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April 26, 2004

".aero" - The Internet domain for aviation created as SITA and ICANN confirm Contracts

GENEVA, Switzerland global transport IT services provider SITA has signed a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to establish and manage ".aero" the Internet top level domain (TLD) dedicated to, and governed by, the aviation community. This marks the first time any specific industry grouping has embraced its own Internet domain.

".aero" - The Internet domain for aviation created as SITA and ICANN confirm Contracts

GENEVA, Switzerland global transport IT services provider SITA has signed a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to establish and manage ".aero" the Internet top level domain (TLD) dedicated to, and governed by, the aviation community. This marks the first time any specific industry grouping has embraced its own Internet domain.

'Impressive success' for trial of web access tool

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – 11 November 2003 – The first trial of a prototype web-service has been used over 10,000 times by travellers checking flight status information at Geneva International Airport.

...and Air Transport News chooses .aero

The recently launched Air Transport News - a daily e-mail and online newsletter produced in English by 11Aviation Publications, a specialist aviation publisher based in Athens, Greece - is affirming its industry credentials by using the .aero domain.

The newsletter (which can be found at www.airtransportnews.aero) provides a growing body of news and analysis, as well as a calendar of events, book reviews and industry-related jobs.

.aero - the world's first industry-based top level Internet domain

Reserved exclusively for aviation, .aero is inspiring a revolution in the way people access and use air transport information.

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.aero was developed in response to the growing need of the community, and is designed to create a structured, open and constantly evolving Internet naming architecture which will help the aviation community to integrate systems and service, and streamline communications within the community and with its partners.

.aero active sites growing rapidly in numbers

Geneva, Switzerland – Aviation's alternative to .com and .net – .aero, has seen significant growth in the number of active web sites.