In recent weeks, GoDaddy discounted new dot tv (.tv) registrations.  Today, I stumbled upon a GoDaddy press release titled, “GoDaddy Makes It Easy To Help Users Leverage Web Video & Other Rich Media Content.” It states that “registering a dot tv domain” is “the best way to integrate video into your site, whether you are just getting started or you already have an established presence in need of an easy online renovation.” I wonder how many people actually read this and believe it.  The dot tv extension is attractive and an excellent tool to feature videos but it is no more difficult to add a video to a website on any other extension. 

Clearly, GoDaddy would love if if people registered dot tv domains with their company, but what they would love is for people to register and renew their names with GoDaddy. 

Generally, GoDaddy will advertise an attractive registration price for dot tv and then maintain a high renewal price.  This attracts domainers and non-domainers alike because the discounted registration price is usually the lowest in the industry.  GoDaddy rarely offers a dot tv renewal price that is competitive with other registrars.  However, the non-domainers are unaware of this and under the belief that GoDaddy is the cheapest.  They, not the regular domainers, are the group that get sucked into paying GoDaddy’s steap renewals.

Everybody I know will take advantage of the cheap registration prices at GoDaddy and transfer them to another registrar before the 1st year of registration is up.  Or they will register multiple years at the intial discounted rate and wait until the initial registration years come up for expiration before they transfer them elsewhere.

Check out the press release after the jump. 

As you could probably tell by the lack of new blogs for the last few weeks, I decided to take a break because I wanted to step back and survey the domaining environment without having much if any involvement in it AND I wanted to return with a fresh perspective.  That is not to say that I wasn’t already overwhelmed with the additional consulting and development work I agreed to do for other people.

First things first…

I was shocked.

Almost a year ago, I entered negotiations with a dot tv (.tv) owner related to the purchase of his/her domain name.  The seller wanted a $xx,xxx price.  It wasn’t worth that and after asking the seller to justify the price and discussing the merits of his arguments, he finally lowered his price to $x,xxx…

The geo (short for geography or geographical) domain space is becoming red hot, particular in the dot tv extension since the extension lends itself particularly well to the kind of coverage one might show on a geographically oriented site.  For example, Vanuatu dot TV…

Super Bowl Sunday is upon us!  I am not sure when it happened by the Super Bowl is now a weekend extravaganza and probably THE biggest sports event in any given year (excluding the Olympics). 

Why?  Did you know that more HD televisions are sold that weekend than any other weekend of the year?  Did you know that it costs more to run your commercial during the Bowl than any other show on television?  Its probably all of those HD television viewers that the advertisers want to reach in one place at one time or the fact that their commercials will be watched on the Internet, talked about at the water cooler, or discussed in chat rooms for the next year.  Each advertiser tries to outdo the other for the Best Super Bowl Commercial.

You would think that with all this money going into the Super Bowl that SuperBowl.tv would be worth some decent cash.  Better yet, if its not a premium name by Verisign standards, you would espect that its owner has invested money to make it a well-developed site bustling with activity...with streaming live video coming from different amateur reporters on the field or fans popping into the live chat to toss their two cents in about one team’s total meltdown on defense.  The site is…

The importance of website infrastructure cannot be overemphasized if your website will be truly as good as you anticipate ESPECIALLY if you decide that your dot tv domain must stream its own videos.  I came across this great tale that harkens back to the 1990s dot com era.  The morale of the story is that everything can be perfect until one of your assumptions is blown out of the water.  Link after the jump…

Sahar, a well-respected blogger in the domain sphere, touted the dot tv (.tv) extension in a short article today, pointing out that it offers unique advertising benefits.  My comments and the link after the jump…

One of my companies produces video for the web to promote its network of sites and attract new visitors who would not ordinarily discover us through our ads or word of mouth. 

I recall when the company gave video production a go for the first time almost 3 years ago...few even knew about YouTube.  The company only had one high-quality camera (because that is all its budget could afford).  Everyone was forced to learn how to get video from digital video tapes captured to a hard drive on a computer, how to edit the video, how to add titles and advertisements in the video, how to export the video, how to compress the video, how to convert the video to flash, how to setup and maintain a video server, how to upload the video to the server and publish it to the web by adding a database entry.  Sounds like a lot of work right? 

Well, anybody can do it in their sleep after a few attempts, but I digress…