Have you noticed the large number of bands, musicians, singers and music producers who use .tv ?
Well, music and TV have been going hand in hand for many many years with lots of very successful music TV channels everywhere in the world. So it's not really a surprise to see that they get involved in .tv
More and more artists from the great world of music are now using .tv domains for their official websites and I thought it could be an interesting idea to keep track of them in this thread.
Tom Vek, alternative/experimental musician from London who, amongst other things, has contributed to the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack http://www.tomvek.tv
Feel free to contribute and to add the bands, singers and musicians you know who are using .tv for their official websites, whatever their style, whether they're well-known or still unsigned.
It's funny you mention this because I registered a premium Singers.tv ($500)
last year and had buyers remorse on that one. I think you just convinced me to renew it)
Jim, singers.tv could be an interesting name as long as you have a good plan for it. Are you trying to sell it or do you want to develop it ?
Premium names are usually better suited for development.
Singers.tv could be a great name to build a website aimed at promoting some young unsigned singers.
It could include their interviews, video clips and/or videos of their concerts. Could be a very interesting project to build.
I mentioned recently on this forum the French website http://www.music75.tv which is dedicated to unsigned artists.
I think the Internet in general and .tv in particular are absolutely ideal to promote young talents.
Some singers like Lily Allen became famous thanks to MySpace. I think a video website on a .tv domain could potentially be even better than MySpace there.
This thread was initially meant to be about the artists, musicians, bands, etc. who use .tv domains for their official websites. As lots of fans go to those websites, they're excellent when it comes to raising .tv awareness.
But if you own music-related .tv domains, you could use this thread to discuss the development plans you may have, the music-related .tv websites you've possibly already developed. That could be interesting too...
Last edited by michaeldotcom : 07-05-2008 at 09:50 AM.
An even better example is Franz Ferdinand, the famous Scottish indie rock band. They actually have two official websites, one is .co.uk, the other one is .tv. They're quite different...
Online video is still very much in its infancy and we can already see artists, bands and musicians getting into it. You can bet that those bands' official .tv sites will be completely different in a few years time when technology will evolve and they'll start to master all the power and interactivity of online video.
Last edited by michaeldotcom : 07-05-2008 at 10:31 AM.
Totally agree that music and video is quite literally a killer combination and this has been proved since the Buggles did their Video Killed the Radio thing almost a generation ago.
I had a quick look through my inventory and have Song TV.com and Song TV.co.uk so obviously had some notion to spend the money when I did (I tend to have a good reason for purchase - clear business proposition - even though the names might seem strange).
By pure coincidence I managed to bag the name CountrySinger .TV this morning.
As you all know I am a bIG fan of this particular genre!!!
The biggest problem with music is that of copyright. One false use and you get a good @£$%ing.
You're definitely right about the extraordinary power of the music/video combination.
Copyright could be a problem or not, depends how you look at it.
Let's talk from the point of view of members of this forum, some of us may own some music-related .tv (or tv.com) domains.
Two possible cases, either you're a reseller or a developer :
1) As a reseller, there's no copyright problem as you don't develop. And this huge new market that's emerging is full of opportunities for you. As online video is booming and artists, bands, singers, etc. are getting into it, you'll have lots of opportunities to sell your music-related .tv domains to those who actually own their copyrights, so no problem there.
2) As a developer, it probably wouldn't be too wise to put some copyrighted stuff on your .tv site, but what about unsigned artists ? That's another huge market which is worth exploring. There are lots of young bands/singers who want to become famous in the UK, the US and elsewhere... They could use the power of the Internet through your .tv site to do so. Being the link between these unsigned bands and the general public is a great market to explore for .tv developers who own music-related domains.
But it's not just artists, musicians and bands who are moving towards .tv. Music news sites are doing so too.
Those of you who are interested in music may know about the Chicago-based website http://www.pitchfork.com , dedicated to news and reviews about indie rock.
Well, they've recently launched a very nice companion video site on a .tv domain, just like many newspapers have done in recent times :
We've been talking about British and American bands/singers in this thread so far, but then again, music and .tv go together in the rest of the world too.
An example amongst others would be Minerale, a indie pop-rock band from Belgium whose official website is :
The difficulties of mass distributing video content, which music lends itself too, is very complex and expensive if you want high quality video (that is capable of being massively scaled), and particularly if you are streaming it live. From what I have read and my understanding, the team behind Bands.tv is aiming for live streaming of independent musicians utilizing a dedicated Content Distribution Network (CDN).
For an "unknown" start-up band do this on their own from their own website is an impossibility due to the sign up costs and long term commitment to a CDN provider. However, if the artists are aggregated like Bands.tv is on about, or an artist gets "traction" from a site like MySpace (recent example being "Bubbly" - Colbie Caillat), then anything is possible.
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