By the end of the post I was expecting to start reading "If you strike .tv down, it shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." and other cornball lines circa 1977.
Understand that at the end of the day not everyone here agrees with you. Accept that rather than spouting nonsense like people bagging .tv for "personal and political reasons" most people just genuinely dislike it.
Its ashame that you lost so much money on dot tv. I know others are not aware of it, but I felt bad when I learned of it. Nobody can be right all the time and entrepreneurs must take the good with the bad. This is a numbers game. You can't take it so personally.
I don't hate the extension and I used to have Fast.tv in my portfolio, which I later let go for a loss. This was back in the days before enom took over the extension when the dot tv corporation was running it. Face value of the domain was 10k/year, something ridiculous like that. I would never have paid that. The dot tv corporation ran a 70% off campaign for awhile and I had registered some other premium dot tv names. Fast.tv was attractive to me for a number or reasons beyond speculation but the discount sale at the time was enough to get me interested. As time went by, some us got smart and negotiated for even deeper discounts by offering to register domains for longer periods.
I initially picked Fast.tv up for a few years at a cut rate discount, but eventually decided it was best to drop it because enom was now in charge of the extension and it wasn't worth it to me to hold on at the renewal price so I cut my lossess. I burned a couple of thousand dollars. Could I have used the money elsewhere? Absolutely, but that experience doesn't make me hate the extension nor do I blame the extension, enom, or anyone else for the decision. It was a calculated risk that didn't pan out for me and a good lesson because I have 50+ other names that are better with lower renewals.
I think its clear that neither you nor anyone must agree with me or any other member of this forum. I visit this sub forum because I know this is where I can find others interested in the dot tv extension. We can share news, ideas, and information so we have something to benefit by being here and socializing.
However, you dislike the extension to put it mildly so everyone is questioning your motivation for being here since you don't have anything to gain through your negative participation here. You pride yourself on crusading against the extension so much that I wonder how much valuable time you waste here....unless of course you feel like there is some benefit in making negative posts all the time. After all, why would you invest valuable time trying to counter any positive interest in the extension?
That got me thinking...
I agree with you that the extension MAY NEVER be anything. As an entrepreneur, I must have that in the back of my mind when determining my tolerance for the risk that the extension represents. If I didn't then I'd risk losing everything on a single bet.
But I disagree with your transparent effort to undermine the discussions that take place in the dot tv forum.
Why do you do it? Where is the benefit to you or what need do you fulfill by engaging in such negative activity?
Are you protecting some dot com holdings that wouldn't be worth as much if dot tv does begin to post greater growth than it has since its inception? Seeing that you enjoy spending time subverting the dot tv extension, I simply assume you are not making a lot of dot com money right now.
So do you do it because you lost money in the dot tv extension, you now blame the extension for your loss or those who like it and encourage others to explore the opportunity, and therefore must seek revenge against the extension and those who like it?
Is it because the amount of money you lost was so great in the extension that you feel like the extension burned you, and therefore, you have to try and burn the extension in return? Can your motivation only be about revenge?
Or did you come into the extension with rose colored glasses and a lot of money, you read all the hype in the forum, and started spending money on the extension not realizing that it is a bet and like all bets you could lose your money? Did it make you so upset that nobody was there telling you how much of a bet this extension actually is and you decided you would be that person going forward for anyone just coming into the world of domaining?
I mean who spends a significant amount of time just trying to be negative about something they have no interest in unless they are fulfilling some strange need like this or you benefit indirectly (like in the case of having a lot of holdings in other extensions that stand to lose if dot tv does well, which I don't see as being a real threat)?
I think if you were honest with the members, then many of the members would respect you more, they might show more appreciation for your reason for being here and any value that you add. Your arguments that the extension is unproven are arguments that I totally agree with, but you can't disagree that dot tv may represent a a legitimate business opportunity.
Now, not all people looking for business opportunities should consider dot tv as one for them. Why? Because it does involve a degree of risk and requires a significant amount of upfront capital to get a return if a return is to be had. As I have said, you can't register crap and expect to make money. It doesn't work like that and I wouldn't encourage experimenting in the dot tv space.
Just like other members on this forum mentioned in the past, any potential investor in the extension really needs to spend the time to justify that the dot tv risk is something they can tolerate. The reason we call the person who is looking to register a dot tv name a potential investor. Theoretically, this triggers a thought in their mind that this extension must be looked at from a business perspective with all the normal risk assessments that go into any business venture. Based on my experience, those who have profited from the extension approached it like it was a business investment.
The last thing anybody should do is get real excited and spend all their disposable income registering dot tv names. But I don't think any of us who are interested in the extension would like to see a lot of new people doing that because they would be setting themselves up to be devastated.
Anyone considering dot tv should do their due diligence. They should spend a lot of time and look at a lot of factors and make some informed judgments. If you have never developed a website or you haven't been around domains or websites for at least a year, then it is likely you have a lot more to learn than others. You might underestimate the risk or the potential opportunity that any given domain name represents. You might be in danger of losing a lot more money than you originally estimaged if you expect any profits from your portfolio.
Heck, all of us might be in that category. We might be underestimaging risk or overestimating the return on investment, but the plain and simple fact is that these are all elements of the game that we play when we buy/sell dot tv domain names.
Myself and others would argue not to invest if your budget or risk tolerance for speculating like this can't go the distance. If you don't have the stomach or the balls to double down in the face of a recession, then maybe this gamble isn't for you.
Most of us in this sub forum are reasonable. Yes, we may get excited about certain advancements in technology or growth in different industries because what it may mean for the dot tv extension, but few if any are stating unequivocally that dot tv will be king and dot com will fall, which is this wild notion you have and the one that you attempt to counter in most of your posts in the subforum. At the end of the day, we are reasonable.
Interestingly, your arguments lose any bite they have after someone has read just a few of your posts in the subforum. Why? Because you refuse to acknowledge that others have had success in the dot tv extension. You absolutely refuse to speak of the extension in business terms, which means acknowledging there is an opportunity that others have handsomely profited from. You refuse to give just a little however reasonable and sound the argument is because you perceive it as a slippery slope. In your mind, this would somehow undermine your entire effort here if you did acknowledge these points. It doesn't make sense to me or anyone else.
Do you refuse to acknowledge that others have been successful in the extension because somehow, in your mind, that would mean you were less successful because you had one bad play in the extension?
One bad play doesn't make you a failure. If you speak to anyone who is or has been successful, ask them about the failures they encountered on the way. Very few people are lucky enough to enjoy success that results from pure luck the first time they make an attempt at it. Every entrepreneur knows that and I suspect that you know that as well, but you might want to consider your true motivation for being on this crusade against dot tv.
I know I am not the only one who questions your motivation.
