I am absolutely baffled.  Why would someone relist a domain in an auction on eBay FOR MORE MONEY when the previous auction received zero bids.  Can you explain that to me?

The owner of IT.tv (dot tv) did just that…

More interesting news...Google seeks to prevent its adsense program from being exploited by domainers that engage in name tasting...what is it, why people do it, and why Google wants to stop it, all afte the jump…

If one company can pull it off, a domain name stock market would be amazing. 

Unfortunately, just as there are multiple financial stock markets, there will be multiple domain name stock markets. 

I caught up today with a friend who is both a domain investor and developer, he told me about Fusu, a new website that claims to be “The Domain Stock Exchange.” No word on whether the site will be dot tv (.tv) friendly unlike many of the current auction sites, but only time will tell.

How does Fusu work?

As with a traditional Stock Exchange, Fusu allows its participants to get liquidity from their assets. On Fusu, holders of a premium domain (i.e Vodka.com) can devote a fraction of their domain to the market and immediately get money out of it without having to give up its control at any time. In return, stockholders in the domain name will get their share in future sales or advertising revenues generated by the domain name.

Can the domain industry really be that big to support such a thing?

The company suggests that the market value could reach $4 billion by 2010…

The news sector seems to be hot right now following the sale of News.tv (which has yet to be developed), we now have another site: HotNewz.TV!  Phillip Anastos, son of New York TV legend Ernie Anastos, has launched a unique Internet television channel…

On 17 January, at 2 p.pm. CET, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) launched an embedded version of its web TV channel ParalympicSport.TV on its website paralympic.org. 

You have to check this out...news stories chosen entirely by the user…

News At Seven is basically a news aggregator being developed by college students. 

The program scowers the web for relevant stories based on your preferences, combining them with images and videos.  Its given voice using a unique text-to-voice engine and then presented through flash animation.

You have to see this video…

When you read…

The Internet is becoming the fifth major television network in the United States, after CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox.

Now creative professionals of TV Land and Hollywood are getting into the Internet.

...you can’t help but think more and more companies will opt for .tv domains names (since .com is taken).  I thought the article, “Professionals of TV and Hollywood get into the Internet video,” which is after the jump would be of interest to readers.

Did you miss me?

Forgive me for going MIA for so long; it was not my intention.  The last few weeks, I devoted my time to consulting on a few development projects, spent some time working on my own portfolio, and sold my first home. 

Some observations I wanted to share involve the future of the dot tv extension.  The extension has incredible promise, but currently the pace that companies adopt the dot tv extension is not as fast as many of us would like it to be.  This should change as the public’s awareness of the dot tv extension grows and understanding of the purpose of those letters that come after the dot in every domain name should mean.  Dot com was first, that is the default extension instilled in people’s heads.  The public was not taught what .com means or stands for nor were they told to question it. 

I imagine that over time and through repetitive visits to dot tv sites (or exposure to dot tv ads), they will either become enlightened that .tv implies interactive content or begin to wonder what in the heck dot com really stands for...leading them to the ultimate question of asking why not use dot tv if delivering video content to the world is the site’s purpose.  After all, video is the future and dot tv just fits better than dot com. 

Recently, Brightcove announced it would be using the dot tv extension…