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After more than 14 days, I am now back in Southern California after spending some time on the Colorado River in Arizona and in the panhandle of Florida.
While it was intended as a vacation, I could not help but dream about different development opportunities for some of my names including boat.tv, powerboat.tv, and jetski.tv. I was a bit surprised when I noticed guys younger than me driving boats worth $xxx,xxx; it turns out that anybody with decent credit can buy a boat with a 20 year payment plan, similar to a house...who knew. I shared some of those ideas with watercraft owners and the feedback was very positive.
I entertained a variety of questions about .tv, but once people knew and understood what .tv was they got it. In fact, many of them asked what .com stood for once they saw the inherent value in a .tv domain name. How many people familiar with the Internet actually know what .com stands for? Short answer: It was intended for commercial businesses, hence the first three letters in the word commercial. The regulating body ultimately opened up .com registration to anybody, including individuals, rather than restricting it to commercial businesses.
The one thing I did on vacation that I rarely do at home is sit in front of an actual television watching broadcast TV (I didnโt have a laptop with Internet access and my Blackberry was destroyed...long story). One thing I learned is that TNT is the number one advertiser of .tv on television at the moment because they advertise their .tv site 24 hours a day, 7 days weeks except during commercials. Every TNT show features a TNT.tv watermark in the lower right hand corner, which made it very easy to find TNT when flipping through the channels.
I also noticed four or five other .tv sites being advertising by less prominent organizations. The more .tv sites advertised the better. I will keep saying that when regular Internet users know about and understand that the .tv extension is an existing destination online where users can find interactive media AND when they can name 3 or more .tv sites off the top of their heads, then it is safe to say that the extension will have reached critical mass and enter an exponential growth phase that few .com diehards could deny.
While it was intended as a vacation, I could not help but dream about different development opportunities for some of my names including boat.tv, powerboat.tv, and jetski.tv. I was a bit surprised when I noticed guys younger than me driving boats worth $xxx,xxx; it turns out that anybody with decent credit can buy a boat with a 20 year payment plan, similar to a house...who knew. I shared some of those ideas with watercraft owners and the feedback was very positive.
I entertained a variety of questions about .tv, but once people knew and understood what .tv was they got it. In fact, many of them asked what .com stood for once they saw the inherent value in a .tv domain name. How many people familiar with the Internet actually know what .com stands for? Short answer: It was intended for commercial businesses, hence the first three letters in the word commercial. The regulating body ultimately opened up .com registration to anybody, including individuals, rather than restricting it to commercial businesses.
The one thing I did on vacation that I rarely do at home is sit in front of an actual television watching broadcast TV (I didnโt have a laptop with Internet access and my Blackberry was destroyed...long story). One thing I learned is that TNT is the number one advertiser of .tv on television at the moment because they advertise their .tv site 24 hours a day, 7 days weeks except during commercials. Every TNT show features a TNT.tv watermark in the lower right hand corner, which made it very easy to find TNT when flipping through the channels.
I also noticed four or five other .tv sites being advertising by less prominent organizations. The more .tv sites advertised the better. I will keep saying that when regular Internet users know about and understand that the .tv extension is an existing destination online where users can find interactive media AND when they can name 3 or more .tv sites off the top of their heads, then it is safe to say that the extension will have reached critical mass and enter an exponential growth phase that few .com diehards could deny.
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