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Are we missing the boat here in thinking that Demand Media actually has the ability to set policy regarding the .TV TLD?
It is looking more and more like they were simply brought in for marketing purposes and have limited say at best as to the long-term direction of the extension. Even on the marketing end I feel their control is severely limited.
Continually I hear that the pricing structure is completely controlled by Verisign and Demand has no say in the matter. Well if this is true, as far as I can see the pricing structure is the biggest overall hurdle in regards to marketing the extension. Therefore, Demand Media really has no control and is doing its best with one hand tied behind its back.
As has been pointed on numerous occasions on this board, people who support .TV are constantly faced with outsiders confusion as to how the TLD pricing structure is really run. To make matters worse, we the supporters of .TV can't sufficiently answer these questions thus miss another opportunity to get someone onboard the .TV Bandwagon and instead create the opposite effect whereby another person who goes out and tells others to stay away from .TV because your long term investment isn't safe. That right there is the crux of the issue keeping .TV from realizing its potential.
It is clear that to some degree there is a disconnect in the communication channels between enom, it's parent company Demand Media, and the real company in power Verisign. I have seen first hand a number of examples of this disconnect in info that has been provided by Demand Media after I've had conversations with people supposedly in the know at Enom tell me completely opposite things. It isn't exactly clear just how much control Verisign has over Demand Media in setting the overall direction of the extension. I would like Quinn to shed some light on this situation. Needless to say, I don't expect Quinn to be completely transparent on this issue, not necessarily because she doesn't want to rather because she may not be able to reveal information that the company considers privileged and private. But give us something more concrete. Maybe we should be voicing our concerns directly to Verisign since they seem to be the one driving the car.
It is looking more and more like they were simply brought in for marketing purposes and have limited say at best as to the long-term direction of the extension. Even on the marketing end I feel their control is severely limited.
Continually I hear that the pricing structure is completely controlled by Verisign and Demand has no say in the matter. Well if this is true, as far as I can see the pricing structure is the biggest overall hurdle in regards to marketing the extension. Therefore, Demand Media really has no control and is doing its best with one hand tied behind its back.
As has been pointed on numerous occasions on this board, people who support .TV are constantly faced with outsiders confusion as to how the TLD pricing structure is really run. To make matters worse, we the supporters of .TV can't sufficiently answer these questions thus miss another opportunity to get someone onboard the .TV Bandwagon and instead create the opposite effect whereby another person who goes out and tells others to stay away from .TV because your long term investment isn't safe. That right there is the crux of the issue keeping .TV from realizing its potential.
It is clear that to some degree there is a disconnect in the communication channels between enom, it's parent company Demand Media, and the real company in power Verisign. I have seen first hand a number of examples of this disconnect in info that has been provided by Demand Media after I've had conversations with people supposedly in the know at Enom tell me completely opposite things. It isn't exactly clear just how much control Verisign has over Demand Media in setting the overall direction of the extension. I would like Quinn to shed some light on this situation. Needless to say, I don't expect Quinn to be completely transparent on this issue, not necessarily because she doesn't want to rather because she may not be able to reveal information that the company considers privileged and private. But give us something more concrete. Maybe we should be voicing our concerns directly to Verisign since they seem to be the one driving the car.
