.tv What makes you so sure?

[NPKJB]

Just curious....

What makes you guys so sure that .TV will be the next big tld?

You can put video streams on a .com so why would somebody need a .TV extension?

 

[Steven]

.TV is a good extension name that goes well with video oriented websites.

If I wanted to make a video dating website, I can name it:
1) Dating.com (Which is very good)
2) DatingTV.com
3) Dating.TV <- I would prefer this one.

Although if I had a choice from all 3, I would choose Dating.com.
Dating.TV tells you one thing just by looking at the name
1) It'll be a dating website involving videos

 

[virtuali]

here is one reason, try buying dating.com and try buying dating.tv. I assure you that you will not be able to afford dating.com. The .com era is saturated and any great .com's that are worth purchasing are HUGE money. The .tv extension is just starting out and with the new medium of video coming to the mainstream the .tv extension fits perfectly and there is still some great names available that one can pick up. That why it will be the next big thing.

 

[TheBulldog]

A lot of crying/drinking/praying really.

Oh, and it's cool.

 

[NPKJB]

here is one reason, try buying dating.com and try buying dating.tv. I assure you that you will not be able to afford dating.com. The .com era is saturated and any great .com's that are worth purchasing are HUGE money. The .tv extension is just starting out and with the new medium of video coming to the mainstream the .tv extension fits perfectly and there is still some great names available that one can pick up. That why it will be the next big thing.

I can see your point but when you say "video is coming to the mainstream"; it does not guarantee that the .tv extension will be the only place for it. If dating.com already has a ton of visitors and offers video already, why should dating.tv be anything special? Whatever a .tv can do, a .com can do better.

I really think it will be a long time before you see this take off, if it ever does. I'm not trying to pick a fight here at all. I'm just expressing my opinion and would love to hear more of yours. Convince me that .TV is the next big thing! :hehe:

 

[poiuytrewq]

And the opposition (apart from .com) is so weak. Have net's ever captured the imagination? Mobis? well, a bit but looks like the bubble has burst. US? nope. Info. Nope. Biz. No way. cc/ws - waste of space.

TV is at least, cool and funky! How many extensions can say that.

 

[NPKJB]

Cool and Funky does not make a great investment. :hehe:

I just check last weeks reports and saw that motels.tv sold for $7,000 on sedo. Not bad.....

 

[equity78]

I have never understood the "next big thing mentality" I came to dot tv with $100 and have generated sales over $37,000 in addition have made x,xxx from parking.

For those that don't like .tv great, those domainers who do not like .tv would never be people I would be doing business with anyway they would never be paying the prices I was looking for on quality .tv, so I could care less what their opinion of .tv is. In the beginning we had a joke that me and the few people less than 10 who followed .tv would always say ".tv sucks" it kept a lot of people away and I have friends to this day who are pissed at me for this forum and for promoting .tv because it sped up the time of great domains being bought before when .tv sucked it was easy to take your time and buy.

.tv is intuitive
.tv has allowed people to reg domains in 2005 thru 2007 that were taken in .com in 99
.tv is recognized worldwide irrespective of language
.tv is not new Avail to reg since 99 so the next big thing makes no sense that is hype that people who do not have a business acumen need IMO
.tv will allow people to build businesses who are serious about building a media/entertainment/video centric business

The people who have great names in .tv need no ones approval or validation. Its all subjective and about what you like, you can develop in any extension. Keyword generic .coms are priced out of 99% of the populations budget. So with .tv the opportunity to acquire is still there.

Again IMO

 

[gamehouse]

Great post EQ.

It always surprises when members come afresh and make a statement like investing in .TV is not a sound investment for what ever reason. You believe that, fine, why do you have to care asking then?

If .com do can all the things in the world, heck, why do we need any other extension?

This subforum and its posts are proof enough to shatter those beliefs.

My 2 cents,

GH

I have never understood the "next big thing mentality" I came to dot tv with $100 and have generated sales over $37,000 in addition have made x,xxx from parking.

