| NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Its that time of the month again - the regular TV.com versus .TV contest. Should we really be so insecure about owning a .tv or TV.com name?
The upshot is always the same.
.TV is really fab, but has annoying premiums and needs more work to be recognised with the public. It also suggests simply 'television'. However, if it eventually comes off as it has promised to do so for so very long, it will bring great rewards for many in this forum.
TV.com is a less risky proposition in the short to medium term but is an extra four digits. It also suggests 'television, but as a part of the converged web2.0 world.
If I were a major corporation I would buy both.
If I were you, I would buy both.
The real question is simple: what are non-domaining internet users more psyched-up to see as 'natural'. If you can answer that then you just might be successful.
KentTV .com calls itself 'Kent TV' and yet only owns the .com
Sometimes we overthink the .tv/tv.com question.
If you examine successful entrants to the internet then you will see that the name they chose was important - but their content and promotion was even more so.
If I was setting up a internet TV channel about Domainers I wouldn't be too bothered if I had Domain.tv or DomainTV.com as a name.
The trademark implications here are probably more of a cause for concern.
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