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…

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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…

Combining select domain names with TV and print ads brings maximum ROI to advertisers

You may have noticed recently the increase in websites associated with your favorite TV or print ads. This is not a fluke and the trend is certain to continue according to one Internet marketing expert.

Scott Alliy President of eComInvestments.com a domain name brokerage often wonders why the tremendous one two punch advertising approach has not been used more up until now.

Scott claims that obtaining domain names containing niche phrases can extend the benefits and life span of any print or TV marketing campaign well beyond the number of days the ads actually are shown publicly.

You drop .tv pricing by over 75% and the number of registrations increase.  No surprise, right?

Some interesting information from the Go Daddy press release that is found after the jump:

-65% increase in .tv registrations on 2006

-100 million people starting to watch TV online

-5.3 billion monthly video streams will be delivered to US Internet users

-‘TV’ is one of the most recognized two-letter symbols in the world

Press release after the jump!

Today, Go Daddy announced the availability of a tool called Quick Blogcast, which combines two of its existing products Quick Blog and Quick Podcast.  According to GoDaddy, Quick Blogcast can be used to create multimedia sites at .tv domains and other websites. 

Rather than bundling value-added services with the sale of domain names, like eNom does with its Channelme.tv service and .tv domain names, it seems like Go Daddy’s strategy may involve offering lower prices on domains and offering services like Quick Blogcast separately for those that want to take advantage of them.

Press release after the jump!

Thanks to SearchingTV on Namepros.com who owns Qoof.com for this:

We just heard about a new Israeli video/TV startup called KnockaTV, which has the tagline “The People Have Taken Over.”

Read more about from the press release after the jump!