Open registration begins in two new domain extensions this week. Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 25) second level registrations in Malaysia's .my opens for the first time. This isn't 

actually a new extension, but previously registrations in the Malaysian country code were limited to third level names, for example domain.com.my (the new second level opening removes the sub-domains to allow names like domain.my). The following day (Wednesday, March 26) public registration opens in the new .asia extension that recently completed a successful land rush period for trademark owners. Starting Wednesday all unregistered .asia domains become available in a first come first served basis. 
(Posted March 24, 2008)