I remember when .tv domains went on sale a few years ago. Very few people felt they were worth the money. But now with just about every conceivable .com domain sold out (have you tried recently?) and video sites popping up all over the place, .tv domains are picking up steam fast. Richard Rosenblatt, who built MySpace, has launched a new company that will provide video and social networking tools (he retained licensing rights to much of MySpace’s backend) for people who buy .tv domains through me.tv. And if you ask him, .tv is the new .com, especially for video sites. Agree?
Adds Jeff in comments: “There’s an interesting situation here. Domain squatters (the guys who are milking the traffic and really have no intention of selling their names) have a whole lot of the .com’s locked up. This leaves a bunch of .tv names available that largely don’t have any trademark issues to deal with. The squatters aren’t trademarking anything to speak of – it’s too expensive and the USPTO does a pretty good job of approving names only for specific intended use. In addition, .tv names are much more expensive for squatters to finance (5X or 6X more than .com’s) so they don’t much bother with the .tv’s for now. If you’re doing something in video grab a .tv now.”
