I got a note from the always interesting Ed Hasbrouck that led me to the latest quarterly 10-Q financial filing by theglobe.com, which owns Tralliance, the company that runs the .travel domain. After a most exciting decade buying and selling a variety of Internet related businesses, Tralliance and .travel are now theglobe's only activity. The 10-Q says that they're running through cash at about $500K per month, and the have only $480K in cash now, so they're about to die. As the 10-Q says: We received a report from our independent accountants, relating to our December 31, 2006 audited financial statements, containing a paragraph stating that our recurring losses from operations and our accumulated deficit raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The Company continues to incur substantial consolidated net losses and management believes the Company will continue to be unprofitable and use cash in its operations for the foreseeable future. Based upon our current cash resources of approximately $480 thousand at May 4, 2007, management does not believe the Company can operate as a going concern beyond May 2007. This crisis was precipitated by a $2.5 million payment to MySpace to settle a lawsuit due to theglobe sending several hundred thousand illegal spams to and through MySpace last year. (Phrases like "mind bogglingly stupid" would be appropriate here.) But they're out of money, and unless they can find someone to put in a lot of cash real soon, they're dead. Incidentally, .travel has only 25,000 registrations, total. I don't think the demise of .travel has much direct interest to at large users, since I don't know anyone other than me who ever even looked at a .travel domain, but this does point out that the same escrow issues that inept collapsing registrars raise also apply to registries. R's, John PS: Read the 10-Q yourself at: http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1066684/000114420407024438/v074476_...