.tv Excuse my .tv ignorance...

[Miyavi]

...but I've a few questions:

1) Where are the best places to register .tv names and why? Who's the cheapest yet still of good quality?

2) What interests you in the .tv extension as opposed to .mobi/etc.? What got you into it in the first place? What made you decide it was something you wanted to invest in?

I've run a few searches and read up on a few threads, but would prefer to get some fresh answers from currently active .tv investors. Any responses/opinions will be appreciated; I think I'd like to start venturing into the .tv market a bit.

Thanks. :tu:

 

[ulasbbtr]

I think it's godaddy now, 22.99$ their sale price for .tv

 

[jido]

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.TV is just an awesome extension, just waiting for it to pick up (which should be next year) and see the money rolling...

Seriously if you have any video-related project .tv does make sense. Tourism, entertainment and news are three great matches, also sales (real estate, antiques etc)

 

[gwkg]

I don't like .mobi because you don't need a separate extension for a mobile phone, a site can detect its a mobile and send the mobile content instead. So if you don't need it, then it either has to be easier to remember, or easier to type (since every extra keystroke on a mobile phone can be a hassle) .mobi does neither. Plus a lot of the new mobile phones automatically add a .com to anything you type in the browser when you hit enter (Motorola Q for one) I don't see them changing that function to .mobi anytime soon, which makes it even more of a hassle to type in the .mobi extension on your handheld.

.tv is natural for video sites. The entire internet is being revolutionized by online video sites. Compression technology is getting better and better and iptv is right around the corner. You can apply the same argument, you don't need .tv for video, you can use .com. But .com is practically sold out, so what extension instead? .net? .info? None of those have the "cool" factor that .tv does. It's the natural 2nd choice after .com for anything video related.

On top of that, I've never seen a commerical or major advertisement for a .mobi domain name. But .tv is all over television now. Budweiser invested 30 million dollars in bud.tv. Theres an expression in business, "follow the money", and corporate america is pumping a lot of money into the .tv extension.

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

On top of that, I've never seen a commerical or major advertisement for a .mobi domain name. But .tv is all over television now. Budweiser invested 30 million dollars in bud.tv. Theres an expression in business, "follow the money", and corporate america is pumping a lot of money into the .tv extension.

Good point.

 

[Miyavi]

I think it's godaddy now, 22.99$ their sale price for .tv

But a high renewal cost, no?

 

[smashfactory]

at any given time, you need to shop around the prices change and specials run from different places- i always check around each time i reg a name to get the best price.

nemesis- i dont want to give you some car salesman pitch about tv- that wont do you any good- its just sometthing i see as right. see, even witthout .tv, the web is still going to explode with video and internet tv. and while that grows, if you wanted to have a site geared towards that, would you say, well- big.name is perfect for tv, or would you say big.tv is perfect for tv?

see, tv has had little fanfare compared to some others, yet- it is gaining ground on its own. that is a true guidestick to the success of something-
like when all of a sudden, you hear of the hottest new site on the web- but it was never advertised- you just joined and it already has 50,000 members. how? because it is a solid site, and word of mouth made it happen. and it kept going, because it was right.

to me, tv is right

 

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[gwkg]

But a high renewal cost, no?

I called godaddy and the person I talked to wasn't sure of the renewal price of .tv. He first said the sale price was the renewal price and when I said usually domain sales don't extend to renewals he said the most it would be is $34.99.

It may come down in the future, but by then all the best names will be gone. .Wasn't .com was in the same price range in the 90s?

 

[WolfMother]

It may come down in the future, but by then all the best names will be gone. .Wasn't .com was in the same price range in the 90s?

Yes it should be around the same concept. However .TV's pricing structure is different because of premium renewals. I personally like this about .TV because it promotes development for good names. Paying $10k a year to register a particular domain means you have serious intent for something. Of course all the deep pocketed domainers can still scoop them up and wait for a killer offer.

Obviously I hope the renewals come down in price cause i'm paying out the nose. They did have that option when the godaddy sale was going on for registering multiple years at $10/year, so who knows whether that will happen again. But like you said, by that time most of the worthy names will already be gone...