I totally agree, and have a portfolio, of just under 100 .tv domains, 60 of which are geodomains. The cities where we live. And our 60 geodomains are first rate – the top ten largest cities by population in India, Bangkok (over 10 milion), Jakarta, Singapore, Rome etc.

Highlights of this list include:

adelaide.tv ahmadabad.tv bali.tv bangalore.tv bangkok.tv bangladesh.tv brisbane.tv burmese.tv byronbay.tv chennai.tv changmai.tv chiangrai.tv delhi.tv goldcoast.tv hanoi.tv hobart.tv hochiminhcity.tv indonesia.tv indore.tv ipoh.tv iakarta.tv johorbahru.tv kanpur.tv kotabahru.tv kualalumpur.tv kuantan.tv laos.tv lucknow.tv lumbini.tv mecca.tv medan.tv melbourne.tv mumbai.tv nagpur.tv palembang.tv palmcove.tv newguinea.tv patna.tv pattaya.tv perth.tv phnompenh.tv phuket.tv portmoresby.tv rome.tv semarang.tv siemreap.tv sihanoukville.tv singapore.tv srilanka.tv sydney.tv taipeh.tv theholysee.tv themaldives.tv pacificislands.tv thephillipines.tv templemount.tv ujunpandang.tv vientiane.tv vrindavan.tv wellington.tv

Internet Geodomains are the new real estate, are, and will remain as long as we use technology to communicate televisually, the most logical and preferred arena for marketing and communications.

It is like watching and being able to see the city where you live – not via a print only phone book or newspaper with scattered classified ads – but in an instantly accessible, televisual colorful manner.

I am the registrant of sixty (60) of the world’s most valuable geodomains.tv Pan Asia wide and Globally.

Our portal design, we are now rolling out, is an easy to navigate template (see: http://www.brisbane.tv) and our geodomains look after a population of two billon citizens.

Each of our city portals offer almost 7000 of the world’s best links, combined in a unique, colour coded, touch-screen ready graphical user interface.

Steve Ballmer has said the future is Display Ads on the net. We agree. And we believe the most intuitive and most natural way to this end is via – geodomains – the cities where we live.

We firmly believe a registrant is a custodian, and must uphold common decency when it comes to a geographic internet geodomain.

The success of other early leaders and first mover entrepreneurs in the .com geodomain sphere – such as Boulevards.com and Associated Cities, shows geodomains will become increasingly important. Always – .com is great in the USA – and .TV is great everywhere, as it is apolitical and a universally recognized acronym for Tele Visual, all one needs is the technology to see things displayed – such as an Apple iphone, a laptop, a desktop or a flat screen tv.

My advice to any budding geodomain investor and display advertiser is – act like an executive in a major bricks and mortar real estate and development business acts – liase with the major goods and services providers (shopping mall owners) universities, public elected officials and those responsible for looking after organizations like existing governmental city internet sites. If you act professionally – you will receive respect and professionalism back in kind.

Act professionally. And at all times – don’t forget charitable awareness. Our site has fee free display advertising for many local charities and global entities such as Unicef and the WWF.

When it comes to selling display ads – take the main street and the Wal Mart approach to brand promotions – respect the world’s best – and remain family friendly in terms of content, links and advertising displays.

Our front end graphical user interface is ideally suited to touch screens at home, the back of airplane seat monitors, laptops, and for use with the newly released Sony Viao TP2 (a product sold in unison with Microsoft – and is fantastic) is colour coded and simple to navigate.

.info have disappointed.

If they have say only gone from point A-C in the few years how are they going to A-F with hundreds of new extensions?

To be clear I don’t expect .com to be effected that much, but I do think they will be effected somewhat.

Remember before there was cable (maybe your not old enough) there was CBS. NBC, ABC (no fox yet) a local station or 2.

Then 300 cable stations came along.

So what happened?

The main networks are still the most watched.

However they do not have the same percentage of the population viewing since there are more choices.

So there you have it.

All extensions will be effected.

