.tv .tv as an extension?

[ThatNameGuy]

I just picked up my first domain with the .tv extension. The domain is H2OSports.tv. Anyone know anything about the extension .tv? Anyone seen it used? Thanks

 

[Vito]

In case someone is thinking of investing a lot of money on .tv extensions I thought I would bring up an opposing point of view.

I cut the cord a few years back and NEVER watch tv. I stream on my chromebook while using headphones. I mostly use fmovies or bmovies to stream (the extensions always change - google it). Using my pixelbook the screen is right at my face and between that and the headset there cannot be a better experience for me.

That said..... how long before tv is a word that your kids don't recognize any more?
I don't think it will be a long lasting extension, I think it will eventually burn out as tv is no longer what we use. Screens will be everywhere and the idea of a tv station will be a relic.

So enjoy the momentum on .tv.... just don't overstock because I not a hundred percent sure it is a good long term investment like a .com.

Not worried at all. TV is universal. Has been and always will be.
Whether you are streaming live broadcasts on your cell or just pushing play on your ipad i believe moving pictures with audio on any format will always be referred to as tv. The term "tv" hasnt changed in 100 years as much as the actual tvs and programming options have.

 

[DnEbook]

Hey Friend I want you to think about who will buy these names and if you cannot come to a solid conclusion you need to wait. Domaining is a money pit and so is .Tv. Sorry but whilst I appreciate your feedback you need to do your research. I gotta be honest and say I have never heard the term "first time" Any memory is in a time line. You know what .Tv is just too expensive to go on gut feelings! It is very much a "niche" specific category .... Movie/s .Tv = Yes ...... Film/s .Tv = Yes Channel/s .Tv = Yes Show/s = Yes .. Memory = NO
I can't be anymore clearer, Yes there is room for branding but it needs to be specific to a definite niche. FirstMemories will have trouble finding a buyer. Autosales will be more target based and more likely to sell.
No-one is perfect, I held BusinessShow and DateShow for a number of years and eventually let them drop. To be honest I still wish I had developed them ..... they were good names and suited the extension. The domain must suit the extension with .Tv .... that's the secret. I wish all .Tv investors well, regards

 

[Vito]

I just picked up my first domain with the .tv extension. The domain is H2OSports.tv. Anyone know anything about the extension .tv? Anyone seen it used? Thanks

I see dot tv domains used all of the time. Just saw a couple brand new use cases thia past week.

Dot tvs always have great sales. One of the most consistent tlds. Much more consistent than any of those rollercoaster priced and inconsistenr renewal rate new Gtlds especially since great sales are always reported for past 10+ years. 360.tv sold for 65k a few months ago.

yep
usa.tv was sold for xxxxx

USA.tv was not sold for only 5 digits. It actually sold for 6 digits @ $125,000 by NP member @donnied79

https://www.namepros.com/threads/usa-tv-sold-for-125k.905564/

Good luck with your new dot tv Bulloney!

Thanks,
Vito

 

[Vito]

There are a lot of redirects, sure. Same as dot com. Probably same with every tld out there. I was looking for 2 completely seperate unique niches today in dot com. I feel like i looked up every generic sensible 2 worder for both categories and i found many redirects and many for sale in both categories.

Based on your pet and tv theme, Here is an interesting one though. Pets.tv is owned by Byron Allen of Entertainment Studios. His show is a full fledged video content show all about pets. Same story as Comedy.tv which he owns and produces. He has quite a few great ones other than those 2 i mentioned.

Coolest thing though about ES (Entertainment Studios) is he uses the actual domain name as the title of the show. So when you look at your guide you see the Pets.tv show as "Pets.tv"

 

[donnied79]

In Europe .tv is quite used, I do for sure see many more .tv websites than .net.
Apart from the USA.tv sale I've made many other XX.XXX sales and there are members here that have done better than me.
All this said .tv is still not an easy extension because it doesn't fit all the keywords and because it's very illiquid.
You can sell a .tv for 5 fig but at the same time if you want to sell something for liquidity it's not easy to find a buyer. I've tried to sell some great geo.tv for cheap (low X.XXX) recently and I couldn't (with great I mean ExactCityName.tv).

 

[leftfielder]

If you take .tv literally, you've already missed the point.

• The extension is universal
• Brands are using it as cheap protection
• People are sleeping on .tv domains and there's still time to invest in a category killer

If you get good ones HODL onto them as the prices have been super consistent and undervalued. Yes, they are expensive to buy and renew but it's worth it. I sold Roman.tv back in '13 and it forwards to a dept store in the UK. Just picked up "specs" in the same extension and will expect the same results in a few years.

