The DOTAsia Registry #Go Live# registration has just started and domain names are now available on the traditional “First Come First Served” basis During the General Registration #Go Live#, the registry gives the .Asia domain name to the first person who puts in a submission for the domain.

There have been some reports it will rival the popular .com, .asia predicts that the Asian internet market will increase to overtake the u.s. by 2010. 95% of Japan and Korea alone will be linked up to broadband by 2010 and China is closing fast on Internet connections. .Asia domain registrations have outsripted .tv and .mobi registrations, there have been some indications that over 100 million registrations have already been completed, making .asia one of the most popular domains extensions ever to come to market.

Why use DotAsia domains? firstly its a TLD ( Top level domain ) and has strength in being a TLD over a country level domain. A DotAsia domain is also used to defend your existing portfolio. Its can also be used to grab traffic from your competitors and drive traffic to you. As above the Asian market is massive, while a number of Asian countries may have their own country domains, DotAsia will “cover” all of them. There is also a massive market for reselling as the generic and dictionary domain names get snapped up. At present all LLL.asia and NNN.asia have already been purchased as speculators moved in and hope that they will make “dot asia gold” in the coming months or years

Webmaster forums are predicting it will surpass .tv, .info, and even .org in value over the next two years but we will have to wait and se…..