.tv The sky is falling...

[*AllThings.tv*]

Or not...you decide.

One of my premium dot tv names that I consider more of a vanity dot tv name than a single keyword dot tv name received a $x,xxx (USD) opening offer on SEDO the other day. My renewal is $250/year and while I could sell at a profit now, I decided to correspond with my personal network of contacts to learn what they felt the approximate market value of this name was. The company that made the initial offer over SEDO followed up with a second offer before I responded to their initial offer. Their second offer was double their first offer.

So in a recession, years after dot tv was rolled out, there are still fish biting (not nipping) for an opportunity to acquire single keyword dot tv domain names.

Just thought I'd share.

 

[Makis.TV]

congrats!
care to share the domain?

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

congrats!
care to share the domain?

Thank you. I would like to wait and see the outcome in the event the buyer wants some sort of NDA, but I would like to share it.

 

[RogueWriter]

So, parked or developed?

 

[shocko]

I had the exact same thing happen on 2 of my Geo names last week. They doubled the offer without me responding to them.

Something sounds fishy

 

[MicroGuy]

Something sounds fishy

Yes. With Sedo, it's probably better not to count your buyers before they come up with the scratch.

 

[garptrader]

Congrats and keep us informed - hopefully the fish will keep biting...

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

Yes. With Sedo, it's probably better not to count your buyers before they come up with the scratch.

I had the exact same thing happen on 2 of my Geo names last week. They doubled the offer without me responding to them.

Something sounds fishy

Yeah, lets watch and see.

So, parked or developed?

Parked.

 

[nightnight]

I had the exact same thing happen on 2 of my Geo names last week. They doubled the offer without me responding to them.

Something sounds fishy

Sounds like a classic attempt to manipulate the market by all these offers coming in to get tongues wagging about why you need to buy more .tvs, or buying .tvs off other portfolio holders desperate to sell.

Of course it is possible that is a total coincidence that two seperate bidders did two exact same things to two different people in the space of two weeks.

And pigs fly first class now

 

[MicroGuy]

Sounds like a classic attempt to manipulate the market by all these offers coming in to get tongues wagging about why you need to buy more .tvs, or buying .tvs off other portfolio holders desperate to sell.

Of course it is possible that is a total coincidence that two seperate bidders did two exact same things to two different people in the space of two weeks.

And pigs fly first class now

A first time poster who knows how to make an entrance. Lol.

 

[snoop]

If it is real make sure you get a sale.

Funny how we get all this back patting and congrats about negotiations on unknown names, it has been going on for a long time..."so and so 6 figure sale in the pipeline", "everything is fine". Then we hear the same people dropping most of their names. Wake we up when their is some actual sales to report, actual money going into bank accounts, all that kind of stuff.

Little doubt their is a degree of enduser demand but the reality of the market is reflected in the degree to which holders are bailing out, the reality is reflected in the sales reports. (...aah but all the undisclosed sales of unknown names under NDA!)

Not sure why you'd state the offer was "$XXXX" rather than the actual amount. I think when domainers do that on unknown names it is because the offer was $1000 or close to and they'd like to tart it up. There is no reason not to state the exact amount. Anyway $1000 is 4 years of reg fees for the name, I really doubt it is profitable in regards to a portfolio of names. For most domainers if they sold the occasional name for 4 times reg fee they'd be broke.

 

[*AllThings.tv*]

If it is real make sure you get a sale.

The bottom line is that its not enough to open up negotiations. Where I want to be and where the opening bid started are far enough apart that I don't bother to counter until I know more information about the bidder.

 

[vaunter]

Sedo.... mmmm.... Show me the money!