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Dot Asia TLD Initiative:

Dot Asia TLD Initiative:. A Regional Top-Level Domain for the Asia Pacific Community. The .Asia Concept. Have been working on the idea and initial framework for ~1 year Key concept is that the Dot Asia Organization will be: Not-for-profit Registry Operator Driven by ccTLDs

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Dot Asia TLD Initiative:

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  1. Dot Asia TLD Initiative: A Regional Top-Level Domain for the Asia Pacific Community

  2. The .Asia Concept • Have been working on the idea and initial framework for ~1 year • Key concept is that the Dot Asia Organization will be: • Not-for-profit Registry Operator Driven by ccTLDs • Adding AP Internet and IT Groups for relevance, and broad representation from the Asia Pacific community • “.Asia” as the TLD to satisfy sponsored gTLD criteria (>2 chars) and most simple and recognizable • “.EU” is a ccTLD and European Commission, “Asia” will be driven by community based organizations and ccTLDs • Combination of semi-public sector organizations and community organizations

  3. The .Asia Vision & Mission • Vision: • Leverage the successful and cooperative platform of Asia Pacific Region Internet community to further this collaborative approach to other areas of the growing economies. • Mission: • to operate a viable not-for-profit initiative to be a technically advanced, world-class TLD registry for the Asia Pacific community; • to establish an Internet namespace with global recognition and regional significance for the betterment of the Asian Internet experience; and, • to reinvest surpluses in socio-technological advancement initiatives relevant to the Asian Internet community.

  4. Conceptual Organization Structure

  5. Special Features & Differentiators • Augmenting UDRP and WIPO Reserved Domains List with Local DRP Reserved Lists • Improve regional Intellectual Properties Rights Protection • Especially for IDNs • Asia Pacific Regional Presence Requirement • Proof-of-Concept Multilingual TLD • “。亚洲”, “。亞洲”, “。アジア”, “。아시아”, “آسيا.”, “.असिअ”, “.અસિઅ”, “.เอเชีย”, etc. • Aliased with .Asia (Optional petition for delegations)

  6. Participation from ccTLDs • Nominations to and votes for the governing Board of Councilors • Local Domain Dispute Resolution Policy to augment the UDRP • List of Reserved Names to be blocked from the registry • Language expertise on multilingual domain names • Experience of operation of a TLD from your ccTLD

  7. Participation from AP Groups • Nomination of a representative to sit at the Advisory Council • From the representative at the Advisory Council, nomination and vote for the seats at the Board of Councilors • Experience and Knowledge on policies for Registry.Asia • Bids to the Proceeds Steering Committee for grant allocations • Suggestions and advice to Proceeds Steering Committee on areas of interest for re-investments

  8. Thank you • Che-Hoo CHENG • chcheng@ieee.org • comments@dotAsia.org

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