My First two letter .TV - My First Developed .TV & .TV Auctions *Oh My

*RPK* · 09-20-2007, 01:43 PM

To my Dear NamePro Friends,

Rescently I held an auction on this site to test out the .tv market for auctions. I felt very positive with the success as well as with the success of DomainAcrobats auction (by the way, thanks for your advice DA)

I also believe there is room live auction format like Equity and Smash ran about a month ago, but perhaps it was a bit too early and perhaps it needed more reach. In anycase the live format IMO will be a huge as the .tv extension continues to grow.

I think there is room now for an auction website geared just for the .tv extension. As the aftermarket continues to grow more and more companies will be looking for the perfect .tv name and I felt there was needed a destination website for that purpose.

So I have decided to launch one.

Originally I was going to call it DomainNameAuction.tv, but felt it was a little too long and I always felt if you were going to do something, you should do it right. So I decided to purchase my first two letter .tv...

DA.TV (www.da.tv)

DA.TV I hope will become the destination site for Corporate buyers looking for the perfect .tv for their business.

I have worked to make this site as easy as possible to register and manage your .tv auctions. It is full of great features including automatic relist up to 15 times. So you can run an auction for a week and if it doesn't sell it will automatically relist up to 15 times.

You can also accept many payment systems for automatic payment including paypal.

The cost? 100% Free.

You can list as many names as you want for FREE. I don't charge a listing fee or a percentage of your sale.

So how do I make money? Well I do want to keep this site running and I plan on doing a lot of marketing so right now there is a $2.00 fee for home page featured auction and $1.00 for category featured, bold listing, highlight listing etc..

Also it has google adwords to help support the site.

Eventually down the road I may charge a percentage fee of sales like SEDO, but I don't have plans for that for at least 6 months to a year.

What do I need from you?

Great question. The .tv members here on namepros are the bloodline of the .tv industry. I need your valuable feedback. How can I make this site better? What would you like to see? Was it easy to register? Was it easy to list a name for Auction? Anything you can do to help make this site better for all of us I would greatly appreciate it.

Sorry for a bit of a long post, let me know what you think!

Steven · 09-20-2007, 01:51 PM

A fantastic and great website!
Thank you very much for providing this service for us

The site looks simply amazing

domainacrobat · 09-20-2007, 01:57 PM

Sorry Richard I am signing up now as promised!!! I love your initiative! Congrats!

StoneRoses · 09-20-2007, 02:02 PM

Signed up, how long until i get the email to activate my account?

TheBulldog · 09-20-2007, 02:03 PM

What kind of NON-namepros traffic are you getting? Any sales to non-namepros people?

domainacrobat · 09-20-2007, 02:17 PM

haircareproducts.tv is now up for auction at only $5 !!! Visit DA.TV and sign up folks!

Im going to help populate the auctions later when I get home Richard! I will put up alot of names and see what happens!

*RPK* · 09-20-2007, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by stoneroses

Signed up, how long until i get the email to activate my account?

It is immediate. Can you check your spam file? In anycase I activated your account. Thanks for signing up!
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-tv/376280-my-first-two-letter-tv-my.html

Originally Posted by TheBulldog

What kind of NON-namepros traffic are you getting? Any sales to non-namepros people?

You mean how many since I launched this site 1/2 hour ago?

***Makis.TV*** · 09-20-2007, 02:53 PM

wow!
nice move!

i just signed up.
Would love to see more tv related design(some banners maybe) for da.tv
I also would love to have stats of da.tv or even better of my dot tv listed domains like:
unique visitors
country visitors
returning visitors etc

*RPK* · 09-20-2007, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by on!SPOT

wow!
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=376280
nice move!

i just signed up.
Would love to see more tv related design(some banners maybe) for da.tv
I also would love to have stats of da.tv or even better of my dot tv listed domains like:
unique visitors
country visitors
returning visitors etc

Thank you for signing up. I just sent this mod request to my programmer. I will keep you updated and thanks for the suggestion!

***Makis.TV*** · 09-20-2007, 03:04 PM

i just received my confirmation email and followed the link.
After that i got the following message:
"Error: Account activation is not possible using this feature or the activation details you have submitted are invalid."

ps: my username is the same as here, maybe special characters are not compatible?

*RPK* · 09-20-2007, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by on!SPOT

i just received my confirmation email and followed the link.
After that i got the following message:
"Error: Account activation is not possible using this feature or the activation details you have submitted are invalid."
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=376280

ps: my username is the same as here, maybe special characters are not compatible?

Could be because I manualy activated you. Can you try to log in with your username and password?

