.tv Oprah Winfrey Network branded as OWN.TV!

[jwdomain]

The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is going to brand "Own.TV"

OWN.TV is hiring -
this is really big for everyone doing dot tv domaining! :blink:

See:
OWN - Job Opportunities | OWN TV Careers

 

[snoop]

He helped keep a lot of us from premature elation over all things dot tv; but now that elation is justified.

There has never been a point in time where .tv speculators didn't think their elation was justified. The floodgates are always just about to open, it has been that way for 10 years.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

Good floodgates are ALWAYS ready to open.

A bit like the 'mouths of fools'.

 

[jwdomain]

Snoop - compare the volume of video being watched online 10 years ago to now. If you dont see this as a sea change i cannot help you.

 

[freedom30]

Snoop - compare the volume of video being watched online 10 years ago to now. If you dont see this as a sea change i cannot help you.

JW-

One cannot change the past...as there are those who do not see or refuse to see the future, or the present path, that lies ahead of them, ergo,

Snoop = 20th century mindset.

Adieu, Quixote, my dear lost Crusader!

 

[discovernow]

There has never been a point in time where .tv speculators didn't think their elation was justified. The floodgates are always just about to open, it has been that way for 10 years.

Poor Snoopie, sounds like he is upset.

 

[DU]

own.com is parked, she should go after this domain as well if they are really branding OWN!
:bah:

They are branding OWN.

Oprah.com is Oprah's Official Site.
OWN is Oprah Winfrey Network.

Two concepts with the same person behind it.

Own.TV seems a logical site.
Own.com seems a logical site.

Branding is NOT a question of .com or .TV.

You could print 3,000,000 articles with OWN on them. You could run all your business through OWN. You could operate financially as OWN...

...and put it on a website URPWND.US if you wanted.

OWN.TV *is* a great choice - especially if the Own.Com owner is holding out for a big payday.

OW is a great businesswoman first. She and the OWN execs know what they are doing. Put everything on Own.TV... for 6 months. That might devalue Own.com by $3 million. Then, maybe they don't care about money. Maybe the DO like OWN.TV.

Its not that important outside of a .TV recognition bump

Google will point to the relevant OWN.. Apps will point to the relevant OWN.. and those who want OWN *will* find it even if they get to Own.com first.

 

[ThreeD]

Snoop - compare the volume of video being watched online 10 years ago to now. If you dont see this as a sea change i cannot help you.

Amen to that! :imho:

 

[DU]

Snoop - compare the volume of video being watched online 10 years ago to now. If you dont see this as a sea change i cannot help you.

How can you "see" it.. this is the internet. Surely you have to "read" about it.

 

[HC82]

She's a billionaire and unwilling to pay for OWN.com.

 

[DU]

She's a billionaire and unwilling to pay for OWN.com.

Like most BUSINESSES there are employees handed responsibility for various functions and within planned budgets.

I worked for a company making double digit billions in profit who did not provide coffee for their regular employees and requested we buy our own printer ink.

Your point?:hi:

 

[freedom30]

...maybe the point is even a billionaire doesn't want to get soaked for an overpriced name and extension if they can avoid it.

Besides, the .tv fits like a glove in a situation like this, n'est ce pas?

 

[xmsmmgr]

if you type own.tv on google.. it will display own.tv ... is this a good sign ?

 

[snoop]

Snoop - compare the volume of video being watched online 10 years ago to now. If you dont see this as a sea change i cannot help you.

Reminds me of the arguments in the .mobi sub forum a couple of years ago where some people were convinced that anyone who was not big on .mobi must also think the mobile internet would not grow.

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She's a billionaire and unwilling to pay for OWN.com.

Just because someone is rich doesn't mean they will pay anything, in fact it probably means the opposite. They are likely the type of person who makes good choices with their money.

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Besides, the .tv fits like a glove in a situation like this, n'est ce pas?

I think some are in a dreamworld in this thread, the url is oprah.com/own, not own.tv.

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if you type own.tv on google.. it will display own.tv ... is this a good sign ?

Well I guess it is better than Google blocking it or something, not sure how google listing a url when the url is entered is a good sign. What sort of domain wouldn't show when it is entered? Even park pages come up that way.

 

[jwdomain]

It should not remind you of the arguments in the mobi sub-forum a couple of years ago where some people were convinced that anyone who was not big on mobi must also think the mobile internet would not grow. Why? Because "mobi" is not a word in any of the world's languages. Even "com" is not a word. "TV" is a word in hundreds of languages and thousands of dialects. Again Snoop, if you dont see something so obvious, i cant help you.

