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This rant is dedicated to all the naysayers.
If you do not have the pocketbook or the balls to pony up money and invest in a .tv name, do not attempt to pollute the .tv forum of NamePros with your unsupported assertions that the .tv extension is a joke.
If you feel this way, you probably ight feel an intense dislike for the extension because Verisign saw a future in the .tv extension and invested upwards of $45+ million to buy the entire extension from that little, disappearing island called Tuvalu. Or maybe it is the $50 cost of non-premium domain names, the cost of premium domain names, or the renewal fees of any of those. Now, I cannot say I agree that news.tv or business.tv is worth anything close to what the dot tv corporation is asking, but I know that certain premium registrations are a bargain.
If you think the .tv extension is a joke, then you probably are used to godaddy specials. In that case, if you expect to get a .tv for a .com price because you feel they are essentially the same, then you have no understanding of the branding concept and you probably buy the generic brands from your local supermarket. When I go to www.motorcycle.tv, www.IT.TV, or www.performance.tv, I expect to see videos related to those keywords. While the owners of such names may be developing their plans to launch their sites, I would suggest that there are growing numbers on the Internet beginning to type in their favorite keywords followed by the .tv extension, expecting to find video/televsion.
The trend may be slow for such websites to get off the ground, primarily due to the cost of launching and supporting such a sight, but their owners must also spend time to create, generate, or gather such content. Failure to do so could mean the site will be a flop without constantly pumping content down the pipeline.
Additionally, .tv sites continue to spring up that are not related to keynames, such as www.hspn.tv. Such independent companies realize the value of the .tv domain space and intend to build a brand around it, unlike Anheuser-Busch which already has an established brand that it wants to promote using the dot tv domain space. So you have a number of people and companies using the .tv for a variety of ways to entertain people in new ways. This group expects to capitalize on the fact that TV or television is known throughout the world. As the internet and television converge, we will see more traffic on the Internet. As more countries get connected to the Internet, more of the .tv space will be developed to suit more of this world's entertainment needs.
If the .tv extension had no future, or is a joke in the way you see it, then do you really believe Anheuser-Busch would launch its own entertainment network at Bud.TV and invest an estimated 30 million dollars to start? If .tv was a joke, wouldn't it make sense for Anheuser-Busch to just add this on to their existing site? Now, I understand that this is not conclusive proof the .tv extension is not a joke, but it surely suggests that Anheuser-Busch thinks their is some value to owning and branding its own .tv channel.
Lets talk in reality now. Most of us are not involved in companies anywhere close to the size of Anheuser-Busch. Most of us are the "little guys." Most of us have invested in the .tv extension either as speculation or with an intent to develop. Some of us will actually follow through on our intent while others may not. The point is that all of us share the same belief that the .tv extension will have a prominent place in the world future as a location to go on the Internet for your entertainment needs.
People like you who believe the .tv extension cannot survive on the renewal fees charged are a bit misguided. When you enter the real world and pay for rent for a commercial office space that amounts to $6800+ per month, you might start to understand why many of us believe that the .tv extension is the park place and boardwalk of the Internet where $500 or more every year to renew is a deal.
I see a trend emerging where groups of people like me are banding together to form investment groups with the intent to go after some of the higher priced premium names that none of us as individuals can afford. It only takes a group like that to pick up one of the 1,000,000,000 dollar premium domains and put it to its most profitable use and generate 5 times that in profit each year. It could sound ridiculous to the individual that thinks the dot tv extension is a joke, but I happen to know some of those involved in organizing such investment groups and these guys know the risk as well as the rewards.
If there is one thing I learned from your comment that "the dot tv extension is a joke," it is the fact that not everybody in this world can be an a real entrepreneur. Of course, anybody can throw their money at any business or investment and believe they are an entrepreneur as the result of that act. But the real entrepreneur is one who can appreciate and evaluate different opportunities and recognize them for what they are. That type of person may not have the same risk tolerances as another entrepreneur, but they respect the opportunities that real entrepreneurs have chosen to pursue.
You, my friend, are not one of the individuals who operate the levers that make this world turn. You can leave that to the real business guys. While I respect that you have the right to share your opinion, you should really refrain from doing so even though it give me the ammunition I needed to write my first daily rant.
