Please Help GMA come up with a domain name!
June 7, 2007
There's going to be a new Top-Level Domain for Asia called, appropriately enough, .asia.
The domain won't be available to the general public until next year, but as a first step the dotAsia people are asking the Philippine Government what names it would like to reserve. Succeeding stages will allow trademark holders to stake their claims and finally the general public will be able to get their piece of the .asia space.
As of this posting our Gov't. reps have yet to submit their list of reserved .asia names. Maybe its a case of writer's block or maybe its all the ah, flux that the CICT has gone through lately:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=68994
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=69442
So let's all do our bit to help by suggesting names that you feel should be set aside for government use. The more obvious ones are place names like philippines.asia, phil.asia and manila.asia. But you can get more creative with mabuhay.asia, malacanang.asia, maybe even strongrepublic.asia.
Put your suggested domain names in the form of a comment, we'll compile the list and then send it to our friendly Gov't. rep. No need to limit yourself to one or two names — after all, the more domains they reserve the better protected our government will be against cybersquatters.
Domain names that our government submits to DotAsia will be permanently reserved, and will be for the exclusive use of our Government.
Independence day is coming up so let's all be patriotic and help protect our government's piece of cyberspace.
Previous Comments
oops.. i was the first to post… and little did i realize that i was actually leaving a note to the CEO himself.. he he he.. i should have at least said something instead of just putting in my suggestion.. so here goes,..
hi y’all.. just thought of those four names.. will try to come up with others…
Posted by dom at June 8, 2007, 4:48 pmi personally like katipunan.asia - certainly a courageous organization, if there ever was one. Although I wonder if this domain is best placed under government hands?
Wowphilippines.asia certainly sounds good - given that the government has spent a lot of time promoting this URL (although I think it’s a horrible tagline. Certainly “malaysia - truly asia” ad campaign works better. Or Thailand’s “land of smiles”) You can bet Malaysia will be reserving Truly.Asia and MalaysiaTruly.Asia.
While I’m on this topic, probably the only worse tagline is HK - “city of life”. Seriously, HK is not about life - it is about “money”. Unless you consider “money” the most worthwhile activity in life.
Posted by jed at June 9, 2007, 6:07 am
pearloftheorient.asia
Posted by dom at June 8, 2007, 4:45 pmphilippineislands.asia
republikangpilipinas.asia
wowphilippines.asia