.Travel Domain Extension Going Down the Tubes?
As if you needed another reason to stick with the .com namespace:
>>From Tralliance Corp. 10-Q:
We received a report from our independent accountants, relating to our December 31, 2006 audited financial statements, containing a paragraph stating that our recurring losses from operations and our accumulated deficit raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The Company continues to incur substantial consolidated net losses and management believes the Company will continue to be unprofitable and use cash in its operations for the foreseeable future. Based upon our current cash resources of approximately $480 thousand at May 4, 2007, management does not believe the Company can operate as a going concern beyond May 2007.<<<
To my friends at ICANN: Is there a "lifeboat registry" for the registrants of this name-space in the event that the Tralliance .travel registry can't pay the bills and the lights go out? Incidentally, .travel has only 25,000 registrations, total.
Frank, do you have a link to the source of this information?
Thanks
Posted by: JP | May 21, 2007 at 07:10 PM
No surprise. Too bad Utah has put all the money in http://utah.travel/ . Nice site and great TV commercials. I have a good domain for them if they want in the .org space...I think .org's are good space to be in too, especially for cities and towns. The .org gives one the impression of an "unbiased opinion" in my biased opinion.
Posted by: rhart | May 21, 2007 at 07:13 PM
I talked and exchanged emails with the .travel people a couple times. The whole user interface and process just seemed weird but I stuck with it because I was chasing a couple good names.
In the end, it wasn't worth it and I didn't buy any names.
If they are selling .travel now, they never will. They would have to change the entire process, kind of what .tv did moving from TV Corporation to Demand Media and MAYBE they would have a chance.
Posted by: Rob Sequin | May 21, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Though I'd never own any (well; maybe the top 100 generics for reg fees :) , just wait...
...some other foolish company will come along (like with .TV) thinking that THEY have some great idea/s for turning this TLD turkey into an eagle...
Only two choices: Dotcom...or NotDotcom...
Posted by: Steve M. | May 22, 2007 at 01:40 AM
I will stick with the .com, till the day I die
Posted by: MyZine.com | May 22, 2007 at 01:50 AM
They should have made a sunrise period auction style. That would provide them enough cash for infrastructure. And then offer cheap registration bellow $10/year and get partners like Godaddy and Enom and allow anyone to register it. They could have by now millions of cash, infrastrucutre and millions of registered domains. But hell what do I know about domains...
Posted by: TMfor | May 22, 2007 at 05:22 AM
If they cannot come up with a white knight then should be allowed to fold.
ICANN, Domainers and Business as a whole need to understand the metrics of this. If Dot Travel is not allowed to sink or swim, then the market will just be surfeited with a plethora of dud extensions.
Posted by: David Wrixon | May 22, 2007 at 09:26 AM