I will be packing my bags tomorrow and leaving for the 1st Annual Global.TV Expo, which is an event that will be talked about for years to come. 

On the weekend of September 19th, those with a serious interest in the dot tv extension will descend on Cincinnati, Ohio to not only discuss dot tv, but also to get our hands around the issue of how the Iternet landscape continues to shape and influence society and commerce.  I spoke to Niko, one of the event organizers, and this event will cater to entrepreneurs, developers, and those fascinated by new media.  I expect to see everyone from those with a significant investment in the dot tv extension to those that have secured a few premium names, which are being held for speculation or development. 

The list of sponsors has grown considerably…

Demand Media, the company responsible for marketing the premium side of the dot tv domain name extension, recently raised another $35M in Series D Funding.  However, its unclear where it intends to invest this money as its dot tv business is only one of many.

If the economy is, geo dot tv domains will not cool down any time soon as evidenced by the sale of Seoul.tv for $5,000.

Obviously, geos or geography related domains offer an incredible number of potential revenue streams.  What isn’t so clear are the costs to procure those revenue streams.  I know a number of people that are focused on developing geos and hope to learn more about establishing a geo domain first hand.  I will let you know more info when I receive it.

Source: NamePros

Thanks to smashfactory over at NamePros for bringing this to our attention:

2007 ended with a total base of just over 58 million ccTLD domain name registrations.  The ccTLDs as a whole experienced six percent growth quarter over quarter and 33 percent growth year over year. The largest ccTLDs saw moderate growth or slowing in the fourth quarter. For example, only eight of the top 20 largest ccTLDs increased the size of their base at a rate faster than then they did in the third quarter. Of those, the growth rate of only two grew at rates greater than one percentage point; .cn’s growth rate grew at just over six percentage points and .fr grew at just over one percentage point over the previous quarter…

What do you if your popular television show that includes reports on deals, bargains, and shopping needs a website to aggregate all of the information from the show, its videos, and information about advertisers?  Obviously, we know that the dot tv (.tv) extension is the only place to create a presence because of its brandability.  Not everyone gets that, but Dot TV fever is catching on.

One of the new sites that has been added is MoreDeals.TV and program host Alan Mendelson says this site “will be an experiment. We want to see if a dot-TV site can deliver the same punch as our dot-COM sites have delivered.

The Best Deals TV Show…

After I picked up on the other two stories related to domain tasting (Google Adsense and the Name Tasting Study), I discovered a story on DN Journal that suggests that “ICANN is about to effectively end domain tasting” based on minutes from the organization’s most recent meeting.  Link after the jump…

While less popular with dot tv domains, the practice of domain name drop catching is becoming very popular.

You might have seen yesterday’s story about Google’s actions to prevent domainers from exploiting its Google Adsense program (domain tasting).

Well, today, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced the release of a study concerning the practice of a few domainers called drop-catching. 

According to the study, “CADNA’s study, which tracked 17,000 randomly selected Dot-ORG, Dot-COM and Dot-NET domain names after their scheduled expiration on September 18th, 2007, found that 100% of the Dot-COM and Dot-NET domains were…

Multi-platform entertainment programmer LX.TV (dot tv) has been acquired by NBC’s Local Media Division. LX.TV began producing hi-def programming for NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) WNBC last January. The company will become a standalone unit within the Local Media Division and will produce “cultural and lifestyle programming” across the group’s local media platforms.

Former MTV execs Joseph Varet and Morgan Hertzan founded the local entertainment company as Code.TV, a broadband channel for…