For those that don't like .tv great, those domainers who do not like .tv would never be people I would be doing business with anyway they would never be paying the prices I was looking for on quality .tv, so I could care less what their opinion of .tv is. In the beginning we had a joke that me and the few people less than 10 who followed .tv would always say ".tv sucks" it kept a lot of people away and I have friends to this day who are pissed at me for this forum and for promoting .tv because it sped up the time of great domains being bought before when .tv sucked it was easy to take your time and buy.

.tv is intuitive
.tv has allowed people to reg domains in 2005 thru 2007 that were taken in .com in 99
.tv is recognized worldwide irrespective of language
.tv is not new Avail to reg since 99 so the next big thing makes no sense that is hype that people who do not have a business acumen need IMO
.tv will allow people to build businesses who are serious about building a media/entertainment/video centric business

The people who have great names in .tv need no ones approval or validation. Its all subjective and about what you like, you can develop in any extension. Keyword generic .coms are priced out of 99% of the populations budget. So with .tv the opportunity to acquire is still there.

Again IMO

 

[NPKJB]

You see!!! That's what I didn't want to happen!!!!

You guys got defensive!! (looking at you 'gamehouse') I am new to this game and was just asking for your opinion. I was unsure about this tld so that's why I was asking the pros what they thought. The pros meaning you guys!

I said Cool and Funky was not a good investment. That's all! Would you buy a stock because it was cool and funky? I doubt it.

I feel that 'equity78' made a great statement for .tv. I look forward to more opinions but please don't rip me for asking this question. Thanks!!

-KB-

 

[poiuytrewq]

Dude, don't be silly. I didn't say I/we buy dot tv because it's cool and funky. I said it IS cool and funky. That's not why we invest in it though.

Please don't take things out of context.

 

[MicroGuy]

Whatever a .tv can do, a .com can do better.

Can you elaborate on this statement?

 

[dcmike77]

One thing that's very important that Equity forgot to mention was:

- When .tv ads appear on TV, it has a very good chance of gaining brand awareness/acceptance faster than any other extension because the TV is the most visible and wide-reaching medium in the world.

In fact, I now see more .tv ads on TV than any other extention (other than .com). Examples: TNT.tv, Bio.tv, MLB.tv, or ads such as EyeQ.tv, LMN.tv,

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

In fact, I now see more .tv ads on TV than any other extension (other than .com). Examples: TNT.tv, Bio.tv, MLB.tv, or ads such as EyeQ.tv, LMN.tv,

So do I.

 

[Badger]

I'll bring your attention to a post I made jeez, almost 2 years ago..

http://www.namepros.com/935798-post52.html

The answer to the thread question is "no"....

No, .tv isnt 'hot' in the greater scheme of things right now. Which is fine. .Tv hasnt the sales, the amount of registrations, or the popularity of almost all the other TLD's, which is fine.

However, my advice to anyone in the business of buying and selling domains and basing decisions upon past trends and stats is this - go back to your day job, for domain speculation (for thats what it is 'speculative') is not for you...

I have been buying and selling domains since i left University in '97. I made many mistakes and missed an unbelievable amount of opportunities mainly because i did as ive intimated above, I thought about it for too long and missed the boat. Dont get me wrong, ive substantially boosted my income since through selling domain names and sites and in affiliate revenue but I could have been seriously rich.. It wasnt that I wasnt aware or oblivious to the opportunity more that i stumbled.

So this brings me back to .TV domains.... There are no major sales, no glut of registrations.. But I know it is the next big thing in the internet world, all the signs are there..

Think of the advancement of technology, where we have gone in less than 10-15 years, what will be the case in 2 or 3 years time....?? Who will be broadcasting what we commonly call TV?? Where will we browse the net? On what will we be watching TV and where? You think we'll be sitting at consoles? And watching TV through satellite and aerials etc?

TV will be watched everywhere, we will be permanantly connected to the net, grabbing TV wherever and whenever we want to....

Think about it carefully people and throw your historical stats in the bin....

Jeez, what a lots changed... Roll the clock another 2 years

My latest indicator is the amount of large VC driven start ups that are using .TV.. Examples on request..

 

[TheBulldog]

psychologically, it is more likely that you are just more tuned to .tv right now.

