YouTube.com has posted the first 96 Original channels that will be starting to roll out starting next month over the next year.
Among those listed on YouTube.com as coming channels are:
Freemantle the producer of American Idol
The Wall Street Journal
Car and Driver Television
Style on Location
WWE Fan Nation channel
Soccer United Marketing will launch Kick TV.
Reuters.com news channel
Slate will have Slate News Central
Bleacher Report
Car and Driver Television
Lionsgate Fitness Channel
Demand Media has a number of eHow channels including Livestrong
Motor Trend
Pitchfork TV
START a New video games channel, hosted by IGN Entertainment, for anyone who loves or plays games.
The Red Bull channel chronicles the competition and daily lives of the world’s best action sports athletes.
So the question is with YouTube.com coming out with TV channels will this give a boost to .TV domains.
I would think so.
Creation of TV channels by YouTube.com should increase the demand for generic .TV domains.
Your thoughts are always welcome.
very very very good … I’ve many excellent .TV domains 🙂
“So the question is with YouTube.com coming out with TV channels will this give a boost to .TV domains?”
No.
What’s past is prologue.
Hundreds of TV channels already exist that we access via the web, TV or on mobile devices and just a handful utilize dotTV.
Over 95% of these “channels” brand and use this construction Name + TV.com
Examples: BravoTV.com, DiscoveryTV.com, etc, etc.
I don´t see how keywordtv.com domains will keep their marketshare for the next 5-10 years. More and more large corporations turn their heads towards .TV domains.
.TV is all about branding, large corporations are just starting to realize that. Domain hacks and the launch of new TLD´s are also contributing to alternative TLD awareness.
.com may still be the first choice today, but it probably won´t be 5-10 years from now. (especially outside the US)
Everyone thought googletv would increase value in .tv and I disagree.
In this case I would imagine it would but its a toss up. Imo. This is coming from a .tv investor and view point.
The .tv market really showing momentum and more xx, xxx sales happening. Unfortunately lots of deals done quietly.
Time will tell.
Just imagine how valuable a name like Channel.tv can become as a “portal”, and as we know it was it’s UDRP case last week. .TV is doing great, had great ROI on it personally, and offers keep rolling in!!!
Thanks, Jim
Just imagine how valuable a name like Channel.tv can become as a “portal”, and as we know it won it’s UDRP case last week. .TV is doing great, had great ROI on it personally, and offers keep rolling in!!!
Thanks, Jim
@ Michael said, “Over 95% of these “channels” brand and use this construction Name + TV.com
Examples: BravoTV.com, DiscoveryTV.com, etc, etc.”
Because they’re a tightwad. Just like the Oprah people bought OWN.tv, but didn’t buy the dot com!
HGTV got it right. It owns HG.tv, and HGTV.com
Who is another tightwad? CNETtv. It even brands on CNETTV, and that is the name of its Youtube channel. Here is the CNET tv channel on cnet:
cnettv.cnet.com
Here is the Youtube channel:
youtube.com/user/CNETTV
All I can say is, “what a shame.”
Video usage has grown rapidly over the last five years as it has become much easier and less costly to produce. We are slowly seeing some adoption of .TV domains and websites with keywordTV.com or keyword-TV.tld. I still don’t see mass adoption of the extension. .COM is rapidly approaching 100 million registrations and it is nearly impossible to hand registrar a short yet meaningful and descriptive domain in .COM. Holders of solid keyword .COM domains quite often ask for a ransom to part with them. In .TV however it is much easier to create brandable domains so the website developer who wishes to avoid paying for an aftermarket domain can more easily do so. So for example while I own a nice collection of South Florida city .TV domains, in many cases someone could still register CityFlorida.tv or CityFL.tv or CityFLA.tv or if the city has two words put a hyphen in the middle. Of course domainers will belittle these longer combinations as being of inferior quality but often developers will utilize them to bypass those *&^%$#@! “domain squatters.” 🙂
Direct to web movies & tv shows will be the norm with fifteen years. Look for Big Media to begin buying cable providers to make money on data streaming – ABC, NBC, CBS, Warner Bros., etc. may become little more than utilities in the years to come.
Eyeballs equal ad dollars and with new technologies available, a group of talented college kids with a little bit of capital could stream a hit “tv” show to the web and grab millions in ad bucks. Times are a changin’…
it’s always best to register (both) nameTV.com and name.TV (if available) but name.TV sounds better, for a TV-related site
No doubt, the single word, generic DOT TV names will continue to flourish. The market is strong and in time, will become more and more accretive as use becomes more and more clever and prevalent. Yes, I agree, this is a good milestone for DOT TV’ers, yet the best is still to come. Time is on your side when you have the right names. If your DOT TV is simple, clean, direct and to the subject point and effortlessly emotes a clear TV Show/Video visual in the mind when heard, you have yourself some prime real estate and all you need to sustain a great investment is cash for annual renewals. Sit back and WATCH.
The beauty of .tv is that it means the same pretty much everywhere on the planet, across language and culture. The fact that a few americans prefer keywordtv.com is rather irrelevent imo.
“Rappers.TV”
“Rapper.TV”
I like these and a very good call you made on them Chris.
The stuff you can put quotes around and not anti up tons of marketing cash is a winner – and select .TV’s will prevail – its just not my world
Right nownow there is a very happy man somewhere in Tennessee.
.tv is a decent tld
but to bring us back down to earth we must consider that _all_ sites are one day going to have video.
html and images are not going to hold attention forever. users will increasingly look for the “play” button.
youtube is paving the way. they are pushing us forward.
put video on some of your parked portfolio, even just something small and insignificant, and watch what happens.
Love the .tv extention! We own ElectionDay.tv and ElectionNews.tv and we have had several inquiry’s lately. .
We believe it is a very branable extention. We also own several xxxxxhunting.tv and xxxxxxfishing.tv domains looking to build a complete sporting network on the .tv extention. We like the idea of branding DuckHunting.tv better than DuckHunting.com with plans to have mostly video content.
I have at least ten .tv names and i see this as step forwards, maybe some good news for my giftchannel.tv ??
Regards
Jump on!
Over the long holiday weekend, I’ve noticed MANY .tv domains advertised on cable (ads for products). I have noticed this in the past – not this many anyway.
I have noticed CBSCares.tv being advertised while watching my CSI’s – and ondemand CSI’s – it is all good to advertise the .tv when you have – or have rights in – the .com – i.e. CBSCares.com and CBSCares.tv all go the same place.
non .com’s just aint so – regardless of the bill-of-goods hollywood is sold – OR sells itself
Nothing to see here, move along move along 🙂
We sold VEO dot TV on sedo for $7,000 over the weekend and seemingly out of nowhere we’ve received bids on 28 more LLL dot TV domains – all on Sedo. We in the process of negotiating on all of these domains, ranging from $1,000 to $75,000. Something’s going on with .tv, right now.
I’ve had a few offers on Sedo for Together dot TV over the past 6 months and just last week have fielded multiple emails directly from interested parties (3 separate potential buyers). Unfortunately, I have not yet received an appropriate offer for the domain…I’m a patient person 😉