.tv One crazy night

[equity78]

Domains that were available at 9 pm Pacific 4 am GMT opened with some using Enom.tv

Local Experts calls me got photographer.tv for $340 it was $10,000 premium.

Meanwhile in Chat Samit tells me that all names at Name.com Reg fee

At Dynadot where I was it was reg fee and some premiums only cheaper than ENOM.tv

PIN.tv was $1000 on enom.tv but $960 on Dynadot.

I then go to check a name Samit recommended to me it was $390 on DYNADOT $410 on ENOM.tv $23 at NAME.com

Later it looked like Name.com fixed something because PIN.tv was $900 still cheaper than DYNADOT and ENOM.TV.

Crazy and if names are not taken back some people who used Name.com got some of the greatest .tv possible.

From this day on if you buy a premium .tv ANYWHERE. It is standard renewal fee.

Next, what will they do for the existing premium .tv ?

Busiest day in the history of the extension.

 

[Vito]

Yep...
It was one helluva ride!

I just hope the Premium .tv's I picked up this afternoon don't get taken back!

 

[garptrader]

The folks who snapped up premiums off the advance list cleaned house. After picking up three former $500 premiums, I was debating about a couple more which were in my cart, decided on one and would think about the other a bit more. Someone took the one in my cart while I was thinking and the other is now gone as well. I still see one nice name available but the premium is more than I want to pay. Someone will probably snap it up in the next few hours...

 

[Vito]

The folks who snapped up premiums off the advance list cleaned house. After picking up three former $500 premiums, I was debating about a couple more which were in my cart, decided on one and would think about the other a bit more. Someone took the one in my cart while I was thinking and the other is now gone as well. I still see one nice name available but the premium is more than I want to pay. Someone will probably snap it up in the next few hours...

Same thing happened to me.
I waited too long and then Extra.tv was gone (was only like $300).
I was pissed, for some crazy reason I really wanted that one.

Funny thing is this afternoon when I heard about it, I had no time to prepare so I was typing like a lunatic.
Then when I finally sat down ready to rock, fully prepared tonight, most were gone
and the few I did reg (paid for) came back saying Not Available...lol

Well whatever the outcome, Ya have to admit, It was a very exciting day in .TV Land!

 

[equity78]

There will be upfront premium. no longer premium renewal.

 

[Vito]

There will be upfront premium. no longer premium renewal.

Yeah thats great news, but the sad thing is...

I don't want to take the chance again.
They already owe me...
There is one more I want badly that is $600.00
I don't want to put that on my debit card to only be told,
sorry not available but we'll credit ya.

I wish there was a sure fire way to know if your domain is truly available.

 

[equity78]

This got crazy because Verisign did not intend for registrars to have different prices.

ENOM.tv came up with premiums at 9 pm pacific, and it looks like Dynadot was tied into the premium system. Name.com was not.

So someone at ENOM.tv paid more of a "premium" then someone at Dynadot, usually by $20. That makes sense they can mark up or down a little. But Name.com missed the premium link. SO they were at $23 reg fee. I was talking all day to people who misread the glitch thinking "OH at 9 pm Pacific, no more .tv premium COOL." No more premium renewal. Now there were some great bargains Surfing.tv at $310 how did Frank Schilling and all the others who got the first chance, miss that the night before ? Anyway those were the types of sales Verisign was looking for. Problem with the faulty integration some registrars just had the name available so people got reg fee. NOW the big question is do they take them back ? If they don't some here are looking at valuable portfolios. Now some got emails not taking the name back. But the systems not integrated allowed for Verisign not to know who regged the name. I am on Dynadot regging a name for $390 and Local Experts on ENOM.tv regging same name for $420. The system was overloaded and just let the registrations go through.

That is different than someone regging LED.tv for reg fee at Name.com because they did not link into the premium system. Hopefully everyone makes out well, it will make up for the nonsense over the years. Again IMO

 

[Makis.TV]

who got that email? did it state that the afternoon domains will stay ih his/her account?

 

[Vito]

"OH at 9 pm Pacific, no more .tv premium COOL." No more premium renewal.

That's exactly what I was thinking going in to tonights "frenzy" sale.
Reason being: That's what happened this afternoon.
Well there were a lot of Premiums that were sold at reg fee.

So, That still does not explain what happened this afternoon.
I went to DomainMonster.com and NOTHING was available.
Then I went to Enom, and Dynadot, I did see the price discrepancy and
you're right most of the Premiums were about $20 different.
Dynadot was always lower than Enom so I regged at Dynadot.
But I wonder why a lot of the Premiums were Reg Fee, and others weren't.

I guess thats why we expected the night sale to be all Premiums were gonna be reg fee.
They made the hype sound like the night time sale was gonna be so much better then what we got this afternoon.

I guess the specifics really don't really matter at this point.
The main concern is hopefully everything we have already, will we be able to keep?

