ICANN approves .jobs and .travel domains
11 April 2005
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved two new top level domains - .jobs and .travel.
The internet regulator has granted approval to requests from Tralliance to operate the .travel domain and from Employ Media to operate .jobs at the 22nd ICANN International conference, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, ICANN.
Representatives for Tralliance and Employ Media said registration for the new suffixes should start within several months and the domains should be online by the end of the year.
The .jobs domain will be promoted to human resources professionals and companies that have job openings will be able to operate a .jobs website. Any legitimate employer or staffing agency will be able to get a .jobs domain, which is sponsored by the US Society for Human Resource Management.
Tralliance will aim the .travel domain at the travel industry and registration for .travel domain names will be restricted to applicants authenticated by independent third parties, including industry associations. Registrants will also be limited to using website names that they already use or have rights to.
The Travel Partnership, a non-profit organisation backed by more than 100 organizations from the travel and tourism industry, sponsors the .travel domain.
Early registration for the .travel domains is set to start in about three months and a pre-registration period for .jobs is scheduled before the domain goes online in the second half of the year. Pricing for the .travel and .jobs domains has not been set yet, the registry representatives said.
ICANN has received 10 applications for other sponsored top level domains and is in negotiations with groups for .cat, .post and .mobi domains. The organisation is also discussing five other sponsored top-level domains that have been proposed, including .asia, .tel and .XXX.
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