 

[leftfielder]

It's a good idea to know who might be a potential buyer no matter what the extension before you reg, good luck

This. I understand if you’re an end user and want the extension but to go back and forth between a domainer and end user titles is foolish regarding the extension in this case.

Maybe if the domain was taken in at minimum 10 other extensions it would sound more legit. To each thine own.

 

[leftfielder]

• rent to own payment plan
• 1 year structure for Pimp.tv
• chunk of money down
• created 12 monthly payments

Times must be tough. Even pimps are selling domain names now

 

[gilescoley]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/popular-tv-discussions.842350/

https://www.namepros.com/s/forums/cctld-discussion.143/?prefix_id=334

 

[ngignac]

Not worried at all. TV is universal. Has been and always will be.
Whether you are streaming live broadcasts on your cell or just pushing play on your ipad i believe moving pictures with audio on any format will always be referred to as tv. The term "tv" hasnt changed in 100 years as much as the actual tvs and programming options have.

I agree 100%. tv has really evolved into a broad term encompassing most video formats/mediums and viewing methods.

 

[ngignac]

I agree 100%. tv has really evolved into a broad term encompassing most video formats/mediums and viewing methods.

1 exception: Movie in the theaters. virtually all other video formats and mediums I'll refer to as tv.

Ex : i watched netflix and amazon prime this weekend. Id just say I binge watched some tv. Easier and people understand im not sinply referring to a regular old tv. (Shameless self promotion...im developing Binge.tv lol)

 

[Vito]

Check out NHL.tv and MLB.tv.
They are the domains Major League Baseball and National Hockey League uses to offer their monthly streaming tv subscription services.

 

[Dave]

.tv is a tough but rewarding extension. I have only sold about 5 .tv domains in the past 10+ years (and have only had about 15 at most), but all 5 were for a combined 5 figures (purchase price combined was at most low $x,xxx).

I would stick with highly brandable/premium one words, premium two words, LL.tv, premium LLL.tv that are words and premium GEO's. There is little liquidity in .tv so not many reseller sales.

There are other Namepros members like @donnied79 that are way more experienced in .tv than me though.

 

[DnEbook]

With Tv expanding more and more onto the web some folk have faith in the .Tv being the most popular choice for video/tv based media. However it has been a long wait for some. I think from memory that Pet.Tv used to redirect to a pay tv channel? Now it seems to be going to a social media startup? Cat/tv and Dog/tv are also redirecting ......let's see what happens down the road? I like .Tv but would not over expose myself with this extension

 

[ngignac]

I'm noticing .tv finally gaining some more traction. Seems like there are reasonable .tv sales on an ongoing basis. I'd call it the Twitch.tv effect. Twitch is immensely popular and increasing the adoption of .tv (finally...)

 

[Vito]

With Tv expanding more and more onto the web some folk have faith in the .Tv being the most popular choice for video/tv based media. However it has been a long wait for some. I think from memory that Pet.Tv used to redirect to a pay tv channel? Now it seems to be going to a social media startup? Cat/tv and Dog/tv are also redirecting ......let's see what happens down the road? I like .Tv but would not over expose myself with this extension

What does a .tv cost to register, my registrar charges 50 bucks and I can get it on sale at 32.

Yikes..... if I had a lot of those it would really eat into my profits.

In Europe .tv is quite used, I do for sure see many more .tv websites than .net.
Apart from the USA.tv sale I've made many other XX.XXX sales and there are members here that have done better than me.
All this said .tv is still not an easy extension because it doesn't fit all the keywords and because it's very illiquid.
You can sell a .tv for 5 fig but at the same time if you want to sell something for liquidity it's not easy to find a buyer. I've tried to sell some great geo.tv for cheap (low X.XXX) recently and I couldn't (with great I mean ExactCityName.tv).

Very well said/written Donnie. Same exact thing here with me. Ive sold a half dozen-ish 5 figure dot tv domains as well but you're right about the instant liquidity if needed. Not so easy when you want a quick sale.

 

[DnEbook]

I can't see the term Tv going away anytime soon, I sometimes watch "online tv" but I still call it Tv

 

[DnEbook]

Some things tend to stick, although nearly all gone now I sometimes say I am going to the "Video Shop" which of course is full of Dvds. BUt as the shops disappear there are only Dvd kiosk machines at the supermarket and the local library if you want a video/dvd ......... as for Tv, it's everywhere, phones, tvs and computers. Tv is only growing it seems.

 

[DnEbook]

Namebio shows Pay.Tv as a $10.000 sale on the 26th November 2017 ...... BARGAIN

 

[DnEbook]

It's a good idea to know who might be a potential buyer no matter what the extension before you reg, good luck

 

[Vito]

Wow, there is a lot of great information for you here in this thread.

