- TBC

“In addition, renewal prices for Premium .TV names may be different from the original registration price. Your premium name renewal fee will be no greater than your registration fee as long as all of the following occur 1) you renew the name, 2) VeriSign maintains its current .tv agreement with Tuvalu and 3) eNom maintains its current .tv agreement with VeriSign. eNom commits to not increase renewal fees above the registration fee for as long as the fees we pay do not increase.”

Thanks for the info. Was not aware of the guaranteed fees.

FACT: *UNLESS a name drops they CAN NOT raise/alter/edit/change your domain name annual premium renewal fee, period.

Thanks for reminding me how many states we have…lol.

NY

Enom cannot raise your premium fees unless you let a domain name lapse.

This is fact and many fail to realize this.

From Enom.com “NOTES:

* .TV premium names cannot be transferred to another registrar.
* Annual Renewal fees for .TV premium names will be the same as the initial “Buy Now” registration fee.
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I have many high up contacts there and I have been assured of this personally in writing.

They understand that people need to be able to brand these names with this assurance and they have provided it.

There are 50 states. When your talking about competing with .com’s you need to get 20 million plus registrations.

What I’m saying is when you have to pay $3K a year for a :”fair” name like great.tv, which of course comes to 30K for 10 years of use, its going to be very hard to get 20 million registrations.

Moreover besides the annual fee, the other problem is that there is no guarantee that the domain will be renewalable next year or five years from now at the same cost, is there?

So if you license Florida.tv for $25K and spend $250K to promote it what guarantee do you have the next year fee does not get set at $250,000??

There are some names like sex.tv which license fees are set in the six and seven figures, are there not?

So in your example

I disagree though ADMIN.

It really sucks to you–(no offense), but to companies around the world looking to develop an actual stand-alone business, it means “nothing”.

Contact Boston.TV, RealMeals.TV, Nebraska.TV, VBS.TV, Howard.TV or any other successful developed brand/company and ask them if they were forced now into a $3,000, $5,000 or even $10,000 annual premium fee–if they would maintain their brand. I am 1,000% percent positive of their answer. “YES.”

The real issue here on “acceptance” is the every-day domainer isn’t buying domains with ANY intention of development, so it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to comprehend the “value” in a premium DOT TV domain name. Many people think, why would I pay thousands of dollars to let it collect dust or pieces of PPC?

Lets take Texas.com, California.com, Florida.com just as examples. These (IMO) domains would probably fetch ($750,000-$3,000,000) Well, you could buy Texas.TV for $50,000 a year, California.TV for $15,000 and Florida.TV $25,000.

To a company who has plans to develop and chase ad dollars this is peanuts. The brand value that domains like these carry are invaluable to the owner AND consumer, AND advertisers as it carrys the ultimate competitive advantage by default.