.Asia Landrush rules suck

I was just looking at pre-registering the .asia domain which would be available for general public during landrush period.

However while looking at more info before checkout, i gave up.

It says,

Boom that means if one more applicant pre-registers for the same domain, then there will be a auction.

So hell with this, loose your money first while registering and then again fight on a auction and pay XXXX just to grab the domain?

Thats pretty much sucks. anyone else agrees? or maybe i am wrong at this.

 

The registrar is trying to make as much money as possible. I won't be pre-registering anything.

 

but they say they wont charge unless the domain is registered to you.

 

Some will charge an "administrative fee" for trying, but won't charge you the
registration fee until it's successful. Some auction places charge a fee to get
in, and I mean the one where you physically attend.

One could adopt any attitude towards it. It's not going to change anything,
and no one's forced to participate in any activity they don't feel comfortable
about.

 

They won't; they will make the money in the auction process, not the administrative fees.

 

This is crazy stuff from the registrar. Why can't they leave "first come first served"?

 

because then they wouldnt be able to make money from auctions right

 

Yes, you're right it sucks big time. Nobody other than the registrars are going to make money off .asia domains any time soon. Auctions will make sure that names will be sold on the future potential price, hence any one who buys a .asia name will have to wait quite a bit of time before they will be able to sell them for profit imo.

 

And even if those .asia domain names are released first-come-first-served, a
lot of interested parties are ready to register them before even anyone blinks.
Nothing is going to stop them.

Another thing to remember here is it's the .asia Registry who decides this, not
the registrars themselves. Naturally they're also trying to make money, which
is everyone's right and/or privilege.

 

i would not waste my time in registering it. Waste of time and money .

 

I agree with redwebs, some person from Lithuanian webmasters forum "almost" registered google.asia , but the end was foreseen. The person never got the domain , nor the money he paid for it.

 

I like the thought of owning a .asia or two, i was going to pre-register, but il just be waiting till Feb now, as christmas has been such a hungry money monstor.

 

I registered two domains and the charge was $90 per request.

Now when the landrush period begins (Feb 2008) and if some one during that period registers the same domain as i did now, will that domain name go for auction?

If that is true, then why did they charge $90 per domain name from me now?
I am confused.

 

They will put the domain if there is more than one wanting the domain.

.mobi is the same. They put good names on sedo auction.

 

Its not frome the registrar but the rule of the dotASIA registry

Ani

 

So, what if i loose the auction? Will i get my $90 application fee?

What is the guarantee that this registry doesn't cheat us by multiple fake resgitrations of popular domain names and making more money via auctions?

 

2007.11.12 -- More than 15,000 applications received for new .Asia domain -- Interest in the new .Asia domain is gaining momentum as the second phase of registration begins November 13,

Experts predict that 95 percent of all South Korean households will be wired for broadband Internet by the year 2010. Ninety-four percent of Japanese homes will have broadband access, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia expected to be nearly 80 percent wired. By 2010, China will have replaced the US as the largest Internet market in the world.†

 

yup, you will waste your money on this. just stay with dot com and old extensions