Welcome to my weekly .TV Spotlight post! As usual there has been lots of activity and news going on surrounding .TV domain names and TV/Internet convergence over the last week. To quote David Sams “Convergence Baby, Convergence!”
- To start us off today I want to share a news story that David Sams, an Emmy winning Executive Producer, Writer and Entrepreneur posted on Facebook earlier today. The story is from the NYPost and talks about how Google is looking to make YouTube a television network. Even though initially networks like CBS, NBC and ABC initially blocked online versions of their full programs from appearing on Google TV, Google and YouTube are aiming for the Television convergence whether syndicate networks like it or not. NYPost story.
- James Black has done it again! James (who goes by the popular handle JimboJimbo on many domain forums) announced October 20th at NamePros that he acquired the domain name Canada.tv. Before he could even accept all the congrats on acquiring the domain he announced in the same thread a week later that he had flipped the domain after receiving an offer he couldn’t refuse. The purchase and sales prices remain undisclosed but it based on his hints the domain was purchased in the low-mid $xx,xxx range and flipped in the mid-high $xx,xxx range. Congrats James!
- There have been several substantial .TV reported sales in October that I have yet to cover including PestControl.tv $10k (sold earlier this month by George Pickering), Gadgets.tv $7,500, POS.tv $1,580, Engage.tv $1,250, Rochester.tv $1,200, AdultMovies.tv $610, Werbeartikel.tv (translates to ‘promotional’ in German) sold for $1,820
- Thanks to Ammar at AllThings.tv, we learned this week that Adap.tv has raised an additional $4.5 million in funding for its quest to provide publishers with an ad serving platform to monetize video content. Adap.tv is currently the third largest video adserving network in the world.
- We’re proud to announce today that DomainStore.TV is the new sponsor of the NameTalent.com .TV Spotlight section. Sign up for the DomainStore.TV newsletter today to buy and sell quality .TV domains at great prices!
Hi! Thanx! Also, I posted on my blog the possibilities of cross-branding the name of a website with .tv extension and the affiliated TV show (click on website and scroll down, two posts). Thanx for offering newsletter – I signed up! The news about Youtube becoming a network is even more positive news for dot tv extension as it makes sense to name your Youtube site with a dot tv extension, inferring there is video/tv content there! .tv almost makes .com seem archaic with its 3 letters. To name or brand a tv show, the dot tv extension makes sense! 🙂
Hi Louise! Great, I’m glad you signed up for the newsletter! You will find some great .TV deals there and be sure to submit .TV domains you want to sell as Brian has a wide reach with this newsletter.
Thanks for sharing your .tv related post: http://starting.asmallbusiness.net/home/another-tv-on-tv/ as well!
Mike,
Thanks for the kind words and information. Great news for the extension and the momentum is continuing to pick up. A great opportunity for folks to pick up generic keywords.
Best,
A
Ammar,
Cheers and Thank YOU for all that you do to help promote .TV at AllThings.tv.
Mike Berkens posted a great post this morning about .TV domain in use with matching TV shows.
http://www.thedomains.com/2010/10/30/comedy-tv-pets-tv-recipe-tv-great-domains-with-matching-shows-on-the-air-all-owned-by-byron-allen/