.travel hasn't got everyone onboard

[gpmgroup]

http://icann.org/correspondence/duff...ey-15oct04.htm

[zest2004]

I think .travel useless.

[dtobias]

I think .travel useless.

As TLDs go, .travel is more potentially useful than many other actual and proposed ones, though it's only useful if it's actually used (which hasn't happened much with any new TLD).

It's more likely to be widely used, anyway, than the other new TLD that's going forward, .post, which is for post offices -- a small market segment to begin with, and one that doesn't show any visible sign of wanting to use proper TLDs anyway (see the USPS's use of usps.com instead of the more proper usps.gov).

[seeker]

.dreamon

[hiOsilver]

I think .travel useless.

I am sure Hertz will switch from hertz.com to hertz.travel
and UAL from united.com and ual.com to united.travel and ual.travel
and Hyatt from hyatt.com to hyatt.travel

NOT

This extension will be valuable to registrars, cybersquatters, and attorneys

The generics, like hotel.travel may have some value, but only at the expense of everyone in the travel business with a trademark.

[seeker]

well said H.

It is amazing what 'creative' idears people come up with these days to get new tlds.
I want a .beer tld for the beer drinking industry...
moveon people...

[QuantumBeam]

and the beat goes on...............and the beat goes on.........

[Domagon]

I am sure Hertz will switch from hertz.com to hertz.travel
and UAL from united.com and ual.com to united.travel and ual.travel
and Hyatt from hyatt.com to hyatt.travel

NOT

...

Perhaps one of them will buy travel.com ... then they'd would have the best of all worlds ... for example say Hertz did ...

hertz.com
hertz.travel
hertz.travel.com

They'd have all the bases covered, and just importantly "lock out" the competition in a sense that only one can own travel.com; create enough consumer confusion between the travel TLD and 2nd-level travel.COM domain to make the travel TLD less useful to competitors.

Ron

[jberryhill]

It simply creates yet one more structure of opportunists

Oh, well in that case, ICANN is sure to approve it.

[seeker]

ICANNt has proven its case.
It simply cant.
Its a useless board of dinausors.

(just my opinion, and using it under Free speech, where free speech exists, mainly, not many places on this planet).