ICANN approved .ASIA (Official)
sTLD Agreement with .ASIA (DotAsia Organisation Limited)
Whereas, on 4 December 5, 2005, the board authorized the President and General Counsel to enter into negotiations relating to proposed commercial and technical terms for the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) with the applicant, DotAsia Organisation Limited,
Whereas, on 18 July, 2006, ICANN announced that negotiations with the applicant for the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain had been successfully completed, and posted the proposed .ASIA sponsored TLD registry agreement on the ICANN website,
Whereas, the Board has determined that approval of the agreement, and delegation of a .ASIA sponsored top-level domain to DotAsia Organisation Limited would be beneficial for ICANN and the Internet community,
Resolved (06.___), the proposed agreement with DotAsia Organisation Limited concerning the .ASIA sTLD is approved, and the President is authorized to take such actions as appropriate to implement the agreement.
http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-18oct06.htm
The registry managing it will be DotAsia
http://www.dotasia.org/
October 22nd | Domain Names, Icann | |
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[...] After the last agreement ICANN and DotAsia Organization, the sponsoring organization for the .ASIA top-level domain, announced the signing of the .ASIA Registry Agreement on 6 December 2006 at the ICANN Annual Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On 18 October 2006, the ICANN Board approved the designation of the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain and authorized the President to implement the Agreement. With the addition of .asia, 266 domain names now exist on the Internet. DotAsia is the first gTLD registry with a headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region. [...]
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