What is pre-authentication?
All potential holders of a .travel name must be approved to hold that name by having their eligibility reviewed. That review of eligibility is called “authentication”. .travel is giving members of selected travel associations the chance to have their authentication reviewed by their association and others to have their authentication reviewed by third party authentication providers, prior to registration. Pre-authentication will speed the registration of a name when .travel begins to take name registrations later in 2005.