Attention .Travel domain owners!
If you own a .travel domain you’ll want to make sure you renew it. Many are coming up for renewal about now due to the auction format that was used to distribute the .travels two years ago.
It’s still not clear to me if this format is worth the usurous $99 annual registration fee (compared to about $8 per year for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz). However as things shake out one of the ways search engines may determine site legitimacy will be using new barriers to cheap spammy entries, and one of these could be specialized domain names for special niches.
In any case, if you have a .travel I’d recommend you contact your registrar ASAP. I use Stargate for my only .travel domain: “highways.travel”, and their system is making it very hard to renew the .travel even after emails and phone calls and account logins that show no activity pending.
Joe Duck 
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Travel domain extension D+365: Much ado about nothing..!
Syl I don’t understand what you mean
with new sites coming up every day in travel industry – the step has to be taken..
with dot travels domains – makes search in that particular industry with genuin links
it will be nice
Interesting post-thanks.
Mitesh I’m wondering if .travel will have the intended effect – an anti spam measure for travel. I doubt it, but the $99 annual rate is high enough that we won’t see many people spamming those domains. At the $7 or so per year for regular domains many spammers simply seek to make something more than that with automated systems that scale up to tens of thousands of domains. It’s not hard to make a few pennies per day on throwaway domains, but it is hard to make the .30 per day needed to top $100 per year without putting any thought or work into the domain.