TV sites are seem to grow in popularity. Though accorging to analysts only time will tell if companies pony up the money to reserve their .tv domains. What is your opinion about that?

I think that they are expensive and quite good for TV companies budgets. And they are not very popular.

.tv names are great but id love to see them restricted to tv channels before the market is overran with domain brokers and junk

love to see them restricted to tv channels

Apart from the fact that they are actually NOTHING to do with tv companies anyway.

.tv is actually the TLD for the Tuvalu islands.

what a badly planned and researched choice for them then

I have a .tv domain. It was fairly cheap and so far no issues.

Originally Posted by Sir P

what a badly planned and researched choice for them then

Dunno about that!
In 2000 the Tuvalu government got;
a lease worth ~$50 million over 12 years paid at $1 million dollars per quarter and a 20% stake in the TLD management company dotTV (Verisign own the rest) http://archive.salon.com/tech/view/2..._tv/index.html

This may sound like a silly question but how do you make a tld?

i mean if i wanted to go out and make .dan how would i do it

(lets pretend i have a infinate pot of money)

Dan

Want a new tld for yourself, here you go

wow cool.

Why hasnt Microsoft done this? they have the money

so just basically need alot of money and a good reason

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

Why hasnt Microsoft done this? they have the money

They have the money but not a good reason.

I relly think the .sex idea should be done would be much easier.

So porn sites are forced to have .sex domains and if they dont they are illegal and are taken down.

the ideas was said a while ago.

Dan

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

I relly think the .sex idea should be done would be much easier.

So porn sites are forced to have .sex domains and if they dont they are illegal and are taken down.

the ideas was said a while ago.

Dan

I thought the probably was .xxx, not .sex

while that sentence makes no sence daniel i think i get your meaning.

No it think it was said it should be .sex or .xxx both were said.

Dan

Originally Posted by whym

I thought the probably was .xxx, not .sex

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

while that sentence makes no sence daniel i think i get your meaning.

Yeh I hate when I do that - I type something, then rephrase it part way through but forget to delete some of it, hence it makes no sense.

I was saying either:

I thought it was .xxx, not .sex or
I think it was probably .xxx, not .sex

Meh.

^ LOL *slaps leg laughing*

I think .tv domains are a good investment but they seem to be pricey, at least for the premium domains. And lets not forget some of the fee's for renewing a premium .tv domain can cost $5,000...

I've always been interested in them but have never had much spare money to invest with. Loooooool.

Things tend to lose value after staying around for some time. There are some exceptions, of course, but .tv is not included. All we have to do is to wait and see.

It seems theres a very high mark up on .tv's as well, a few months ago i got myself a domain reseller, and while generally speaking most domains were much cheaper .tv was a tiny fraction of most sites prices...

Dan