Asia Domains with GoDaddy - Best Blogs Asia
Article on the benefits of buying (and selling) dot Asia domain names, with premium keywords still available.
The names came about primarily to serve as a regional domain for companies, organisations, and individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. However after the Landrush in 2008, this domain type is now available to people in all countries and there are still many valuable single keyword and keyphrases available.
Top 10 .Asia Sales
I guess the keywords used in the top 10 shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to people. Discover.asia, Business.asia and Promotion.asia would be aimed at bringing in potential tourism due to the booming Asian economy. It’s also interesting to see Discover.asia has no live website or landing page, which makes me think the domain is ready to be sold (at profit) in the future.
Just to note, all sites except Business.asia are either not live or generic landing pages with advert links. The Business site is a custom German site where you need to register your details.
- Discover.asia – $112,000
- Sex.asia – $83,000
- Sexshop.asia – $54,000
- Models.asia – $41,000
- Business.asia – $29,000
- Promotion.asia – $26,000
- Vodka.asia – $25,000
- Spa.asia – $23,000
- Gps.asia – $22,000
- Resorts.asia – $22,000
Problems with Landrush
With me being based in Asia, I participated in the landrush, landrush and sunrise auctions. It was confusing beforehand as all domains were available to buy as you had to make a purchase and cash was deducted. However, it wasn’t until 6 months later that you would receive an email for each domain you “bought” stating that in order to get the domain you had to participate in an auction with other buyers of the same name, the price had no set limit either. It felt like a bit of a con at the time and could of been handled better.
However, since the landrush has passed any domain you see available is free to purchase without any restrictions.
GoDaddy .Asia Promo Code
I use GoDaddy for all my Asia domains so would recommend them. I managed to get a promotion code for all Bestblogs.asia readers, giving you great savings on .asia domains:
Conclusion
DotAsia names are taking off, there are things like a DotAsia Events Schedule and at the end of 2009 DotAsia, the group that manages the .asia domain spearheaded Blogfest.asia and the Hong Kong BloggerCon which coincided with the Asia-wide gathering.
As GoDaddy states, .ASIA domains give you regional recognition making it easier to manage your Web presence and increases your exposure to the growing number of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region.
2 Replies:
Good prices…. .asia is one domain ???? O_O
.asia is a domain yes.