As reported before, the .travel registry might be going bankrupt and here’s one of the reasons: The amount of effort needed in order to review every application. A friend of mine has applied for a .travel domain. Here’s an excerpt of the ensuing email exchange - attention: some humor involved.

From the registry:

I am in the process of reviewing your **.travel **application and need some more information about your business “____” before I can continue with the authentication process. Please provide us with documentation for your business, as well as a clear indication of its travel-related service in the form of a brochure, an annual report, a promotion package, a business license, a registration document, anything that is a public document* *demonstrating the use of whatever domain names for which you are applying. URLs being used as support must be active and display the travel related business with which you are involved.

Additionally, if you are unable to procure these documents because your company is not yet up and running, you may send us a business proposal outlining what you plan to do with your company and how your requested names will function. This is only on the condition that the company is up and running and the names are in full use within 60 days of submitting the proposal to the *.travel *registry.

So my friend sent them a link to a site that is similar to the one he would like to create. The site is a non-English language website.

From the registry:

Can we receive an English version of your site as we are having trouble trying to translate the site so we can see exactly what is on the site. Thank you for you time and patience on this matter.

Now keep in mind that the site is about 200 pages, so my friend responded:

Yes of course, I will hire a translator to translate the 200 pages into English for you.

Please wait a week and don’t go out of business in the meantime. Thanks again.

Response from the registry:

I just need the first page not the whole site.