Sedo.com announced today a strategic partnership with DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .Asia top-level domain (TLD) and RightOfTheDot.com, a leading domain industry consultancy, to auction a series of rare and never-before-released domain names.
Through these auctions, approximately 1,300 one and two character domain names such as 8.asia, 28.asia, and X.asia will be offered to the public for the first time.
For more information on the pending auctions, visit sedo.com/us/asia.
The release will begin with a Sunrise offering of one and two character domains that starts on October 22, 2013 and ends on October 30, giving trademark owners an opportunity to register domains that contain their owned marks.
A Landrush period will follow, running November 5-13, enabling the general public to register additional premium one and two character .Asia domains.
“With the imminent launch of new domains joining extensions like .Com, .Net and .Org, interest in alternative extensions is on the rise, which is something that data from our marketplace has clearly shown,” said Sedo’s CEO, Tobias Flaitz. “It makes perfect sense that companies, individuals and domain investors alike would want to acquire domains that identify them with the fastest growing Internet marketplace in the world, and we’re excited that DotAsia selected Sedo to help bring some of their best domains to market.”
In July 2013, DotAsia announced that it chose RightOfTheDot, LLC as its partner to help facilitate and manage the release and auction of one and two character, and three and four numeric .Asia domains. After researching various Sunrise and Landrush offerings, RightOfTheDot and .Asia selected Sedo for its reach and experience as the best auction partner to bring new premium domains to the Asia market.
“Asia is the Internet’s fastest growing market and there are more than 500,000 .Asia names already registered to date! In addition, large corporations are already using their .Asia domains with sites such as Honda.asia and LiveNation.asia,” said Monte Cahn, President and Director of RightOfTheDot, LLC. “Having participated in the successful launch of .Asia in 2008, we are excited to work with DotAsia and Sedo in managing the successful release of these never before registered premium .Asia domain names.”
With expanding economies and growing access to technology, Asia has one of the world’s largest and fastest growing Internet populations. For example, China currently has more Internet users than any other country, with 591 million people online. However, that number only accounts for 42 percent of the country’s population, leaving considerable room for growth. In contrast, many Western nations already have Internet penetration rates higher than 80 percent.…
