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…

Frank Schilling, domain guru, made a perceptive remark in his blog worth noting here, “The name drives the value and sells the deal.”

Recently, it was announced that Dictionary.com was acquired for $100 million.  In his blog, Frank implicitly argued that the Dictionary.com business would be worth significantly less had the domain name been DictionaryWeb.net.

In a recent article by Frank Schilling, as noted below in Kevin’s blog, Frank basically imparts the advice that fighting against the .com tide is a waste of energy.....

I invited Frank for an interview to discuss the merits of .com versus .tv, but Frank politely declined the invitation. Shame, because it would have been a real eye opener for everyone.

Frank did however point out that had he invested all his names in .tv in 2000 instead of .com - he would not be rich today and he doubts that Richard Rosenblatt would be taking his calls today had he bought .tv’s instead of .coms......

Well, I have responded to Frank’s remarks and hope that Frank posts them on his site. I will post my comments here aswell. I think mine is a very powerful counter argument....

Here is a copy of what I posted on Frank’s blog:

While my partner basks in the sun of what VeriSign VP, Ryanor Dahlquist, spouted about .tv, Frank Schilling continues to do whatever he can in his blog to reinforce .com branding and take cheap shots at the one extension that has the power to attract investors away from the .com extension.

The title of the blog in question starts out, “What’s wrong with .biz domain names?”

Frank states, “You can register a .biz name and market the heck out of it, but 90% of the rest of the world is reinforcing the .com extension in branding, advertising and media. It is a dot com world and fighting against that global Internet standard (created by the world’s web site owners) is an exercise in futility. Buy anything but a .com (or the CCtld of your populous country) and make your life unnecessarily hard.”

I bet more of the world recognizes what tv stands for than what com stands for…