Tag Archives: .tv

Mon 5th April 2010
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MLB Comes Out Swinging With MLB.TV, Yet The NFL Won’t Spend $3K on NFL.TV - The first baseball game of the season got underway tonight with the traditional Red Sox/ Yankees matchup. Major League Baseball is heavily promoting MLB.tv as a platform for people to watch baseball on MLB.tv or MLB.com. Major League baseball could have just used it’s .com to promote the product, so its notable that is using the .TV version. Great thing for the .TV extension But on the other hand  the domain NFL.TV is still available for purchase for just $3K and the National Football League for ... read more ...
Sat 3rd April 2010
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So What Happened To Frank Schilling’s .TV Domains? He Doesn’t Own Them, Enom Does. - Right after the .TV relaunch on March 18th several domain blogs pointed out that Frank Schilling invested in the new extension, one even listing all of the .TV domains he acquired. And why not? Frank has long been regarded to be the most successful domain investor on the planet. So when blogs, even forums, took note that Frank bought into the .TV market they took it as a positive sign for .TV domains in general. As noted by ibroker.com some of the domain Frank bought in the .TV relaunch included: Cayman.TV Climbing.tv Dumb.tv Bird.tv Birthday.tv Valentine.tv Bunny.tv Author.tv Franks.tv However ... read more ...
Fri 2nd April 2010
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After Last Nights Post, Name.com Takes Down All .TV Pricing For Existing Premium Domains - Our post of last night apparently caused a stir in .TV land. Tonight, Name.com has pulled all of the pricing it was showing for .TV premium domains if they were to drop. We’re are not sure if Enom the registrar or VeriSign the owner of the .TV registry ordered or pressured name.com to block this info, but the info is gone. We showed you last night a screen shot of the what the “new” price for 2 currently owned .TV premium domains would be, if they were dropped by the current owner. One of the ... read more ...
Thu 1st April 2010
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How Can ENOM Charge Me $3K A Year For A “Premium” .TV That Would Sell For A $435 One Time Payment? - Out of the “landrush” of .TV domains a couple of weeks ago one of the biggest remaining issue is the disparity of those “premium” .TV domains registered before Enom lost its exclusive rights with Verisign, the .TV registry, to sell .TV domains, compared to all those domains sold after March 18, 2010. I have one such of these domains, Great.TV I have had that domain for several years paying $3K PER year for the rights to own the domain. A quick e-mail to Enom confirmed what others were already ... read more ...
Fri 19th March 2010
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D.TV & P.TV: How Did They Get Registered At Dynadot Last Night For Less Than $22 - Lost in the .TV talk today are two of the best possible .tv domains, single letter .tv domains that appearently got registered yesterday. Neither of these domains were on the list of premium .TV domains released by Enom last night. The domains, D.tv and P.tv are showing as being registered yesterday. The domains were registered by the same lucky person located in China using the registrar Dynadot. Sure is strange how these domain got registered outside of Enom and what looks like to be for just the ... read more ...
 
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$5.5 Million In .TV Domains Up For Grabs Today, Winners & Losers - As you know by now the .TV registry released over 22,000 previously reserved domains, last night just after midnight. Here are some early observations: Of the 16 highest price domains, 7 of them were trademarked terms: pdf.tv 4630 mac.tv 4500 bbc.tv 4310 ibm.tv 3750 gmc.tv 3560 nfl.tv 3500 dlp.tv 3440 bbc.tv is going to be trouble. same for nfl.tv and dlp.tv. Regardless of use I’m not sure any of these will hold up against actions which are sure to follow. The best domains in my opinion got registered ... read more ...
Thu 18th March 2010
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VeriSign Drops Prices on Premium .TV Domain Names - Cost to register premium .tv domains just dropped — including renewal fees. Since its beginning, .TV’s commercialization was anything but a hit with domain investors. With steep, registry-set prices for premium domain names, the potential for investment returns was essentially wiped out by the registry. Not to mention that you had to renew at premium prices each year. I just received an email from eNom — a partner of VeriSign’s with regards to .tv — saying ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2009
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GoDaddy Disses .TV and What it Says About a Echo Chamber - The echo chamber about GoDaddy’s diss of .tv shows that new and old media can get it wrong. GoDaddy is taking its diss of the .tv domain name a step further. How people are reacting to and writing about it shows that it’s hard to know who the “authoritative source” is. In November I wrote an article about how if the country of Tuvalu (which has the .tv country code) ceased to exist, .tv would technically go away. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons later joked about ... read more ...
Mon 12th January 2009
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GoDaddy Brings Humor to Company Mistakes - The Go Daddy Group CEO Bob Parsons brings a laugh to last year’s controversial issues. Last week I saw in my RSS reader that GoDaddy had published its latest Bob Parsons video blog including his “ding dong” awards for the past year. I assumed that he wouldn’t bring up some of GoDaddy’s own “ding dongs”. But over the weekend I had a chance to watch the video, and was delighted to see Parsons included GoDaddy employees bidding at TDNAM auctions and Standard ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2008
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Global Warming May Be Hazardous to Your Domain Names - Country code domain names carry risks. Here are a couple examples. Sure is pretty. Until the water rises. This headline isn’t a joke. Here’s how global warming and subsequent rising ocean waters could doom a domain name extension. Last night I read an article in The Economist about the Maldives, an island nation planning for the day it will be below sea level. The article also mentioned Tuvalu, an even smaller island nation of just over 10,000 inhabitants. ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2008
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Two Reminders that .Com is Still King - What a baseball game and radio show remind us about domain names. Last night I watched the Cardinals play the Phillies on ESPN. Play-by-play announcer Jon Miller mentioned a .tv web site (I think it was MLB.tv) and sidekick Joe Morgan chimed in “dot tv? I didn’t know there was a .tv.” Then this morning I was listening to the radio and a guest was promoting a gala her nonprofit was holding this weekend. She told the audience of tens of thousands that they ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2008
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Verisign: .TV finds it’s niche, politics - Our “friends” Verisign.com put out a press release today (don’t worry they didn’t anounce another price increase, this time) touting their .tv extension and how it is being used by Political Blogs and sites. Here is the release (the part that got me to gag I put in bold): Internet-savvy voters are turning off their TV sets and heading online for video content that is increasingly shaping their political views. As part of a growing reliance on video-rich Web destinations for more than just ... read more ...