If you actually sit down and watch every commercial and keep track, the coms still far outweigh the .tvs. On the plus side, I imagine that .tv is in higher use then mobi, or info, or org.

Having done a few different things in my life, one finds that whatever your chosen career path, that tends to occupy your focus.

When I was doing field engineering in telecom, I saw telephone "stuff" everywhere, because that was my focus at the time. But realistically the world did not tip dramatically to show only telephone "stuff", that was just my perception.

Not to say that tv isn't making huge inroads into our everyday live, we just have a slanted view.

 

[smashfactory]

kb-
in all reality, could .tv flop? possibly- anything is possible-
but .tv is the natural progression of the web- yes you can put video on a com, but i believe that people are beginning to see the real branding .tv can deliver- in a way that com cant- so no, i do not think a .com can do "anything"- it can not represent in the best way possible a video based site-
we went from text, to images, to animated images, to voice- and we are now entering the era of a video based web- .tv simply lends to that branding-

and a tv will fetch a lower price than a .com any day of the week- motels.com would have gotten a ton more - but no one is saying .tv will fetch those prices, and we know that- but it is fetching some nice cctld prices for sure

.tv is not trying to beat out the .com king, it is simply making its own name, in its own niche~

 

[eyedomainous]

Just curious.... What makes you guys so sure that .TV will be the next big tld? You can put video streams on a .com so why would somebody need a .TV extension?

There are no "sure" bets but...
-- the internet is still in the early adopter stages, for video and population, (about 70 million now online in the U.S., in five years an estimated 200 million Americans will be online. This growth ratio will be dwarfed by global adoption rates/numbers. China already has 200 mil. online, for example, and they've only just begun.)

-- scalable, low cost, international multimedia communications & networking (tv/video/voip/p2p/etc.) is driving internet growth which, in turn, drives increased interest in .TV. Unfortunately, many, if not most, new-adopters do not know about .TV until AFTER they have reg'd a .com.

-- the desktop & mobile 'computer', as well as the internet UI, is simultaineously, and rapidly, evolving a visual interface (iPhone, Surface, IPTV web 2.0 sites). This favors .TV over other extensions... and the (visual) TV ad monetization model over the text PPC model. (what will happen to the .com "type-ins" model when, in five years, the visual interface dominates the desktop & mobile experience? Then... add (or subtract) "voice recognition" mobile and desktop 'surfing' and one might ask... What makes folks so sure the .com model will survive The Visual web?


Also, past posts of mine, and others, cover other factors in favor of .TV adoption... that I won't rehash here.

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

psychologically, it is more likely that you are just more tuned to .tv right now.

If you actually sit down and watch every commercial and keep track, the coms still far outweigh the .tvs. On the plus side, I imagine that .tv is in higher use then mobi, or info, or org.

Having done a few different things in my life, one finds that whatever your chosen career path, that tends to occupy your focus.

When I was doing field engineering in telecom, I saw telephone "stuff" everywhere, because that was my focus at the time. But realistically the world did not tip dramatically to show only telephone "stuff", that was just my perception.

Not to say that tv isn't making huge inroads into our everyday live, we just have a slanted view.

I would agree, to some extent, with what is said here. However, last night I saw three dotTv ads on TV. One right after the other. No dotComs, at least not while I was watching.

 

[meeks]

kb- i believe that people are beginning to see the real branding .tv can deliver- in a way that com cant- and we are now entering the era of a video based web- .tv simply lends to that branding-

Hope you don't mind Smash I cut out a lot of your quote,
But I think you hit the nail on the head by talking about branding,
TV is a brand, it has been embedded in all cultures for a long time now, just like Coca Cola or any other great brand it is instantly recognizable and subconsciously associated with something, in this case streaming video or TV so unlike other TLD's .TV has an advantage.

Without paying a dime for it. .TV investors have benefited from 40 years or so of advertising that has gotten into the minds of the majority of humans alive today, which hopefully will make the journey to the mainstream a much easier one for this gem of an extension.

I hope I don't come across as defensive NPKJB I welcome alternate opinions, its good to debate no one is ever right 100% of the time. And its easy to get tunnel vision with investments Ive done it before.