.tv Non premium LLL.tv buyout?

[MattheP]

Non premium LLL.tv buyout -
what do you think, will it happen?

 

[Jeff]

When all the dust settles; I don't think it'll happen IMHO. :gl:

Best regards,
Jeff

 

[Alan Glennon]

Under current market conditions, a true buyout of LLL.tv is unlikely.

From another perspective though, you could consider Verisign/DomainMedia just another reseller, and a buyout already exists.

 

[snoop]

People have moved on the from the days of silly buyouts. If this happened it would be a bit of a disaster for holders in my view given how other buyouts have performed, lll.us, llll.com, lll.mobi etc. It is a 2007 strategy.

 

[equity78]

No no reason, I would agree buyout is the past. No reason to own zxq.tv to facilitate a buyout. Again IMO

 

[krx]

Extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future. One reason being that a buyout of premium LLL.tv would need to come first to drive the buyout frenzy. What ROI can you hope for with GVQ.tv when you can get SAA.tv or CPS.tv for a couple hundred bucks? It would cost $2000 a year to hold one hundred names of lower quality (those now available for reg fee). If you were really lucky you would sell one of those names a year for $50 bucks. If all the better names were gone and priced at $xxxx and more then a market could emerge for the lesser quality names.

But even then you run into a problem with the extension itself. It's conceivable (some would say plausible or even probable over time) that given ever increasing global demand for dot com that someone out there will find a compelling need for all the GVQ-type dot coms. But it strains the imagination and credulity to see that happening in dot tv. Again in the foreseeable future ... and IMHO.