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Transfer .Aero top level domain name — SITA to

Transfer .Aero top level domain name — SITA to

Domain name for aviation is flying to a fresh home.

Airplane on tarmac with .AERO

One of the earliest top level domain names is getting a fresh operator.

SITA, the organization that operates the sponsored top level domain name .aero, has informed its partners that it is transferring the domain to a fresh operator.

That firm has not yet been publicly identified, and the transaction is still subject to ICANN approval.

.Aero was formally launched in 2002. It was part of an expansion of top level domain names that included other sponsored top level domains, counting .museum and .coop.

The top level domain is restricted to those in the aviation space, and verification is required. Right now, that means completing the process of obtaining an ID from SITA.

As of the end of January of this year, there were 13,422 registered .aero domain names. 101Domain is the largest registrar for .aero with 4,472 registrations.

Last year, .aero came under fire from Russia following it suspended registrations for organizations in Russia.

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