[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Tralliance, the .TRAVEL registry, submitted a registry service request to ICANN yesterday (May 18). It wants to offer 1 and 2 character domain names before the year is out..
This request is similar to others recently been submitted on such gTLDs as .PRO, .MOBI, .BIZ, .JOBS, .NAME or even .COOP. Each time, the registry's aim is to generate extra revenue and boost interest.
Tralliance is proposing a pattern similar to that used by other registries. It plans to auction the best names, then to call for RFPs, before releasing the names not yet snapped up on a first come, first served basis.
The registry's plan has a provision to allow it to keep up to 10 of these valuable names for itself before putting the rest on the market. These names "are likely to benefit the promotion of the Registry and its use and expansion in the Internet, by offering the Registry highly-visible and unique domain name vehicles for its own promotion," says Tralliance.
Tralliance expects ICANN to approve its request by the end of June (ICANN would be hard pressed to turn it down after having approved so many other requests of this kind) and therefore sees the .TRAVEL 1 and 2 character name allocation process launching in Q3 or Q4 of 2009.[/FONT]
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