I can certainly confirm that SOME of these three-letter TV.com names get over 70 uniques a month. My best performer this month is 77 for WOBtv.com. However, it should also be noted that many don’t reach those heights at all and are in the single digits each month.
Mathematically, there are only 17576 of this type of name and I bagged over 100. A lot of these came up for renewal recently and were promptly kept.
With a good ad system, many of these names could no doubt maintain themselves financially. I didn’t buy them for revenue but for their end-use possibilities (OAPtv.com and JOGtv.com are examples of stand-alones, but WOBtv.com IOCtv.com are examples of ‘what-could-be’s such as WorldOFBeerTV.com or InternationalOceansCongressTV.com etc).
I bought them with the logic that if just one sold for a good price it would keep the rest in the fold for the next few years - leaving my filming/development options on these names open. I did have quite a lot of negotiations about IOWtv.com (Isle of Wight), especially as the IOW.tv name is a Premium of $4500 a year (I think the name was taken at $500 a year at the time), but the buyer didn’t reach the price I wanted.
I’ve just had a quick look and among those I own are...
adctv.com aiatv.com aiatv.com amrtv.com asetv.com ayrtv.com baetv.com baxtv.com blatv.com bwatv.com cictv.com dagtv.com doetv.com edetv.com faotv.com fiatv.com fsotv.com iantv.com icgtv.com ilntv.com ioatv.com iobtv.com ioctv.com ioetv.com ioftv.com iogtv.com iohtv.com iowtv.com isttv.com itetv.com jogtv.com ndatv.com nihtv.com nistv.com nittv.com oaptv.com oastv.com oattv.com onstv.com osatv.com pautv.com pestv.com pkdtv.com psbtv.com ptdtv.com rfutv.com rigtv.com sebtv.com tigtv.com toftv.com togtv.com vattv.com wbftv.com wbotv.com wcgtv.com wdatv.com wgctv.com wiktv.com wlptv.com wobtv.com wtatv.com
I should also mention that I did buy 100 or so two-letter TV.co.uk's and within the first few months sold OHTV.co.uk to some really great guys who now fit it in with their OpeanHeavensTV channel on UK satellite. The deal wasn't big, but enough to renew the rest.
In a similar vein I also purchased a few two-letter TV.TV's
dutv.tv ehtv.tv futv.tv gntv.tv mhtv.tv nhtv.tv xstv.tv
I also realised that man y of the country codes were available as well on the TVXX.TV format. The fact is that many countries (like Spain, France etc, use the word 'TV' FIRST in their normal language ie TV France rather than France TV).
I then got as many as I could and informed this forum that others were still available. I think the suggestion at the time was that they were a waste of space.
Anyway I still have some, including...
tvaa.tv tvas.tv tvaz.tv tvbb.tv tvbe.tv tvbo.tv tvcd.tv tvcl.tv tvcn.tv tvcv.tv tvdj.tv tvdk.tv tvec.tv tveg.tv tvfi.tv tvfm.tv tvhq.tv tvie.tv tvil.tv tvjp.tv tvkr.tv tvky.tv tvmc.tv tvmd.tv tvmr.tv tvms.tv tvmt.tv tvmx.tv tvna.tv tvne.tv tvni.tv tvnl.tv tvnt.tv tvpa.tv tvpr.tv tvps.tv tvsa.tv tvsd.tv tvsi.tv tvto.tv tvtt.tv tvtw.tv tvve.tv tvza.tv
I think that if you know the country code for your own country (ie UK or US) and then look at TVUK.tv or TVUS.tv, you realise they are quite natural and easily brandable.
Having said ALL that it goes without saying that I would sell any of them in an instant if anyone feels an offer coming on!