 

[snoop]

It should not remind you of the arguments in the mobi sub-forum a couple of years ago where some people were convinced that anyone who was not big on mobi must also think the mobile internet would not grow. Why? Because "mobi" is not a word in any of the world's languages. Even "com" is not a word. "TV" is a word in hundreds of languages and thousands of dialects. Again Snoop, if you dont see something so obvious, i cant help you.

It is the exact same line of logic, assuming people who don't think much of .tv must think online video isn't going to go far, just like some .mobi enthusiasts claimed the people who were against .mobi must be saying that the mobile internet won't grow. Online video is huge, it does not need .tv. .tv is an alt extension for that market.

Now I'm sure you can explain how .tv is a different extension but the argument you've presented is exactly the same as the argument from the .mobi forum.

 

[jwdomain]

The difference is namely, no pun intended that dot tv is instantly brandable because it is a word in hundreds of languages and it "speaks" to people. "Info" is a slang or an abbreviated word in only a few languages and look at how widely it is used and valued for branding, especially for branding generics. Dot tv brands not just generics but much more. You would not see "blip.info" as a brand but you do see "blip.tv" as an extremely successful brand. Again, this stuff is obvious in my mind and in the mind of dot tv enthusiasts. Look at some of my developed websites: Classmates.tv, Multiply.tv - mathematics vids - "multiply.info" does not work as a brand, MontTremblant.tv, Morningstar.tv, Outpost.tv. Fly-in fishing destinations in northern Canada are called "outposts" and i am making money every day of the week on google ads that fisherman visiting Outpost.tv click on. Snoop - let's see some of your websites and tell us how you are monetizing traffic so that we can see that you have real world experience making money with websites. Then your opinions would be more valued in my mind.

 

[snoop]

The difference is namely, no pun intended that dot tv is instantly brandable because it is a word in hundreds of languages and it "speaks" to people. "Info" is a slang or an abbreviated word in only a few languages and look at how widely it is used and valued for branding, especially for branding generics. Dot tv brands not just generics but much more. You would not see "blip.info" as a brand but you do see "blip.tv" as an extremely successful brand. Again, this stuff is obvious in my mind and in the mind of dot tv enthusiasts.

I know what you think, you've already stated it, I don't agree, in my view what you are saying is a flawed argument that has been presented before about every other new and alt extension than is supposedly better than all the other new and alt extensions.

Anyone can just look at .tv sales prices to know what you are saying isn't true. Online video has grown massively over the last 10 years, .tv prices haven't.

Snoop - let's see some of your websites and tell us how you are monetizing traffic so that we can see that you have real world experience making money with websites. Then you opinions would be more valued in my mind.

What does that have to do with domaining?

Look at some of my developed websites: Classmates.tv, Multiply.tv - mathematics vids - "multiply.info" does not work as a brand, MontTremblant.tv, Morningstar.tv, Outpost.tv. Fly-in fishing destinations in northern Canada are called "outposts" and i am making money every day of the week on google ads that fisherman visiting Outpost.tv click on.

It is the usual stuff, rehashed videos and template sites. Actually it isn't even a template site, it has magnify.net all over. It the lazy version of a template site.

Now I'm not saying for one second I know a lot about development, because I'm a domainer, but to big note yourself about 5 minute sites like that......it is like telling your friends you'll be at the party in some hots wheel only to show up in a 1984 Corolla.

 

[jwdomain]

i may have shown up in a corolla - proud of my corollas - you showed up in a pair of well-worn 2nd hand Keds at the wrong race track. I am giving up on you now Snoop. Good luck with your "domaining" or whatever it is that you do to make all that money that allows you so much time to troll around in a domain subforum for an extension you have no interest in.

 

[snoop]

i may have shown up in a corolla - proud of my corollas - you showed up in a pair of well-worn 2nd hand Keds at the wrong race track. I am giving up on you now Snoop.

The issue is you made yourself out to be a knowledgable developer when blind freddy can see those are 5 minute sites that take no skill. You keep saying you can't help me and you are giving up on my but these comments ring hollow then when the person making them has no real experience in what they are talking about.

Good luck with your "domaining" or whatever it is that you do to make all that money that allows you so much time to troll around in a domain subforum for an extension you have no interest in.

Not sure why you'd talk about domaining as though making money that way is unusual, that is what this site is about.

 

[freedom30]

I think some are in a dreamworld in this thread, the url is oprah.com/own, not own.tv.

Hi, Snoop!...Bye, Snoop!