.asia Domain
One Regional Domain for Asia and the Pacific
Register your .asia domain from just £15.00/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
Anyone in the world may register a .asia, but every registration must meet the Charter Eligibility Requirement: a connection to the Asia Pacific community. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .asia domain?
The .asia domain is the regional extension for Asia, Australia and the Pacific, run from Hong Kong by DotAsia Organisation. Google treats it as a generic extension, like .com, so one site can serve several markets in the region without being tied to a single country. Anyone in the world can apply, but every registration must meet the .Asia Charter Eligibility Requirement: a contact in the region, an address there, or a presence in the region that you have or are building.
Who should register .asia?
UK and international businesses trading across several Asia Pacific markets, regional conferences and trade networks, and firms with an office, distributor or supplier in the region.
Why choose .asia?
- One regional address for the whole of Asia Pacific
- Treated as generic by Google, not tied to one country
- Open worldwide, subject to the charter requirement
- Registrations help fund community work in Asia
Who runs .asia, and since when
Registry data from the .asia delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- DotAsia Organisation Ltd.
- The organisation that runs the extension
- Who can register
- Open worldwide, provided the registration meets the .Asia Charter Eligibility Requirement
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £15.00 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
- Transfer in
- £15.00
- Adds a year to whatever is left on the domain
What the .asia charter asks of a UK buyer
.asia is a regional extension for Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is run from Hong Kong by DotAsia Organisation Ltd, with the technical registry operated by Identity Digital, and IANA published its report on the delegation in April 2007. The registry says every registration helps fund community and charitable work in Asia, and it backs regional programmes such as Go.Asia.
Its most useful property is the one people miss. Google names .eu and .asia as regional extensions that it generally treats as generic, much like .com or .org. A .sg or a .jp tells Google the site is meant for Singapore or Japan. A .asia does not, so one site can cover the whole region without pinning itself to a single country. It is also one of the cheaper extensions we sell, priced close to a .com.
The condition is the charter. DotAsia still applies its Charter Eligibility Requirement. Since a system change on 1 August 2023 the registry no longer collects a separate declaration contact, but every registration must still meet one of three conditions, set out in the panel on this page. A UK firm with an office, a supplier base or customers in the region meets that without effort. A firm with no connection to the region would be signing up to a statement that is not true.
Who is allowed to register .asia?
Anyone in the world may register a .asia, but every registration must meet the Charter Eligibility Requirement: a connection to the Asia Pacific community.
- Open to the world, with a condition
- The DotAsia FAQ states that any business or individual around the world can register a .Asia domain, provided the registration meets one of the three conditions below.
- Three ways to qualify
- One of the domain contacts is a legal entity in the Asia Pacific community; or a contact has a postal address in the region; or the registrant identifies as an entity that has, is seeking, or has a nexus relationship and presence within that community. The FAQ says a registrar or a third party can act as the regional contact.
- Where the region ends
- The registry defines the boundaries of the .Asia community by the ICANN Asia / Australia / Pacific region, so Australia and New Zealand count as well as Asia itself.
- What changed in 2023
- From 1 August 2023 the registry stopped collecting Charter Eligibility Declaration contact details. The requirement itself stayed: a registrar that no longer collects that contact must have the registrant accept the requirement in its registration agreement.
Rules taken from the DotAsia FAQ. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .asia the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.asia works well if
- A business that trades across several Asia Pacific markets and wants one regional site rather than a separate country domain for each.
- A UK company with an office, distributor or supplier base in the region, which meets the charter with nothing extra to arrange.
- A conference, trade network or community project that covers the region as a whole.
Look elsewhere if
- A business with no connection to Asia or the Pacific. The charter asks you to have, or to be seeking, a presence there.
- A site aimed at one country, where .sg, .jp or .com.au tells visitors and search engines exactly where you are.
- The main address for a UK company. A .co.uk costs less again and says where you trade.
Selling into one market rather than the whole region? A local extension such as .sg tells visitors and search engines where you are. See .sg pricing.
.asia vs .sg: which should you register?
This is regional reach against local trust. A .sg is the country extension for Singapore, and Google reads it as a site meant for Singapore, which helps when Singapore is the market and works against you when it is one market of six. A .asia is treated as generic, so a single site can serve the region without signalling one country. It also costs well under half the price of a .sg.
The paperwork points the same way. A foreign applicant for a .sg must appoint a local agent in Singapore as its administrative contact, while the .asia charter can be met by a regional contact, a regional address or a truthful statement of presence. If most of your trade is in one country, register that country and keep .asia for the regional hub. If it is spread evenly, .asia on its own is a sensible place to start.
.asia domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .asia domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyYes, as long as the registration meets the .Asia Charter Eligibility Requirement. That means a contact who is a legal entity in the Asia Pacific region, a contact with a postal address there, or a registrant that has, or is seeking, a presence in the region. A UK firm with customers, staff or suppliers in the region qualifies on the third test. A firm with no connection at all does not.
No. Google names .asia, alongside .eu, as a regional extension that it generally treats as generic, in the same way as .com or .org. That is the practical difference from .sg or .jp, which Google reads as aimed at one country. A .asia site can rank across the region without being pinned to a single market.
DotAsia Organisation Ltd, based in Hong Kong, is the registry operator, and IANA lists Identity Digital as the technical contact, which runs the registry systems behind it. The registry says every .asia registration helps fund community and charitable work in Asia.
Included with Your .asia Domain
DNS Management
Full DNS zone editor to manage A, CNAME, MX, TXT, and all record types.
Email Forwarding
Set up professional email addresses and forward to any inbox.
Auto-Renewal
Never lose your domain with automatic renewal protection.
Free 10GB Mailbox
One 10GB mailbox (POP3/IMAP) included with every domain, on any TLD.
The Free Mailbox Sends Your Email. DKIM Proves It Was You.
Your domain comes with a real 10 GB mailbox. Signing what you send is the part that happens on a mail server rather than in DNS.
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SPF
Free with your domainSender Policy Framework. A DNS record naming the servers allowed to send mail for your domain. It vouches for the connection rather than the message, so it stops verifying as soon as anyone forwards what you sent.
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DKIM
Needs a mail server that signsDomainKeys Identified Mail. Your mail server signs every message on the way out, and the receiving server checks that signature against a key in your DNS. It covers the message itself, so it survives a forward where SPF cannot.
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yourdomain.co.uk; s=default; t=1790160000; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id; bh=2jUSOH9NhtVGCQWNr9BrIAPreKQjO6Sn7XIkfJVOzv8=; b=NpX0k2f1oW8tR6yQzLm4cVb7JhTdEu...The header a signing mail server adds. d=is your domain andb=is the signature proving the message came from it. A domain on its own has no server to write that header. -
DMARC
Meaningful once DKIM is in placeDomain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance. The policy telling a receiving server what to do with mail that fails those checks, and where to send the reports. It only bites once SPF or DKIM lines up with the address you send from.
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