.asia Domain Search
Search available .asia domains.
Country
Hong Kong
Pricing
$2-22/yr
Registrations
730k
Launched
2008
.asia by the numbers
About 45k new .asia domains are registered every month, which is 0.6% of every domain registered across all extensions, up 240% on the same months of 2025. A .asia name registered this year averages 7.5 characters, 3.5% contain a hyphen and 24% contain a digit. 99.5% of them are registered for a single year. West.cn registers 39.5% of new .asia domains, and the five largest registrars take 87.5% between them. About 90k .asia domains come up for renewal in February 2027, the busiest month ahead.
45k
New registrations a month
Average across 2026
up 240%
Versus the same months in 2025
0.6%
Of all new domains registered
Across every extension
February 2027
Busiest renewal month ahead
About 90k come up
Show the monthly figures
| Month | New .asia registrations |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | About 9.2k |
| February 2025 | About 10k |
| March 2025 | About 14k |
| April 2025 | About 13k |
| May 2025 | About 15k |
| June 2025 | About 11k |
| July 2025 | About 20k |
| August 2025 | About 26k |
| September 2025 | About 15k |
| October 2025 | About 19k |
| November 2025 | About 50k |
| December 2025 | About 35k |
| January 2026 | About 70k |
| February 2026 | About 79k |
| March 2026 | About 31k |
| April 2026 | About 26k |
| May 2026 | About 35k |
| June 2026 | About 21k |
| July 2026 | About 51k |
What a new .asia name looks like
The typical .asia registered this year is 7.5 characters long.
How long people register for
Where they get registered
The five largest registrars take 87.5% of new .asia registrations between them.
What happens to them
Measured across 2025.
Estimates rounded from our own WHOIS observations. Last measured September 2026.
Why choose .asia?
One regional address instead of a dozen national ones.
Run by a non-profit with a regional development remit rather than a commercial portfolio owner.
Names run short, averaging well under any comparable extension.
Nearly twenty years old, with a launch that finished without a single dispute.
Good availability for regional and multi-country brand names.
Supports DNSSEC through most registrars for added DNS integrity protection.
History
.asia is a sponsored extension for the Asia-Pacific region, created by the non-profit DotAsia Organisation through a registry agreement with ICANN in 2006 and delegated in May 2007. Its sunrise period for trademark holders opened in October 2007 and general registration followed in March 2008. The launch is remembered in the industry for finishing without a single dispute.
Timeline
Usage and applications
.asia is used by companies operating regionally across the Asia-Pacific rather than in one country, a single address that avoids picking between a dozen national extensions. Our WHOIS observations show it is the shortest-named extension in its size band, averaging seven and a half characters, and registration is heavily concentrated: one Chinese registrar accounts for around two fifths of new names. The oldest .asia name in our records, freshfields.asia from October 2007, is a law firm registering on the day the trademark sunrise opened.
First registered .asia domain
freshfields.asia
2007
The oldest .asia registration in our WHOIS records, dated 19 October 2007, during the trademark sunrise period that opened on 9 October, months before public registration.
Registration
Requirements
Requires a contact with a presence in the Asia-Pacific region, satisfied at registration
Registry
DotAsia Organisation Ltd., a not-for-profit based in Hong Kong
Key milestones
Who can register a .asia domain?
Anyone who can name a contact with a presence in the Asia-Pacific region: a company, an office or a local representative. It is satisfied at registration rather than audited, but it is a genuine condition rather than a formality.
Is .asia only for companies based in Asia?
It is for anyone operating in the region. A European company with an office or representative in the Asia-Pacific can register, which is the point. The extension is about where you do business, not where you are incorporated.
Who runs .asia?
The DotAsia Organisation, a not-for-profit in Hong Kong that also puts a share of revenue into regional internet development work. That is unusual: most extensions of this size are run by commercial portfolio operators.
Why is .asia a "sponsored" extension?
Sponsored extensions serve a defined community and carry eligibility rules set by that community rather than by ICANN alone. For .asia the community is the Asia-Pacific region, which is where the presence requirement comes from.
What was the first .asia domain?
The oldest in our WHOIS records is freshfields.asia, dated 19 October 2007, a law firm registering during the trademark sunrise that had opened ten days earlier, months before anyone else could register.
Are .asia names shorter than other extensions?
Noticeably. New .asia names average about seven and a half characters in our records, shorter than any extension of comparable size, which suits brand names rather than descriptive phrases.
Where do .asia registrations come from?
Heavily concentrated: a single Chinese registrar accounts for roughly two fifths of new .asia registrations. That is a much narrower base than a mature extension like .com, where the largest registrar holds about a sixth.
Is .asia good for SEO in Asian markets?
Search engines do not treat it as a country-specific signal, so it will not target a single market the way a national extension does. Its value is in reading as regional to a human visitor.
How much does a .asia domain cost?
Usually a couple of dollars to register and somewhere between ten and twenty-two to renew, with the gap between the two narrower than on promotional extensions.
Should I use .asia or a national extension?
If your business is genuinely multi-country across the region, .asia saves you registering and maintaining a dozen national names. If you sell in one country, that country's own extension will carry more weight locally.