.tv Patience is a Virtue

[jlc]

Blip.tv, Flo.tv, Beet.tv.........It's just a matter of time for .tv.


http://www.reelseo.com/viewership-up-moving-to-tv/12571/


Look around.


JLC

 

[DnEbook]

no doubt internet tv will thrive ..... its the getting .tv noticed problem

 

[freedom30]

no doubt internet tv will thrive ..... its the getting .tv noticed problem

"internet" tv will be a channel on your wide-screen HDTV in your living room. You will not have to crouch over your desktop monitor anymore to see it. Optical cable is resolving the problem of bandwidth making it a moot point.

 

[jlc]

no doubt internet tv will thrive ..... its the getting .tv noticed problem

I agree. Slowly but surely. With more and more media coverage for blip, beet, flo, endusers should begin to wake up and smell the coffee. Magnify.net also is making headway with another round of funding making the news. Should help.

YouTube - YouTube Looks to Blip.tv for New "Show Creators" This doesn't hurt either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOeiR5B_RxY

Jlc

 

[cityforums.com]

When this chart moves north it will be time to consider .TV a player

... nothing indicates that this will happen any time soon.

Site Profile for sex.tv (rank #3,315,136) | Compete

 

[RogueWriter]

Eh, jmo, nothing indicates that that chart is any measure of anything. .TV is doing well. Finally buying my first premium this month, and I'll chase that with a second one in September.

 

[cityforums.com]

For those that don't put importance on type-in traffic to valuate an extension

perhaps the recent poor sales of puregeos.TV might be taken

into consideration. If anybody has a metric to show why .tv is worth investing in please list it.

 

[RogueWriter]

I would never purchase .TV based on potential type in traffic, just like I would not purchase cn org us ws cc or net expecting type in traffic. However, of the developed sites that I own directly and indirectly, organic traffic is fine.

I am a happy camper, full of good will for .tv, it's been quite nice to me, and getting better.

 

[snoop]

Blip.tv, Flo.tv, Beet.tv.........It's just a matter of time for .tv.


http://www.reelseo.com/viewership-up-moving-to-tv/12571/


Look around.


JLC

10 years ago it was mlb.tv and bbc.tv, .tv is well known and has its niche usage but there is nearly no money in it for domainers, most are sitting on fat losses.

Nothing is really changing, especially the argument in favour of it which hasn't changed since 1998. "Internet tv is coming" "enduser are waking up", "domainers smell the coffee, it is boiling".

Timeframes haven't changed either

"give it 2 more years"
"give it 5 more years"
"give it 20+ more years"
".....maybe these names will be worth something to my grandkids".

 

[freedom30]

10 years ago it was mlb.tv and bbc.tv, .tv is well known and has its niche usage but there is nearly no money in it for domainers, most are sitting on fat losses.

Nothing is really changing, especially the argument in favour of it which hasn't changed since 1998. "Internet tv is coming" "enduser are waking up", "domainers smell the coffee, it is boiling".

Timeframes haven't changed either

"give it 2 more years"
"give it 5 more years"
"give it 20+ more years"
".....maybe these names will be worth something to my grandkids".

Yeah, speculation is a biatch. I am an admitted dreamer/speculator and I do aim for names that fit the extension in its particulars niches, of which there are a few. But it is the area I choose to speculate in as I foresee some return down the road.

You seem to concentrate on the domainer aspect quite heavily rather than maintaining an enduser perspective of things. On that I agree that it is a rare occurance that this extension gets much in terms of money from being parked. I do have one or two that makes its reg fee and some over though. I would think that .com may hav some issues in that there are so very many more out there than .tv but I don't know.

 

[MicroGuy]

But it is the area I choose to speculate in as I foresee some return down the road.

Good evening Freedom.

I will take your advice tonight regarding the bourbon as I am all out of whiskey. If you care to elaborate, I would very much like to know why, where, and how you foresee returns in .TV down the road.

Please keep in mind that no one knows what premium and/or registration pricing will be past 2012. Thank you. :gl:

 

[snoop]

You seem to concentrate on the domainer aspect quite heavily rather than maintaining an enduser perspective of things.

That may be because we are all domainers?

On that I agree that it is a rare occurance that this extension gets much in terms of money from being parked. I do have one or two that makes its reg fee and some over though. I would think that .com may hav some issues in that there are so very many more out there than .tv but I don't know.

? I haven't said anything at all about parking, agree that it is not a healthy area right now.

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

Yes, Patience is a Virtue


// Wish I had more of it.

 

[bmugford]

I would change the title to -

"Patience can be a virtue", because patience is not always a virtue. Sometimes there is a time frame to act and you miss it by being too patient.

