SPONSORED REGISTRIES

.aero -.aero is a sponsored Top Level Domain run exclusively by and for the aviation community. The mission of .aero is to create a structured, open and constantly evolving Internet naming architecture which will help the aviation community to integrate systems and services, and streamline communications within the community and with its partners.

Societe Internationale de Telecommunication Aeronautiques (SITA sc), a not for profit co-operative owned by more than 700 airlines and other air transport entities, acts as the Sponsor. SITA sc maintains the Domain Management Policy, appoints the registry operator and drives the development of .aero in close consultation with major aviation organizations and associations represented in the Dot Aero Council (DAC).

.aero registry service was launched on March 18, 2002. Technical and administrative services required to operate the .aero registry are currently provided by Afilias. Domain registration services are provided by ICANN accredited registrars authorized by the Sponsor. More information on www.information.aero.

.asia - Additional info coming soon!

.cat - It is a sTLD addressed to serve the needs of the Catalan speaking community in the Internet. It was approved by ICANN on September 16th 2005 and started its operations on February 13th 2006.

The domain is operated by Fundació puntCAT http://domini.cat/, a non for profit foundation based in Barcelona (Europe) and participated, among others, by Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Catalan National Academy),
Catalan Corporation for Radio and TV and the Catalan chapter of the Internet Society.

Catalan is a language derived from Latin (like Italian, French, Spanish or Portuguese) whose first written texts may be traced back to the
XII-XIII centuries when it fully substituted Latin in literature, legal, historical and administrative documents. Today it is spoken by more than
10 million people, basically in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and eastern and northeastern side of the
Pyrenees range. It may not seem a lot compared to the most spoken languages but it has more active speakers than, for instance, any of the
Scandinavian and Baltic languages and several central and eastern European languages. Catalan speakers are today active Internet users and
are involved in many activities, either locally or worldwide, non-profit or for-profit.

.cat sTLD offers Catalan IDN characters since the first day of operation (Feb 13th 2006) and has achieved 19000 domains and more than 3,5 million
web pages in its first 9 months of existence.

.coop -.COOP is one of the seven restricted Top Level Domains approved by ICANN in November 2000. DotCooperation LLC is the Sponsor of the TLD and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Cooperative
Business Association, the cross-sector organization of cooperatives in the United States. DotCoop sets eligibility and verification policies for use of the domain and provides operational support. DotCoop Founders provided funds and startup support. These co-op organizations from around the world along with the International
Co-operative Alliance (ICA) continue to provide valuable help on business and policy decisions.

The .coop TLD was launched on January 30, 2002. To ensure the integrity of the cooperative name and to maintain consumer trust, use of the .coop TLD is restricted to only bona fide cooperatives and cooperative service organizations that ascribe to the Cooperative Principles of the ICA, such as member ownership and control. (http://ncba.coop/about_dcoop.cfm)

.jobs - The mission of .JOBS is to provide a simple, fast, and consistent method for the HR Community to communicate an exact online destination of employment related opportunities. Employ Media LLC (www.employmedia.com) headquartered in Cleveland, OH is the licensed operator of the .JOBS top level domain. Employ Media has joined forces with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to evolve .JOBS in a manner to best serve the interests of the HR Community. The Society's mission is to advance the human resource profession to ensure that human resources are recognized as an essential partner in developing and executing organizational strategy. Founded in 1948, SHRM (www.shrm.org) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management, with members in over 100 countries. .JOBS was approved by ICANN in April, 2005 with global visibility anticipated by December 2005.

.mobi - mobile Top Level Domain Ltd (mTLD) is the global registry for the .mobi domain. Appointed by ICANN in July 2005, mTLD is backed by leading mobile operators, network device manufacturers and Internet content providers. mTLD also works closely with mobile industry associations such as W3C.

dotMobi is the first and only top level domain dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices. dotMobi is designed to guide mobile users to made-for-mobile Internet content and services that can be accessed with confidence. Dotmobi provides the critical link between the mobile operator, Internet services and the users.

DotMobi’s Switch On! Guides – the key differentiator for this domain - contain a mixture of mandatory and recommended best practices for developing mobile content and services and ensure that dotMobi can be seen as a 'trustmark' for a good mobile experience. The Guides will cover a variety of Internet and domain-related issues and will be published on mTLD's website – www.mtld.mobi.

.museum - DotMuseum is a sponsored TLD operated on behalf of the professional museum community. Its Sponsoring Organization is the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma), which maintains the domain on a policy basis provided by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). This restricts eligibility to hold names in .museum to bona fide museums, museums associations, and individual members of the museum profession.

MuseDoma was founded by ICOM with the support of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the dotMuseum Network Information Center is housed by the
Swedish Museum of Natural History, in Stockholm. The operation of dotMuseum commenced in November 2001, as the first of the sponsored TLDs to be established by ICOM.

More information about dotMuseum and MuseDoma will be found at http://about.museum

.tel - .tel is a sponsored top-level domain operated by Telnic Limited.

The .tel top level domain will provide seamless integration of existing and future methods of communication behind a single identifier: the .tel. Companies will be able use .tel to provide an easy-to-navigate means of providing contact information for customers. Individuals will be able to securely store and update their contact details in real time. No navigating of web sites is needed as information is stored directly within the DNS.

From PCs through to mobile devices, any internet-enabled device will be able to access .tel, providing fast retrieval of the most important information users need: how to reach you or your company.

The .tel registry will launch in 2008. For further information please see www.nic.tel.

.travel - .travel is the industry-exclusive Top Level Internet Domain supported by the global travel and tourism industry through sponsorship by The Travel Partnership Corporation (TTPC), a Washington D.C. non-profit corporation comprised of 124 travel trade associations from 9 industry sectors and 73 countries.

Created to represent every valid travel and tourism entity online, .travel’s mission is to expand the breadth and depth of offerings available to the Internet community and serve not only travel consumers around the world, but the travel industry as a whole. Only authentic travel and tourism entities are permitted to hold a .travel Internet domain name, providing consumers with valuable assurance that travel service suppliers in this exclusive Internet space are legitimate.

The .travel Internet domain is and operated and administered by Tralliance Registry Management Company (TRMC), the .travel Registry. For more information on .travel, please visit www.travel.travel.