In the “2012 ICANN new gTLD application round” countless brands applied for their own gTLD - and some are now starting to abandon their “.com” domains and do ONLY use their vanity brand gTLD-based domains:

Imagine to be one of the first airports to operatetheir own gTLD. Like “.lax” - making available domains like:

  • www.departures.lax

  • www.arrivals.lax

  • www.terminalmaps.lax

  • www.parking.lax

  • www.shopping.lax

  • and of course for your brands at the airport:

  • hertz.lax / budget.lax

  • armani.lax / gucci.lax

We will aid 5 to 10 airports in applying and managing / operating their vanity gTLD. The group of airports will pool resources:

  • Only one application has to be crafted (300 pages application to ICANN)

  • Legal and technical consulting will be shared

  • ICANN compliance and representation

  • only one registry back-end provider for all members (equals much better conditions in pricing per domain)

We will handle absolutely all steps from the application creation, to application submission at ICANN, contracting with ICANN, dealing with the back-end registry provider, testing and launch of the gTLD.

We will also create a simple to use tool that will allow to enter any desired domain name (e.g. departures.lax) and an existing “target” (website), e.g.: flylax.com/en/flight-search-list?type=dep, the tool will automatically create the domain in the registry and create the forwarder: a domain departures.lax would be created - and it would route to the specified (already existing) website.

That way none of your existing systems or websites have to be changed - you just add “new doors” (domain names) - to existing “rooms (websites). And you would be one of the first airports on the globe to have their own domain suffix!

Here some brands that applied for their gTLD in 2012:

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Please contact me anytime to discuss:

  • email: alexander.schubert@dotairport.com

  • Phone: +1(202)684-6806

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Alexander Schubert attends ICANN meetings on regular basis since mid 2004. In mid 2005 he co-founded the dotBERLIN Gmbh & Co.KG in Berlin which successfully applied for ".berlin" in the first new gTLD round in 2012 (see for example www.schubert.berlin).

In October 2017 Alexander founded the dotAIRPORT, LLC in the United States and subsequently introduced the project to the ICANN community and developed the operational and business plan

Contacts:

Alexander was born in Berlin in 1965, has a masters degree in aviation engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, was raised in Berlin and lives since 2007 in Riga, Latvia: A small northern European EU member state. He will relocate to the East Coast of the United States for the dotAIRPORT project.