There will be the .asia domain name

In a professional conference held over the weekend in Vancouver, the Internet Domain Registration and Registration Authority (ICANN) accepted through a new, .asia Intetnet domain dedicated to European nations. ASIAN.

Thus, in addition to specialized domain names for each country such as .jp .cn .vn . organizations and companies in Asia can register their website names with .asia and similar domains as domain names. .eu that ICANN approved at the end of November 2005.

The procedures for conducting .asia domain registration will begin to be implemented 6 months after ICANN's professional committees officially make the final approval decision. Currently ICANN and DotAsia Organization are in the midst of a discussion of several weeks to months to come up with a final detailed contract about the existence of the .asia domain name. So DotAsia Organization will be the company that operates the .asia domain in the Asia-Pacific region and all transactions related to .asia domain must be conducted through this company.

ICANN is currently discussing ways to allow web addresses to exist in languages ​​such as Chinese, Arabic, and countries that use the same font system as Russian . Technical process set setting up web addresses of these languages ​​proved more complicated than English many times.

At the beginning of last week ICANN also officially voted to reject the birth of the .xxx domain name, used exclusively for pornographic websites.

In addition, ICANN also decided to raise the price of registration and maintenance fees of .com domain names to about 7% starting in 2007. This price increase will bring more for VeriSign, the company that manages .com , an amount of about 17 million USD and part of this money will be transferred back to ICANN to maintain all of its activities.

HOANG HAI