webtools4biz
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Posts: 11
Location: sunny Vancouver, BC, Canada
|
 Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: where did the TLD .travel go? |
 |
|
I read and article today about IATA about the in's and out's of applying for an IATA number. I was trying to combine brick and mortar with my affiliate internet travel business.
Well...
I find another related story, circa 2002, about ICAAN and IATA and .travel, and how IATA wanted "full control" of all the sales of .travel totally separate from all the other ICAAN registrars. (no godaddy or any other refistrar could sell .travel)
IATA's reasoning:
With the increases in online travel sales to provide the consumer with a more highly regulated travel TLD to circumvent the scammers and graft and... whatever. (IATA, since 1919, extremely well controlled internationally, 270 airlines, 72 countries, blah, blah, blah and blah)
Illegally, behind closed doors, in secret meetings, ICAAN bows to IATA pressure, (sitll under investigation by the U.S. feds, January 2008) and grants IATA full, and only sales rights to the TLD .travel.
As part of the deal, IATA ""vows"" and ""states"", and is ""adament"" about marketing, ""heavily"" the TLD .travel.
Where is it?
I had not heard of the TLD .travel until today.
Any insights?
Does a .travel domain name cost $25,000.00?
$25,000.00 is the necessary sales dollar figure they use to grant IATA numbers. ($25,000.00 per 3 week period for a period of time, if already in business or the same if new in business, as an asset?)
_________________
travel, sports, business | increase sales 30% |
|
Travel Sites
