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Article: Agencies eager to enter .travel domain
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- May 31, 2005
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As accounting manager, Herb Deaton crunches numbers for Journey
House Travel in Oklahoma City, but recently he has taken to trolling
the Net in his spare moments.
Far from gawking at photos of new Tom Cruise squeeze Katie Holmes,
Deaton has been checking the Web site of an obscure New York City
firm Tralliance, which hopes to alter the shape of online travel
marketing.
Tralliance and its marketing partner, the Travel Partnership
Corp., hold the keys to the new .travel domain name, to be launched
later this year, and 67-year-old Journey House wants a piece of the
action.
I've been monitoring the site daily to get that as soon as they
open up, said Deaton, who also sought to raise the firm's ...