What is “dental” to do with “.travel”?

I saw the domain sale of Dental.Travel for over $2,000 ( $2,295 ) and it was a bit surprising to see the .travel domain sale as “dental” keyword was not related to “travel” industry.

I thought about registering some .travel domains but there were a bit of strict criteria and EnCirca website mentioned on their .travel domain webpage as follows.

“Improved branding and connection with the travel and tourism industry” and “Authentication by independent third party lowers cyber-squatting and domain name speculators.”

I wonder how someone could manage to register such domain totally unrelated to “travel” industry unless he was a  dentist specifically for travellers.

Any how, I believed the domain was sold to an end user.

Pooling New Names…

Here’s the pick of the lister at Pool for Monday September 28. The top of the trees for the latest Pool list is TahoeTrails.net, a great travel and geo name. A new name is DevilTube.com could be a satanic take on youtube.com. LawsuitFunding.net could be an amazing directory or startup enterprise. 2q2.com leads the small character names derby.

Domainers Scowl at ICANN junket dollars

ICANN now spends 22% of its budget on travel and meetings in far-flung locales worldwide. Is it looking to build grass-roots support for its decisions or using its growing financial resources to influence various power players in the domain name community?

The group responsible for managing the Web’s domain name system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has grown in the 11 years since its inception to become a powerful organization with a nearly $55 million budget built on the domain registration fees it receives.