$5.5 Million In .TV Domains Up For Grabs Today, Winners & Losers
As you know by now the .TV registry released over 22,000 previously reserved domains, last night just after midnight.
Here are some early observations:
Of the 16 highest price domains, 7 of them were trademarked terms:
pdf.tv 4630
mac.tv 4500
bbc.tv 4310
ibm.tv 3750
gmc.tv 3560
nfl.tv 3500
dlp.tv 3440
bbc.tv is going to be trouble.
same for nfl.tv and dlp.tv.
Regardless of use I’m not sure any of these will hold up against actions which are sure to follow.
The best domains in my opinion got registered by one company called Dreamseller located in Virgina which got a great list of domain names including Ted.tv, Wedding.tv, Doctor.tv, History.tv, Cook.tv, Government.tv, Washington.tv, Animal.tv, Date.tv and Zoo.tv, and some great adult ones which will go nameless. Dreamseller already owned some premium .tv domains like realestate.tv.
Other really good pickups were Computer.tv, Satellite.tv, Gamble.tv, Bible.tv, Crime.tv, Hardcore.tv, Biography.tv, Stock.tv, Lol.tv, Bob.tv
It doesn’t look like any one or two character reserved domains were released.
Losers include Enom’s system, which was not working properly as its still showed domains as being available that had been registered hours earlier.
Losers also include myself, which didn’t pick up really anything meaningful, and most other “big domainers”.
The biggest losers were those who spent thousands, tens of thousands and even more in premium registration and renewal fees, in some cases for years only to see equal or better domains sold with no such restriction.
The other big loser, the .TV registry
Beyond selling off some of the truly premium domains for pennies on the dollar, its interesting to see how much crap the .TV registry held back all these years.
Out of the 22K + domains released today, mixed in with those great domains I talked about, were thousands and thousands three letter domains 99% of which had no special meaning, thousands of other domains that have nothing to do whatsoever with TV or broadcasting, and were reserved for years and years by the registry.
There really is no reason I can think of why 80% of this list was not released years ago, getting the extension into use thousands of more times.
Congrats to everybody who got some of the great ones.
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Alain
I talked to the guy last week, he had already sold some domains others are definitely not for sale
Thanks MHB for the quick reply.
Sorry but since I am not a domainers…, why definitely not for sale? (you mean not for now…?, then when?)
Can I ask you how you were able to reach him?
Can you tell me how I can talked to him or get an answer?
Why is dreamseller (instealthmode.com) so mysterious?
thanks again,
Alain
Alain
They are very smart people. They have chosen to operate quietly out of the spotlight which is their right and I’m not going to drag them into the public light.
They definitely have some projects they are working on and those domains are simply not for sale.
I will pass your contact info over to them.
Thanks again for the quick reply.
I fully understand that and you are doing the right thing by respecting their choice of operating out of the spotlight.
I really appreciate your offer of passing my contact over to them, I guess/hope you will have more impact than the messages I left.
Should I give you the name of the domain I am looking for by e-mail?
One again, many thanks !
Alain
Alain
You can e-mail me the info or send it as a message on Facebook