Registry.Asia

• Volume: 230K• 1st Renewal rate: 55% --> 83%• Top countries: Australia, Germany, US, and

China– followed Korea, India, Japan, Singapore

• IDN.asia (2nd level IDN)– Policy finalized by March– Pioneer (Sep 2010)– Sunrise (Nov~Jan 2011)– Landrush (Feb~Apr 2011)– GoLive (May 2011)– Multiple Asian languages launched at once

Membership

• New Sponsor Member– .TH (THNIC Foundation)

• Approved on Nov 2009

• In discussion with– .HK

Membership

• Sponsor Member: 21– .AF, .BT, .CN, .ID, .IN, .IR, .JP, .KH, .KR, .KZ,

.MN, .MO, .NU, .NZ, .PH, .SG, .TJ, .TH, .TW,

.UZ, .VN

• Co-Sponsor Member: 6– APNIC, APNG, APCERT, APTLD, APRALO,

& PAN

• Board Election held in Feb 10, 2009• Membership Briefing & Application is

available on http://www.registry.asia/about/members.html

Advisory Council• Maria NG Lee Hoon (PAN)• Paul Wilson (APNIC)• Xue Hong• Hiro Hotta• Roy Ko (APCERT)• Rep. from APTLD• Izumi Aizu• Kanchana Kanchanasut

(APNG)• Kilnam Chon• Khaled Fattal• Kenny Huang

- IDN policy consultation

- Input on community projects

Community Engagement

• ICANN– New gTLD outreach event in HK– Major sponsorship in Seoul meeting– Regular report at ICANN GAC

• APRICOT / APNIC / APTLD / APNG / AP*

• Domain-related Conferences (L.A., Beijing, Tokyo)

• Cross-sector-- Communic.Asia, InterChallenge.Asia, CIRC.Asia

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Community “Services”

• Blogfest.Asia

• IPv6World.Asia

• APNGCamp.Asia

• Paragon100.Asia

• M-A-D.Asia

Community Projects

• NetMission.Asia (youth ambassadors program)

• OLPC.Asia (One Laptop Per Child in AP) • OSS.Asia (Open Source Consortium in Asia)

• DSF.Asia (Digital Solidarity Fund for digital inclusion project)

• ISIF.Asia (Information Society Innovation Fund with IDRC, APNIC, and ISOC)

• Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (with Cyberport and HK Start-up Association)

Upcoming Events and Projects

• INETHK.Asia (Apr 2010, HK)• Internet Show SG (Apr 2010, Singapore)• Communic.Asia (Jun 2010, Singapore)• ICANN Brussels (Jun 2010)• CIRC.Asia (Jun 2010, Beijing)• One.Asia (Jul 2010, Shanghai)• APNGCamp.Asia (Jul 2010, Hiroshima)• Barcamp @ Yangon, Bangkok, Jakarta…

Operation Priority

• Marketing / Awareness building– Utilization of Sponsor Community Proceed (SCP) fund– Leverage Sponsor Members source– More regional / local community services

• Discounted price to registrar for volume drive– Base Price Program– More registrars / resellers needed

• IDN.asia launch

• New gTLD application

Thank you!

Ching ChiaoVP, DotAsia

chiao@registry.asia