Did you know about (dot)travel domain?

todor

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Today I came across a .travel domain and I was very surprised... I was looking at a URL and 30 seconds I couldn't find what the domain was ))

 

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Narrator

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• Jan 10, 2012

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They have been around for a while now. But I haven't seen any ranked on G.

 

Mountaineer

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• Jan 11, 2012

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They have been around since 2006 if I'm not mistaking. It didn't kick off pretty well though.

 

ExpressFans

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• Jan 11, 2012

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I remember first seeing a .travel domain back in 2008. Thought it would be a massive hit, but never seen any large websites with a .travel

 

the_demon

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• Jan 11, 2012

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Yeh, they've been around for a while but no one uses them.

 

todor

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I haven't seen any of these in SERPs... I saw this because someone referred me to it.

It seems they are not good from SEO perspective.

 

MKelly

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• Jan 12, 2012

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They can be great from an SEO perspective, because not many spammers use them, you have to be a participant in the travel and tourism industry to get one, and they cost around $100 per year.

 

roamer

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• Jan 12, 2012

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MKelly said:

They can be great from an SEO perspective, because not many spammers use them, you have to be a participant in the travel and tourism industry to get one, and they cost around $100 per year.

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I came here to say this. They're industry specific, and AFAIK they didn't have that much of a success anyways (maybe the steep price played a role here?).