Domain Registration Related News
A Kink in .Travel Plans
November 2004
Robert Arbogast is one of many alternative
domain name owners who are just now finding out
their years-long investment in .travel might come
to an end after a recent decision by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Arbogast, the owner of www.tickets.travel on
New.net's alternative domain name service, might
soon be dealing with a second .travel dealer now
that ICANN is entering technical and commercial
negotiations with the company for the .travel
sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) Thursday.
The domain space, if approved by the Internet
governing body, will be the seventh sTLD approved
to run alongside the popular .com, .net and .org
generic TLDs (gTLDs), opening up the congested
name space market to new entrants.
However, ICANN's decision is bad news for the
approximately 175 million Internet users who use
New.net software to resolve domain names on their
Web browsers.
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