.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]

News from .travel official, http://www.travel.travel/blog/trave...ussian-italian-spanish-french-deutch-english/
http://www.travel.travel/blog/trave...ussian-italian-spanish-french-deutch-english/
live chat support in 3 languages and they talk about a tool called ".travel city finder"...sounds interesting

 

[ian_curtis]

Seems they increase presence in domain industry sites....like this one (right banner)

 

[ian_curtis]

Ten years of the .travel domain extension – did it work?

https://www.tnooz.com/article/ten-years-of-dot-travel-domain/

This is an interesting thing https://www.google.com/#q=site:.travel and interesting to compare with .top or .xyz

Thanks Ian, there is been a few sales reported this year...
not to mention more developed sites aside many many GEO domains (some even official Govermental' Country sites).

please don't call .travel a new gTLD

Have you checked http://www.travel.travel/live-sites/ ?

 

[ian_curtis]

Just received via .travel newsletter http://www.travel.travel/blog/more-live-sites-travel/
http://www.travel.travel/blog/more-live-sites-travel/
It's interesting the variety on live sites.

 

[ian_curtis]

Wow!

http://www.travel.travel/blog/other-travel-live-sites-submarines-nature-and-industry/

 

[ian_curtis]

Which TV? Can find it on YouTube?

 

[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]

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

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[Argentum]

I use to register with www.dondominio.com / www.mrdomain.com in most cases.

Also with encirca.com or name.com



Yes, seems is the common tld for countries, but also some big cities there, SanFrancisco.travel is great one, I am following a section called "live sites" http://www.travel.travel/live-sites/ also interesting the developments on generics, I remember software.travel for example.

another things is the "premius at reg fee", I pick some of them, and one concretely sold out in about 24h at 2500€ (not bad!)...they have the listing here http://www.travel.travel/premium-domains/

Seems domaining world is giving attention too:

SanFrancisco.travel was too much great for them and they (tourism board) decided to move site on sftravel.com...

 

[ian_curtis]

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

1.- open your eyes
2.- click here https://www.google.com/#q=site:.travel
now, it's you in front of 14.000.000 .travel results at google. maybe your are wrong? or is the rest of the world wrong? I should believe what google show

 

[ian_curtis]

SanFrancisco.travel was too much great for them and they (tourism board) decided to move site on sftravel.com...

I see them using both as always, http://media.sanfrancisco.travel/

 

[ian_curtis]

Just today another .travel sale.

press [dot] travel | 1232 $ | sold out by pixeldreams.es | October

note: In two weeks I will report another .travel sale, second payment is pending (day 22), total amount 2800$

 

[Argentum]

1.- open your eyes
2.- click here https://www.google.com/#q=site:.travel
now, it's you in front of 14.000.000 .travel results at google. maybe your are wrong? or is the rest of the world wrong? I should believe what google show

1.Stop advestise here this useless extension, go to marketplace/services section, for doing that, this section is for discussion not for advertising.
2.I repeat you again no any serious company using .travel as extension. Worsthless extension.
3.If even someone use it, they just using it to forward from .travel to their main website at .com

 

[ian_curtis]

Advertising? I am .travel investor. I buy and sell .travel Domains. Is for it I follow what .travel do, and for sure domainers community is interested.

I can list you here 10.000 companies, events, official tourism boards, apps, etc using .travel domain for their brand, main site...(they have this nice section, check by your own here www.travel.travel/live-sites/) ...BUT you will continue with the same...make something, go out.