Stephane Van Gelder

.ASIA is exclusively for legal entities within the Asia Pacific region as defined by ICANN, which encompasses 73 countries.

I've just seen DotAsia's overall Sunrise stats. Once again, I'm left wondering why it's only the usual suspects (i.e. us Europeans and the yanks) going for this new domain.

The last time I wandered down this train of thought, DotAsia's CEO Edmon Chung chastised my comparison of .EU's and .ASIA's Sunrise periods which he considered unfair. We discussed this over lunch a few days after my article was published in Domaines.Info and I hate to admit it, but in some ways I think he was right.

Edmon argued that as the success rate (what some might call the "transformation rate", i.e. the number of applications that actually lead to the requested domain being registered) was much higher for .ASIA (above 90% for the first Sunrise, compared to around 50% for .EU's), it was misleading to only mention outright registration numbers (which are vastly in .EU's favour).

Edmon's main point: the .ASIA Sunrise process gave everyone involved a smoother ride.