Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,After reading
the other comments it is obvious that only the airlines support IATA as a choice.
Surely you can find a less controversial and more impartial organization to be
the custodian of the dot-travel TLD. IATA represents the airlines only, not
hotels, not tour operators, not cruises, not trains, not resorts, not cars, not sightseeing.
The airlines, as you know, have been greatly criticized for a decade now, by the
government, the travel industry, and most importantly their customers that they continue
to make miserable.
In addition to being an organization that exists solely to represent
only one segment of the immense travel industry, IATA has already stated questionable
motives with its plan to gouge $500 for domain names that currently sell for $25.
Additionally, IATA wants to set the rules as to who would be eligible. As the
different segments of the travel industry compete with each other this would give
the airlines an unfair advantage of which they have already been often accused.
This would surely encourage more government regulation. Is this the direction
we want to see the Internet take? I highly recommend you think this one through,
and do the homework, and find a better applicant, or we may see a major uprising
by Internet users.