MADRID and NEW YORK, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Tralliance Corporation, New
York, the .travel Registry, in cooperation with the World Tourism
Organization, has affirmed a priority right to the nations of the world to
register their respective country, cities, and place names in the .travel
Registry.
Each country and city destination, as well as UNESCO Word Heritage Sites,
will now be able to register their valuable place names in the .travel
Registry, which will commence registrations in the fall of 2005.
The World Tourism Organization (WTO) will communicate this information to
its Member States and Organizations within the UN System, such as UNESCO.
The priority right provides individual nations with the ability to
register their domain names with the .travel Registry before other legitimate
travel or tourism entities, which may share the same names, have access to
those names. The prioritization will overcome the frustration felt by
governments that characterized earlier Top Level Domain introductions, wherein
many nations were pre-empted from registering domain names for their
countries, cities, heritage and sacred sites.
"The WTO's participation with the .travel Registry will alert its 146
Member States and other countries that they can protect their names on the
World Wide Web. We expect that they will move swiftly to take advantage of the
first domain name priority right ever offered to governments in the history of
the Internet," explained Tralliance Corporation President and Chief Executive
Ronald N. Andruff. "Travelers, in turn, will have the assurance and confidence
of knowing that .travel web sites will, indeed, be official and exactly what
they are seeking."
"Travel and tourism, while a major player on the Internet, has been
operating without a clear identity. .travel domain names will bring enormous
visibility to our Member States and clarity to all that their destinations
have to offer," stated WTO Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Dawid de Villiers.
A derivative of the nations' priority right will enable the proper
registration of .travel names for the world's largest popular centers to
ensure their names are also distributed in a logical fashion. This right
ensures that Internet users seeking information about Paris, for example, will
find Paris, France at http://www.paris.travel instead of another destination with a
similar name such as Paris, Texas or Paris' other economic activities.
Countries will have until March 31, 2006 to preserve their rights to their
specific geographic place names.
More information:
Ron Andruff, Tralliance Corporation, tel: +1 212-481-2820,
info@tralliance.info
Rod Caborn, YPB&R Public Relations, tel: +1 407-838-1799,
rod_caborn@ypbr.com
About Tralliance Corporation
Tralliance Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of theglobe.com
(OTC Bulletin Board: TGLO) that, as the .travel Registry, develops products
and services to enhance online commerce between consumers and the travel and
tourism industry.
Designed to serve the global travel and tourism community, the major aims
of the .travel sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD) are improved Internet
identity, increased adoption of online technology and enhanced linkages
between the industry and its customers. http://www.tralliance.info
SOURCE Tralliance Corporation
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CONTACT:
Ron Andruff, Tralliance Corporation,
+1-212-481-2820, or info@tralliance.info; or Rod Caborn, YPB&R
Public Relations, +1-407-838-1799, or rod_caborn@ypbr.com, for
Tralliance Corporation
EDITORS' ADVISORY: For clarity, references to ".travel" domain
name denote the "dot travel" Internet domain
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