Without wanting to sound too much like a science teacher or make fun of the intelligence of people who continually churn out this garbage as fact - we need to understand one thing…
Tuvalu is NOT sinking...
...the sea level is actually rising.
(and in part that is because the world has too much ‘hot air'!)
Now, for all the smartypants out there, if the sea level rises by enough to cover all of Tuvalu (which even the worst scenarios isn't seen happening in the next 100 years) we will all be a bit too concerned about most of the towns and cities (like London, New York, Miami, etc) along the coasts of dozens of many other countries.
The oceans don't just rise over Tuvalu, they rise equally, EVERYWHERE.
So, for those in London and New York, think what that extra five metres in sea level could do to your city.
Most of Manhattan, for example, is less than 15 feet above sea level.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/113962-climate-change/
And then consider the idiotic words you hear about Tuvalu.
There is a REAL precedent if the unthinkable happened. When a volcano erupted in Tristan da Cunha (TLD = .sh) in 1961, the entire population were evacuated to wooden huts in a disused Army Camp in Merstham, Surrey, England. But that still didn't stop Tristan da Cunha from existing - as it still exists today. The same would happen to the residents of Tuvalu and .tv.
Tuvalu is not disappearing - and with Verisign paying millions each year to own the .TV extension, even if it did ‘go underwater’ there would be a stilt city as the 'remaining Tuvalu' within days.
As to the original question:
Forget the fact .video is a five-letter extension and .tv a two-letter one
Forget the fact that TV, like OK, is one of the few words that is genuinely used and understood worldwide from Argentina to China to Finland to Jordan to Zimbabwe
Forget the fact that .tv is now used by hundreds and thousands of real TV channels and organisations while .video is just another in a long line of silly arse new extensions
Forget the fact that .TV is run by Verisign - the same people who run .com
And concentrate on one simple fact:
The word 'video' is almost unknown in many other languages.
As for the other extensions that come along at some point ahead I think the most worrying for .tv would not be a filmy name but something like .web - but I also think that domains in general have a limited shelf life anyway as new technology will ultimately make them all disappear.
Final words that we should all concentrate on.
Do .tvs make great names for a development?
- I can only speak for myself and say the answer is yes, both for my own projects and for the projects that people who bought them off me
Do .tvs make profit?
- I can only speak for myself again when I say I have sold several in the last few weeks - one of which went for 130 times what I bought it for.
Do domainers like them?
- Maybe not all - mostly because of the stupid premium system - but that doesn't stop significantly successful domainers such as Fin, Berkens, Ben Van Dyk, FMA and many others from ploughing hundreds of thousands into their portfolio of .tv names.
If you are getting a .video name - good luck - but please be careful that you research the market first.
(the same goes for anyone buying into .tv - do your research and understand what actually works - and if you are a domainer, what sells - as many have been burned thinking it is an easy route to riches)
