SmartyHost is only a few companies in Australia participating in the new .asia domain extension established for individuals and companies in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes Australia and New Zealand. The Asia-Pacific region has the largest internet population in the world.

The DotAsia Registry was launched late last year and only open to government & trademark holders which resulted in over 30,000 registrations.

The DotAsia Registry will go live on March 26 and available to everyone to register.
However you do have an opportunity to secure your .asia domain name before March 26!

Between February 20th 2008 on 12:00 Noon UTC and ending on March 12th 2008 on 24:00 Midnight UTC you can apply for your .asia domain name. However all .asia domain names receiving more than one application will be auctioned between the applicants in an equitable process handled by the DotAsia Registry.

If your application is uncontested, your .asia domain name will appear in your SmartyHost account with no further action required on your part. If, however, there are other applicants for the same .asia domain name, you will be invited to participate in an auction for the domain.

If you are outbid or do not wish to participate in the auction and thus do not successfully register the .asia domain name, then your registration fee will be fully refunded.

To secure your place we recommend applying for as many .asia domain names as possible. We will refund the .asia domain names not registering.

SmartyHost is charging $80 per 2 years (MelbourneIT is charging $519.50)

To register your .asia domain name please go to:
http://www.smartyhost.com.au/dotasia.php