.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.

.aero Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy Registrar Exemption Request Process

Introduction

Under the new AGP policy, a registrar's account will be debited each month for all AGP deletions that exceed the greater of either:

  • 50 domain names, or
  • 10% of net new adds for the previous month

Under the new policy, Registrars have the option to apply for exemption of this charge under special circumstances. Exemptions will be reviewed and approved by registry operators prior to registry services established cutoff date.

.aero announces changes in the .aero Domain Management Policy

Geneva, Switzerland – Following the recommendation of the Dot Aero Council, SITA activated all domain names corresponding to airline and airport industry codes. All two character airline codes, all 3 letter location codes allocated to municipal areas and all 3 letter airline codes of IATA airlines have been pre-registered.

.aero announces changes in the .aero Domain Management Policy

Geneva, Switzerland – Following the recommendation of the Dot Aero Council, SITA activated all domain names corresponding to airline and airport industry codes. All two character airline codes, all 3 letter location codes allocated to municipal areas and all 3 letter airline codes of IATA airlines have been pre-registered.

.aero announces reduction in domain name registration fees

Following successful transition of registry services to Afilias, the new registry operator for .aero, a number of enhancements have been made to the name registration process, which includes a reduction in registration fees.

The .aero registry now operates on the world-standard Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). The upgrade allows increased flexibility, standardization, and access to a broader distribution channel of ICANN-accredited registrars. In turn, this has lead to a reduction in the price of domain name registrations.

.aero development news

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.aero moving forward in the IP world

Traditionally the air transport community has had rigid standards for inter-system communications pinned to the underlying centralized network. However with advent of IP communications over the Internet fast becoming the de facto standards for business to business transactions and as the community begins to embrace this new technology, the absence of well defined standards restricts the flexibility and scalability of the solution.

.aero partner associations

Industry associations and organisations representing members of the aviation community can enter into partnership agreement with SITA to become a .aero partner association. Each associations has joined the .aero initiative to bring .aero benefits to their members, and in doing so endorses the .aero domain as an industry initiative and a benefit to their members.