A recent press release:

Knocka TV, the professional internet television network for user generated and Internet professional content, today announced the opening of its interactive TV channels to online viewers and content producers. Knocka is browser-based, live TV over internet, creating and enabling a new breed of Wiki TV channels and real time activities. Each Knocka TV channel offers content generated by independent professional and non-professional producers that is packaged professionally by Knocka and streamed via simultaneous, linear netcast…

Bodis is on the verge of losing my business since the company cannot seem to get its act together with respect to those honest domainers using their system.  Bodis took the parking industry by storm by being the first to market a 100% revenue share parking program that most domainers with a decent portfolio could belong to.

Bodis was the first to do this and initial reports from domainers were very positive (including my own).  But like all good things that must come to an end, Bodis has as well…

When I left a career that virtually guaranteed my future on June 2nd, 2006, my friends, colleagues, and family thought I was crazy to jump ship, giving up my current income, to pursue something risky, unproven, and requiring lots of labor and capital.  My partner and I had started the company a full 9 months before I left that career to put all my effort and hard work into a company that was expected to generate income for my pockets not some guy I worked for.  The wrinkle was that the company was not currently profitable, required more capital infusions from us, and LACKED A WRITTEN BUSINESS PLAN…

Every day Richard Rosenblatt sits in his office, thinking about what Demand Media must to for the dot tv extension to reach the tipping point, which is the point at which the rate of adoption, growth, and public awareness of the dot tv extension increase exponentially. Some investors in the dot tv extension feel that Richard should focus his resources on running ads on television, the very medium the Internet threatens.

However, most of these domainers fail to understand that Richard believes that mass end-user adoption and the success of the dot tv extension shall only come with the success of the Channel Me venture, which is just one of numerous projects that consumes Demand’s resources, including labor and capital. Channel Me embodies Richard’s idea of “selling the overall experience of hosted solutions instead of the more technical concept of hosting itself.”

Will Richard’s strategy succeed? Will 2008 be the breakout year for dot tv assuming Channel Me achieves the kind of success Demand and its investors anticipate? 

When my interest in domain names took root, nobody explained to me that the learning curve I would face as a developer would be straight up. 

I was sucked into domain investing by the attractive and seductive nature of the .tv extension.  In my mind, the .tv extension is one of the strongest extensions for branding purposes (see any one of my many posts on this site) and there were countless generics available at discounted premium prices.  I felt like I struck gold when I could ping the database of available .tv names and a significant number of strong, single-word domains displayed “AVAILABLE: REGISTER NOW.”

After registering these names, I found that domain parking was not a business that would generate the kind of returns I sought from my domain investments.  Of course, I could cover the costs of my non-premium .tv names by parking those names with any of the parking companies that offer good payouts, but developing those domains would make those returns look insignificant.  This is where my experience as a developer began and development posed a new set of challenges when I started hosting and managing my own sites and servers…

Rational domain investors and web developers can agree that .com is and will remain king for the foreseeable future since it was the first domain extension to both gain widespread adoption and receive millions of ad dollars in promotional advertising in the form of print and broadcast ads. 

We also know that whatever site that can be built on a .tv domain name can be built on ANY domain name in ANY domain extension.  So why all the hype surrounding dot tv?

You have to check this out...news stories chosen entirely by the user…

News At Seven is basically a news aggregator being developed by college students. 

The program scowers the web for relevant stories based on your preferences, combining them with images and videos.  Its given voice using a unique text-to-voice engine and then presented through flash animation.

You have to see this video…

When you read…

The Internet is becoming the fifth major television network in the United States, after CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox.

Now creative professionals of TV Land and Hollywood are getting into the Internet.

...you can’t help but think more and more companies will opt for .tv domains names (since .com is taken).  I thought the article, “Professionals of TV and Hollywood get into the Internet video,” which is after the jump would be of interest to readers.