On May 1, 2007, Demand Media launched the .tv domain name extension with free social networking tools available through its site, me.tv.  While at the event I had the unique opportunity to interview Richard Rosenblatt, Quinn Daly, Carson Daly, Justin.tv and Max and Jason from Current.tv.  If you have the chance, you may also want to check out my thoughts on the relaunch of .tv with these cool Web 2.0 tools. 

This is the http://www.AllThings.tv exclusive interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media at the .tv Launch Party hosted by Demand Media at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood, CA on May 1, 2007. Richard tells us about the relaunch of the .tv domain name extension, the social networking tools available free to .tv domain name owners on me.tv, and his future vision of me.tv.

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Web Strategist Jeremiah Owyang, currently employed as Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net, innocently decided to embark on a blog listing all the social networking tools out there on the market today…

As Jeremiah found out, this was easier said than done. Starting out with 8 companies, the list grew and grew as commentators to the blog brought more players to the table. The list currently stands at 41 companies!!!! And 87 comments!!!

Here are the contents of that list ( http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2...ing-platforms/) but have also posted them here for your conveniance.

My comments on the blog ( COMMENT 86!!) you will find at the end of the article.

Dmitry Shapiro, founder of Voeh Networks, a company backed by Michael Eisner, is one person who does!  Voeh Networks, which recently came out of beta mode, released a revenue-sharing model for original-content creators that allows them to check out their traffic related to their content across a host of video-sharing sites.

Dmitry seems to feel that he doesn’t need an audience the size of YouTube to compete.  He believes that his “site’s ability to show DVD-like content and its peer-to-peer technology will win out.”

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.