.tv Verisign lose World's richest national sports league as TV client

[GoneWalkabout]

Verisign have just gained the name FA.tv - no doubt for their future auction - if that is ever to happen.

However, their stupid premium set-up actually lost them one of the largest sports organisations in the world - the Football Association - who decided the $2100 a year premium renewal, and complexity of having to stay with the same registrar, was just not worth the effort.

This organisation runs football in England and is home to the world's richest national sports league - the Premier League

The Football Association now run its televisual content from theFA.com

Not Verisign's brightest moment.




The FA could buy and sell the whole of the .tv registry many times over. They tried .tv - but now they are firmly back in .com land.


And to think it was only a couple of years ago that some of the big England international matches showed advertising for 'FA TV' - just see where that goes now!







Dumb, Dumber and Verisign!

 

[Ammudamus]

FN.tv and KJ.tv will go down the same path. I believe KJ.tv was Adele's main website.

A

Verisign have just gained the name FA.tv - no doubt for their future auction - if that is ever to happen.

However, their stupid premium set-up actually lost them one of the largest sports organisations in the world - the Football Association - who decided the $2100 a year premium renewal, and complexity of having to stay with the same registrar, was just not worth the effort.

This organisation runs football in England and is home to the world's richest national sports league - the Premier League

The Football Association now run its televisual content from theFA.com

Not Verisign's brightest moment.




The FA could buy and sell the whole of the .tv registry many times over. They tried .tv - but now they are firmly back in .com land.


And to think it was only a couple of years ago that some of the big England international matches showed advertising for 'FA TV' - just see where that goes now!







Dumb, Dumber and Verisign!

 

[GoneWalkabout]

FN.tv and KJ.tv will go down the same path. I believe KJ.tv was Adele's main website.

A

We are certainly seeing the collapse of the old-style premium system but the famous occupants are not really returning to .tv.

The KJ.tv name you speak of was for Katherine Jenkins - a singer famous in the UK and Europe.

Her management simply dropped KJ.tv - then acquired katherinejenkins.co.uk and added /video

Yet another massive celeb endorsement wasted by Verisign because of their stupidity to see that holding onto fragments of the 'premium' system is the domain equivalent of the Ford Edsel.

 

[RogueWriter]

I kind of figure that all of the major professional sports leagues will be going after their own extension down the road.... you could do a lot with .nfl, .nba,.mlb, etc. By controlling the extension you would never have to worry about domainers scarfing up names like colts.nfl, they could always charge players for email addresses like [email protected], players could have their own web page that would be easy to find, colts.nfl/andrewluck, etc.

 

[Ammudamus]

Yeah bad info on my part. Point is that it was a developed site, which is now going to a different extension.

Another reason change needs to occur!

Kind Regards,
A

We are certainly seeing the collapse of the old-style premium system but the famous occupants are not really returning to .tv.

The KJ.tv name you speak of was for Katherine Jenkins - a singer famous in the UK and Europe.

Her management simply dropped KJ.tv - then acquired katherinejenkins.co.uk and added /video

Yet another massive celeb endorsement wasted by Verisign because of their stupidity to see that holding onto fragments of the 'premium' system is the domain equivalent of the Ford Edsel.

 

[Ammudamus]

Another one going down the path -- VT.tv

A

Yeah bad info on my part. Point is that it was a developed site, which is now going to a different extension.

Another reason change needs to occur!

Kind Regards,
A

 

[garptrader]

I recall recently seeing an expiring name of a singer whom I have a CD of - Israel Houghton. Sure enough his organization was still in the Whois. I have no idea if he ever used the domain or perhaps just regged it several years ago and decided he no longer needed it. Apparently he has a site on the .Net - cheaper renewals.