.tv Where are they now ? Some big sales from .tv history

equity78 · Aug 29, 2012

Some of the biggest sales in .tv where are they now ?

Travel.tv (9/2005) $65,000 Owned by Elequa/Fma.com will probably just sit
Hot.tv (9/2007) $35,000 parked at Sedo
Mail.tv (9/2005) $35,000O Owned by Elequa/FMA.com
CN.tv (/2004) $30,000 Server down
AuctionNetwork.tv (8/2007) $25,000

Site does not resolve now
Televisions.tv (6/2008) $25,000 nothing but banner that says televisions.tv invalid
Telmex.tv (7/2007) $25,000 under construction
Six.tv (6/2007) $25,000 dropped picked up by another domainer
SS.tv (7/2008) $21,500 dropped picked up by another domainer
DE.tv (5/2007) $21,500 Video Site branded Deutschland Tv
Plasma.tv (?/2004) $20,000 Owned by Elequa/Fma.com will probably just sit.
Cash.tv (7/2007) $18,263 Dropped picked up by Blue String Ventures
Fight.tv (8/2008) $18,000 Developed pretty cool
SMS.tv (4/2005) $18,000 Dropped picked up by Ben Van Dyk
MoneyTalks.tv (6/2007) $15,000 Does not resolve but still owned by the porn company that bought it Reality Kings
LiveShop.tv (8/2006) $10,015 Parked page
BusinessChannel.tv (5/2006) $10,000 Dropped
AZ.tv (11/2005) $15,000 Developed

dr manos · Aug 29, 2012

very nice post, thanks

mckennaronnie · Aug 30, 2012

2 i'd noticed

rt.tv sold for $62,500 in 2009 (by Johntv if i remember correct) and now used by major russian tv channel Russia Today
They advertise rt.tv often on their english tv channel on sky uk.

Fussball.tv $28,367 in Mar 08 now redirects to soccerway.com

DnEbook · Aug 30, 2012

just goes to show you need a Plan with this extension

RPK · Aug 30, 2012

The person who bought televisions.tv from me owned the dot com and bought it as a defensive reg.

DU · Aug 30, 2012

This doesn't count the innumerable NDAs that exist... lol

Interesting that such prices were paid primarily by domain investors - Elequa/FMA does less with his names than I do mine. What a waste.

Kate · Aug 30, 2012

defaultuser said:
Elequa/FMA does less with his names than I do mine. What a waste.

Elequa is a special case: he is a true domain collector

4pm · Aug 30, 2012

mckennaronnie said:
rt.tv sold for $62,500 in 2009 (by Johntv if i remember correct) and now used by major russian tv channel Russia Today
They advertise rt.tv often on their english tv channel on sky uk.

RT (RussiaToday) is not major Russia TV channel by any means.
Thats a government venture created to be russian official TV for non-russians.. poor content, old news, awful guests.. has nothing to do with major russian channels

The only russian major channel on .TV i aware of is russia.tv - owned by VGTRK - monstrous govt media holding

All others are on .RU which is by default the only real TLD in Russia - .com considered to be much worse than .net (which is weak and rare) - no one in his right mind would develop .com for Russian internet audience, .org has no footprint at all, the rest is non-existent...

.TV has chances as it means what it says - opposed to .ME for instance which doesnt mean "me" for most russians at all

imho... i mean imho.tv

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mckennaronnie · Aug 30, 2012

4pm said:
RT (RussiaToday) is not major Russia TV channel by any means.
Thats a government venture created to be russian official TV for non-russians.. poor content, old news, awful guests.. has nothing to do with major russian channels

The only russian major channel on .TV i aware of is russia.tv - owned by VGTRK - monstrous govt media holding

All others are on .RU which is by default the only real TLD in Russia - .com considered to be much worse than .net (which is weak and rare) - no one in his right mind would develop .com for Russian internet audience, .org has no footprint at all, the rest is non-existent...

