Blip.Tv Acquires Blip.com and Rebrands as Blip
2012 February 8
According to a post on Paidcontent.org, Blip.tv has dropped the .Tv from its name and now rebranded as just Blip.
“”Online video network Blip.tv announced a $12-million round of funding, and a rebranding. Now it’s known simply as “Blip.”
I went to DomainTools.com and see that Blip Networks, Inc. acquired the domain name Blip.com in August of 2011 from Marvel Characters, Inc.
Of course we don’t know what Blip paid for Blip.com but now that they own both the .Com and .Tv domain name they simply changed their domain to Blip which they couldn’t have done if they didn’t own the .com
Interestingly enough Blip.com forwards to Blip.Tv not the other way around.
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That’s the same thing I thought Mike about the redirect, have followed Blip for years. Seems like they just wanted the name to change and will keep it on a .tv they just don’t want to be called Blip TV and got Blip.com to protect the brand change.
They will probably get rid of the .TV and change behavior ,redirecting the .TV to .com in the near future. I give it 3-6 months.
there it is another suffix that needs the .com verson.
c.co to o.com..blip.tv into blip.com. two high profile changes.
as it is stated you need the .com verson…reguardless of the new tlds…
Blip.com was available for hand reg for a brief period in Feb/Mar 1999.
I was about a mouse click away from registering it myself but for some insane reason gave it a pass.
Regrets, I’ve got a few…
If you are in the US, and you want to develop a brand, then you have to have .com. Everyone else building their websites on other extensions are drinking Google cool-aid that Google search results is all that matters or links is all that matters.
disagree that this is “rebranding”
more likely capturing traffic lost to com
“Interestingly enough Blip.com forwards to Blip.tv…”
that says it all, imo
but we shall see
looks like they also got bliptv.com as part of the deal?
TV and ME are the best marketing campaign extensions of CCTLD but you have to have the TV or me also before the dotCOM as well as eywork then right of the dotTV
Since Apple TV will be the place to go for both web and cable TV rebranding MUST occur and values to TV without content will plunge
.tv, .me and .pro are my picks for great future domain extensions. I think even with a ton of new extensions these will still have great legs to grow into the future. Until the general market can catch up with alternate extensions and start searching for them it would certainly help having the .com for sure!
I have to wonder how Blip.TV made it this far if all the .com bias is more real than imagined.
I have to wonder if Owen speaks English.
Think RH has it right.
Personally I expect huge loans and then a massive bankruptcy based solely on the fact that Bain is one of their investors.
Damn. This may help kill any hopes of the value rising for .tvs IF, they go full .com. Shoot.
They’re obviously going to have to acquire the dot Pro version if they expect to make any headway. {:~ ]