Today was a slow day all around in the domain industry.  I often visit namepros.com forum to see topics of interest to domainers.  There you will find the next hot trends domainers are ready to invest in.  The domain extention .travel seems to be that next hot trend in domain extentions.  The .travel extention is reserved for travel agencies and until recently, government agencies(cities, counties, etc).  These types of domains can become power houses in the geo domain niche if the right companies promote them accordingly to consumers.  Interesting concept on what Tralliance Corportation has in store for this extention. You can visit the webiste travel.travel for more information on the full game plan for this extention.

The top-level .travel Internet domain is part of the next generation of restructuring and reorganization of the Internet along industry verticals. .travel gives travel and tourism businesses and organizations the opportunity to be www.company.travel instead of www.company.com.

Unlike “.com”, “.org”, “.co.uk” or the other top-level domains available on the Internet today, .travel is an industry-sponsored, industry-exclusive top-level domain, which means that only travel organizatons who go through an authentication process can get a .travel name insuring that all .travel web sites are held by legitimate travel organizations.

Only valid travel and tourism entities are represented in the dedicated .travel web space, which supports small and large tourism companies alike. The .travel domain ensures that companies with .travel Internet addresses are bona fide and, through its vetting and authentication system, eliminates “cyber squatters” and domain name speculators

I am interested in hearing your opinions on this subject.  Please keep in mind that it is not being compared to dot com, but as an alternative to be apart of the geo domain niche.  Will we see Geo empires built with .travel?

Steve

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