Originally Posted by domainamy

scoobby, a few registrars are offering a local presence service which should let non-Asia residents register .asia names by providing a local Asia contact. Usually this involves an additional fee of $5-$20/year. This type of service appears to work much as domain privacy services do, so its best to trust the company you will be dealing with (since they will technically have control over the name)

Here is a article which explains how non Asia-residents can satisfy the .ASIA Charter Eligibility Requirement . Oops. Can't include links yet. You can find it by Googling ".asia domain landrush".

Thanks for this detailed info, I will see if I can grab one or two .asia domains

.asia in ASCII = waste of time and money...Besides right now is only the landrush.you pay your $19.99 godaddy fee and that won't be refunded if the name goes into auction. Right now everyone is picking their names and in a few weeks if there is more than 1 bid for the name it goes into auction..Now you get to spend more money and if you choose not too, you don't get your $19.99 back...Personally I won't be wasting my time with .asia

Originally Posted by fpforum

.asia in ASCII = waste of time and money...Besides right now is only the landrush.you pay your $19.99 godaddy fee and that won't be refunded if the name goes into auction. Right now everyone is picking their names and in a few weeks if there is more than 1 bid for the name it goes into auction..Now you get to spend more money and if you choose not too, you don't get your $19.99 back...Personally I won't be wasting my time with .asia

What until the 12th of March when you'll be able to buy .asia domains without the risk of them going to auction.

I want euthan