.TRAVEL re-launch - dot Travel discussion

[ian_curtis]

As a large .travel investor, with sales in aftermarket around 100.000$ last year I am interested in community opinion related to .travel

They just re-launch after the 10th years anniversary, seems most countries and regions use it as official toursim website, germany.travel, russia.travel, alabama.travel, ibiza.travel, colombia.travel....

Here the press note I found,

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New .travel website open to Everyone in Travel: Celebrating 10 years

New .travel website open to Everyone in Travel: Celebrating 10 years

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Having first launched on October 3, 2005, .travel is now the chosen domain name for dozens of country tourism portals, as well as for businesses, organizations, and individuals who want to improve their visibility in the active travel segment of the Internet.

TRMC, the .travel Registry, is pleased to announce the launch of its new and completely redesigned Registry website, travel.travel. The re-launch of the .travel site marks the successful completion of ten years of domain name service to the travel industry and announces the start of a new phase of support and services for .travel registrants. Just go to travel.travel/testimonials/ to see how a .travel name has helped our registrants.

A .travel domain name is available to everyone who provides services, products or content in or to the travel industry. New travel startups are welcome, and that includes every new travel content provider. Our simplified eligibility review is showcased at http://www.travel.travel/obtain-uin/. For no charge, you can get an approved Member Number immediately that will allow you to register your .travel domain names with any of our 45 registrars.

Our new website shows the value that our registrants achieve in visibility, identity and name selection, especially important now in a world with over 1,000 top level domains vying for attention. Our relaunched website is the core of .travel support and services on social media, as well as for our newly-launched multi-lingual online chat, registrar support, blog and newsletter.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and on other social media, or visit our site to watch for new promotions, partners and services to be launched in coming months.

For more informationhttp://www.travel.travel

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[ian_curtis]

Interesting Interview

“We realized that .travel was the most suitable one because of its clear relation to tourism”

SanSebastian.travel chose the .travel domain three years ago, and we have talked with Xabier Prada, owner and administrator of the domain. An adequate tourism promotion strategy requires having an attractive and effective website as it is the first medium tourists use to search for information. How does the sansebastian.travel website present the greatest tourist attractions of […]

Link here

 

[Wass]

This week I have seen .travel ads on TV: Argentina.Travel & Indonesia.Travel

 

[ian_curtis]

Which TV? Can find it on YouTube?

 

[Wass]

Which TV? Can find it on YouTube?

one channel was eurosport(famous in Europe). and the other one was a news channel: big channel. I don't remember...
the 2 websites are official I think

 

[Wass]

I found this on youtube. on TV it was shorter

 

[ian_curtis]

Starting september with two new .travel sales. total amount 6600 USD$, will report soon. (one was reg fee, other one via an auction one year ago)

As promised,

news [dot] travel | 3600 $ | sold out by pixeldreams.es | September

 

[ian_curtis]

Honestly we considered several possibilities, we immediately saw that the .travel domain could help give the site rigor and professionalism

it would be an important investment from the beginning for any tourist destination to make use of a .travel domain [...] You only need to navigate a little all tourism destination websites that already use .travel, for we think surely so many people could not be wrong.

Link to interview

 

[ian_curtis]

I found this site inside newletter they sent today.

[URL='http://www.ilove.travel']ilove.travel

Ilove.travel offers all your lifestyle travel information in one convenient and easy to use location! Travel tips and advice, insider foreign correspondent articles and compare hotel prices from 100+ sites.[/URL]

 

[ian_curtis]

http://www.domaininvesting.com/ecuador-advertising-5-word-travel-domain-name/

 

[ian_curtis]

This is from yesterday. Bali Airport.

Indonesia.travel

 

[Fancy.domains]

I am currently trying to drop catch .travel names. So far no success, but I am patient and kind of picky.

 

[mantra]

glad to see these are being widely used. will try to get some .travel names.

 

[ian_curtis]

I started to see .travel in the homepage of some registrars. And they show as an option in any search you do, this is screencapture from one of my confidence, and with good price, dondominio.com / mrdomain.com around 80€ for .travel

I am currently trying to drop catch .travel names. So far no success, but I am patient and kind of picky.

They are always sharing some of this stuff (today I take some), check http://www.travel.travel/premium_travel_list.txt

 

[ian_curtis]

mmmm, it's interesting, at www.MrDomain.com with a domain registration new customer receive a 75€ coupon for adwords (germany, italy, spain, portugal, uk, netherlands, france) link: https://www.mrdomain.com/products/adwords/

 

[ian_curtis]

I found this 3 nice generic keys developments.

RentaCar.travel
http://rentacar.travel/

Photographers.travel
http://www.photographers.travel/

Yachts.travel
http://www.yachts.travel/

 

[ian_curtis]

TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY B2B WORKSHOP - http://digital.showcase.travel

 

[ian_curtis]

.TRAVEL turns 10 and is now available for everyone

https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2016-09-28/9505-now_anyone_can_.travel/

 

[RU]

.TRAVEL turns 10 and is now available for everyone

https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2016-09-28/9505-now_anyone_can_.travel/

it has high renewal/registration fee!

 

[ian_curtis]

it has high renewal/registration fee!

check my comments on this threat. Big ROI, it's a very trusted TLD and easy to find end users. I am up 100.000€ in sales. Everybody wants to have official feeling, and big developments make things easy. (when you show to a potential customer)

I prefer 10 big .travel keys than 100 low level .coms

We have to take in consideration inside travel industry .travel is like .com becasue th reference (countries) use them in massive mode and permanently, at branding level the people inside this industry is viewing them (canada.travel, germany.travel, argentina.travel, russia.travel)....inside any travel event, example a fair where I use to travel to finalize some .travel sells, the presence for .travel is bigger than .com because countries are the big sponsors, and have the big stands.

My last sale (I will publish this month) was a ROI x 31, selled 2 hours after registration. (and yes, I paid around 95$ to register)

 

[ian_curtis]

Of course I am a .travel hunter and diving into whois everybody can find some surprises about who own .travel names...all big domainers for the last decade have their nice .travel porfolio, and yes every domainer should have their 10 - 15 .travel big keys...one single sale pay it x3 x 5... of course I own more than 100 !!!

still on time !!

enjoy !

 

[Domo Sapiens]

Starting september with two new .travel sales. total amount 6600 USD$, will report soon. (one was reg fee, other one via an auction one year ago)

Did you already report these sales?

 

[ian_curtis]

Did you already report these sales?

Yes, news[dot]travel was reported here http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2016/20160928.htm

I will report the other last week of October, and is another .travel in negotation. in 4 figures too.

 

[Argentum]

.travel extension is waste of money especially consideing it's expensive reg and renewal fees.
Search engines dont like .travel extension same with customers/travellers they not recognize this extension.

 

[ian_curtis]

.travel extension is waste of money especially consideing it's expensive reg and renewal fees.
Search engines dont like .travel extension same with customers/travellers they not recognize this extension.

You are wrong

Check this searches at google:

ibiza
seychelles
alabama
argentina
cape town
kyoto
malaysia
germany
colombia
.......

where is .travel ?

search engines LOVE .travel

check this to see Official .travel sites in use.
https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:official+site:.travel
Or this to see all them:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:.travel

 

[Argentum]

You are wrong

Check this searches at google:

ibiza
seychelles
alabama
argentina
cape town
kyoto
malaysia
germany
colombia
.......

where is .travel ?

search engines LOVE .travel

check this to see Official .travel sites in use.
https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:official+site:.travel
Or this to see all them:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:.travel

No any serious travel agency or tourism board using .travel, only few and only because they are not too much experienced in domain names.