I have had the unique privilege to talk with a variety of people that span the .tv spectrum from those who know nothing about the .tv extension to those who are building extensive online .tv properties.  The reality is that there are quite a few people who straddle the middle ground...they GET why .tv IS the future, they invested in it, but they lack the experience or funds to develop the site or hire professionals to develop it for them.

There seem to be an infinite number of opportunities for someone looking to develop a .tv site, including but definitely not limited to launching a me.tv channel, buying and developing a script of a YouTube clone, or launching a site offering professionally created content.  Given the wide variety of options available, how does one choose which way to go when it seems like a forest out there?

The answer is…

First off, I must admit to myself and everyone else that no matter how I present this article, it still has the whiff of an excuse about it. I would be so much happier to be able to report that Stockmaket.tv sold for $50,000 at the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference, which was the present day value yours truly had given Stockmarket.tv in a blog earlier on in the week.

There is quite a lot of discussion on the .tv namepros forum about the implications of the failure of Stockmarket.tv to reach its reserve price of $10,000. Its high bid was $7,500.

There has also been a lot of discussion with regard to a lot of the .mobi names that failed to reach their reserve price.

My take on the .mobi vs .tv, which performed the poorer of the two argument, is that it was certainly .tv.

Yes, we have all heard stories of people getting discovered on You Tube. But the odds of it happening to you, given the vastness of the site and the sheer number of videos being uploaded on a daily basis, are slim indeed.

Throw in all that spam advertising to the mix and it’s a jungle out there.

That is the one huge advantage of having a Me.tv site. Your very own address. Your ocean of calm as opposed to the chaos that is the shared You Tube mega complex.

You not only have your own address, but you also have tools that have been designed to turn the pro internet surfer into an amateur web designer.

I am delighted to announce that Craig Meichen has joined Allthings as a guest blogger. I will be posting Craig’s introductory blog under my name whilst we get him set up with his admin rights, but for future posts Craig will be posting under his own name.

I will be interviewing Craig over the weekend so that everybody can get to hear his strong Aussie accent and learn a little more about his vision and passion for the .tv extension.

For now, Craig has asked me to post the following introduction…

Today I was privileged to witness something very special indeed.

William Brister, with twenty years in telecoms, four years in the air force and most recently, a year or two as a very successful .com domainer, took the time to fly out to Phoenix to share his personal story with me and Kevin about how he has got involved with .tv and why he has fallen head over heels in love with the extension.

William discovered Allthings.tv through a link on BrightCove’s corporate blog page and had wanted to meet Kevin and I to bounce some ideas off each other on how best to promote .tv aswell as get our thoughts on where the extension is headed over the next 12 months or so.

Today I posted on the Namepros .tv subforum a list of .tv sites that are up for sale. 101 names to be exact.

I have more .tv names, not that many more, but I didn’t post any names that I have part ownership in as obviously this would require both parties to agree to the selling price and in any case I am hoping to develop some of those names, so I am happy to keep those off my sell list for the time being.

As a huge fan of .tv, many might question why I am putting so many of my .tv names up for sale. Do I know anything about .tv that others do not? Am I privy to information that would tell any .tv portfolio holder to cash in their chips??

Absolutely not!!

You may want to monitor this situation as the the Federal Communication Commission ("FCC") issued a Notice of Inquiry on the subject of regulating the Internet.  Such regulation may impact video on the Internet more than any other online segment.  Fortunately, three Internet content and application service providers, including MovieFlix, Doctors TeleHealth, and KinderStart, filed formal comments in response to that inquiry. 

Net Neutrality is nothing new, but it is likely to continue to be a big political issue.  Here is a video from one organization, which attempts to sum up the issue:

Ron Jackson of Dn Journal believes that the upcoming Traffic conference on June 19th will have a major effect on the entire domaining industry.

He states:  The most important T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference to date is coming up June 19-22 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. This key event will put domains front and center in the media capital of the world and is likely to have a major impact on the future course of the entire industry.

Ron is probably right. But I want to talk about its impact not on the entire industry but on one small portion of it – the .tv extension.