.TV names - heating up?

[JEsports]

I've seen a couple of popular tv shows/networks with the .tv address. I know the ".tv" itself stands for some island somewhere I think, but its use is better served for television as you know.

What are your opinions on this extension with television networks starting to use them?

Thanks,

John

 

[GodBlessYou]

I like the .tv for television, best sounding tld for it....

 

[mole]

Well, http://www.online.tv is still alive, so it must have some legs. 'Personally, I'll give it a miss, since I won't want to explain to anyone now and in the distant future that it actually stands for the sinking islands of Tuvalu. Not sure if I can survive the Tsunami :-( Taking care of my .INFO and .BIZ domains is already a godzilla handful, don't know if I could sponsor the CCTLD orphans.

 

[GT Web]

let me put it this way:

good: superbowl.tv
bad: library.tv

 

[JEsports]

good: superbowl.tv
bad: library.tv

Agreed! a ".tv" extension must be atleast television related to have any value in my opinion.

 

[skylight]

personally i would never typein a .tv unless i definitely know there's a website about it from advertisement.

 

[Mr Webname]

personally i would never typein a .tv unless i definitely know there's a website about it from advertisement.

Agree.

 

[RMF]

I prefer the "tv.com" more than .tv. For example, I would prefer to have ExampleTV.com then Example.TV. Well, if I was developing a website for a TV show that is.

 

[mole]

The artificial .COM scarcity in 97-00 brought a desperate search for alternative TLDs, and the capitalist cronies saw that and made deals to bring "universally resolvable" country codes .cc, .fm, .ws, .tv each with fanciful connotations and marketing spin to mean anything other than what they were originally assigned for.

ICANN was formed to see how web addressing could be expanded with meaning and order.

Come on guys, its coming to 2005, and we are still championing the pretentious projects of the dotcom bust?

 

[seeker]

not everything is about type in traffic. The planet doesnt revovlve around type ins.
Some keywords suit some extensions better than others. For tv related domains, I do prefer .tv

some domains are better suited as .info or .org for example than the .com version, although we all know that the .com would be more expensive and probably get more traffic. But as internet users are becoming 'smarter', the whole type in traffic trend might be drastically changing over the years.

 

[mole]

I do prefer .tv

One day someone would come up to you and ask, what is .tv, and you will say .television, and you would be lying through your teeth.

Look at Johnny Walker's http://www.keepwalking.tv that was advertised many years ago as a signoff. What has happened today? It still resolves, but to what?

GTLDs like .COM, .INFO, .BIZ are very different from CCTLDs, especially those CCTLDs meant to serve the South Pacific Islands and the only reason why they are in mainstream today is because of profiteering capitalist pigs who would sell their mother at the bat of the eyelash.

Internet addressing is being bastardised, you can chose to be part of this pretentious scam. Business is business to speculators, I guess. Same with fake Rolex watches, it figures.

 

[seeker]

mole, you completely changed what I was saying by quoting the *last* part of a sentence.
Thats what scam journalists and politicians do...
read the whole sentence...

 

[mole]

For tv related domains, I do prefer .tv

That's what you said, seek. Changes nothing. Infers directly that Tuvalu is equatable to Television.

 

[seeker]

nope. I said for tv related domains, I prefer .tv
BIG difference.

here are a few of your quotes then (only from this thread and under your idea of quoting):

Mole:
"still alive, so it must have some legs". Well, I just saw a dead cock roach with legs, and its not alive

"Not sure if I can survive the Tsunami" Mole, are you in South east Asia?

"ICANN was formed to see how web addressing could be expanded ", expanded into what?

"profiteering capitalist pigs who would sell their mother at the bat of the eyelash" mmmmmm, interesting.

 

[mole]

Hhaha, the quote analytics and semantic twisters begin....

My point is simply .TV stands for Tuvalu. To say it implies Television is BS. CNN.com and BBC.com do just fine with the old world extension. Next thing is someone will say .MP stands for mobile phones just because .MOBI is launching. Geesh, hope is perennial.

 

[JEsports]

Like it or not, it doesnt really matter if ".tv" is actually derived from an island somewhere, a chineese dish, or a disease someone you knew had before ... All that matter is how the public perceives the extension. When big name television companies such as popular shows on ESPN (ColdPizza.TV for example) start using ... people take notice. I agree that the advertising for these names must take place first ... but once the big boys fork out all the expensive advertising doe for these extensions ... then people will start to take notice. - my two cents

 

[Biggie]

Hhaha, the quote analytics and semantic twisters begin....

My point is simply .TV stands for Tuvalu. To say it implies Television is BS. CNN.com and BBC.com do just fine with the old world extension. Next thing is someone will say .MP stands for mobile phones just because .MOBI is launching. Geesh, hope is perennial.

to the "non-no'ers" about tld's, when they see .tv they think it means television.

just like when they see .ws they think it means website!

it's all in the perception!

until you know the truth.