.tv Here is what the heck is going on

[equity78]

Email from me to enom sales rep who forwarded to the .tv tld manager

Hi Raymond,



Please see the TLD Manager’s response to your questions below:

How will the premium domains work now?

**Your existing Premium domains will continue to function as they do today. All nameserver data, host records, etc will be reset in your enom account to match what they were in your www.tv account.



Same pricing ? different pricing ? different business model ?

***Pricing will remain the same on your renewals. We will not be selling new premium .TV domains until Q1 2007, but will be allowing existing .TV premium names to be renewed (of course). Stay alert for exciting new partnerships and features to make the most out of your .TV domains (Q1 2007)



Verisign would charge a transfer fee for what is a free push at ENOM will this be free now?

***There will be no transfer fee or addtional years added on for .TV domains.



Verisign had a min two year reg fee will this just be one?

***We are not selling premium .TV domains yet and will consider all options for minimum year purchases when they become available.



How will you grandfather previous premium regs that have expiry 1 2 10 years out?

***The expiration dates will not change - whatever you have already paid for will count towards your new domains.



***Some other important notes about your renewals:

your login will change but your password will remain the same. after you login the first time, you can change your login to whatever you wish. Please do this soon after Tuesday's migration so you can set new credit card info in your account (we are not bringing over any credit card info)

Some renewals that we've deemed too expensive to go through the normal process will require the assistance of an eNom sales person. Please make sure your email address is up to date so you can receive instructions.







Thanks!






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From: sales
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:00 AM
To: RH
Subject: RE: Per megan for the .tv tld manager



Hi Raymond,



I just wanted to let you know I passed this on to our TLD mgr and hope to have info for you soon. Thanks for the vote for the raise, I appreciate it! J


Megan




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From: RH
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:22 AM
To: sales
Subject: Per megan for the .tv tld manager



Username Equity 78



Hello my Name is Raymond Hackney I run the largest .tv forum on the net and represent the interest of several .tv domain owners.



FIrst off many areexcited to hear you are taking over the .tv registry.



A few questions



How will the premium domains work now?

Same pricing ? different pricing ? different business model ?

Verisign would charge a transfer fee for what is a free push at ENOM will this be free now?

Verisign had a min two year reg fee will this just be one?

How will you grandfather previous premium regs that have expiry 1 2 10 years out?





Thank you



PS Megan should get a raise very helpful

 

[Paddy]

Seems like the 70% / 50% discount also just ended yesterday. Just got an email from them.

 

[Argos]

Thank you Raymond for this excellent initiative.

 

[equity78]

quite welcome Jean Francois also on the phone they told me ENOM keeping their non premium pricing same not lowering if they do only $1 or $2

I like no more transfer fees

 

[ATL.tv]

Yea, Eq, thanks for the update.

 

[Argos]

I think VeriSign is great in the wholesale arena but wasn't the best, via the .TV Corp, at the retail side of the .tv business. Enom today is no longer the former Enom because the extremely powerful Demand Media is behind and one should think that R. Rosenblatt has never bet on dead dog projects or lost causes but, after MySpace success, is only investing in/creating high growth media niches. Ok let say that this move will not change anything for us as domainers, -although the fact that no more transfer fee is a good thing as this will ease deals-, but I really see this move as the greatest opportunity for the extension to flower on the market. I tend to believe that Enom will be pro active in the marketing of the extension as they have no other commercial choice than to be successful. My 2 cents.

ps : DemandMedia.tv has been regged by Demand Media Inc, via Enom,
on 09-nov-2006 and for....... only 1 year :lol:

 

[sinnr]

Thank you!

 

[SKG]

Thank you Raymond.

 

[RPK]

Very exciting post, thanks!!!