By: Dennis Schaal

January 30, 2009

The dot-travel Internet domain has been falling short of some of its early aspirations, but two recent developments have drawn new attention to its possibilities.

First, an Australian company paid $3.3 million in a private transaction to buy a bundle of assets that included the address Answers.travel, suggesting that at least one investor sees an opportunity for a big payback in the new domain.

Secondly, the Cruise Lines International Association, which has had little to do with the new domain to date, disclosed that it had become an “authentication provider” for the dot-travel registrar, Tralliance Corp. In essence, CLIA has joined some 40 other travel organizations that have agreed to certify or authenticate the status of members who are seeking dot-travel addresses.

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Where is the next 5^th Avenue of Real Estate Investments?

Spurred by the recent news about various domain sales such as answers.travel for $3.3 million and flowers.mobi for $200,000*, the next 5^th Avenue of real estate investment is clear.  It is in domain names. In fact, did you know that the buying and selling of domain names is an estimated $2 billion industry?*

Currently, there are over 77 million .com domain names outstanding.   Simple names such as ABC123.com or 321xyz.com and all other 5-6 character and number combinations in .com are no longer available in the primary market.

How could so many people all around the world be wrong? Domain names are a valuable investment.  Some sales have gone into six or seven figures like mentioned above, but we have selected some moderate private sales in .com and other Internet extensions. As examples:

hotelesbaratos.com for $26,633 (cheap hotels in Spanish)

poland.net for $27,777

taxi.mobi for $75,111.*

With the .com market at its saturation point, this opens the investment opportunity to specific domain names such as .travel that provide valuable intellectual property.  As the largest e-commerce category on the net, the .travel opportunity is staggering. With over 2,000,000 phenomenal .travel domain names for investors, check out some that are up for grabs:

flytoparis.travel, dealstocancun.travel, ushotels.travel, hotelesbaratos.travel, islanddeals.travel, carnivaltrip.travel, go2greece.travel, delayed.travel, eurotours.travel, and many more.

Just ask yourself, if you had the chance to go back and grab your “dream domains” wouldn’t you? Your chance is now. Make a long-term investment in valuable Internet real estate with .travel.

Sources:

• Intelliscan January 2009 and CircleId.com October 2008
• USA Today, July 2007
• Intelliscan January 2009, dotmobiZ.com 2008
• Intelliscan January 2009

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -January 14, 2009- Tralliance, the .travel Registry, has received many inquiries regarding a press release describing a private sale of the “answers.travel” domain name for $3.3 million.

The Registry is not involved in the secondary market of .travel names and has no knowledge of the transaction other than the press release.  In addition, the Registry issues a correction saying that the Registry was launched in the second half of 2005 not 2004 as the January 13, 2009 press release stated.

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