.travel - rare?

golddiggerguy · Mar 14, 2009

Is there such a beast as .travel???

If so this is the first I've seen, I searched "hull domain names" in Google and this popped up.

kingstonuponhullbritainhotels.travel

No it's not a great ext and don't want a can of worms opening but just thought i'd say hey I've seen one now.

Systreg · Mar 14, 2009

golddiggerguy said:
Is there such a beast as .travel???

Never heard of it until you posted it, I then Googled this:

.Travel

.travel is an Internet domain specifically for the travel and tourism industry. You may be most familiar with other Internet domains such as .com, .org, .co.uk, however .travel is unique in the fact that is it industry specific.

Any participant in the travel and tourism industry can own a .travel domain name. The only requirement is that a website with content relevant to the domain name must be up within one year of registration.

BG · Mar 15, 2009

Answers.travel (Sold For $3.3m)

Hi Guys,

You may want to read: Answers.travel Domain Name Sold for $3.3 million - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars (You can make your own mind up whether its true or not? Streams to me a PR Stunt to boost the sales at the registry, as like flowers.mobi did).

BG

devolution · Mar 15, 2009

Travel's been around for a while now... I had a look when it first started up, but the rules were too strict to get a domain, plus too expensive...

bensd · Mar 15, 2009

There are a few like this you don't see very often:

.coop
.jobs
.museum
etc

I was very surprised to see that the co-op have started to advertise co-operative.coop on their television ads lately

golddiggerguy said:
kingstonuponhullbritainhotels.travel

An interesting choice it seems all other extensions are availble

retired_member16 · Mar 15, 2009

Thats been around for a few years now and I understand that you have to fill certain criteria to get one.

Waste of time if you ask me, just like .org.uk and me.uk etc