On 30 May 2008, at 01:58, John Levine wrote:
It appears that .TRAVEL generates about $1.5 million per year in revenue, which should be enough to keep it going just fine if they cut down on whatever is costing $200K/mo in administrative overhead, which shouldn't be hard.
What on earth are they spending that money on? When I wrote about them last year they only had 25 thousand names registered: http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/05/20/tralliance-in-trouble-travel-could-di...
So it's not a particularly noble situation, but it looks like .TRAVEL will survive to fail another day.
Considering its size and "popularity" why aren't they courting one of the other registry operators? Is there any sane reason for them to continue a loss making exercise when a larger and leaner organisation might be in a better position to do it?
I agree with Danny that ICANN should still be working on registry failover plans, because if Egan ever loses interest, Tralliance could collapse in a matter of weeks.
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