Oct. launch planned for `.asia' domain
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Internet addresses ending in ".asia" will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October, with general registrations to begin next February.
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(InfoWorld) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will discuss key projects and initiatives at a meeting this week, including the internationalization of the domain name system and a new, lucrative Web site registration practice that some object to. Other topics on the agenda for ICANN's 27th International meeting, to be held in Sao Paulo, include the group's strategic plan for 2007 to 2009 and next year's operating plan. Also on the discussion table are a workshop on IPV6 that will address what this new Internet protocol is and why it's needed, as well as a forum on the introduction of TLDs (top level domains). The meeting, which began Monday and ends Friday, will feature over 30 sessions and workshops. Attendees include engineers, businesspeople, government officials and private-sector executives from around the world. A major focus this week will be on the Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) initiative, a years-long project that aims to revamp the DNS system so that it can support domain names in a broad range of languages and alphabets that can't be represented via the ASCII character set, such as Arabic and Chinese. In Sao Paulo, ICANN will issue a status report on the IDN project and hold a training and a tutorial session. So far, through lab tests and meetings, ICANN is finding that the process to broaden the DNS' support for non-ASCII characters will be more difficult than originally thought, ICANN Chief Executive Officer and President Paul Twomey said Monday during a press conference. "This is really hard," he said, adding that ICANN hopes to have a technical solution in place by the end of 2007. "It has to be done carefully so that it works for the entire world." Attendees will also discuss a recent Web-site name registration practice called "kiting" and "tasting" that is generating much controversy. It involves the wholesale purchase of expired domain names, and the subsequent cancellation of most of them during a 5-day "grace" period allowed as part of the process. If canceled before the 5 days are up, the registration fee is fully refunded. Those who engage in this practice only keep the domain names that attract enough traffic to justify their registration fee, and proceed to "park" those Web sites and load them with pay-per-click ads. "There's a whole discussion going on in the community about whether there should be anything done about this," Twomey said. "There are people who think this isn't an appropriate behavior. [Others] think this is just the market at work." Those opposed to "kiting" are suggesting that ICANN impose some sort of fee whenever a registration is canceled before the grace period is over, a move they feel will discourage the practice.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The following is a list of initial public offerings (IPOs) set for northeast Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and South Korea.
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The release date of Asianux 2.0 has been moved up by one month so that the operating system can be proposed for a massive education database to be built in South Korea, according to one of three Asian companies developing the software.
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The release date of Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution, has reportedly been moved up so the operating system can be proposed for a massive education database to be built in South Korea.
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South Korea's top online video game website announced plans to become a player in the US market this year.
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AOL plans to launch on Wednesday Hindi  and Tamil language versions of its Internet portal in India as  part of an aggressive global expansion that will see it in 30  regions by the end of 2008.
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Digital cartographer Tele Atlas NV has brought its first orange mapping van to Asia as a part of its effort to collect global data for portable, Internet, in-car and wireless navigation systems.
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com October 11, 2004, 11:16 AM PT. This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been enterprise directories as organizations spawn projects around identity infrastructure.
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com November 1, 2004, 9:56 AM PT. This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been enterprise directories as organizations spawn projects around identity infrastructure.
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Ha Noi (VNA) - In its report &quot;Asian Development Outlook 2004&quot; released on Sept. 22, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) predicts that developing Asia is likely to sustain its economic growth rate at 7 percent
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Internet giant Google plans to open its first Southeast Asia research and development centre in Singapore.
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Asia is set to overtake Europe's early lead in adopting mobile television broadcasting.
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The dominance of Google in the search space is almost written in stone in North America, but there may yet be some populous spots in the world where the market is wide open. Now its main Chinese competitor has launched a new assault.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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Sprawling virtual worlds in which  electronic avatars do battle with mythical beasts may offer  game publishers a unique chance to combat piracy, especially in  Asia, where the format is wildly popular.
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InfoWorld - Google&#39;s dominance may seem unassailable in North America, but it&#39;s the search giant that is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday.