.tv Reclaiming regfee .TVs for premiums...

[domainacrobat]

I have heard over and over that they make regfee domains into premiums once they have dropped. I have to say, I finally found one that was on my list, an available regfee name and now it is a premium guaranteed.tv is now a $500 premium. It was available early this year for regfee. Does anyonw else have other names they know of that were available that are now premium? I have only heard of them taking in dropped names, but this one was available...

 

[TheBulldog]

No offense to anyone, but I really can't see why this is surprising.

What is more surprising is that Demand Media/Enom/Verisign/Whoever doesn't understand that they should be advertising to end users instead of trying to jack prices when they are already struggling to sell the premiums.

 

[CarryOn]

Domainacrobat, this also happened to me. I was looking at Lawrence.tv for regfee back in March/April (I was thinking Geo not first names) and now its a $500 premium. There were a couple others too but I can't recall the names at the moment.

 

[Badger]

And let me get this straight, you own a reg fee .tv domain, you sell it, the new owner then gets gazzumped and loses the name/has to pay a premium reg fee ... ??

Can you clarify this Ray??

 

[equity78]

No Ian not like that I think some names that no one owned Demand Media looked at and marked up. Not Verisign but Demand Media, they certainly did that with all the bogus $100 premiums that no longer show on ENOMCENTRAL when you browse Premium .tv Cumbubbles and att-wa.tv were not $100 premiums before.

 

[StargateCapital]

i thought you were joking, so i had to check:

http://www.enom.com/auctions/dotTV.asp?domain=cumbubbles.tv

cumbubbles.tv
$100.00 annually

but i guess not!

ccd

 

[antonis12]

And let me get this straight, you own a reg fee .tv domain, you sell it, the new owner then gets gazzumped and loses the name/has to pay a premium reg fee ... ??

No. This can only happen if the name becomes unregistered. If you or the new owner keep it registered the price won't change

 

[TopNames.com]

No. This can only happen if the name becomes unregistered. If you or the new owner keep it registered the price won't change

Incorrect. I own a bunch of .tvs and the renewal prices went up on a few of them when Enom took over.

 

[Makis.TV]

And let me get this straight, you own a reg fee .tv domain, you sell it, the new owner then gets gazzumped and loses the name/has to pay a premium reg fee ... ??

Can you clarify this Ray??

this is a question i had from a potential buyer of a premium tv(only its a premium from beginning) and i couldnt give an exact answer. He asked that after he buys that domain from me and do something with it, could demand media raise the renewal fee? I told him there is a slight possibility that this happens as its on their tos so that potential byer stepped back and said he would come again after talking with his partners. One week passed and of course he is not back

Frustrating isnt it?


ps: i knew this from beginning but its different when you see you r loosing a sale after this

 

[antonis12]

Incorrect. I own a bunch of .tvs and the renewal prices went up on a few of them when Enom took over.

Are you discussing premium .tvs?

Ths prices should have stayed the same and if they did not, you should discuss with Enom.

Retail prices for non-premiums *have* changed but that is a differnet story all together and more in the hands of the registrars than the registry.

 

[Mike]

That's the most insane marketing strategy i've seen in a very long time.

I wonder what's going to happen with Chalk.TV and Affair.TV (i own both) at renewal

 

[TopNames.com]

Are you discussing premium .tvs?

Ths prices should have stayed the same and if they did not, you should discuss with Enom.

Retail prices for non-premiums *have* changed but that is a differnet story all together and more in the hands of the registrars than the registry.

Yes, premium .tvs (cats.tv, police.tv, cop.tv). I had a few conversations with Enom, but I was told they do not control the pricing.

I had tracked many of the domains that were owned by online.tv and I must admit I'm disappointed by the $10,000 pricing per year. I had plans for a few of the domains, but I have abandoned them once I saw the reg fees. I was a huge .tv fan, but I see a decline in the premium .tv launches and I think they killed the namespace with the pricing.

 

[antonis12]

Yes, premium .tvs (cats.tv, police.tv, cop.tv). I had a few conversations with Enom, but I was told they do not control the pricing.

I had tracked many of the domains that were owned by online.tv and I must admit I'm disappointed by the $10,000 pricing per year. I had plans for a few of the domains, but I have abandoned them once I saw the reg fees. I was a huge .tv fan, but I see a decline in the premium .tv launches and I think they killed the namespace with the pricing.

Show them your invoice from Versign with your pricing from when you regged it.

They reset all the other accounts to the Verisign pricing.

 

[TopNames.com]

Show them your invoice from Versign with your pricing from when you regged it.

They reset all the other accounts to the Verisign pricing.

Actually, they did reset it to the Verisign pricing...that's the problem. The Verisign pricing was very negotiable and you could get great deals if you registered domains in bulk. I got 30-60% off the premium pricing often when I regged .tv domains.

 

[Mike]

Confusion, inconsistent pricing and artificially inflated values are going to hurt the .TV more than it would do good.
I'm also waiting for the push of .TV domains to the broader public - the so called "marketing" of the domains. Other than declaring certain domains as premium and charging an insane amount of money for them, i haven't seen anything that's creating awareness; and the awareness that's created at the moment is questionable.
Enom's me.tv project is not precisely revenue friendly as well, as i don't see any way to actually plug my adsense code in or charge in any other way for any type of product placement/CPM, etc.
Overall, at present, i'm relatively disappointed in how the .TV is run. :imho: