.tv This is too good to be true..

Oh wow, awesome post!
That is definitely a step in the right direction!

I can't wait to see what comes in the next few months.



Mike

iamkali said:

Oh wow, awesome post!
That is definitely a step in the right direction!

I can't wait to see what comes in the next few months.



Mike

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Excelsior!

Thats real good...

after all therez three thingz certain in life " Death, Tax's and Google "

ThreeD said:

28 million!!!

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It's 31,100,000 for me.... google's servers are working overtime. (Because of course all regular time is given to dot COMs) :hehe:

freedom30 said:

Excelsior!

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I like your thinkin!



Mike

Not necessarily a good 'stat' ... do you believe that these results are all actual, relevant, properly developed ".TV websites" (versus parked and simple porn type landing pages / domain names (and a shedload of other junk)? :blink:

If the #'s/results are accurate, I would say that 27,992,017+ are of the worthless variety, with the simple luck of being indexed at the time of search IMHO. :red:

Too good to be true! :imho:

Just my two sense,
Jeff

I have 47.300.000, try site:tv

Thank you ThreeD. Great post - Reps added.

I was at a trade show, over the weekend, and saw a film crew filming for a .TV website (hashbar TV).

Given the massive scope of the price changes on 19 March and the beautiful clean lines of the TV extension (kinda kidding), not to mention the international recognition of the TV abbreviation, I am not surprised that popularity is picking up. Here are some of my contributions:

Connect.tv
CancunHotels.tv
AttorneySearch.tv
BusinessAttorney.tv
InternetBanking.tv
Religious.tv
Bakeware.tv
DogCare.tv
Vinyl.tv
GpsDevices.tv
PClaptops.tv
shredders.tv
surgical.tv

Best,

Claude

Interesting, thanks for the thread.

While there are high-profile sales of generic .COM domains, most .COM development is on brandable .COM domains. Those of you who develop I'm sure have seen the sort of domains that other webmasters seeking link exchanges are using - really *&^%$#! .COM domains which only a newbie would register. Imagine the backlinking effort necessary to rank those ugly ducklings! But generic .COM prices are so exorbitant that most languish undeveloped. .Net & .TV domains generally don't generate significant parking earnings so portfolio holders have to be more realistic about their resale value. Yes, .COM has greater acceptance, but given the cost of domain acquisition, IMO over time we will see among generic domains probably a more rapid pace of .Net & .TV development than .COM (brandable .COM development will continue to blossom of course). I have more .COM domains in my portfolio than .TV but have no plans to develop any of them at the moment. In the next six weeks I hope to have my twelfth developed .TV site (also have several contracted sites).

ThreeD,

Very interesting observations.
and I like the Google syntax link you provided.
You learn something new everyday!
Repped.

thanks for sharing.
Vito.

I noticed this thread is 173 days old and I think it's time to look back and see how far we've come since February 2010.

I did a new search on google for indexed .TV sites today using the regular site:*.TV or site:.TV command in the google search box.

I have to say I'm rather stunned and amazed by the numbers google returned.

Let's take a look back -

• In February 2010: 11.2 million .TV sites were indexed by google.
  
• By late April 2010: 28 million .TV sites were indexed by google.
  
• By mid October 2010: What do you think? How many .TV sites were indexed today?

Here is a breakdown of the numbers:

• February 2010: 11.2 Million .TV sites were indexed.
  
• April 2010: 28 million .TV sites were indexed - a 250% increase since February 2010.
  
• October 2010: A whopping 76.8 million .TV sites are now indexed by google. That's a massive 274.3% increase since late April 2010.

Now, I don't know about you all, but I think a total increase of 524.3% indexed .TV sites in a timeframe of 8 months is a pretty impressive increase. What do you all think?

Lets hope this trend continues :hearts:

...wouldn't allow me to rep you for this factoid so I'll just give you a public "thank ye kindly" for the most interesting and relevant information on the growth of the extension!

Looking good with a volume increase as this ..in general with any business growth.

Hey ThreeD,

Its pretty cool to wake up today seeing some hard facts supporting the strength and power of this freight train rollin -
More developed .TV sites recognized from the powers that be of "Google"!

