.tv .TV waking from deep slumber

[Carlton]

I reg'd my first .TV in 2000 and since then have periodically checked the availability of .TV names. The name space is really beginning to open up with greater use of the extension and via TV merging with the internet.

What has been very apparent in the last few months is the enormous increase in .TV registrations. .TV is a very significant story in the making. I don't have the registration stats, but my own search indicates names are disappearing quickly. Watch 2006 because people are going to get what .TV is about.

 

[RegFee]

The growth in .tv names is mainly due to me posting lists of available .tv names. :notme:

lol, actually, I think what would help a lot would be www.tv lowering the rediculous prices of their premium names, and getting a few more high dollar sales mentioned on DNjournal.

And most importantly...developing!

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

And most importantly...developing!

development: agreed!

And I've always been of the opinion that premium pricing is hurting the .TV namespace. IMO, Verisign should be taken to court for anti-trust violations with all the premium pricing nonsense. Premium pricing is anti-free market and anti-American!

AmCy

 

[Badger]

disagree.

Premium prices only help the cause of those (us) who have bought 'what should have been' premium domains at reg fee prices..

As verisign make more and more domains "premium", domain prices by themselves become premium.

i think they have found the ideal balance. Sure news.tv at $1m is taking the piss but making generic phrases premium whilst leaving the door ajar for some nice finds attracts more developers, more domainers and more end users to the extension. I mean what would have happened if dot tv in the hands of verisign had been reg fee all domains, you know it, nothing available... Whereas, i check out domains like ie.tv everyday with my finger hovering over submit a bid button, without it being $10k it would have been gone back in 2000 and now show a page with "popular searches" written all over it....

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

I mean what would have happened if dot tv in the hands of verisign had been reg fee all domains, you know it, nothing available...

I wouldn't mind if Verisign reserved the ultra-premium names like news.tv for premium pricing, but they've taken it too far, IMO. All LLL.TV names premium? Nonsense! They should have left names like xpq.TV @ standard. Even LNL.TV names are premium. That's just going tooooooo far.

BTW: news.tv @ $1 million annually is a joke. I can just imagine some plump fat cat working @ Verisign, dressed in a tuxedo and top hat, smoking a cigar and laughing an evil laugh while setting prices like that.

AmCy

 

[Badger]

so thats fine, who wants LNL domains anyway, ive loads of .coms, only ever sale i get is when ebay them off ...

my points is if they want to sell me Y7F .tv for $500-700 and rail.tv for $29 then COOL, carry on verisign..

 

[Carlton]

Premium pricing is anti-free market and anti-American!

It's free enterprise, basic capitalism. High-quality domains are not cheap commodities. Dallas.TV for 10k is like buying a new Lexus for $60k. Some can afford it and some can't. If one can't afford Dallas.TV, then they are free to reg a lower quality, derivative name at a cheaper price. Nothing fundamentally wrong with that.

 

[namewaiter]

BTW: news.tv @ $1 million annually is a joke. I can just imagine some plump fat cat working @ Verisign, dressed in a tuxedo and top hat, smoking a cigar and laughing an evil laugh while setting prices like that.

AmCy

but that's also the going rate for 1 30 second commercial spot during the super bowl, there are many companies out there that can afford this type of thing, heck they could probably get it reduced to 500K if the asked.

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

It's free enterprise, basic capitalism...

I see it as bad faith monopoly. Verisign is the source for all .TV names, so they shouldn't be manipulating prices as they are now. It's bad for the overall trade in .TV names. If Verisign was a middle-man reseller, then that would be quite a different matter.

As always, IMO.

AmCy

 

[holeinone]

Which registrar is the cheapest for .tv domains.

 

[FedPrimeRate.com]

Which registrar is the cheapest for .tv domains.

I use GoDaddy: use coupon code usa6 to save $5; price will be $29.95.

http://www.domainblog.net/2005/12/great-godaddy-coupon-code-has-been.html

AmCy

 

[RogueWriter]

I see it as bad faith monopoly. Verisign is the source for all .TV names, so they shouldn't be manipulating prices as they are now. It's bad for the overall trade in .TV names. If Verisign was a middle-man reseller, then that would be quite a different matter.

As always, IMO.

AmCy

I agree....it also gives me pause as to future pricing, etc.... I mean, what's to keep them from making the 'rent' so expensive, one has to give up their domain to them later?

 

[snoop]

but that's also the going rate for 1 30 second commercial spot during the super bowl, there are many companies out there that can afford this type of thing, heck they could probably get it reduced to 500K if the asked.

Big difference between being able to afford it and a company being able to justify it, has any company ever signed up to a $1million per year .tv domain? Over 10 years they would be spending $10 million, they could buy just about any domain they liked for that kind of money.

 

[ForSaleSign]

Interesting discussion, and as a buyer of a few .TVs myself, I am a little worried as to what might happen if Verisign decides to "up the rent" on them in future.
I'll be checking my contract and their terms of sale very carefully.............
Will let you know if / when i find anything!

 

[DNWizardX9]

Interesting discussion, and as a buyer of a few .TVs myself, I am a little worried as to what might happen if Verisign decides to "up the rent" on them in future.
I'll be checking my contract and their terms of sale very carefully.............
Will let you know if / when i find anything!

how do you know they would ;-( even tho next year is the year for multimedia alot of ppl still aren't advertising it on .tv domains

 

[Carlton]

... they shouldn't be manipulating prices as they are now ...

Not sure I get what you mean. Talking about high reg fees in general?

 

[ForSaleSign]

how do you know they would ;-( even tho next year is the year for multimedia alot of ppl still aren't advertising it on .tv domains

Its just a fear I have, I guess!
However, I've thinking a bit deeper on the matter.

If they did put prices up for re-registrations, it would make it very difficult for them to find new buyers for .TV once the word got round,
and they also would risk being prosecuted for anti-competitive practices !

I agree, 2006 is the year of great upheaval in the multimedia arena, and I'd be surprised if .TV doesn't do very well this year.