If I sat back for a couple of hours and thought out a more sleazy response to allegations of corruption within my company, I do not think I could have done as good a job as Quin Daly has done for Demand Media.
No wonder that the forum leader has asked that given such an awful response, he would rather she not post anymore on this forum. Crap stinks and it defiles everyone and everything it touches - and the crap she wrote was of an industrial grade........
Here is what I read into what she wrote - " We are continuing to chuckle as we hand out BS to the general public with standardised formulated crap.......at the same time, anyone with deep enough pockets to be suckered into outragous early bird trumped up prices can feel free to see how much they are really prepared to bend over............
This company is now in charge of Dot TV...........if this company had already gone public, I would have dumped every last stock Iowned in it - corruption is akin to moral cancer..eventually it will take down the company in one way or another and Demand Media has it in spades
There is a GEO.TV I want and if someone gets it without me even getting a chance from my filling out the form a few months back, I am going to be pissed off.
I am resubmitting my info again on the form right now.
Right but Larry filling out the form was not guaranteeing you got the domain, it was just supposed to mean you got an email when all premiums were available......... although quinns explanation is ambiguous
There is no auction, basically Demand Media halted premiums because they said they needed to bild awhole new system obviously domains at different prices requires a different interface. I am not a techie but someone told me that is a viable excuse OK
We know here they did it to monitor traffic, watch what people type in to see if a domain is available.
The form was there as a way to not just have a blank page or unavailable sign, filling it out did not mean oh you are one of 150 people who filled out a form for Movies.tv we will now have an auction. I mean there is no transparency in that anyway, unless everyone sees who filled out the form not just Demand Media
I have been the Chief Technology Officer of several internet companies.
That is the biggest BS execuse I've ever heard.
One field in the database would handle that.
We have a dynamic pricing model for our leads. One field. Thats it.
One field. As for screens, either their architecture is poorly designed (ie not data driven) or they have major technology challenges and I wouldn't trust their tools.
Either Demand Media is a) spinning or b) has a single programmer on staff who learned to program from the Programming for Dummies books.
The part that does surprise me is that they aren't being clearer about what their model is.
They could have started generating real excitement the way .mobi has done in their auctions. (I am not saying that auctions is the right strategy, but whatever their strategy IS going to be, clearer communication will only help them).
I am not on the side of AUCTIONS, I do not believe premiums should have been taken off the market. I believe it should be Premiums available say for example 5/1/07 and who ever gets it gets it THAT'S WHOSE SIDE
Auctions someone like Elequa who is a personal friend and I have discussed this with, could send a blanket email Interested in 500 to top 1000 and out bid everyone on here combined in an auction if need be but I doubt he would. Auctions are just a money grab and what is the renewal? What about premium holders already do they get $25 renewals?
Most likely, it is going to be an auction. What if 30 people wanted Dallas.tv. You really think they are going to leave it to the fastest finger. They will have a 7 day auction and let the folks battle it out with the starting bid the same price they would have released it if only 1 was interested.
They can't lose with that approach.
Prepare to auction it out.
Dayton.tv also went at auction for $700 (on here and SEDO)
I think the auction is the right route for Demand Media and for us .tv holders. I would rather have the names go to people with big bucks with actual development plans then a bunch of domainers (no offense) who are just going to park it. I have .tv names with strong development plans. But let's be realistic equity, if those names were on a first reg basis- most of the owners would have no development plan but would hold out for a high resell and then we ALL would suffer given that scenerio.
Local is it goes to auction then that changed in the last month because prior that a person I know who met with Demand Media management not quinn said auctions were not on the table
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We are all waiting for the premium .TV domains to be released for sale in the near future. I noticed a few have registered before the release and auction, are Enom and Demand Media keeping these for themselves or are they pre releasing to select buyers?
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by MaddieM4 on Apr 4, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Thank you for your interest.
All interested buyers should visit Enom.tv. Once there enter into the search box the premium name you are interested in. A form will pop up for you to enter your information.
Demand Media will be making them available before the end of the month. -1
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s-l-o-w, auction sucks for 98% of us, because big players would now dominate the game, instead of us. Regging smart would get infinitely harder. And there's absolutely no proof that up front bucks will result in automatic development, speculation exists at several tiers.
What IU took from the comments in the other post was that DM would consider any offer made from the forms. I imagine they would use the information to generate some background checks for financial depth, etc. before cherry picking who to respond to. Maybe I'm wrong.
This is where I must disagree. Enough names were not issued as premium that enough of "us" hold claim to them. It is simply beyond logic to think that an End User would pay End User price or a .tv domain giant (Net Turner) to purchase .tv premiums without any plans; particulary for an extension where traffic would be there though minimal to cover such prices less developed. I think for .tv to take off, we need big boy dollars like bud.tv and mlb.tv etc. The aftermarket is not going to die because of this. It will only make it stronger.
Some of the best names are already in the hand of domainers. But the added exposurer for the entire extension will and should and will be catapulted by the major players who can truly spread the news to the masses.
