.tv Premium Email Thread - Did you get the email? Post Here

[ownthisdomainnow]

I figured it would be more efficient if we had a single thread reporting all of the different ENOM Premium Name email responses.

For my part, I am going to list the name, reserve price, and buy it now.

N: Learning.tv
R: $10,000
BIN: $30,000

Look forward to seeing others.

 

[TheBulldog]

N: Doctor.tv
R: $7,000
BIN: $21,000

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

Great idea

Great idea. I have received 2 emails,and probably will gets lots more! (Ha, sent a bunch of responses in!)

The 2 names I have received emails for are:

N:Color.tv
R:$10,000
BIN $25,000

N:Program.tv
R: $,7000
BIN $21,000

No, I won't be buying either one!

Frank :hi:

 

[Vimal]

N: Doctor.tv
R: $7,000
BIN: $21,000

 

[shocko]

I received one of these aswell.

What are you meant to do if you are interested?

Do you email back your best/final offer and hope you are the highest bidder?

Also, what is the yearly renewal fee going to be. The reserve price in the email or whatever price you bid on it?

Their email doesn't really give you very much information.

Thanks

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

I received one of these aswell.

What are you meant to do if you are interested?

Do you email back your best/final offer and hope you are the highest bidder?

Also, what is the yearly renewal fee going to be. The reserve price in the email or whatever price you bid on it?

Their email doesn't really give you very much information.

Thanks

Good questions. They seem to have left out that little bit about the annual registration. A person would be crazy to pay the BIN, and then be told "oh, by the way, the annual registration is $2,500 per year for this premium .tv name!" :hehe:

Frank

 

[Premium]

DemandMedia is nothing but greedy.. I hate this process for registering .tv domains!

I should of grabbed as many as I could before they took over! :td:

Has anyone bought a premium reg since DemandMedia has taken over?

 

[johntv]

Has anyone bought a premium reg since DemandMedia has taken over?

Yes, I did buy one just now, ver.tv (spanish for watching tv).
Did anyone else buy any premiums?

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

I am not trying to be a pain... and if I am let me know.

But I wanted this thread to be a quick reference for these premium prices.

Thanks,
David

 

[Cate.tv]

Friend of mine sent this to me tonight:

Hello,



You submitted an interest in SHOW.TV. We are holding a negotiated sale process whereby we are soliciting bids.



The reserve price is $7,000.00 USD and the “buy it now” price is $21,000.00 USD.



Please reply as soon as possible but no later than April 26th.





Kind regards,

deborah burditt | business development

__________________________________

eNom, Inc., a Demand Media company

Direct: 425.274.4500 x4226

Fax: 425.952.0794

15801 NE 24th St.

Bellevue, WA 98008

[email protected]

 

[MillersCrossing]

Yep,

It seems that more are coming out of the woodwork every day.

A friend also sent me an email today for a site that I was intrested in and of course it happens to be the day that I get it directly from Enom too. However, I had submitted email requests on at least 20 names and so am still waiting like everyone else.

Alot of us have got questions with regard to the BIN and what happens if no one goes for the bin, is it gonna be the reserve price that becomes the yearly price and what happens if two or more parties bid the reserve only, what is the next stage in deciding who gets the reg.....

I have already put these questions to Quinn, and so hopefully, all of us will get some clarification on the matter as soon as possible, I am hopeful to get answers for everyone on these and other questions by the middle of next week if not earlier.

 

[TheBulldog]

I may be dumb.......but I realistically can't see any way that they could charge those as renewel rates.

For instance.....they obviously have a flowing list of names as "premium". Right now "Sanjaya.tv" (American Idol) is on their "Premium" list. First of all, no one will give $20K for this, let alone pay that much every year.

I just refuse to even think they could be this stupid. (Unless DD sets their prices)

 

[equity78]

There are thousands of PREMIUM DOMAINS so you have to look a large percentage will not have any interest, example someone maybe interested in an all Premium LLL like Pie.tv but no one right now is interested in xzw.tv so it looks like Demand Media is going to charge more if you feel like you have to have the domain. So I think when premiums avail the ones no one mentioned or bid for will be regged for $500 in the LLL look at the 3 character LLN or NNL they right now r=300 who will be bidding for them? No one IMO so they will get regged for $300 if someone wants one. I think unless you have to have it you will find a better price just buying when they are all available after this email campaign to see how bad someone wants a domain they filled out the form for on ENOM.tv. I mean why would you ever indicate to someone your interest before hand you want to go in and buy under the radar. IMO

Now I spoke to someone who has regged a premium and Paid the buy it now the annual renewal will be 1/3 every year. They expressed an interest in 8 domains looking to spend some $$$ Demand Media said sorry no discounts no thank you

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

Has anybody got clarification about whether this is a fixed price or a yearly renewal?

