Ok, I confess. I do not have 10,000 .tv names, but I feel that I have come to a point where acquiring more .tv names is not going to help me. I know feel the need to come up with a strategy for those names. The site development teams that I used in the past are tapped out and I have not found a team that is as effective in terms of design ideas and price. In other words, they cost too much and many believe they are better than they actually are.
Alternatively, I could try to monitize them through parking services, but they will never generate the potential that is there. So I am curious, how we find development teams that are open to a piece of the action in exchange for site development? Have any of you worked out something similar to this for your sites?
One last option that I feel I have is to offer the domains for lease. Any serious thoughts on this? Any of us actually successfully pulled off a business model based on leasing domain names?
Thank you for any input or comments you add.
Of course, the last issue is if we develop a .tv site with streaming video, where are you finding reliable video server hosting? We have bounced between services as of late but most of these guys have been unreliable. I have to assume video server hosting can rake in big bucks, especially if it is reliable and offers great customer service.
We pride ourselves for our design ideas and ability to put an image/idea to a domain name, but we would never work for "a piece of the action". There are far too many variables and constraints to that idea. Some people will do that and all the power to them, but at the end of the day we have office space and overhead not to mention our time that needs to be paid for.
If you need ideas PM me - I've been known to give things away sometimes...
