If you pony up your quality .tv domain for development by another party, read this
I felt that the concept of using existing starting points to negotiate a deal in in which one person contributes a quality domain name and the other develops and manages would be of interest to namepros members, especially .tv fans:
I do not invest in .tv. I think some people are confused as to what this ext actually stands for. Maybe I am way off but I think there are better tlds to invest in.
I own around 25 avergae .TV's and i can see the traffic growing week after week, i see no reason why we cannot still be excited about .tv's future as long as we dont get carried away and expect too much.
Personally i feel much more confident buying .tv's now that i did 2,3 Months ago when i felt they wer a risky but exciting development, now i feel as though .Tv's time is coming soon and with more and more amazing looking developed sites out there then the future looks great.
Im in no way an expert but thats my views, fingers crossed im not wrong.
I am not in the least bit worried about the .tv extension. If I sell a .tv, it is on my terms, at a price break that I am interested in: but most will be held onto for a number of years and slowly developed.
Saying that .TV is just the extension for a small island in the pacific is ridiculous.
Ask people what they think about what are they going to find in lets say something like 24hour.TV. A site related the show or a 24 hour open store/resort/whatever business in TUVALU.
I'm also assuming that the people from Budweiser are not really putting that much money in BUD.TV just to target the small island potential customers and that pride.TV is trying to get the TUVALU's brave man to fight? Oh, yes, maybe MLB.TV is desperate to get a baseball team from there too. And the list of already well developed .TV sites could go on . No, .TV is here to stay and grow.
Most people don't even know what TUVALU is, let alone that .TV is the internet domain extension for TUVALU.
Well I think its a little funny that he would be so bold as to lump .ws with .tv etc. Especially when he goes on to say how they are having a diner event which he won't miss... If he isn't that interested why attend... I think he is reserving judgment until the relaunch of the premiums. I am sure the hype around .tv and the relaunch of premiums will catapult .tv to the limelight just as the auctions did for .mobi. There will be a hot moment for .tv this year that will help us make a nice profit!
Schumacher needs to turn on his tv. The number of .tv used adverts on tv are increasing everyday more than any other extension other than .com. How does he explain that? How many .us,.biz or info names are on ads on the tube. This is about as short-sighted a statement as I have ever seen in the domain community from a supposed leader in this industry. Has he noticed the explosion in video due to increased bandwidth/pipeline in nearly every home. .tv is a not a "small country code extension" to the general public or the corporate world. It is associated with a device or appliance used in 99.9% of every home in the world. It is a used term in 99.% of all households in the world every time they sit down and hit the remote.
I have been meaning to address Tim Schumacher's ignorance in other venues. I spoke to Ron Jackson who confronted Schumacher at Domainfest in LA. Schumacher using the "sell rating" on certain domains extensions like they were stocks is foolish in the first place. That is my background started trading stocks at 16 had My series 7 (brokers License)at 21 in 93 won Wharton's school of Business trading challenge. So I find this analogy to be ridiculous because where it is fine to refer to .com as a "Blue Chip" a reference that in stocks refers to the biggest usually most stable is fine. It helps newbies understand the significance of .com But to breakdown all ext's makes no sense at all.
Well Ron mentioned to Schumacher that .tv had a fresh look with Demand media and he said to ron it was just a repurposed cc tld of a thirld world nation. Showing how clueless he and his organization are. For this reason I boycott selling any domains on SEDO I tell people to make the offer at Afternic. Tim maybe you can tell your clients why you only pay for the first click and no other clicks in your parking program? When you can answer that maybe you would step up a notch in credibility
All I know is that Mr. Rosenblatt is behind the .tv extension with his new company Demand Media and their relationship with Verisign to drive exposure to the .tv extension.
After what this guy has done recently, I am looking forward to the dot tv future with optimism.
mobis are the flavor of the month. the trading you see in mobi is somewhat normal for the domain aftermarket in new releases. However the prices are out of whack with reality. .mobi will cool off and end up being another "traded out" extension. The will be traded within the aftermarket with little actual use. The domain aftermarket is hot. Drop sales combined with ppc revenue streams are driving prices. The reason we are seeing a large number of sales from a business like buy domains is that they have actually figured out what no other business in the entire domain aftermarket has...price a domain to the current market conditions right and it will sell. If you look at buy domains pricing they are moving names due to realistic pricing. The drop auction drives prices due to the auction format. If you want a true window on aftermarket pricing look at buy domains.
.tv has been around and was introduced prior to bandwidth/pipeline saturation. There are some sceptics in the domain aftermarket who miss the points we are discussing on this board about the renewed viability of .tv.
Excellent post Voipster....... I especially agree with price domains realistically. So many have a lottery ticket mentality like the domain has to sell for unrealistic amounts or they are not selling
Yep equity78, its always been a lottery mentality in this business. The "buy it now" concept is something the domain business has always needed. "Make offer" is the most restriciting way of selling any product. Price it and the prospective buyer can buy based on filling a need or impulse immediatey without negotiation or delay. What other business marks up a product that costs under 10.00 (.com, biz, info and others) by a thousand percent upon purchase? If the other major aftermarket sellers would price out the product according to demand and not value based on high priced realized sales they would move more product. A visit to any of these sellers and one can see thousands and thousands of "make offer" domains listed just sitting on a dusty shelf until a non renewal. If the aftermarket business forced the domain owner to list an actual price the entire domain aftermarket would be stimulated even further. This is no big task to weed out the quality from the low end priced material. They do it every day when they offer appraisals. The problem is the appraisal has always been set to satisfy the domain owner. Also by allowing "make offer'" the aftermarket normally gets the lsiting for the parking revenue. If you shut off the "make offer" you lose the parking listing. But is that what the aftermarket business should be about for the guy actually trying to sell his domain? Price the quality accordingly and allow it to be listed with the required asking price. The rest of the domain listings should be 25.00-1000.00. If this would happen the market would react accordingly. There are plenty of domain owners who would never lower the price on a low level domain but who cares, dont allow the listing as a "make offer" and clean out the crap and promote a healthy exchange platform where the product moves.
I agree with you 100 % said that back in 04 but everybody reads DnJournal and sees a big sale on a domain that they think is lesser quality than theirs and keeps it at make an offer. If sedo and afternic said, "to list here you have to state a price" the aftermarket would become very interesting IMO
these experts are wrong, i wasn't even bothered to read what they say
point 1: i Do have a .tv domains that receives traffic
point 2: i saw many times .tv domains being advertised on uk's telys
point 3: major public accepts .tv extension for "television" and the media Is moving slowly to the Internet
point 4: the tld looks great
point 5: there is many .tv's already developed by major companies and looks great as well
not long now for .tv to become huge, i'm sitting comfy on few great .tv's
Sedo has a strong bias toward .com. The closing soon auctions on the home page don't show .TVs unless you click the "more" link. I inquired about this, and received the following response:
I wonder how many people realize that, when they are looking at the closing soon listings, they're not getting the real picture. isex.tv (which isn't mine) is closing in 9 hours and has 13 bids, but doesn't show up on the home page. That's wrong, imho.
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