.travel
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| Introduced | 2005 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Sponsored top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Tralliance Corporation |
| Sponsoring organization | The Travel Partnership Corporation |
| Intended use | Travel industry |
| Actual use | A few travel-related sites are up in this domain as of late 2005 |
| Registration restrictions | Registrants must be approved as being in the applicable community before registering domains |
| Structure | Direct second-level registrations will be allowed; sale of third-level domains within a registered domain is expressly prohibited |
| Documents | ICANN New sTLD RFP Application; ICANN Sponsorship Agreement; IANA delegation report |
| Dispute policies | UDRP, Charter Eligibility Dispute Resolution Procedure (CEDRP) |
| Web site | Travel.travel; The Travel Partnership Corporation |
.travel is a top-level domain approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005 as a sponsored TLD in the second group of new TLD applications evaluated in 2004. It is restricted to the use of travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaux, and others in the travel industry. It is sponsored by Tralliance Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheGlobe.
ICANN's independent evaluators recommended against approval of Tralliance's application to sponsor .travel, but ICANN's Board of Director's approved the delegation of .travel on April 8, 2005. Also on April 8, 2005, travel journalist and consumer advocate Edward Hasbrouck made a request under ICANN's bylaws that the decision to approve .travel be referred to an independent review panel charged with determining whether that decision was made in a manner consistent with ICANN's bylaws on openness and transparency, and that the decision be stayed pending independent review. Those requests remain pending.
The official launch began in October 2005, with a screening process to determine eligibility to register domains in each of three monthly groups for October, November, and December. Normal registrations began in January 2006.
Registrations are processed via accredited registrars.
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| Generic top-level domains | ||
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| Unsponsored | .biz .com .edu .gov .info .int .mil .name .net .org | |
| Sponsored | .aero .cat .coop .jobs .mobi .museum .pro .travel | |
| Infrastructure | .arpa .root | |
| Startup phase | .asia .tel | |
| Proposed | .berlin .bzh .cym .gal .geo .kid .kids .mail .nyc .post .sco .web .xxx | |
| Deleted/retired | .nato | |
| Reserved | .example .invalid .localhost .test | |
| Pseudo-domains | .bitnet .csnet .local .onion .uucp | |
| Unofficial | see Alternative DNS roots | |
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See also: Country code top-level domains |
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