.tv Koldcast.TV Goes Bust

[eyedomainous]

When I read that KoldCast.TV is shutting down after losing millions on original content I thought about the sometimes heated debate, here in .tv land, about 'original content' over ("no value") curated content.

"KoldCast.TV, has been self-funded since inception. Unlike virtually every other distribution platform, we put our own money in this game and, as a result, have lost every penny of our investment, which is a material multi-million dollar investment. The loss is painful from any number of perspectives."​

Also a bit concerning, I noticed several other .TV sites that I visit, who do produce original content, are re-branding. SB.TV is now SBTV.co.uk. And Vator.TV is "soon to be vator.co".

 

[garptrader]

I am sure that Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual and other financial companies which went into bankruptcy during the 2008/2009 financial crisis were using .COM domains. I have noticed that even for companies branding on .TV they will often use a reg fee caliber domain despite the significant cost of producing hundreds of videos related to their category. I noticed this past week a pet-related company on .a .TV with more than seven thousand videos uploaded to Youtube but they were operating on a three-word reg fee .TV - so much for the branding power of .TV

 

[gorilla_bob]

It's time to dump those .tv domains to gorilla_bob.

Bob

 

[Makis.TV]

I agreee
@eyedomainous and other like:
Let me know if you are selling .tv domains, just pm me.

 

[eyedomainous]

Aren't you guys selling .TV domains??

Besides, my post was about the .TV (site) ecosystem, (unsustainable content models and rebranding). An objective market observation is not a white flag of surrender.