***Makis.TV*** · 09-20-2007, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by SearchingTV

Could be because I manualy activated you. Can you try to log in with your username and password?

this is the case!!!

Thanx a lot!!!!

heroes · 09-20-2007, 03:18 PM

Brilliant Richard!!!

I have joined up (and where is the membership card huh ...... lol) and will put some names there over the next 24 hours.

Congratulations, great initiative, and I am sure it will do very well.

SKG · 09-20-2007, 04:13 PM

Nice job Richard!

CarryOn · 09-20-2007, 04:17 PM

Very nice - and all in 9 days from your reg date. Well done! I plan on signing up and giving it a whirl in the next day or so. BTW - creative use of LL.tv. I saw this one available and kept thinking how it would make a good legal site or courtroom action for following District Attorneys. But I certainly like your angle and the renewable auction system. All the best, CarryOn

MicroGuy · 09-20-2007, 04:39 PM

Registered 10 minutes ago....still waiting on email.

Greg.

*RPK* · 09-20-2007, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by microguy

Registered 10 minutes ago....still waiting on email.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=376280

Greg.

I just made the confirmation for you, so you should be good to go. Please check your spam folder to see if it came to you.

You can login now.

Thanks for signing up!

And thanks everyone for the continued feedback!

***AllThings.tv*** · 09-20-2007, 11:18 PM

Either doesn't work or VERY slow to load for me.

hullswingerscom · 09-21-2007, 12:29 AM

very well done...one of the best sites to sell domains i have seen

Argos · 09-21-2007, 12:55 AM

Right time to launch an auction site and take the lead, the tv market is bubbling and this is just the beginning, I just hope that the tons of names which will be listed will be at the quality level of your site.
Congrats Richard.

*RPK* · 09-21-2007, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by HotNames.tv

Either doesn't work or VERY slow to load for me.

That's what happens when you have 30,000 people on the site at once!

Wishful thinking

I am checking with the hosting company the issues.

This is why I just launched it here on Namepros to get all the best feedback and work out the kinks.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=376280

Thanks everyone for your comments!

***AllThings.tv*** · 09-21-2007, 03:38 AM

It works now! Looks excellent...keep up the great work!!!

MicroGuy · 09-21-2007, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by SearchingTV

I just made the confirmation for you, so you should be good to go. Please check your spam folder to see if it came to you.

You can login now.

Thanks for signing up!

And thanks everyone for the continued feedback!

I don't use any spam filtering. You might want to check your mail server settings. Downloaded the bulk tool and submitted auction but it never showed up on your site.

Suggestion: You may not want to list DA.TV for sale on the site if you want people to take it seriously. I know if SEDO.COM was for sale at SEDO, I would be a little nervous.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=376280

Thanks for the confirmation. Good looking site with great potential!

Abdulla · 09-21-2007, 08:03 AM

cool! good luck!

StoneRoses · 09-21-2007, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by on!SPOT

i just received my confirmation email and followed the link.
After that i got the following message:
"Error: Account activation is not possible using this feature or the activation details you have submitted are invalid."

ps: my username is the same as here, maybe special characters are not compatible?

Hi Richard,

i got the same message, can you help, thanks

09-20-2007, 01:43 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
RPK SportsFan.me Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Israel Posts: 3,597 Follow @sportsfanme	My First two letter .TV - My First Developed .TV & .TV Auctions Oh My To my Dear NamePro Friends, Rescently I held an auction on this site to test out the .tv market for auctions. I felt very positive with the success as well as with the success of DomainAcrobats auction (by the way, thanks for your advice DA) I also believe there is room live auction format like Equity and Smash ran about a month ago, but perhaps it was a bit too early and perhaps it needed more reach. In anycase the live format IMO will be a huge as the .tv extension continues to grow. I think there is room now for an auction website geared just for the .tv extension. As the aftermarket continues to grow more and more companies will be looking for the perfect .tv name and I felt there was needed a destination website for that purpose. So I have decided to launch one. Originally I was going to call it DomainNameAuction.tv, but felt it was a little too long and I always felt if you were going to do something, you should do it right. So I decided to purchase my first two letter .tv... DA.TV (www.da.tv)* DA.TV I hope will become the destination site for Corporate buyers looking for the perfect .tv for their business. I have worked to make this site as easy as possible to register and manage your .tv auctions. It is full of great features including automatic relist up to 15 times. So you can run an auction for a week and if it doesn't sell it will automatically relist up to 15 times. You can also accept many payment systems for automatic payment including paypal. The cost? 100% Free. You can list as many names as you want for FREE. I don't charge a listing fee or a percentage of your sale. So how do I make money? Well I do want to keep this site running and I plan on doing a lot of marketing so right now there is a $2.00 fee for home page featured auction and $1.00 for category featured, bold listing, highlight listing etc.. Also it has google adwords to help support the site. Eventually down the road I may charge a percentage fee of sales like SEDO, but I don't have plans for that for at least 6 months to a year. What do I need from you? Great question. The .tv members here on namepros are the bloodline of the .tv industry. I need your valuable feedback. How can I make this site better? What would you like to see? Was it easy to register? Was it easy to list a name for Auction? Anything you can do to help make this site better for all of us I would greatly appreciate it. Sorry for a bit of a long post, let me know what you think! __________________ SportsFan.me - Finally a social sports website done right! For the Serious Sports Fan