 

[RPK]

If they do make an issue of it, I believe all the negative publicity that will come out of it will effect the the upcoming SEDO auction and again cause confusion. Best to just let it be IMO.

 

[MattheP]

The night is gone for me.. and what I see?

I checked names at dynadot from the first list I got from enom yesterday. Some names are taken, some are reg fee, and some are premium prices, but much lover then before. Looks like registrations works at all registars.

I bought couple of names before 4 AM GMT, and I still can control them and they have my whois. I hope it will stay that way, it would give some credibililty to Verisign

"If they do make an issue of it, I believe all the negative publicity that will come out of it will effect the the upcoming SEDO auction and again cause confusion. Best to just let it be IMO."

 

[twomoon]

Let's call this event somehow:
Would it be Crazy Night or Reboot (like was posted yesterday) or it could RedEyes Night (I think we all have red eyes now or it can be just The Night , or BuyBuyNight

 

[garptrader]

Another issue I ran into was that my credit card is hypersensitive to multiple or larger than normal charges in a short time period. So apparently my third charge got rejected. I noticed that one of domains I was looking at was actually available this morning. I tried resubmitting. The credit card was declined. I called my credit card and cleared it up on that end. It turns out ENOM puts a hold on your account for 24 hours. So I tried calling "retail customer service" thinking they could help do a manual order perhaps even with another credit card. What a joke! I'll try again later but likely it will be too late.

 

[MattheP]

Another issue I ran into was that my credit card is hypersensitive to multiple or larger than normal charges in a short time period. So apparently my third charge got rejected. I noticed that one of domains I was looking at was actually available this morning. I tried resubmitting. The credit card was declined. I called my credit card and cleared it up on that end. It turns out ENOM puts a hold on your account for 24 hours. So I tried calling "retail customer service" thinking they could help do a manual order perhaps even with another credit card. What a joke! I'll try again later but likely it will be too late.

Why dont you try at some other registar?

 

[eyedomainous]

Could not sleep. Tossed-n-turned for 3 hours, but the energy of this past day did not go away. So I got up, back online, came to NP and saw more in the .TV sub-forum than the main Discussion forum.

Indeed, One Crazy Night. A night to remember.

Beyound domains and deals, I'm mostly glad to experience this "crazy night" with every single one of you crazy domainers!

Thanks NamePros! ... the forum, the mods, and the folks that make it what it is.


-eye-

 

[dottvfan]

So I got up, back online, came to NP and saw more in the .TV sub-forum than the main Discussion forum.-

Yeah I noticed that too - .tv certainly has the buzz today!

 

[antonis12]

. Now there were some great bargains Surfing.tv at $310 how did Frank Schilling and all the others who got the first chance, miss that the night before ?

The night before pricing was the old pricing, in other words:

(1) Pay the first year's old renewal fee, then goes to regular fee. There were not a ton of domains that were super duper priced @ that pricing.

(2) Last night, when the free-for-fall opened up, everything was radically marked down on Year 1.

At that point, there were a TON of domains that suddenly made a lot of sense. Take Chile.tv as an example:

(a) It was a $5,000 / year premium on Wed. No dice; way too expensive. You have to be a legit serious end-user at this price

(b) Wed night it was $5,000 Y1 then reg fee. Better but still too expensive. You have to have some special conviction about Chile or some special connection to Chile for this to go around.

(c) Thur night it drops to $630 Y1 then reg fee. OK, at this point, yes, I'm in. At minimal carrying cost, you have to feel good about $600 for a fairly major country that you can do SOMETHING, either on resell or the dreaded 'development' that can return $630.

There were many many excellent bargains available last night in the free-for-all and I registered a lot in the first couple of hours (WARNING: As noted before, do not necessarily repeat after me; I have different objectives here than 99% of domaineers and I still might be dead wrong. ).

The first 15-30 minutes things were disappearing rapidly as the best ones went, but there was a steady stream of opportunity for the next 2-3 hours. I think it is fair to say that most decent ex-premiums are now gone.

This is a radical price-slashing and discounting and, for the first time in a couple years, there were items that I thought were 'deals' , in fact the best deals that ever have existed in .tv land, possibly ever.

I never thought we would have a land rush like this again in .tv. Good times.

 

[krx]

Geez ... you snooze you loose.

Is the party over?

 

[garptrader]

My understanding was that the .TV investor community was fairly small. We know more than thirty thousand premium .TV domains were registered from the list before they were released last night. Perhaps now only a scarce number of premiums worth renewing remain. I picked up none prior to midnight and only three afterwards. I believe for premiums $500 and under, the opportunity is largely gone. Who picked up hundreds of .TV premiums in one gulp?

 

[mwzd]

I'm sure you'll still find some domains that were in the original 54k premiums list available.

Whether you should classify them as premium now is debatable.

I'm sure you'll still find some nice domains even now, maybe not the best though.