About .asia

Asia. is a term with broad significance and has a clear and lasting value. Many companies, initiatives, events and organisations use .Asia. as a defining element of the core values or sectional aspect in their names. For example:

1. Regional companies in Asia
2. Local companies expanding to the Asia regional market
3. Asia headquarters or subsidiaries of global companies
4. NGOs and not-for-profit organisations in Asia such as APNIC, APTLD, APNG, PAN/IDRC etc.
5. Asia based events, such as Asian Games, Asian Cup, ITU Telecom Asia, CommunicAsia and many others.
6. Asia version of global media or regional Asia media: Asian Wall Street Journal, Asia Computer Weekly, Channel News Asia and many other newspapers, magazines, TV channels which target the Asia market and community.
7. Asia focused businesses: Air Asia, JetStar Asia, Aero Asia, etc.
8. Being able to use a domain name such as .name.ASIA. is therefore going to add a lot of value to the registrant as well as the general Internet user.

From the point of view of DNS operations, a .ASIA Top Level Damian - TLD provides specific services for a specialized community that has unique needs not otherwise served by a generic or a country code TLD.