.tv History Of .tv - A Travellers Guide.

[MillersCrossing]

Hey guys,

I really would like it if members of this forum can contribute to this thread with their knowledge on the beginnings of .TV - when were companies first able to reg, when were domainers first eligable to reg, when did Verisign start charging yearly premiums, when did they up their yearly reg fees (i read that lll.tv has now gone up from $500 to $750.....were they once regular reg fee?...).

Does anyone think that there has been any definate periods of change - like the ice age, dark age and so on from its beginnings...I myself have seen a drastic change in the quality of available regges over the last six months alone.....

And finally, perhaps most importantly, would love to get domainers opinions on which year .TV really hits the big time....and what are the consequences for domainers?? (other than the value of their domain increases)

Thanks for all who donate their time to this thread

 

[equity78]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv

Quality - There is plenty of quality available you can't get it for non premium pricing always. Secondly Quality is a matter of opinion.

LLL has always been premium priced with some dropping through at a non premium price.


Secondly I do not believe there will be anything to make .tv bigger than.com. .com is oxygen and while there are other elements that matter Oxygen is the most relevant to humans and IMO .com is the most relevant to Internet Users.

The key will be for .tv sites that are established to become POP CULTURE sites that garner a lot of traffic and a lot of MindShare. Along with that some major Entertainment and Media companies using the.tv ext prominently.

There are still many LL and LLL.tv avail with great Letter combinations as that number shrinks I think it will be one helpful metric to use in seeing how .tv is becoming bigger. The number of regs has picked up over the last year coinciding with the creation of this sub forum(hmmm) .tv corp is well aware of that. I get emails from people who have never joined here saying thank you I read that forum and regged a .tv for my business.

.tv is a natural for business and people who just want to get across that their site will be Video or media related. SO it makes sense for a Howard.tv or any celeb to use.tv.

On the flip side and you know I am pro.tv, an event like the HRTS auction shows .tv has a long way to go when a name like KIDS.tv goes for $10,100 IMO that is a xxx,xxx name. Perfect to build a business around with so many options I like Kids.tv over anything but .com.

The bigger key here is .tv allows people right now to find a name in a less saturated but intuitive ext that is growing more popular. The thing is to pick one or two domains and develop I never believed it made sense to take a .com approach and own 50- 100 .tv domains. If they are not premium generics most likely you not turning 10% of those over in a year, and the reg fees add up. .com you have other options; PPC, blow a name out cheap get some money back. Very rare a non generic .tv getting any traffic for ppc and you not going to sell it for half of what you paid as it gets near renewal.

So what matters more with .tv is not where the ext will be tomorrow, but where are you with your best .tv domain today getting ready for the future of the VIDEONET.

IMO

notice that the subforum now listed on the .tv wikipedia site under external links

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Internet.tv

Was www.Internet.tv the first .tv registered? Also, Dotser was the first 3rd party registrar:



Internet.tv:

http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/8d/8d_1.htm#s1


Dotster:

http://www.tv/en-def-d4bf014960b9/en/press/news_pr_0807200_dotster.shtml

Also, FirstDirect.tv & Carefee.tv:

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/word/2001/dtv2001-0021.doc

And, Bloomberg:

http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/96681.htm

First ,.tv to make Top 10 on DnJournal.com Plasma.tv:

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2004/domainsales05_11_04.htm

.Tv Corporation & Verisign:

http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/internet.html

Fyi

Frank

 

[MillersCrossing]

Come On.........

Of the 201 viewers so far, is no one prepared to predict which year will be the year that .TV gains mass acceptance??

 

[equity78]

That's a fools proposition, Bottom line domains and domain acceptance matters to domainers the rest of the world could really care less IMO

The question is when will people start developing 1 or 2 good .tv domains and not regging 100 of which 90 won't be renewed?

Acceptance does not matter that much and who it would matter to IMO is people who own premium generics. Or does the scenario go "I just saw a commercial for Bud.tv I am going to start typing in two and three word .tvs to see what kind of sites there are on those domains." BUD.tv is not going to help you, only you are going to help you by developing a domain with a solid business model. Fish.com sold for 1million it did not help my .com sales nor should it have. This extension is about development more so that any other because there is an inutitve component to the ext ".tv" people expect to see a higher end multimedia site.

It seems the question here is looking for some type of validation or guarantee that one made in a certain extension. This is a subjective business that is unpredictable anyone who says they can predict is just stating an opinion as fact BUT THEY KNOW NOTHING just an opinion IMO

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

It will gain a lot of momentum this year and into next. No idea when, but it will be much quicker than it was for the .com given the number of players now involved and how much more of a role companies expect the Internet to play in their future.