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ICANN Approves .ASIA TLD

Ed Sutherland writes on internetnews.com:

In a move reflecting the growing Asian flavor of the Internet, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday approved the first top-level domain registry based in the Asia-Pacific region.

The .asia top-level domain will join other Asian-Pacific Internet domains, such as Japan, China, and South Korea already managed by DotAsia Organization. The addition brings the total number of Internet domain suffixes to 266.

Despite the fact that more than 64 percent of Internet users coming from non-English-speaking countries and Asian speakers comprise 33 percent of the online population, only 11 percent of .com or .net registrations come from Asia, argued the Hong Kong-based DotAsia.

posted by Fergie @ 12/08/2006 10:18:00 AM