.tv 1 word or 2 word .tv names?

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I am interested in hearing people's thoughts on this. Which do you think is better & would have more value for resale purposes, registering 1 word dictionary words that don't really have the potential to develop it into a video site, or a 2 word domain that makes more sense for a video site & the .tv extention?

The reason I ask this is I see quite a number of 1 word .tv names being regged that I can't really see any potential for development into a video site.

 

[mckennaronnie]

I would stick to the 2 word relevant .tv's though think long & hard about some of the dictionary terms and how they could be used to suit .tv.

Some times when people post their latest buys on the forum then i wonder "how the hell could you develop that, who would buy that...etc" but others see it totally different and come up with lots of nice development ideas to suit the extension.

Also i would say that now all .tv's will be developed into sites full of video content. I believe ideally .tv's should be different than .coms where its just pages of pure text info but that doesnt mean a site full of Video either. My vision for .tv is sites that use Video, text, social networking and try to be unique but i pray we dont end up with millions of youtube or me.tv clones.

 

[smashfactory]

you have to remember too- many single words are product related- so it may not be tv related, but a company can use it to advertise their item- mousetrap.tv has nothing to do with tv, but a company can take that and make one awesome sales sites for the items!
i think we will see more and more of this-

 

[benzdorf]

As a videographer my thoughts are that 2 namers that are more relevent to televison & video and will produce much more results in any future development senerios.

I some what dis-agree with grounds keeper willy in that .TV will turn into millions of nitch lil youtubes type deals, this is enevetable but just like the rabbit ears have disapered from the worlds land scape and the tops of our televison so will cable tv disapear from the backs of out televisons so to will cable from the backs of out tv's. And what is also great about the whole .tv thing is that it applies to most languges around the world and ultimitly some day in the future .tv will bring time/warner cable to its knees .tv's will ultimitly provide the worlds population with all its visual veiwing needs..

 

[TheBulldog]

benzdorf.......where to begin?

.tv will never replace tv/cable. Aside from the obvious reasons, who do you think will be delivering the .tv pipeline into the homes? It isn't the toothfairy, or magic beans. It's the telecom and cable companies.

The only suffering they may do is configuring some type of browser/os onto their set top boxes so that we can surf the internet from our couches without having to have a pc on our laps or attached to the tv.

 

[mckennaronnie]

While i dont believe .tv will ever take oevr Cable/Satelite Tv i do think it will get a share of the audience as many of us have out Tv's connecting to our PC/Interent already and many more will soon.

Now that most of the new Plasma / LCd Tv's are extremely easy to connect to the PC and wireless internet is common then a lot of us site surfing the net on our TV when there is nothing worth watching on Cable. I think this side of things will increase drmatically as more niche channels are well developed.

The set up in my house is:

I have spare PC wired up to new LDC TV
When Cable is rubbish (most of time these days)
Then i flick over to PC and surf then net, watch a few videos or look for whatever it is i need at that point (porn, lottery results, funny videos, football scores, porn...etc)

SO in my viewing habits i would say i spend 90% of time watching Cable on my TV and 10% on the internet with this increasing all the time.

Im sure my viewing habits are not out of the ordinary as i know many folk who go online on their new TV's (cheap LDC's are everywhere now due to prices falling, takes 2 sec to plug PC in and thats it)

Hope what i tried to say there made a little sense (not sure if it did)

 

[vaunter]

The reason I ask this is I see quite a number of 1 word .tv names being regged that I can't really see any potential for development into a video site.

Don´t change your way of thinking, that will save you big money.

If you can understand the whole variables that make a domain "a god one" and you take decisions based on that, you are going to be more successful than other registering 1 word domains without any vision.

As I said before: .TV is a new different thing. You can´t take decisons for registering or buying with the .COM book. Visionaries are taking the lead and that will be translated to $$$$$ next decade.

My best wishes!

 

[domainacrobat]

If there is one lesson everyone should have learned by now, Generic is king! Not relevance to extension. Remember .Mobi, a supposedly "mobile centric TLD" - I registered tons of "mobile related" names that were great but the niche was too small. All the names that sold had nothing to do with mobiles, they were all generic and first names. .TV is supposedly a video centric TLD, you know as soon as the market hits mass acceptance every highly used generic term in the dictionary will be worth something. IMO non relevant generic terms are worth money. I have Equipment.TV pending a $XXXX sale and that term has nothing in common with television or videos. It is a pure generic term that cannot be pluralized, rare and generic.

IMO generic is king.

 

[TheBulldog]

DomainAcrobat......here is my thought on generic.....Right now there is too much cloudiness in the domain world about what the pricing is with Verisign/enom.

While most extensions have tons of people buying up generics, there is not that much interest in generics here, or tv at all from a domainers perspective. The sales, if you look at them as a whole, tend to be to developers/end users and NOT domainers.

Typical conversation with domainer: "Isn't that the one with iffy pricing?"
Typical conversation with joeblow: "Is it free like myspace?"

 

[domainacrobat]

DomainAcrobat......here is my thought on generic.....Right now there is too much cloudiness in the domain world about what the pricing is with Verisign/enom.

While most extensions have tons of people buying up generics, there is not that much interest in generics here, or tv at all from a domainers perspective. The sales, if you look at them as a whole, tend to be to developers/end users and NOT domainers.

Typical conversation with domainer: "Isn't that the one with iffy pricing?"
Typical conversation with joeblow: "Is it free like myspace?"

Hi Showbiz,
I like you, so dont take my disagreement wrong.

I am going to have to disagree. There are lots of Gerneric non video related .TV sales happening. Just as much as any other cctld, if not more, in many cases. I personally do not report my sales, I have sold 60-70 .TV names this year alone. I prefer to leave the buyer some level of anonymity. Mostly because these are forum to forum sales and I want the buyer to have a good chance of reselling for a profit. I have sold an equal amount of video related .TV and non video related names. I also can't say that I have sold any .TV names to endusers, all to other domainers.

One thing I thought I should address:

Typical conversation with domainer: "Isn't that the one with iffy pricing?"


Personally, I have never had this conversation from any serious buyer. Any serious buyer either knows about the renewals and asks up front about it, or they have so much money its really not an issue. I think this is the funniest thing that folks are still worked up about mass acceptance due to the "iffy pricing". It is a non issue IMO.

 

[brainstormTV]

I am interested in hearing people's thoughts on this. Which do you think is better & would have more value for resale purposes, registering 1 word dictionary words that don't really have the potential to develop it into a video site, or a 2 word domain that makes more sense for a video site & the .tv extention?

The reason I ask this is I see quite a number of 1 word .tv names being regged that I can't really see any potential for development into a video site.

Check my sig

 

[boboski]

IMHO IPTV and wimax is gonna give cable and phone cable companies a run for their money--just like cable mostly replaced rabbit ears.
Wireless everything will rule.
.TV will provide niche audiences that will be a better target for advertisers. Single word and single word with "channel" will be very brandable. Again IMHO.

 

[TheBulldog]

Where do you think the wireless providers get their signal from?

It comes as a bulk account from the cable and telephone companies. As a former Telecom Rat and Cable Croney, I can tell you that neither industry is even remotely concerned about losing customers to wifi because wifi is already a customer of theirs.

Sure, they may not have the padding and profits that they are getting now, but they will still profit.

In reality, the cable companies are customers of the phone companies for getting a connection to the internet.

The internet itself basically runs that gamut of the public telephone network, and it most certainly is NOT free to get on that backbone. Every connection, no matter the size, has a cost in the US.

Ma Bell may have split up years ago, but there is still a very large business in running her system.