.
The Pioneer Domains Program also supports social initiatives and
celebrities to mark their .Asia domains. "Artists are often targets
for abusive registrations, and many do not have a trademark to
participate in Sunrise. The Program allows us to work closely with
stars like Donnie Yen on 'http://xn--riqx23a85t.asia', Jackie
Chan's movie 'http://xn--f6q70qbpc9a.asia' and community
initiatives such as 'http://xn--pss78xvo9a.asia ' in support of the
upcoming Universiade in China, to protect and showcase the global
development of '.Asia'," added Chung.
Media Enquiries:
Beatrice Chan
DotAsia Organisation
Tel: +852-2368-8173
Email: [email protected]( mailto:[email protected] )
SOURCE﹛DotAsia Organisation