Last year, I attended a trade show in Vegas and we were among only a handful of companies acquiring video content. This year was different.

There were ten times as many doing documentaries, news coverage, or reality television. Most were all doing this for the Internet. Of course, ESPN and SPEED were there (I am involved with the automotive industry and this was the biggest aftermarket trade show).

I have more info I need to get up on the site so you can read some of the latest headlines and some .tv sightings that will be of interest to the .tv community here. I continue to learn of new Internet TV operations that have $XX million dollar budgets when I attend events like this and speak to other directors and producers. 

"The median domain name resale price rose 24 percent between 2004 and 2005, according to industry analysts. All current indicators point to further growth, making domain names a highly attractive addition to an investment portfolio and demonstrating they are assets that require effective management.”

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.