Indonesia has opened up a new domain, and business owners should consider whether they need to register.
According to Kompas (see here), the Indonesian domain name administrator (PANDI) has started selling the top-level domain anything.ID:
- first to proprietors of corresponding trademark rights, from 20 January 2014 to 17 April 2014 (the sunrise period);
- second to proprietors of corresponding second level Indonesian domains (e.g. .co.id, .or.id, .go.id, .ac.id, .sch.id, my.id, web.id) (the grandfather period);
- third to Indonesian persons/entities generally (the landrush period); and
- lastly, to the general public.
According to the Kompas article, as at 18 February 2014 PANDI had received 310 anything.id applications and approved 182 new anything.id domain names.