With DNJournal reporting that FoodTV.co.uk has just sold for $7698 does anyone else carry a lot of TV.co.uk inventory?
Added to last weeks two bIG keywordTV.com sales (5k and 10K) is the TV.co.uk TV.com TV.de TV.net market going through a mini-upward-blip or is this a real indication of it pushing forward in a steady way?
WHo knows this TV thing is spreading its tentacles everywhere
Great Sale Eq.......startring to respect you as a domainer not just a forum moderator....!!
Anyone that can swipe a name off me and sell it back at double the price deserrves a handshake and I wouldnt have bought CoolTv .Net for more than reg fee - so - I have lots to learn...
The good thing about them is that you HAVE you register them for at least two years.
I regged them to protect my TV.com names which were for UK use, then got more and more into .TV
My portfolio is now an interesting mix of TV.co.uk TV.com and .TV and I think people can work between all the variants.
For geo names in the UK I would ALWAYS want TownName or CountyNameTV.com and TV.co.uk
However for general topic things I would prefer Keyword.TV
The fact is whether you get you internet TV from TV.com or .TV is pretty much the same as whether you get normal TV from satellite or cable - there's little material difference. Just personal preference and local conditions.
Out of interest I have only ever SOLD two of my names, one was a TV.co.uk for $850 (to some really nice guys who had a REAL reason for the name) and the other a.TV for $80 as a personal experiment in buying and selling a handregged name.
I agree with Acrobat, renewal fees are the killer and unless you can monetise domains (while you're waiting for your big payout - LOL), then you are throwing money down the gurgler. For every .TV you own, you have to earn about $30 a year to cover renewals, hosting etc. Bit easier with dot coms ... you only need to make ten bucks a year to be in front. And of course it's a lot easier to make $10 a year from a dot com than $30 from a dot TV.
I actually bought my first names (all geo's) as a long term thing, believing that prices on .Com renewals would reduce!!!
I've had my first hit of renewals. They do focus the mind. During my last batch (over 200) I ended up offloading only five names - mostly defunct for my purposes or just plain bad names.
The other names i have purchased (including .TV ones) I did have every intention of 'monetising', but reality is, the bIG project shined its light in my face and the people who work with me just got on with that, and that alone.
My options now are to build mini-sites for my names using outside contractors, to sit on them, to park them, or to sell them. There is also the option of letting some go - but I doubt that will happen in any number above 4% of the total.
If we relate many of the TV.co.uk names I have to the origin of this thread, the fact that the TV.co.uk market is taking root, then, if you were from the UK would you really get rid of the likes of...
for sale : DNLORD.COM 
