.tv You'd Think .TV be a hit!

[jettabosko]

Kinda discouraged, looking at DNjournal sales, that dot TV hasn't shown more interest. Especially considering more video moving to the web hmmm. Gonna hold on to a few for long term but not going to renew a few like-
carchase.tv
golfvacations.tv
bikiniswimsuits.tv and others.

 

[Jeff]

Like .MOBI's, in general ... .TV's will require unique development, IMHO. :gl:

Plus the initial .TV hype, if you will, has long since subsided ... :blink:
Registration and renewal costs are considerations, as well.
All the best,
-Jeff

 

[antonis12]

Jeff is right. the way to mitigate risk with .tv is to have some development plans.

the market is not liquid enough to just count on resale

With development however you can take advantage of the fact that you can get:

brandable names with high SEO potential with an extension that is logical for an increasingly media-oriented online world

 

[cityforums.com]

.TV may go the way of beta tapes ... better but NOT good enough ...

but I still believe that for mobile

some .TV domains may be BETTER than the .mobi counterpart.

 

[antonis12]

.TV may go the way of beta tapes ... better but NOT good enough ...

but I still believe that for mobile

some .TV domains may be BETTER than the .mobi counterpart.

but unlike beta, an extension never has cause to "die" since the cost of keeping it alive is trivial.

overall ext usage might go up or down, but if you develop, what do you care?

and from what I can see, usage of .tv going up not down particularly with startups.

the only item that may or may not be moving is domaineer resales, which is pretty irrelevant if you are developing...(and even this will be a matter of time, I think...)

 

[WineGuy]

I believe one thing we are all missing here is the fact that many, many of the reported purchases recorded by the domain community, DNJournal, are transactions between speculators not all are end users. On the other hand most of all the recent news generated in the .TV arena has been by end users.End users are always the toughest nut to crack with any newly introduced tld. .TV as a whole recently, may possibly have been used in a higher percentage of commercials and future planned promotions,i.e. Bud.TV, than all the other extensions combined. I based this on total registrations in each TLD.

The regular .TV reg fee and the premium reg fees, happily for me anyway, cause a barrier to entry for most speculators currently paying $7.00 each for crappy dot .coms or any other tlds so we still have plenty of .TVs to choose from. We can buy decent SEO/keyword rich .TVs for as little as $25 and our buyers are end users not other speculators for the most part. In my eyes this shows that end users have accepted the obvious worth of .TV at serious prices as it will in the future serve double duty, a premium memorable web address with an extension that makes sense for any television or video based promotion and that is the future.......NOW!

So while, with say a great dot .com, you may get regular emails making lowball offers on .coms you own from other anonymous domainers, any offer that makes it through your spam filter for a .TV you own will most probably be from an end user and will be a serious offer that you will definetly be able to milk.

Cheers!

Chris

 

[MillersCrossing]

I believe one thing we are all missing here is the fact that many, many of the reported purchases recorded by the domain community, DNJournal, are transactions between speculators not all are end users. On the other hand most of all the recent news generated in the .TV arena has been by end users.End users are always the toughest nut to crack with any newly introduced tld. .TV as a whole recently, may possibly have been used in a higher percentage of commercials and future planned promotions,i.e. Bud.TV, than all the other extensions combined. I based this on total registrations in each TLD.

The regular .TV reg fee and the premium reg fees, happily for me anyway, cause a barrier to entry for most speculators currently paying $7.00 each for crappy dot .coms or any other tlds so we still have plenty of .TVs to choose from. We can buy decent SEO/keyword rich .TVs for as little as $25 and our buyers are end users not other speculators for the most part. In my eyes this shows that end users have accepted the obvious worth of .TV at serious prices as it will in the future serve double duty, a premium memorable web address with an extension that makes sense for any television or video based promotion and that is the future.......NOW!

So while, with say a great dot .com, you may get regular emails making lowball offers on .coms you own from other anonymous domainers, any offer that makes it through your spam filter for a .TV you own will most probably be from an end user and will be a serious offer that you will definetly be able to milk.

Cheers!

Chris

WG,

Printed out and stuck next to my shaving mirror......

Millers

 

[Domain Jedi]

So while, with say a great dot .com, you may get regular emails making lowball offers on .coms you own from other anonymous domainers, any offer that makes it through your spam filter for a .TV you own will most probably be from an end user and will be a serious offer that you will definetly be able to milk.

I own Milk.tv!

 

[gamehouse]

I am pretty sure .tv is not going to take off, now, sell all your .tv names to me at liquidation prices, I will be happy to buy them out

GH

Jeff, it is very interesting that you chose to call the initial interest in .tv as initial hype. IMO, .tv hype is no where near to obsurd .mobi hype that I personally see on the boards.

Like .MOBI's, in general ... .TV's will require unique development, IMHO. :gl:

Plus the initial .TV hype, if you will, has long since subsided ... :blink:
Registration and renewal costs are considerations, as well.
All the best,
-Jeff