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.