.tv .tv being Discussed on DomainSherpa.com

[mckennaronnie]

.tv extension was featured on DomainSherpa.com this week.
http://www.domainsherpa.com/discussion-20140501/

M.Berkens & Page Howe mostly discussing legacy premiums, verisigns poor way of running extension & recent .tv sales.

 

[RogueWriter]

I saw dnstore.tv on a chalkboard behind Howe, they should all just place random domains behind them during the interviews just to see how many hits the video generates, lol. Btw, it was interesting to watch, thanks for the link.

 

[garptrader]

What amazes me is that given all the criticism just a few years ago of the limited end user market and higher renewals related to .TV (particularly those designated as premium) why in 2014 there is such willingness to pay $XXXX acquisition costs and even $XXX renewals for extensions which have ZERO end user usage. Thus far I have not registered even one new TLD. Selling domains even in .COM is not easy so I don't know where the buyers are going to come from for these new extensions.

Today's DomainSherpa discussion did mention the issue of such acquisitions emphasizing that there would need to be a plan to build out a business because just waiting for an eventual buyer when you have $800/yr renewals would be too risky.

 

[RogueWriter]

I agree. Initially I was kind of interested, thinking of the wide variety of domains I could potentially pick up, but I have yet to acquire any. I think greed has set in from the extension owner's side. Trying to maximize their short term return instead of taking a long term approach.

They seemed to push the idea of keywordTV.com over keyword.tv to a point, which is fine. -shrugs-

 

[garptrader]

It would be nice to see this domain industry video programming on a .TV domain