Ok, I confess. I do not have 1,000 .tv names, but I feel that I have come to a point where acquiring more .tv names is not going to help me. I know feel the need to come up with a strategy for those names. The site development teams that I used in the past are tapped out and I have not found a team that is as effective in terms of design ideas and price. In other words, they cost too much and many believe they are better than they actually are.

Alternatively, I could try to monitize them through parking services, but they will never generate the potential that is there. So I am curious, how we find development teams that are open to a piece of the action in exchange for site development? Have any of you worked out something similar to this for your sites?

One last option that I feel I have is to offer the domains for lease. Any serious thoughts on this? Any of us actually successfully pulled off a business model based on leasing domain names?

Thank you for any input or comments you add.

Of course, the last issue is if we develop a .tv site with streaming video, where are you finding reliable video server hosting? We have bounced between services as of late but most of these guys have been unreliable. I have to assume video server hosting can rake in big bucks, especially if it is reliable and offers great customer service.

I attended a dinner party that I almost did not make because I really was not interested in going. In fact, I pulled off the freeway and thought about saving myself the half an hour I would sit in traffic; I wanted to meet up with some friends who I had not seen for almost 8 years. Something in me said to go so I pulled back onto the freeway, fought traffic, and attended the party.

Keep in mind, most people at this party either have no experience in the Internet world or they have experience with real property and no experience in the Internet world. Consequently, they do not truly understand the state of the Internet and the direction it is going.

Back to the story: I was introduced to a man in his mid to late forties. He used to develop Internet properties for other companies, he was offered jobs at some of the major price comparison companies that you see on the Internet, and he now works closely with video game companies. Nevertheless, we enter an engaging discussion about the Internet and online domains as property, like real estate. Meanwhile, nobody around can believe we are nerding out on this and they cannot fully grasp the depth of the conversation.

I inadvertently discovered this from a cached Google page of http://www.tv.

Given the number of us who probably asked some of these questions at one time or another, I felt this would make for a useful post.

Disclaimer: Some of this info is more marketing oriented and I have separated in the second set of quotes below.