As you could probably tell by the lack of new blogs for the last few weeks, I decided to take a break because I wanted to step back and survey the domaining environment without having much if any involvement in it AND I wanted to return with a fresh perspective.  That is not to say that I wasn’t already overwhelmed with the additional consulting and development work I agreed to do for other people.

First things first…

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…

I was shocked.

Almost a year ago, I entered negotiations with a dot tv (.tv) owner related to the purchase of his/her domain name.  The seller wanted a $xx,xxx price.  It wasn’t worth that and after asking the seller to justify the price and discussing the merits of his arguments, he finally lowered his price to $x,xxx…

The geo (short for geography or geographical) domain space is becoming red hot, particular in the dot tv extension since the extension lends itself particularly well to the kind of coverage one might show on a geographically oriented site.  For example, Vanuatu dot TV…

If you even thought the dot tv extension was losing steam, ShoeTube.tv officially launched today.  The ShoeTube dot tv domain name says it all, its an online video channel dedicated to shoes, offering all of the social community features that many new sites offer today.  Check out the press release…

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