.ASIA land grab

Well as of tonight, or tomorrow night if you’re reading this from anywhere in the US, the initial ‘land grab’ for the .asia domain’s will be done and dusted. Or at least the registration process, the billing will follow straight after I’m sure.

Seeing as I look after the domain registrations here at work I was well aware that there would be a major land grab for popular domains. Basically the process was that if you wanted any specific names you had to complete the pre-registration forms a few weeks ago, from there if you wanted the same name as another party then an auction would be held between the interested parties and once those were sorted out the domains would then be assigned on the 26th of March and that would be that. Pretty simple and straight forward.

With my work, and all my projects, I submitted a total list of 18 domain names for registration. At this point in time I’ve received verification emails letting me know that 15 of those names will be registered, the 3 that are outstanding don’t seem to be under challenge so I’m guessing there’s a mail server somewhere playing up.

Most of the domains I registered were either company or product names, there were a couple of fun ones thrown in like www.iwanttovisit.asia and www.iwasbornin.asia. Don’t ask me why I wanted those domain names, I just happened upon them when I was registering all the business ones.

Once we get all the final registration done and paid for I’ll write up a complete list of all the domains that I’ve registered, including all the .com and .com.au domains (I think I own about 60 or so domains in total). I’ll also explain my reasoning behind having all these domains, as it’s a little unusual to have so many.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday morning after a long weekend and I need to try and focus on getting some work done.

Catch you later, Matt