09-20-2007, 01:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
Steven Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Namepros.com Posts: 3,450	A fantastic and great website! Thank you very much for providing this service for us The site looks simply amazing __________________ Domain Name

09-20-2007, 01:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
domainacrobat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: USA Posts: 3,669	Sorry Richard I am signing up now as promised!!! I love your initiative! Congrats! __________________ Outlets.Tv Decorator.TV Lifeguard.Tv Lifeguards.Tv Cosmetologist.tv Paleontology.Tv Paddling.Tv Surfboard.TV Baseballs.Tv Basketballs.Tv FightChannel.Tv StockPhotography.Tv TwentyOne.Tv HairStylists.tv A Sea of .Tv Last edited by domainacrobat; 09-20-2007 at 02:01 PM.

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StoneRoses Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: PetInsurance.tv Posts: 2,324	Signed up, how long until i get the email to activate my account? __________________ All prices i quote on my names are valid for 48 hours only from the time quoted.

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09-20-2007, 02:17 PM	#6 (permalink)
domainacrobat Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: USA Posts: 3,669	haircareproducts.tv is now up for auction at only $5 !!! Visit DA.TV and sign up folks! Im going to help populate the auctions later when I get home Richard! I will put up alot of names and see what happens! __________________ Outlets.Tv Decorator.TV Lifeguard.Tv Lifeguards.Tv Cosmetologist.tv Paleontology.Tv Paddling.Tv Surfboard.TV Baseballs.Tv Basketballs.Tv FightChannel.Tv StockPhotography.Tv TwentyOne.Tv HairStylists.tv A Sea of .Tv

09-20-2007, 02:53 PM	#8 (permalink)
*Makis.TV* Business Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Glyfada, Greece Posts: 2,826 Follow @makismour	wow! nice move! i just signed up. Would love to see more tv related design(some banners maybe) for da.tv I also would love to have stats of da.tv or even better of my dot tv listed domains like: unique visitors country visitors returning visitors etc __________________ Check your Speed Test in just a few seconds Domain blogging, hosting tips, wordpress theme reviews and development Kids and Teens Alopecia Online Convert your psd layout 2 joomla template Last edited by Makis.TV; 09-20-2007 at 03:03 PM.

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*Makis.TV* Business Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Glyfada, Greece Posts: 2,826 Follow @makismour	i just received my confirmation email and followed the link. After that i got the following message: "Error: Account activation is not possible using this feature or the activation details you have submitted are invalid." ps: my username is the same as here, maybe special characters are not compatible? __________________ Check your Speed Test in just a few seconds Domain blogging, hosting tips, wordpress theme reviews and development Kids and Teens Alopecia Online Convert your psd layout 2 joomla template

09-20-2007, 03:18 PM	#13 (permalink)
heroes NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 743	Brilliant Richard!!! I have joined up (and where is the membership card huh ...... lol) and will put some names there over the next 24 hours. Congratulations, great initiative, and I am sure it will do very well.

09-20-2007, 04:13 PM	#14 (permalink)
SKG Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bands.TV Posts: 2,783 Follow @bands_tv	Nice job Richard! __________________ Blue.tv

09-20-2007, 04:17 PM	#15 (permalink)
CarryOn NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2007 Location: UK Posts: 309	Very nice - and all in 9 days from your reg date. Well done! I plan on signing up and giving it a whirl in the next day or so. BTW - creative use of LL.tv. I saw this one available and kept thinking how it would make a good legal site or courtroom action for following District Attorneys. But I certainly like your angle and the renewable auction system. All the best, CarryOn

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hullswingerscom Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: yorkshire Posts: 2,409	very well done...one of the best sites to sell domains i have seen __________________ www.transport.tv

09-21-2007, 12:55 AM	#20 (permalink)
Argos Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: fyfy.com Posts: 2,022	Right time to launch an auction site and take the lead, the tv market is bubbling and this is just the beginning, I just hope that the tons of names which will be listed will be at the quality level of your site. Congrats Richard.

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