Brad

 

[snoop]

At the end of the day you could probably find 100 phrases with the opposite meaning. What matter is whether people are making money or not from these domains, constantly pushing out the time frame for making money willl not help people in my view, it is a form of procrastination/denial.

 

[garptrader]

Reg fee domain Rutinas.tv - there will be no monetization effort until traffic reaches a level where it makes sense to do so. Excluding the first few days after announcing the launch on a couple of forums, the next ten days the site had a mere 70 visitors in late June (28th). The next ten days into early July (8th) traffic increased to 105 visitors. The next ten days to mid-July (18th) 161 visitors. The next ten days to late July (28th) 222 visitors. The next eight days to August 5th the site has averaged 21 visitors daily about where it was in latter July. I am not skilled at website development but am pleased with initial results.

 

[RogueWriter]

It is amazing that folks that are so completely biased against the .tv extension are so bound and determined to waste their time trashing it.

You guys aren't making money, fine, we get it, you have no clue how to make money with .tv, you couldn't make money regardless of the keyword, regardless of the niche, regardless of your past life experiences, yada yada yada, whatever, and if you did somehow make money, you'd never admit it in writing. We get all that, fine.

But me, I'm making money, and it feels pretty darn good. :P

 

[MicroGuy]

...there will be no monetization effort until traffic reaches a level where it makes sense to do so.

No monetization effort is an interesting approach. At what point do you estimate you will cross that threshold (the point when you will try to make money)?

 

[snoop]

Reg fee domain Rutinas.tv - there will be no monetization effort until traffic reaches a level where it makes sense to do so. Excluding the first few days after announcing the launch on a couple of forums, the next ten days the site had a mere 70 visitors in late June (28th). The next ten days into early July (8th) traffic increased to 105 visitors. The next ten days to mid-July (18th) 161 visitors. The next ten days to late July (28th) 222 visitors. The next eight days to August 5th the site has averaged 21 visitors daily about where it was in latter July. I am not skilled at website development but am pleased with initial results.

Focus on making money right from the start in my view, or like Microguy suggests put forth a definate time/date when you will do that.

You guys aren't making money, fine, we get it, you have no clue how to make money with .tv, you couldn't make money regardless of the keyword, regardless of the niche, regardless of your past life experiences, yada yada yada, whatever, and if you did somehow make money, you'd never admit it in writing. We get all that, fine.

But me, I'm making money, and it feels pretty darn good. :P

I think the point is that most of those investing in .tv aren't making money, they are losing it. If there was a good proportion of success stories there wouldn't be as many naysayers as their is.

 

[freedom30]

Good evening Freedom.

I will take your advice tonight regarding the bourbon as I am all out of whiskey. If you care to elaborate, I would very much like to know why, where, and how you foresee returns in .TV down the road.

Please keep in mind that no one knows what premium and/or registration pricing will be past 2012. Thank you. :gl:

Hi Micro,

Why?
For myself, I purchased the names with the sole purpose of selling them, like most here. I have not and do not see myself purchasing a premium name, ever,so all names I have purchased have been reg fee.


Where?
Outside of Spanish generics, I have deliberately concentrated on niches that fit the extension, i.e., media-sensitive, entertainment and sports related terms that do not have the albatross of a TM issue. These I do feel have an attractiveness to endusers in those fields that may be to their benefit in time.

How?
Since I have pinpointed only a few niches and paid no more than reg fee, I am able to have a modest yet handsome portfolio of many extensions with more than half being .tv.The tv names cost no more than a bottle of decent bourbon, and unlike the hootch which could go in a short time, the extension is good for a year. I have let a few drop that but nowhere near the amount that I have let other extensions.(the .info bait is worth .99 athe first year but it seems like a scratch off ticket when it comes time for renewal at the sticker shock of its regular fee, I don't want it).

I have sent powerpoint presentations to a few media and sports concerns but got the email addresses from the internet so I do not know how legit or up to date they were. I send emails one at a time, no batches, a few said thanks but not now, will keep on file though for future reference.

At any rate I am not going out on a limb with the names. I know the niches that .tv fits into and as I said outside of the Spanish generics(arroz, leche, viernes, corrido, eg.) stay within those parameters. I know my limits and don't spend any more than I would if I spent on lottery tickets which last only a day.

I find fun in this and consider it a pastime. I stated before that I indeed am highly confident of tv's future. That may be because of the names I do own. It is not a 360 degree spectrum but does have a nice ability to branch in a couple directions quite comfortably, I feel.

As far as 2012 is concerned, I guess that is another aspect of speculation. Tomorrow never knows, I guess.

Anyway, have a great evening MG, and save the bourbon for the long weekend, just don't make it a lost one!