In a wrap up of the recent HostingCon 2007 event, I discovered this passage:

In the presentation, the CEO and chairman of Demand Media encouraged the capacity crowd to rethink their approach to how they market hosting solutions to businesses and individuals.  Using his ChannelMe.tv venture as a focal example, Rosenblatt argued that Web hosts should sell the overall experience of hosted solutions instead of the more technical concept of hosting itself.

I am aware that Go Daddy representatives were at this event and probably took Richard’s words seriously…

You will have to click to READ ON to read this entry because I wanted to preface the entry with this message:

If you think you own a domain name particularly suited to a niche market, then please contact me AFTER you have read the blog entry on the next page.  I have a unique opportunity I would like to share with you if your domain name meets that criteria and you are interested in developing that name.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Isn’t .tv well suited for this purpose if we are talking about Internet video? 

Estibot.com, a site that values your domain based on 30+ characteristics of the domain name.  The valuation is based on comparing those characteristics with a database of previously reported domain sales.  The site clearly acknowledges that an automated valuation tool such as Estibot is never completely reliable, but that one should use the site as a starting point for researching and evaluating domain names…

A number of sophisticated investors are quietly racking up .TV domains.

One year ago, if sophisticated investors were scooping up .tv names, you would not have heard about it in this way on such a well-respected blog.  Imagine where we will be one year from now.

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Is Bob seeking to associate GoDaddy with the .tv extension?

Bob initially slashed the price of .tv domain names to $19.99 per year, a price seen only once before when eNom sought to increase the number of .tv registrations (eNom’s parent company is Demand Media, which is responsible for the marketing of the .tv extension and Channelme.tv).  As I reported yesterday…

I predict that the business of domain leasing will grow significantly in the next few years as more domain owners choose to delay capturing a domain name’s appreciation.  It is an area of specific interest to me because I do not foresee capturing the value of some keyword generic .tv names in my portfolio for a few years. 

In its basic form, domain leasing involves a periodic or fixed payment ("Lease Payment") made by the person leasing the name (the “Lessee") to the domain owner (the “Lessor") for a specific time period (the “Lease Term"). 

During and for the length of the Lease Term…

This may be the question hundreds of companies ask themselves when launching a video/multimedia site.  The bottom line is that every company cannot risk losing the .tv version of their name if they choose to use tv.com for their video/multimedia website.  The reason is that visitors will begin typing in the .tv version of their name out of curiosity to see what exists on the other side.  If your company does not own it, someone else will profit from it. 

While imagining what a business executive would do when faced with such a decision (without our knowledge), I thought of this issue:

Tihs is completely unsolicited; I am not affiliated with Bodis.com.

I moved my .tv name (Test Name) with the highest traffic and click rate to Bodis.com five days ago; it took a day for the DNS to propogate but the Test Name has logged four full days now. 

During this time…