At 20:10 29/05/2008, Danny Younger wrote:
For those of you following the ongoing demise of .travel, here is its parent corporation's most recent filing:
"Based upon the Company's current financial condition, as discussed above, and without the infusion of additional capital, management does not believe that the Company will be able to fund its operations beyond the end of May 2008."
Form 10-Q for THEGLOBE COM INC: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/080509/tglo.ob10-q.html
This demonstrates what @large people engaged in this business and in DNS community testing know for years: Registries should be non profit organisations and the Registrants should be their members. Low management costs and new services. Operating ".travel" calls for a part time person for a quality service. I would suggest that ALAC does as ISOC did for .org, but negociates a delegation agreement equivalent to a serious light ccTLD, i.e. nothing else than to be in the root. It could permit : - ALAC as such to gain some experience about DNS - to get an ALAC small independent budget and probably to negociate raduced travel rates for ALAC members jfc PS. By the way how many people on this ALAC list has ever technical managed DNS zone files and operated a nameserver ? I would be curiouis to know also how many people among the GNSO and BoD?