I love these facts because this completely shuts up the TV Anti-Fans who like to refer any positive Dot TV News, as "hype" and "cheerleading".

Those Braindead Morons can argue no longer as TV quickly arises to the top of the heap of the most important fact we have all been hoping and slowly working for - MORE DEVELOPED .TV Sites!

Well, I took your research one step further. I took about 12 tld's and searched for their number of Google search results. I am hoping to update these as time goes by, (every coupla months). My search results puts Dot TV at #5 today (Oct. 17 2010) above .info, .de, etc.

site:*.com
4,280,000,000

site:*.org
334,000,000

site:*.net
211,000,000

site:*.co.uk
198,000,000

site:*.tv
46,300,000

site:*.info
33,700,000

site:*.in
28,600,000

site:*.de
23,200,000

site:*.us
12,600,000

site:*.eu
9,990,000

site:*.co
280,000

site:*.me
267,000

Interestingly enough, .org is #2.
I would have guessed net would have been #2, and org would have been #3.
and one more very intriguing observation - .co.uk seems to be HOT on the heels of .net

Cool thread ThreeD,
Keep it goin!
Vito

PS - and Go Bears!

# of results is not equal to number of sites.

More pages indexed is good, means there is higher adoption by actual users.

Does this have a direct implication on value of .tv domains, aside from the obvious higher usage > higher value cycle, i really doubt it.

mwzd said:

# of results is not equal to number of sites.

More pages indexed is good, means there is higher adoption by actual users.

Does this have a direct implication on value of .tv domains, aside from the obvious higher usage > higher value cycle, i really doubt it.

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...I like it, nonetheless...

Big mo' is better than little mo' any day of the week, and right now the extension is expriencing big mo'!

Post by dotstop
"Interestingly enough, .org is #2.
I would have guessed net would have been #2, and org would have been #3.
and one more very intriguing observation - .co.uk seems to be HOT on the heels of .net"



That's what I would have thought also regarding .org and .net.

Domain tools internet statistics currently shows registrations by TLD

COM 90.4 million
NET 13.4 million
ORG 8.8 million
Info 7.1 million

I suspect this other tool is counting the same domain multiple times. Sometimes when I search for certain keyword phrases to see where my sites rank, I notice they are indexed multiple times for different pages of the same site.

Let's not get too blinded by the extension. After all, .TV is a product of the web's political framework.

.TV gets its brand power, its market, from the real product... that marvelous invention called the TV!

If you understand that the fact .TV actually stands for Tuvalu makes little difference in the market place. Then you should understand that the extension itself is not THE market, or the story.

The story here is the rapid rise of "TV branding" in domain names.

That's THE Market! .TV is a big part of that market.

But as the leading professionals in the TV domain trade... I think some objective market perspective is a good thing (even in a .tv forum):

site:* tv.com 120,000,000

eyedomainous said:

....TV gets its brand power, its market, from the real product... that marvelous invention called the TV!...

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That is true...and the screw is indeed turning now since the middle of March and shows no signs of slowing down.

It is in fact a cost-effective alternative for endusers compared to the gouging and highway robbery that similar .com names has been giving them in terms of overblown prices that kept them from buying those names.

Good opportunity now to sell the name for a price endusers can afford and relate to...TV!

Branding by proxy...what a concept!

I still like it, and apparently many more are liking it as well...

I dont want to rain on anybodys parade here.. but you cant hold "much" stock in those numbers google is providing. There are MANY factors which will skew those numbers in both + and - directions. For example, users in America will get a different number than those in Australia etc etc.

I am sure the numbers are going up, which is a positive sign. But dont get too excited as you will probably see a drop when google does an update. All search indexes change very frequently on both + and - trends.

What should I say......OK, Hurray!!!.TV is on right track.

Thanks ThreeD

mwzd said:

# of results is not equal to number of sites.

More pages indexed is good, means there is higher adoption by actual users.

Does this have a direct implication on value of .tv domains, aside from the obvious higher usage > higher value cycle, i really doubt it.

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Is most likely means the Google index has grown. People come out with these stats for every new or alt extension out there as though is a sign of growth. Unless it is compared to the total index size it means nothing, it is people trying to convince themselves with very poor statistics.