Danny and all, This is not surprising in any way as other older news on .Travel has been well publicized in the past on the GA, Slashdot, and elsewhere. ICANN's acceptance of .Travel, like .MOBI were based upon personal friendships of the than seated ICANN Bod rather than more reasonable and relevant reasons and was hotly debated at the time, again on the GA forum. Frankly the idea of sTLD's was and remains a very questionable if not outright silly strategy for expanding the TLD name space. But the than sitting ICANN bod thought wrongly, otherwise... Just as frankly, I thought at the time and stated such in no uncertain terms the idea of .Travel was little more than a scam. Seems I was correct... Maybe some day ICANN itself will have honest, accountable, transparent, open and responsible leadership. But that day has not yet come to pass... -----Original Message-----

From: Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com> Sent: May 29, 2008 11:10 AM To: At-Large Worldwide <alac@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: Edward Hasbrouck <edward@hasbrouck.org> Subject: [At-Large] The pending death of a registry

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

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