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[equity78]

Enom becomes the registrar to handle the retail side of the business, but I think it also makes sense to look at Demand Media as a competitor for .tv domains. In the email I posted they said they would not be regging premium .tvs til the first quarter, so from DEC 12 til then there will be no premium domains regged. Maybe Demand Media will be using that time to go through the list of Premium .tv domains and regging those that fit their niches. Not that they don't have every right to reg domains but I view them more as a competitor who has a key to the store rather than a partner. It will be interesting to see if unregged premiums such as News,business,Japan,Usa, Laser and so forth are still avail and if so at what prices are those domains going to cost for registration

 

[MillersCrossing]

Enom becomes the registrar to handle the retail side of the business, but I think it also makes sense to look at Demand Media as a competitor for .tv domains. In the email I posted they said they would not be regging premium .tvs til the first quarter, so from DEC 12 til then there will be no premium domains regged. Maybe Demand Media will be using that time to go through the list of Premium .tv domains and regging those that fit their niches. Not that they don't have every right to reg domains but I view them more as a competitor who has a key to the store rather than a partner. It will be interesting to see if unregged premiums such as News,business,Japan,Usa, Laser and so forth are still avail and if so at what prices are those domains going to cost for registration

Equity,

Competitor to whom?

Why do you look at DM as a competitor on the BASIS of them having the key to the store?

Them having the key may be competition to end users, but to domainers.....the more they keep,or charge higher reg fees, the more our domains have value......

 

[sinnr]

They are a competitor because they get to pilpher the www.tv premium list of domains as prices undisclosed to the rest of us possibly. Therein, taking all the prime domains previously priced outside the reach of people like us.

Is that what you meant E?

 

[antonis12]

Enom becomes the registrar to handle the retail side of the business, but I think it also makes sense to look at Demand Media as a competitor for .tv domains. In the email I posted they said they would not be regging premium .tvs til the first quarter, so from DEC 12 til then there will be no premium domains regged. Maybe Demand Media will be using that time to go through the list of Premium .tv domains and regging those that fit their niches. Not that they don't have every right to reg domains but I view them more as a competitor who has a key to the store rather than a partner. It will be interesting to see if unregged premiums such as News,business,Japan,Usa, Laser and so forth are still avail and if so at what prices are those domains going to cost for registration

Very fair point, though I can't get all that worked up about it.

My sense is that most of us on this forum are at or near our purchasing limit anyway, particularly with the 70% feeding frenzy recently. I can't imagine that we were going to put news/business/usa in play anyway...

As I think about this more, here are my thoughts:

1. Demand Media is one of biggest domain investors in the world, if not the biggest at this point

2. Demand Media took a look at .tv and liked what they saw enough to buy the whole store, so to speak.

I don't see how anyone could view #2 as anything other than a strong vote of confidence in .tv. They certainly did not do this because they thought .tv was about to be a total failure and they have the capital to invest in any domains or extensions they want.

3. Have done #2, Demand Media has every incentive to promote the .tv extension, whatever its strategy is. There is no conceivable way they could do LESS to promote it than what www.tv has done over the last couple of years

4. Short of them doing something unethical to current holders of .tv (e.g. changing the deal) , I can't see how #1 -#3 won't be anything but positive for anyone already holding .tv names. How good or bad this is for future registrants, nobody can say, but for us, it probably is a pretty good to excellent piece of news.

my 2 cents...

 

[MillersCrossing]

Very fair point, though I can't get all that worked up about it.

My sense is that most of us on this forum are at or near our purchasing limit anyway, particularly with the 70% feeding frenzy recently. I can't imagine that we were going to put news/business/usa in play anyway...

As I think about this more, here are my thoughts:

1. Demand Media is one of biggest domain investors in the world, if not the biggest at this point

2. Demand Media took a look at .tv and liked what they saw enough to buy the whole store, so to speak.

I don't see how anyone could view #2 as anything other than a strong vote of confidence in .tv. They certainly did not do this because they thought .tv was about to be a total failure and they have the capital to invest in any domains or extensions they want.

3. Have done #2, Demand Media has every incentive to promote the .tv extension, whatever its strategy is. There is no conceivable way they could do LESS to promote it than what www.tv has done over the last couple of years

4. Short of them doing something unethical to current holders of .tv (e.g. changing the deal) , I can't see how #1 -#3 won't be anything but positive for anyone already holding .tv names. How good or bad this is for future registrants, nobody can say, but for us, it probably is a pretty good to excellent piece of news.

my 2 cents...

Antonis,

Jeez,

Is there anything that you say that I can disagree with??!!

I had the exact same conversation with a good friend this evening and said the exact same thing....Buying the entire ..TV business can only be seen in one way....a vote of confidence in the ext...

In fact this is the first real vote of confidence in .TV full stop........Yes, the video media explosion has taken place and yes, you aint seen nothing yet.....but will .TV get a piece of this pie......its just an ext....a branding......

Well, one of the shrewdest business people on the planet has bought the .TV ext business......thus , nothing short of a total nod of the head at the bright future of .TV

 

[equity78]

Antonis I am not worked up about it just presenting another angle I agree I really could care less I am not looking at any more premiums excpet for maybe 1 and it is $500 I think demand media got into this though for more than running the retail business that's all I was saying

Secondly I spoke to someone close to the situation who spoke to Demand Media was actually interviewed by them to work with .tv and he said that Demand Media thought this was the right time to get involved with .tv

Lastly Demand Media did not purchase the .tv corp Verisign still owns and will receive a % of every premium sold