 

[equity78]

IF you got a domain that said $21,000 buy it now the renewal is going to run 1/3 $7000 the domain someone regged today was buy it now $3000 renewal $1000 thing that sucks in December it could have been had for $225 renewal $350 70 % off and then 50 % renewal

 

[MillersCrossing]

IF you got a domain that said $21,000 buy it now the renewal is going to run 1/3 $7000 the domain someone regged today was buy it now $3000 renewal $1000 thing that sucks in December it could have been had for $225 renewal $350 70 % off and then 50 % renewal

SO according to the 1/3 theory, if a BIN is more than 3 times the reserve price, and I have seen some BINS at 25 times the reserve price, does that make the reserve price redundant....in other words a domain with a reserve at $1000 and a BIN at $10,000 - and no one buys it at BIN, it will never go below $3333 as a yearly price??

 

[equity78]

Millers I don't know, I think if there is no interest the domain will go for what you see right now after the R=$$$$

 

[antonis12]

IF you got a domain that said $21,000 buy it now the renewal is going to run 1/3 $7000 the domain someone regged today was buy it now $3000 renewal $1000 thing that sucks in December it could have been had for $225 renewal $350 70 % off and then 50 % renewal

Ha! Sucks it does, but I try not to have this thought! We all had the chance to reg back then and...many names were regged :gn: but many were left behind!

It is OK though. It is the sympton of a rising market!

 

[MillersCrossing]

Ha! Sucks it does, but I try not to have this thought! We all had the chance to reg back then and...many names were regged :gn: but many were left behind!

It is OK though. It is the sympton of a rising market!

Interesting you should say that Antonis, do you see Demand Medias' decision to raise premiums as a symptom of a rising market or as an attempt to artificially inflate the market?

 

[antonis12]

Interesting you should say that Antonis, do you see Demand Medias' decision to raise premiums as a symptom of a rising market or as an attempt to artificially inflate the market?

Nobody can "artificially" inflate a market. Not possible. Can't be done. Either buyers will show up on the other side or they will not.

If they show up, then Demand Media is setting prices correctly. If they do not, then the "inflation" attempt will end in few sales and Demand Media will lower prices.

My sense is that Demand Media is a bit ahead of themselves in their pricing expectations since I doubt the market has changed THAT much in 4 months with no publicity, but that is certainly their right to find out what the market can bear.

As I mentioned earlier, the BIN prices that everyone is getting worked up over are totally irrelevant and aspirational for Demand Media and for most names will not be reached. For some they might and, in those cases, DM was setting the prices correctly.

Nonetheless since each one of us is an individual and not a "market", we can just look at the names we like, figure out what we would be willing to pay, and make that offer to Demand Media and see what happens. That's it. No muss, no fuss.

Warren Buffett's saying about buying stocks is completely applicable here.

"Buying stocks is like being a batter in a baseball game where someone is throwing you pitches but nobody is calling balls."

So in other words, if you are not sure, don't buy. There is always another pitch that is going to come at you. In fact, there are thousands and thousands of them...

Even if Demand Media decided to make every unregistered .tv $1,000,000,000/year, who cares? There is no shortage at all of domains to buy in .tv secondary or in .com for that matter.

At the prices being tossed around for some .tv names (high four digits, and lowish five digits), you can buy real .coms with real traffic.

Some examples from last week's Domain Journal:

BillCollection.com $11,800
SportingEquipment.com $11,000
WesternApparel.com $9,500
LocalConcerts.com $2,500

These are all great names that certainly generate traffic and profits and have a $6.95 annual renewal fee and a more stable and transparent registry.

This is not to say that there aren't certain premium .tvs that I want. There definitely are. But I am also not particularly flustered by DM testing the waters and throwing out some high prices to see what sticks...

...

Now to answer your question. There is no doubt the market is rising but probably slower than people think. It will take a couple of more years, IMO, to get to the prices that most people think their portfolio is worth today.