.TV has chances as it means what it says - opposed to .ME for instance which doesnt mean "me" for most russians at all

imho... i mean imho.tv

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Russian owned, russian content and a major development so i'll stick by my 'major russian tv channel'

About rt: The service is aimed at the overseas news market and broadcast through 22 satellite and 230 cable operators throughout the world. In addition to its English-language broadcast, it also runs Rusiya Al-Yaum, an Arabic language channel, and Spanish-language channels. It also runs a documentary channel. RT has 21 bureaus in 16 countries, with "presences" in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, Delhi, Cairo, Baghdad, Kiev and other cities. It employs over 2,000 media professionals worldwide. It broadcasts to 430 million people in over 100 countries. RT America is available to 50 million people in the United States.[4]

RT is the second most-watched foreign news channel in the United States, after BBC News.[5] The network's YouTube channel has gained over 700 million views

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Seems major, Russian an tv channel to me. IMHO

DU · Aug 30, 2012

sdsinc said:
Elequa is a special case: he is a true domain collector

No, he's a domain "artist" or a "architect of "future media".

If I had his money I'd be retired not playing around in .TV.

Keith · Aug 30, 2012

Public.tv just got registered for about $6500 by worldstyle.tv. IMO that domain is a perfect fit for the extension and I've drooled over it for ages. Can't believe it lasted this long! Let's see what it becomes...

DU · Aug 31, 2012

Keith said:
Public.tv just got registered for about $6500 by worldstyle.tv. IMO that domain is a perfect fit for the extension and I've drooled over it for ages. Can't believe it lasted this long! Let's see what it becomes...

I'm surprised it lasted this long also. It's really a great name but a little generic for my tastes..

idevelop.tv · Sep 1, 2012

4pm said:
RT (RussiaToday) is not major Russia TV channel by any means.
Thats a government venture created to be russian official TV for non-russians.. poor content, old news, awful guests.. has nothing to do with major russian channels

The only russian major channel on .TV i aware of is russia.tv - owned by VGTRK - monstrous govt media holding

All others are on .RU which is by default the only real TLD in Russia - .com considered to be much worse than .net (which is weak and rare) - no one in his right mind would develop .com for Russian internet audience, .org has no footprint at all, the rest is non-existent...

.TV has chances as it means what it says - opposed to .ME for instance which doesnt mean "me" for most russians at all

imho... i mean imho.tv

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RT is a major TV station and thats evident if you leave Russia or the USA.. Its on all Asia cable and satellite channels and is one of the only channels I watch to get up to the minute news.. They cover a host of world events and to me it beats any banker controlled channels that come out of the US or UK... Just go to their youtube channel and you can see they are very up to date with what is happening around the world.. Ofcourse they are not for the Russian audience and that's obvious because they speak English..

4pm · Sep 1, 2012

idevelop.tv said:
RT is a major TV station and thats evident if you leave Russia or the USA..

and there is no RT in China (at least i've never managed to find it there)
..so out of US, China, Russia - whats left for "major channel"?

not sure about South America though. but i have them in Thailand right now

ok, by major russian channel i mean channels popular in Russia.. thats terminology thing, lets call RT "major russian channel".. with no presence in Russia

RT is owned by the government, i watch them regularly when i'm out of Russia (where they are not even avail) which is most of the year. the fact they are in every cable all over the world is a matter of money they pay for access. being backed by the govt they got tons to spend. they wouldnt mind buying RT.tv for 100 or 300K really
it's not commercial venture, it's a political thing. i dont know which is worse.. bankers controlled CNN or government controlled RT

major channels (in Russia) are:

1tv.ru
russia.tv/russia2.tv
ntv.ru
tvc.ru
tnt-online.ru
ctc.ru

..sorry i can be well off topic probably

idevelop.tv · Sep 1, 2012

We can keep discussing this

http://rt.com/about/corporate-profile/

RT.com is also in the top 1000 websites (Alexa ranking of 946)and other than their actual "global reach of over 430 million people, or 22% of all cable subscribers worldwide" the number of youtube views has already exceeded half a billion, making RT the first TV news channel to break this record in YouTube’s history.

Im also in Thailand.

mckennaronnie · Sep 1, 2012

4pm said:
and there is no RT in China (at least i've never managed to find it there)
..so out of US, China, Russia - whats left for "major channel"?

not sure about South America though. but i have them in Thailand

..sorry i can be well off topic probably

RT is available in uk / Europe.
I watch it now and then for some major news events which uk media dont seem as interested in.

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