If you do not have the pocketbook or the balls to pony up money and invest in a .tv name, do not attempt to pollute the .tv forum of NamePros with your unsupported assertions that the .tv extension is a joke.
If you feel this way, you probably ight feel an intense dislike for the extension because Verisign saw a future in the .tv extension and invested upwards of $45+ million to buy the entire extension from that little, disappearing island called Tuvalu. Or maybe it is the $50 cost of non-premium domain names, the cost of premium domain names, or the renewal fees of any of those. Now, I cannot say I agree that news.tv or business.tv is worth anything close to what the dot tv corporation is asking, but I know that certain premium registrations are a bargain.
If you think the .tv extension is a joke, then you probably are used to godaddy specials. In that case, if you expect to get a .tv for a .com price because you feel they are essentially the same, then you have no understanding of the branding concept and you probably buy the generic brands from your local supermarket. When I go to www.motorcycle.tv, www.IT.TV, or www.performance.tv, I expect to see videos related to those keywords. While the owners of such names may be developing their plans to launch their sites, I would suggest that there are growing numbers on the Internet beginning to type in their favorite keywords followed by the .tv extension, expecting to find video/televsion.
The trend may be slow for such websites to get off the ground, primarily due to the cost of launching and supporting such a sight, but their owners must also spend time to create, generate, or gather such content. Failure to do so could mean the site will be a flop without constantly pumping content down the pipeline.
Additionally, .tv sites continue to spring up that are not related to keynames, such as www.hspn.tv. Such independent companies realize the value of the .tv domain space and intend to build a brand around it, unlike Anheuser-Busch which already has an established brand that it wants to promote using the dot tv domain space. So you have a number of people and companies using the .tv for a variety of ways to entertain people in new ways. This group expects to capitalize on the fact that TV or television is known throughout the world. As the internet and television converge, we will see more traffic on the Internet. As more countries get connected to the Internet, more of the .tv space will be developed to suit more of this world's entertainment needs.
If the .tv extension had no future, or is a joke in the way you see it, then do you really believe Anheuser-Busch would launch its own entertainment network at Bud.TV and invest an estimated 30 million dollars to start? If .tv was a joke, wouldn't it make sense for Anheuser-Busch to just add this on to their existing site? Now, I understand that this is not conclusive proof the .tv extension is not a joke, but it surely suggests that Anheuser-Busch thinks their is some value to owning and branding its own .tv channel.
Lets talk in reality now. Most of us are not involved in companies anywhere close to the size of Anheuser-Busch. Most of us are the "little guys." Most of us have invested in the .tv extension either as speculation or with an intent to develop. Some of us will actually follow through on our intent while others may not. The point is that all of us share the same belief that the .tv extension will have a prominent place in the world future as a location to go on the Internet for your entertainment needs.
People like you who believe the .tv extension cannot survive on the renewal fees charged are a bit misguided. When you enter the real world and pay for rent for a commercial office space that amounts to $6800+ per month, you might start to understand why many of us believe that the .tv extension is the park place and boardwalk of the Internet where $500 or more every year to renew is a deal.
I see a trend emerging where groups of people like me are banding together to form investment groups with the intent to go after some of the higher priced premium names that none of us as individuals can afford. It only takes a group like that to pick up one of the 1,000,000,000 dollar premium domains and put it to its most profitable use and generate 5 times that in profit each year. It could sound ridiculous to the individual that thinks the dot tv extension is a joke, but I happen to know some of those involved in organizing such investment groups and these guys know the risk as well as the rewards.
If there is one thing I learned from your comment that "the dot tv extension is a joke," it is the fact that not everybody in this world can be an a real entrepreneur. Of course, anybody can throw their money at any business or investment and believe they are an entrepreneur as the result of that act. But the real entrepreneur is one who can appreciate and evaluate different opportunities and recognize them for what they are. That type of person may not have the same risk tolerances as another entrepreneur, but they respect the opportunities that real entrepreneurs have chosen to pursue.
You, my friend, are not one of the individuals who operate the levers that make this world turn. You can leave that to the real business guys. While I respect that you have the right to share your opinion, you should really refrain from doing so even though it give me the ammunition I needed to write my first daily rant.
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