The VAIOWEB .COM/.NET Product will be undergoing a planned outage for maintenance, as per the below schedule:

Maintenance Window

Date - April 27, 2008
Time - 0100 hrs - 0145 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration - 45 min
Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management, Whois

However, you can rest assured that during this outage, all your domain names will continue to resolve properly. Inconvenience caused due to this downtime is deeply regretted.

Domain names like buy.asia with most applications in landrush; sex.asia with most applications in sunrise.

DotAsia organisation, today announced that a total of 473,633 domain registration applications were received within the 3-week landrush period. Including Sunrise and .Asia pioneer domains, the number of applications totals to over half a million: 505,838. .Asia registry declared that it will Go Live on March 26, domain names will be available on a First-Come-First-Served basis.

The registry states that the 45,697 domains received more than one application in Landrush and will go to auction. Out of which, ‘buy.asia’ was the most sought after, with over 400 applicants fighting for the name. Others in the top 5 include: hot.asia, gold.asia, fun.asia, girl.asia. 1,051 domain names received more than one application during Sunrise. Among which, ’sex.asia’ received the most Sunrise applications, with 14 prior-right claims filed.

“The results exceeded our expectations. We are very pleased with the enthusiastic demand for the .Asia domain. This is a testament to the global interest in the thriving Asia Internet marketplace, and the investment appeal for the most prestigious cyber real-estate in Asia,” says Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia. “It will be interesting to see which of the domain names would fetch the highest prices in the auction. I believe we could be in for some surprises.”