I only bring this up because of a recent conversation I had with another .tv developer.

We felt that .tv is now entering, if it is not already in, the second stage of its growth cycle.

The indications are all around us, but we may not realize it until we step away from the activity over the last six months and look closely at what has happened.

YouTube in a matter of two years delivered an average of 1 million streams a day before Google purchased the site.

YouTube is not the only place one can visit to find a library of user created content, but the transaction is a barometer of things to come. 

Sports.tv, one of the biggest premium names in dotTV Corporation’s porfolio sold today for an undisclosed amount. Lets just say the buyer got an incredible deal.

Many of you will learn the details very soon through your own contacts and can post that information here but I felt the very fact that Sports.tv sold is incredibly good news for the .tv industry. The individual in question who purchased this domain certainly has the money to develop it…

I know this is in the News category, but its 100% unofficial until confirmed in an official press release.

Its not much to report, but I inquired recently over at the .tv Corporation to get some more information about the direction the company will be going with the recent departure of a key exec. In the process, I learned the number of .tv registrations in 2006 is up sharply over the number of .tv domains registered in 2005.  Thought I would share it with .tv enthusiasts worldwide.

I inadvertently discovered this from a cached Google page of http://www.tv.

Given the number of us who probably asked some of these questions at one time or another, I felt this would make for a useful post.

Disclaimer: Some of this info is more marketing oriented and I have separated in the second set of quotes below.