I see you are relatively new here at NP and based on a few of your posts here in this thread I am gonna reach out a bit more here to help you with my own personal opinions of dot tv based on almost 10 years of experience in this tld. Dot Tv is friggen awesome. It is my 2nd favorite tld. Sometimes first based on the keyword. I have made money in dot tv. When I started out though, I did lose money because I was as wide eyed and bushy tailed as you were. I was regging tons of stuff when there were killer dot tvs in the aftermarket that were 100x better and only 10x more expensive than the hand reg's I was doing.

Thanks Vito...your post got me so pumped, I just purchased my second .tv....BullseyeSports.tv. We're talking two words and 14 letters here, but I have so much Bull, it might just work To compliment it, I also bought BullseyeSports.live.

Any thoughts on who might be interested? Thanks again Vito.

I registered H2OSports.tv and BullseyeSports.tv at Epik for 29.99 each.

If you are developing these, than any domain you choose can and will work with lots of time, effort, and money. But if you are buying these for resale, I see extra inventory at this time. Lets look at these 2 domains and analyze them a little further.
H20Sports.tv
I see quite a few other domains that can be better. WaterSports, Each water sport individually regged (WaterPolo.tv) etc. H20.tv, Water.tv Sports.tv, etc.

Lets look at BullseyeSports.tv - This could be a killer "Brand" as anything could be. BallSports could be a brand if I put time, effort and money into it. Lets see what can be better here, Archery, Shooting, Target, Targets, Bullseye, Hunting, Sports, Sporting, etc.

So you asked me who may be interested in this domain, I honestly have no idea. I think it covers many bullseye sports and whoever is into archery is not into shotgun sports as well and are probably only promoting the one sport they are in to. I could be wrong though. I would go with more specific domain names though.

My only reason for being here right now is to help. You remind me of myself upon entering dot tv. Be careful of your regging anything that is available and sounds cool. I am not sure how much you have spent so far in your new reg's but It is my belief that I have dropped domains that are better than these that you are regging right now in dot tv.

Like I said, if these are for your development, then that is bad ass! I wish you the best and hope it will be online one day making you boatloads of money. But form a domainer perspective, I see inventory that will sit for years at this point.

The key here is making a great sale once in a while. That affords us the luxury of holding and renewing others in our portfolio that are more speculative but until you are at that point I just see extra expenses now.

Please prove me wrong though. I would love to see you sell one of those for $xxx or better.

Just saw a commercial for
RichOnTech.tv
Not the best domain name to tell you the truth, but he made it awesome with a full fledged tv tech review site. He could have afforded Tech.tv or Rich.tv or whatever i assume since he is on WGN tv channel all the time but he made an awesome brand name on a dot tv which is perfect since he is a video content creator. You can do the same thing as well with any of those but if you're like me and want to develop 70% of your portfolio, but don't do it then they can add up.

I do really like your first memories idea though. FirstCarMemories.com as a built out site can be very cool. It is a site I would stop at and probably get lost in as I was viewing all of the bad ass steel and muscle that used to be. Now I could see that as a cool dot tv site especially if that had many car videos along with the stories/memories.

Best of luck to you brother,
Vito

 

[donnied79]

Most of my sales come from the direct contacts I receive from Domain Name Sales landing page and previously Sedo. I've sold some domains sending email to endusers but it can really go from great results to zero replies...

 

[Vito]

, if someone wanted to try and develop either of these names, could I just rent/lease the names to them for a nominal fee to start, and to the extent they're successful, a higher fee or buy out later? I'm thinking of doing something similar for all my domains which should officially be on the market in the next 30 days.

Those are yours to own as long as you keep renewing them. You can lease them out, sell them, sell them with a rent to own, payment plans, whatever you want.

@*AllThings.tv* had a cool story of a rent to own payment plan 1 year structure for Pimp.tv. i believe he took a chunk of money down and created 12 monthly payments for renters to rent to own.

Here it is - https://www.namepros.com/threads/report-tv-sales-here.423232/page-21#post-4042227

 

[Sirbigman]

I'm probably not the one to ask since I've been involved in this industry for less than a year. However, besides it being "short" and pretty cool, it could fetch big $$$ from the right buyer. When I see LL, I think of "Love Lucy" like in "I Love Lucy" reruns (just the #1, and one of the longest lasting citcoms on tv history). Regardless, I don't know how much you paid, but I think it has some serious potential. Good Luck!

The domain is NP.TV

 

[DnEbook]

How about LL.TV , I just bought one on Sedo? What would be a decent asking price?

Estibot is giving it $4,900 ,, good luck