.tv Manchester.tv about to drop...

[Len]

Manchester.tv is about to drop on Monday 21st Sept. It baffles me as to why someone would pay $3000 to register a domain for 1yr and then let it drop without really attempting to recoup their losses. Even a sale at $100 is better than nothing......

I noticed that this was offered for sale in April of this year for $15,000. Along with this years renewal this would have been a first year $18,000 investment for any potential buyer. Obviously there were no takers.......So why didn't the seller set their sights lower instead of being so stubborn in that the domain is eventually dropped!!!....Which is advantageous to no one except the registrar.

I'm sure there must be someone out there who could make a really great site with this domain for which an outlay of $3000/yr would be a drop in the bucket! Now that it is going to drop it is likely to be re-priced at least double/triple, pushing it further away from development. :td:

 

[Makis.TV]

lets see what will the new price be

 

[GoneWalkabout]

xxx

 

[Len]

The other big UK city that came up recently was Birmingham which ended up at $2000 a year premium - there were no takers - and that has not changed since.

Birmingham was $500/yr when it dropped and was then jacked up to $2000. Will be interesting to see whether Manchester is re-priced.

 

[Ammudamus]

Repriced to $7,500/yr.

A

 

[MicroGuy]

We could have a contest. I'm going to take a WAG and say it stays at $3000/Yr. IMO.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

xxx

 

[Makis.TV]

$5000
from me
:D

 

[Len]

I'm going to guess $9000

 

[Ammudamus]

What does the winner get? I think I am spot on with my price.

A

 

[ipodxpert]

$4500

 

[Len]

Ammudamus got it right........repriced to $7500

 

[MicroGuy]

Wow. Congratulations to the winner!

 

[Makis.TV]

now lets see whether and when it ll be registered again :D

 

[MicroGuy]

Considering that Ahead.tv STILL lists this domain @ $3000, I wonder if it may have already been a $7500 renewal before the drop.

(screen print added 9:00pm est)

 

[El Bandolero]

The only thing I do wonder is that when this name gets registered again will the owner sit on it like the last one and try to sell it, or actually develop it into something.

 

[Makis.TV]

Considering that Ahead.tv STILL lists this domain @ $3000, I wonder if it may have already been a $7500 renewal before the drop.

Ahead actually caches premium domain lists along with their fees, many of the premiums have dif fee than ahead .tv shows and thats why special agreements were made that ahead.tv could knew about. One of my premium .tv's fall into that category.

For Manchester.TV now, if you visit enom.tv you ll see the official premium fee:
eNomCentral - domain name registration, domains, com, net, org - PREMIUM .TV NAMES
which is $7,500

 

[MicroGuy]

True, but normally Ahead updates the premium drops with the new pricing the same day they drop. Not sure what's going on with this one. Since the pricing is wrong now, I think there's a chance it could have been wrong before. Perhaps no repricing occured?

 

[Makis.TV]

i believe their cron job hasnt run yet, maybe in the next hours
usually such scripts get their lists updated by cron jobs(automated jobs that run in scheduled time)

I believe .tv pricing and repricing modules is one of the most "advanced" reg fees system in the domain industry
(just trying to be a bit ironic and sarcastic)

 

[MicroGuy]

I think the cron job already ran or the domain would not show as "available". I will notify Polin and have him manually update the price. Thanks for the info. IMO.