We think .com’s and .org’s the least

I agree with many of you that these new extensions will only enhance the value of .com’s, but I think a lot of you also miss the mark in another area: .info’s.

The only reason .com’s are the most popular extension has to do with the fact that they were the first extension out. This extension does not have meaning in any language other than English.

Furthermore, many people in other countries equate the .com extension with companies in America, this is why country codes have successfully taken off. People are like lemmings, they follow each other and have no common sense when doing so.

Websites under the .com extension vary in quality from poor to superior, and are spread out among many owners from individuals to billion dollar corporations.

They have appreaciated so much in value, that the likely-hood that they will be consolidated into one portfolio to keep the quality experience consistent is virtually impossible.

The .info suffix is ideal because when people go online, they are looking for information. It is the only suffix that has meaning in over 32 languages around the world. The generic terms under this extension are in the hands of very few.

This last fact will enable those who own these generic terms to control quality and to create a superior experience across the board.

The .info suffix is ideal for creating directories online. Directories are needed for every subject matter from A thruough Z because there is so much information out there, the consumer needs something to help them cut to the chase.

I am predicting that over time, the .info suffix will gain increasing importance as a place to find directory information.

I think there are around 500 good .me domains that would be useful.

However the registry is holding most of these back and will be auctioned off. So for $50 a year they are worth it but if you have to pay thousands and thousands for each of these 500, I think not.

Me either.

This is going to happen folks.

Vote is on thursday.

The only question is timeframe, cost and then we wait and see how many companies step up and apply.

The effect will not be know until 2010.

POST NUMBER 172 gets the gold medal for “most uneducated” of the day.

Thanks for playing!

Ps: I love this one, “Geo.TV means Jack *hit on its own…hahah, NO my friend, YOU owning a Geo .TV means Jack *hit on its own, good luck with the development with GP….haha,

Macon.TV
Nebraska.TV
Spokane.TV
Boston.TV
Montreal.TV
Tulsa.TV
RawVegas.TV
AtlanticCity.TV
OceanCity.TV
WesternAustralia.TV
Broadway.TV
Oztralia.TV
HamptonRoads.TV
InRich.TV
Hollywood.TV (blasted on E! every single evening)

…should I keep going? I have more…Vegas.TV $350k…?LasVegas.TV asking $1,000,000…But I suppose you suggest all these organizations have failed to comprehend “your” expert views on the space. hahaha…please just sell me your Geo domains so I don’t have to listen to this nonsense anymore.

Along while ago, a little bird told me, “FOLLOW THE MONEY”…but it probably is more humorous that you came on here and bashed and discredited your own investments, haha, great move!

Educate yourself, …please.

but i find many who have invested in the ext to be totoally naive with their expeectaions – particularly those who have invested heavily in the geo.tv space that carry with it high renewals…

there is nothing magical about owning the key generic of a geo.tv – unless the site gets developed….so I find that constant finger pointing at successful geo.tv sites such as Tampa.TV, Hampton Roads.TV – blah blah is a vain attempt to suggest that any keyword geo will be a similar succes….

It wont – the reason why is that those successful sites have one thing in common – they are developed sites – which means alot of blood sweat and tears went into getting sponsors, selling web space, building up local community contacts etc…..without that hard work and investment of moiney and time – they would be parked pages – much like the empire of names with huge renewal fees owned by MCB and ASBN -until at least a single site gets developed – it is sitting there gatheriung dust and renewal fees….

I personally own two geos – SanJose.TV and Thailand.Tv with a total renewal fee of $1500 – I can afford to renew ad infinitum – until I find a business partner to develop the site with me…..but I am under no illusion – owning a great geo in the .tv ext means jack shite on its own……..

one can try and make deals with the big network boys – but what you have to offer is so small – they will sooner buy the name off you then do a deal – and I see no deal over the last 24 months and I see no sale either….

Let no one be in any doubt whatsoever – owning a top end geo.tv name does not buy you anything other than high renewal fees (with the exception of the rare reg fee geo of course) it certainly does not buy you a free lunch