If you ever registered a domain name over at Godaddy.com you know that they have a drop down menu for extensions. So if you wanted to register a domain, you type the domain without the extension into the first box and then select the extension that you want in the second drop down box. Since Godaddy.com at last report was the registrar of choice for 50% of all new domain registrations, where … [Read more...]
What Idiot Made Rape.Tv & Incest.Tv, Premium Domains? & Why Would VeriSign Want To Profit From Them?
So I got my panties in a wad over two previously "premium" .TV domains which dropped over the last two days and now carry an annual one time premium fee for registration. The two domains are Rape.Tv and Incest.Tv. I'm amazed that someone actually put the premium label on them and put a premium price on them. and at that a public company. Yes as you know VeriSign owns the Dot Tv … [Read more...]
.TV Investors Take Note, Tuvalu Is Not Happy With The Deal They Have With Verisign
According to Radio New Zealand International blog, the country of Tuvlau which owns the rights to the .TV ccTLD, is not happy with the deal it has with Verisign. According to the Finance Minister of Tuvalu’s, Lotoala Metia says the country isn’t getting enough money from the US company which bought the dot-tv internet domain off it. As you know the .TV registry is operated by DotTv, a … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Mystery Solved: Frank Schilling’s .TV Domains Are In Redemption
Last week we wrote a post about the .TV domains that Frank Schilling registered after the big .TV price change. We noted at the time that we believed the domains were no longer owned by Frank and he was somehow allowed to simply not complete the purchase or was able to hand them back. Many of you doubted this theory and claimed he just placed the domains under privacy. If you look at the … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: What Was The Best Buy From The Sedo .TV Auction?
We just put up a poll for your pick of what the best buy from the .TV Sedo auction was. This time you can vote for 2 on the right hand side. Any comments or other nominations you can place below. … [Read more...]
Sedo .TV Auction Ends With $800K In Sales: Our Winners & Losers
The Sedo .TV auction just ended after about 2 1/2 hours of extended bidding when loans.TV sold for around $14K. Business.TV lead the pack and broke the six figure mark selling for just over $100K. Learn.TV sold for $40K+ Job.tv and jobs.tv sold for $20k+ each. The big losers were the Geo's, with Japan.TV and Germany.TV selling for just around 10k each. Another surprise for me was … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]