.tv When a .com sells high, does it increase the value of the .tv?

[RPK]

Always wondered if when a .com name sells, how much if any does it increase the .tv version of the name?

For example, I saw that contests.com just sold for $380,000. Does that increase the value of contests.tv? How much do you think contests.tv is worth now and how much before the .com just sold?

 

[bigdipper]

This is a great question and i've often wondered the same thing.

While it certainly doesn't hurt to own the .tv of a high selling .com - i don't know that anyone can accurately predict the financial correlation between the two b/c so many factors are involved.

While i know this is incorrect and that it goes against many established rules in domaining - my thinking has always been that the .tv should be worth at least 10% (or more) of what the .com is... maybe more based upon the keywords and how well they match up to a video application. In real life however - we all know that this is far from the truth as recent sales have proved.

The thought is that over the next several years dot tv should come into play more and more with the growth of online video and television.

At the end of the day though - our names are not worth what we think they are, but rather what someone is willing and able to pay for them at the present time.

 

[cityforums.com]

Always wondered if when a .com name sells, how much if any does it increase the .tv version of the name?

For example, I saw that contests.com just sold for $380,000. Does that increase the value of contests.tv? How much do you think contests.tv is worth now and how much before the .com just sold?

I think it helps and it also depends on the domain in question ...

so its a case by case determined by niche and market conditions.

Example

I registered Bogota.TV based on the sale of Bogota.com for over $150,000 about 4 years ago.

Bogota.com Bags The Week's Top Domain Sale and New Extensions Enjoy Their Biggest Week Ever

Today ... I can't even get a single offer for it ... not even $100.00

 

[gr8trfoo]

most investors dont seem interested in .tv in the least. can you blame them, they've been repeatedly burnt by new tld's that havnt panned out or bubbled over. .eu, .in, .mobi (whatta joke!), on and on. so when the real deal jumpos up they cant see past the pain.

too bad for them.

I registered Bogota.TV based on the sale of Bogota.com for over $150,000 about 4 years ago.

that was a drop auction if i recall correctly no?

Today ... I can't even get a single offer for it ... not even $100.00

sure you can. i got a $100 for it!

:hehe:

 

[garptrader]

geo .tv

Local/George has commented to this effect and I have seen some evidence that the search engines do not favor .TV as they do extensions such as .COM, .NET, .INFO. The development pros can overcome this bias with hundreds of backlinks and hundreds of pages of content. The newbie developer is swimming upstream if the search engines don't give your site the same boost because of the extension. I don't believe it is necessarily a penalty but just a diminished benefit that the site would get if it were a different extension.

 

[cityforums.com]

most investors dont seem interested in .tv in the least. can you blame them, they've been repeatedly burnt by new tld's that havnt panned out or bubbled over. .eu, .in, .mobi (whatta joke!), on and on. so when the real deal jumpos up they cant see past the pain.

too bad for them.





that was a drop auction if i recall correctly no?

Bogota.TV
Expires: 8/5/2009 not sure if too late to transfer or renew.


sure you can. i got a $100 for it!

:hehe:

Tijuana.tv expires 9/10/2009 ... :blink:

 

[gr8trfoo]

Local/George has commented to this effect and I have seen some evidence that the search engines do not favor .TV as they do extensions such as .COM, .NET, .INFO. The development pros can overcome this bias with hundreds of backlinks and hundreds of pages of content. The newbie developer is swimming upstream if the search engines don't give your site the same boost because of the extension. I don't believe it is necessarily a penalty but just a diminished benefit that the site would get if it were a different extension.

That disadvantage can be overcome by having an outstanding website that people really like to use and frequent. But if its just a matter of dueling seo-spam pages then i guess one would be better off buying $2 .info's.

 

[mojoguru]

i think it does provide a boost. the vertical is improved, especially if the .com is dev. must be decent synergy with tv/video though. arguably, everything has, but some are far better than others imo, some a real stretch..

 

[jasonbird]

Thanks for your infos~~~~!