Following the recent recommendation of the Dot Aero Council (DAC), SITA has reserved names of states, provinces and geographical areas removing the option of permitting reservation of a domain name matching the name of a state, province or geographical area in the .aero domain.

These new reserved names join the existing reservation of country names.

Names that were already registered at the time of  this new policy will become automatically reserved, once not renewed or deleted by the current registrant.

SITA, the world's leading service provider of IT business solutions and communications services to the air transport industry (ATI), today launched the industry's first –Voice Exchange – an innovative service designed to allow members of the air transport community to dramatically reduce communication costs and providing a secure, efficient and flexible alternative to the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

Brussels, Belgium – June 23, 2006

All 2 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 and activated in .aero.

In April, following a recommendation from the Dot Aero Council (DAC), the cross-industry advisory body overseeing development of the .aero domain.

It has been five years since SITA first sought to sponsor the application for the new Top Level Domain Name (TLD) .aero, reserved exclusively for members and governed by the aviation community. Now it's time for renewal.

The aviation community operates through and relies on shared infrastructure, procedures and standards. Through the .aero domain, these benefits continue to be available for communications over the Internet.