Last minute chance for airports to secure their Three-Letter-IATA-Codes as aero-domains till October 19,2003.

Cologne.September 10, 2003. Secura, an ICANN accredited registrar, announces today, that it is still accepting registrations of Three-Letter-IATA-Codes as aero-domains till October 19,2003.

This is an alert to inform you that due to a last minute change of date for the next Dot Aero Council meeting, the reservation of three letter location codes for airports will be extended
until October 19, 2003.

This reservation was put in place in March 2003 to allow airports to secure
their three letter location codes and create a globally standardized and
predictable Internet addressing system for airports. The reservation
applies to all codes listed here:
http://www.information.aero/airportcodes.php

Following the consultations with ACI and the Dot Aero Council, airports have now an extended period until October 19 , 2003 to secure short and memorable .aero domain names corresponding to the IATA and IACO codes(https://www.domainregistry.de/aero.html).After October 19 everybody in the aviation community will be able to register these attractive names.

Airports are also invited to register their
3-letter-IATA location.identifier.airport.aero and
4-letter-ICAO-location.identifier.airport.aero. As of March 3 all 3- and 4-letter names in airport.aero are strictly reserved for these
codes.

Airports can also register aero-domains in the format location-code-locaction-code.aero, e.g.jfk-muc.aero. Such aero-domains are very suitable, in order to publish flight schedules and flight information, in this example flights from Kennedy Airport to the Munich Airport.

The rumour, that it is not permitted, to register the cities'name, where airports are located,is unbased. Every airport can register city.aero, e.g. paris.aero, if the domain name is still available. As it can be expected, that such names will generate great traffic in the future, it is recommendeto do so.

Airlines can register their two-character-IATA-Code as aero-domain. As you know, many Top Level Domains do not permit two-letter-domains or they are all taken as at .com.

Two letter domain names are also not common at .aero. Dotaero made with the permission of ICANN an exclusive exemption for the airlines.

The IATA code is a condition to get the two-letter-aero-domain name.

The two-letters aero-domains are very recommended by experts, as not only for a specialized targeted group,
but also for the broad public such two character domains are a good advertising tool,as people easily remind such short domain names.

Airlines can use the two-character-aero domain name e.g. in order to print it at the tickets, to paint it at the airplains or e.g. for a special website about frequent traveller programs and offers. Many frequent travellers know alreay the IATA code by heart and will therefore use a domain name with the IATA code.

BA.aero, NW.aero and CX.aero have been already registered.